The moment came for the Cincinnati Bengals’ coaches at the beginning of August. The Joe Burrow they knew, the one who led their franchise out of the woods, and onto the NFL’s biggest stages for the first time in three decades, was back. And in complete and total command.
Yes, it had to do with his health, as he returns from another injury, this time a torn wrist ligament. But that wasn’t really it. It was how this quarterbacking prodigy—with a scheme decoder in his head—was returning to his element and reaching a new level in the part of the game he’s long seemed to have mastered.
