For just the second time in his career, Joe Burrow saw some extended action for the Bengals in the club's preseason opener on Thursday, a 34-27 loss to the Eagles in Philadelphia. Burrow was near-perfect, as he fired just one incomplete pass while throwing for 123 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.
But Burrow didn't see it that way. In fact, he was far from impressed with both his own performance and that of the Bengals as a whole, so much so that the very first thing he mentioned during his postgame press conference was not the two touchdown drives he helped complete, but the incomplete pass he threw, calling it "disappointing." He also wasn't pleased with how he threw the ball, which he felt was "average."
