Joe Burrow tells AlbertBreer about how the Bengals’ offense is evolving, plus much more in this week’s Ten Takeaways
is 100% sustainable has been in plain sight all season. In the offseason, Cincinnati blew up its offensive line and started over with a new set of veterans playing alongside left tackle Jonah Williams, while defenses across the league cooked up ways to deal with everything they brought to the table in their run to a conference title.What wasn’t, and what isn’t, in the NFL is the matter-of-fact way in which Burrow and the franchise’s young core responded to dig its way out of an 0–2 hole.
Indeed, against the Falcons, Burrow hit two underneath throws and a run play before delivering a 60-yard touchdown strike to Boyd—who was running a deep post—for the game’s first score. “Safeties have been cheating over to him the whole year, and at the beginning of the year, I think I let that kind of dissuade me from throwing his way,” he said. “But I just have to take those chances sometimes and try to throw a safe ball and expect him to become a defensive back if the coverage ends up being too tight. He made a great play for us.”
• In the interim, Fitterer, in conjunction with owner David Tepper, assistant GM Dan Morgan and cap chief Samir Suleiman, huddled to come up with a blueprint for what they wanted out of a deal, and the first-round value was central to that, in giving the team a piece of capital it could use to get a quarterback and augment the existing young core.
• The Rams’ final offer: second- and third-rounders in 2023, fourth- and fifth-rounders in ’24 and Cam Akers. The Bills were also in it until the end—sort of. Buffalo called early, as we said, and kept tabs on the situation throughout, which was easy enough with the strong ties between the Bills’ and Panthers’ front offices. In the end, the asking price never came down to the point where Buffalo was compelled to make a hard offer.
This fear is founded in part on an old school–new school split that seems to be emerging inside ownership ranks. But that didn’t stop the owners from talking in small groups among themselves during breaks and in other corners of the hotel about the future of the Commanders. And it didn’t slow fear that, in the end, the league is going to give Snyder a path to slither out of all this.And that focus the Commanders have brought—over the past two weeks in particular, as it seemed so much was crashing around them—might’ve been most apparent in the eyes of Terry McLaurin at one point Sunday.
On offense, the Commanders rushed for 166 yards behind young backs Brian Robinson Jr. and Antonio Gibson, which allowed for a tidy, efficient effort from Heinicke, who was making his first start of the year in Carson Wentz’s place. Heinicke brings years of experience in Norv Turner and Scott Turner’s system with him from Minnesota, Carolina and the past two-plus years in Washington.
That doesn’t mean, by the way, that they’re going to win the division or go to the Super Bowl or anything like that. But it does position them for the grind of the season. “I know it’s a situation, that’s what it is, but that’s something that we can’t control. So we’re going to focus on what we can, and that’s what we do on the football field.”While we’re in the NFC East, there was a really nice nuance to how the Giants closed out the Jaguars on SundayThe team’s last defensive call, from ultra-aggressive coordinator Wink Martindale, was a max-coverage look—with the thought being that the Jaguars would be in a hurry anyway, so there was no need to send rushers.
This, of course, sounds like little stuff, but it’s not. Brian Daboll’s coaching staff has shown itself to be a pull-out-all-the-stops kind of group , and that’s a big reason they’re 6–1. But that stuff only gets you so far unless you’re doing the basics well, too, and Daboll seems to be crushing it in that area, too.Baltimore’s rounded into form with its normal, punishing, option-based ground attack fueling an edgy group that’s getting healthier on defense, too.
“It’s not an easy thing to do,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said. “We were on a Thursday night game in Cincinnati when he last played. Those games, you don’t have full-speed practices. So his last full-speed practice was before the Buffalo game, which was the third game of the season. It’s to his credit.”
Wherever the Raiders are going the rest of the year, they’re going on the back of Josh Jacobs, who I’ve come to regard as underratedWe can argue until we’re blue in the face about the merits of taking a tailback in the first round like the Raiders did in 2019. What you can’t argue is that then-GM Mike Mayock got the right one.
• Breece Hall was so much fun to watch—so it’s a shame the Jets’ rookie star will be shelved the rest of the year. It’s a pretty big blow for the team, too, losing its best home-run threat on offense.
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