Joe Burrow “tweaked” his calf harm in the course of 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 huge receiver Ja’Marr Chase extra concerned with offense
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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has admitted his calf harm 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 just a little 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 following couple of days. It is fairly sore proper now, however no telling how it may fell, so I feel we’ll take it day-to-day.
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.
“At any time when you might have these type of issues, it is at all times ongoing, it is at all times one thing that you just’re managing. I do not know the way I will really feel the following couple of days, we’ll have to attend and see.”
Requested whether or not he expects the harm 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 every part 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 workforce are able to producing an analogous turnaround.
The 26-year-old {old} has pinpointed getting off to faster begins as a key consider enabling the workforce’s offense to flourish.
“When your quarterback misses camp, it is robust to begin quick. It is not a perfect scenario,” Burrow stated.
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Cincinnati Bengals rookie huge 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 have now that in that room.
“We at all times wish to begin quick. Groups play us gentle, preserve every part in entrance.
“I feel we did an excellent job of taking what they gave us at this time, however in case you begin quick, groups assume twice about taking part in that method, so we have got to begin 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 recreation, 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 ordinary secondary possibility Tee Higgins, and the quarterback has admitted he must do extra enhance Chase’s output.
“I feel we threw him (Chase) a pair at this time, 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 method to get him off.”
Burrow may have further time to recuperate for the Bengals Week Three fixture, which is a Monday Evening Soccer conflict with the Los Angeles, stay on Sky Sports activities at 1:15am within the early hours of Tuesday, September 26.