Bengals must manage an important balance before the first intensive pre-season list of Joe Burrow Originally appeared on A in Z Sports.
There is no important football match that the Bengals of the Bengals of Cincinnati, Joe Burrow, did not play. From a match for the state of high school state, overthrowing the play -offs of university football to an appearance at the Super Bowl in its second season of the NFL, Burrow was under the brightest lights that the game can offer.
Pre-season matches do not bring the same importance anywhere, and yet the next two weeks will be huge for Burrow. Not for victories, statistics or even chemistry between him and his pass-caps. Burrow playing in the first cincinnati pre-season games is everything for his feeling of play, and to make sure that the problems of yesteryear are no longer going up on him.
This plan, of course, does not come without risk. Explain the quarter of the franchise at live pass-rushers in the exhibitions Comes at a potential cost, and this is the biggest challenge that Bengals are faced this month.
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The balance between the protection and the trigger of the pre-season Joe Burrow
Burrow was protected to play in all pre-season matches except two in his NFL career now six years. The torn ligaments in his knee and wrist as well as an emergency appendicectomy and a calf strain all forced Cincinnati’s hand to sit Burrow in the preasons of the past. He took three shots in the third and last exhibition in 2021, and was on the field for 13 games during the opening of the 2024 pre-season.
16 total shots. Burrow will exceed this number this month If everything goes as planned, but it’s not just the playing time that counts.
Burrow wants to play in the pre-season only to feel a rush towards the Pass Pas before the start of the regular season. The advantage of looking at the pre-season ball from the key is to eliminate any chance of taking tubes and bags in matches that have no impact on the chances of qualifying series. The drawback is to have to acclimatize to live bullets in real time when the games start to count.
“You do not feel this timing and this pressure in practice as you do in the game,” Burrow told local media last week. “So, once you got it, the first couple drives, you have the feeling of it and that comes back in rhythm. But you have to feel this to play at a high level.”
A question of balance is now formed. To what extent will Cincinnati expose Burrow to risky situations to prepare to start the season in the right way?
Will he be allowed to keep the ball? Will he make pieces that allow rushers of opposing passes to put himself on his way? Will he buy buy time in pocket? ?
Will he be allowed to cook as he does when the Bengals need him the most? Because although it almost always turns in the form of a MVP caliber in November and December, the first two weeks of September are much less
In 10 career games between 1-2 weeks, Burrow finished 63.4% of his passes while making an average of 5.9 yards per attempt. 3.7% of its throws were affected and 2.4% were interceptions.
Compare 59 games between weeks 3-18: the completion rate of 69.5%. 7.7. yards by attempt. 5.8%touch rate. 1.7%interception rate.
The bag rate must also be highlighted. Burrow took bags 9.1% of the time during the attempt to spend in the first two weeks of the season. This figure drops to 6.8% when you watch the rest of the season.
Does the Burrow path take fewer bags at the start of the season to exhibit it to be dismissed in matches that ultimately do not matter? This is what Bengals need.
The first obstacle of this plan is threatening. The Eagles of Philadelphia have a talented rush of passes, whether their starters play or not, and it does not seem that we will obtain confirmation on the front before kick -off.
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“”Unlike Zac Taylor, Nick Sirianni would not answer if the Eagles rested or played their starters during their first pre-season game against the Bengals of Cincinnati. But if we relax in past years, Eagles generally do not play beginners, and if they do it, then it is for a single trip. Philly choosing to rest their starters or not, however; Bengals do not have it too easy since the depth of the Eagles operates deeply at almost all positions. They proved that when they put their backups during their regular season final last year. “” – The writer Kelsey Kramer from A To Z Sports Eagles
Philadelphia will not relax on Burrow, and in a way, that’s what Burrow wants. Finding a groove in the face of actual pressure in several discs in the next two weeks is exactly what it embraces, even if all cincinnati is preparing for the players who strike it.
Managing Burrow’s security and preparation will be a challenge, but the victories being fired at the start of the season may depend on doing things well.
Related: Bengals at Eagles: how to watch and follow the pre-season match of the week 1 of cincinnati against Philadelphia
This story was initially reported by A in Z Sports On August 7, 2025, where he appeared for the first time.
