Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow played the worst game of his career in the season-opening loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Buy Bengals TicketsBurrow, while turning the ball over five times, looked uncomfortable behind his new line and clearly wasn’t seeing the field well.
But Dan Orlovsky would agree with most Bengals fans — this was an anomaly, not a new norm.
Appearing on “Get Up,” Orlovsky pointed out some of the obvious reads Burrow missed that he normally doesn’t and said Sunday was just a case of Burrow knocking the rust off:
“The reason I’m not concerned about Joe Burrow is because he played his worst game ever, doing something that he does best, his worst, and that’s seeing the field…That’s not the Joe Burrow I have seen for the first two years of his NFL career. That’s the Joe Burrow that really hasn’t played football in like eight months.”
That’s right in line with what we suggested before the game and wrote after — Burrow’s new line didn’t get many reps together and had a brutal matchup. More importantly, Burrow didn’t take a snap in the preseason and had that appendix surgery that caused him to scramble to put weight back on his frame.
Which is to say Burrow is rusty and looked the part. But based on his reaction to the loss, it’s pretty safe to think he’ll shake it off quite fast.
.@danorlovsky7 says he's not concerned about Joe Burrow's performance against the Steelers: pic.twitter.com/4P8Y3u0gOj
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) September 12, 2022
