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Chris Roling

Bengals teammates praise Joe Burrow’s ‘kill mode’ vs. Cardinals

Cincinnati Bengals fans weren’t the only ones experiencing a mixture of thrill and concern at the epic performance by Joe Burrow last week.

Weapons working with Burrow — such as Trenton Irwin in place of the injured Tee Higgins — were loving the star quarterback’s mentality.

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“My man was in kill mode,” Irwin said, according to Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic. “He was in kill mode from the get-go.”

But others, like three-touchdown man Ja’Marr Chase en route to the record books, were equally as concerned when Burrow decided to take off on the injured calf.

“I thought he was crazy to do it,” Chase said. “I looked around and turned to Tee (Higgins) and said, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ I don’t know if Tee heard me. If he feels good and feels like he can do it, do it. I’m not going to tell him what to do. He already don’t listen to me.”

The concern makes perfect sense, given how Burrow got moving in Week 2, then suffered that multi-week setback.

But barring a shocking development this week, Burrow didn’t have a similar issue while beating the Cardinals. That won’t stop everyone, from fans to players, from having the same mixture of excited concern next weekend against Seattle, but just that one game stands between everyone and the bye week.

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