Joe Burrow “tweaked” his calf damage through the Cincinnati Bengals’ 27-24 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday; the Bengals have began 0-2 for a second successive NFL marketing campaign; Burrow additionally vows to get extensive receiver Ja’Marr Chase extra concerned with offense
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Highlights of the Baltimore Ravens in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals in Week Two of the NFL season.
Highlights of the Baltimore Ravens in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals in Week Two of the NFL season.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has admitted his calf damage may proceed to be an issue all through the NFL season, after aggravating the difficulty throughout Sunday’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Burrow limped off the sphere late within the 27-24 loss that dropped the Bengals to 0-2 for the season, and afterwards confirmed that he had “simply tweaked it slightly bit once more.”
Having missed many of the pre-season with the difficulty, Burrow completed 27-41 for 222 yards and two touchdowns, after passing for simply 82 in final weekend’s season-opening loss to Cleveland.
“We will have to attend and see,” Burrow stated after the sport.
“I am unsure how it may really feel the subsequent couple of days. It is fairly sore proper now, however no telling how it may fell, so I feel we’ll take it daily.
Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati Bengals have misplaced their first two video games of the NFL season
“We’ll give it a few nights, a few sleeps, and we’ll see, we’ll go from there.
“Each time you will have these sort of issues, it is all the time ongoing, it is all the time one thing that you simply’re managing. I do not know the way I will really feel the subsequent couple of days, we’ll have to attend and see.”
Requested whether or not he expects the damage to be one thing he must proceed to handle all through the marketing campaign, Burrow added: “I do not know. It is robust to inform, robust to look into the longer term and see that.
“I am doing the whole lot I can to get wholesome and get that factor the way in which I would like it to so I can exit and carry out the way in which I must, to win, we’ll see.”
Burrow ‘nonetheless assured’ | ‘We have to get Chase concerned’
The Bengals recovered from an 0-2 begin final season to complete AFC North champions with a 12-4 file, and Burrow insists the crew are able to producing the same turnaround.
The 26-year-old outdated has pinpointed getting off to faster begins as a key consider enabling the crew’s offense to flourish.
“When your quarterback misses camp, it is robust to start out quick. It is not a great state of affairs,” Burrow stated.
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Cincinnati Bengals rookie extensive receiver Charlie Jones rushes for an 80-yard punt return landing.
Cincinnati Bengals rookie extensive receiver Charlie Jones rushes for an 80-yard punt return landing.
“I am nonetheless assured. I really feel actually assured in all the blokes we now have that in that room.
“We all the time need to begin quick. Groups play us comfortable, maintain the whole lot in entrance.
“I feel we did a very good job of taking what they gave us at the moment, however for those who begin quick, groups assume twice about taking part in that means, so we have got to start out quick.”
Together with Burrow, Bengals’ star receiver Ja’Marr Chase has made an underwhelming begin to the season, hauling in simply 5 receptions in every sport, with out scoring a landing.
Ja’Marr Chase has had a disappointing begin to the marketing campaign
Each of Burrow’s landing throws on Sunday went to his regular secondary choice Tee Higgins, and the quarterback has admitted he must do extra enhance Chase’s output.
“I feel we threw him (Chase) a pair at the moment, we’ll go watch the movie and test it out,” Burrow stated. “It is robust to inform from simply sitting right here and never having watched the tape. We’ll return and re-evaluate that.
“We have to get him concerned, he is our greatest participant on offense, so we have to discover a technique to get him off.”
Burrow could have additional time to recuperate for the Bengals Week Three fixture, which is a Monday Night time Soccer conflict with the Los Angeles, stay on Sky Sports activities at 1:15am within the early hours of Tuesday, September 26.