CINCINNATI—A stormy stadium practice on Friday, and plenty to take away from a Bengals team that feels a very real sense of urgency …
• Joe Burrow’s confidence is pretty well-founded, based on how he’s played when he’s been healthy. And as he sees it, if styles make fights, he and the group around him now have the wherewithal to win all different kinds of brawls. Part of it is because his turf toe injury last year really limited him movement-wise when he came back, and led him to develop even more so from the pocket. As an offense, it’s largely because of the group’s capacity to learn. With so much experience in the scheme and playing together (virtually everyone is back from last year), the unit has a lot more than it normally would, with the install essentially complete. That’ll allow for the group to continue refining it, and also give Zac Taylor and OC Dan Pitcher a deep volume of plays and concepts to pull from when they’re building out game plans on a week-to-week basis.
