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Speaker 1: host of the Jungle War podcast on YouTube. He's the
Speaker 1: man they call Trags Mike Petrallion Trags. I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: you a question. I don't know if you've heard people
Speaker 1: are buzzing about this Joe Burrow thing.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask you what.
Speaker 1: Do your eyes show and tell you this week in
Speaker 1: watching Joe.
Speaker 3: Burrow, he's moving comfortably. He's throwing the ball with great
Speaker 3: fluidity and strength. He looks like the Joe Burrow we
Speaker 3: saw late in training camp and in the preseason. Uh
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor agreed with that observation on Wednesday that he
Speaker 3: looked terrific, looked out standing.
Speaker 2: On Monday.
Speaker 3: He's throwing the ball great. He even moved out of
Speaker 3: the pocket and individual drills. He's not doing eleven on
Speaker 3: eleven yet, but he's doing everything you would hope to
Speaker 3: see from Joe Burrow to this point, I hate using
Speaker 3: the cliche, but he's checking all the boxes. The one
Speaker 3: thing we don't know is how he will look when
Speaker 3: he's trying to move quickly the little dance steps inside
Speaker 3: the pocket to get out of trouble. Will his foot
Speaker 3: respond to that appropriately? But to this point, he looks tremendous.
Speaker 3: He looks very strong, and he also looks very relaxed.
Speaker 3: And obviously it's kind of dangerous sometimes to rate in
Speaker 3: the body language. But I will tell you both from
Speaker 3: his press conference on Monday and his interaction that we've
Speaker 3: seen at practice with Joe Burrow, with Joe Flacco and
Speaker 3: obviously Jake Browning and Sean Clifford the other three quarterback,
Speaker 3: the other two quarterbacks, he looks like he's getting along well.
Speaker 2: He looks comfortable. You know.
Speaker 3: I think he has in his mind the date of
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving night. I believe that's November twenty seventh, to return
Speaker 3: to action and be ready to go. And if he
Speaker 3: checks all the boxes, I don't see any reason why.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't tryers.
Speaker 4: I couldn't be more fascinated in this alleged contraption. He's
Speaker 4: wearing protecting his toe. Any information on what sort of brace,
Speaker 4: what sort of thing is being is on his foot
Speaker 4: now to help brace that toe.
Speaker 3: No, I haven't seen it, Rocky, and I'm sure it's
Speaker 3: you know, the orthopedic contraption on steroids if you will,
Speaker 3: it is the most complex orthopedic instrument that you could
Speaker 3: come up with. Is in there to protect and cushion
Speaker 3: the toe. What I'm curious to find out, and we
Speaker 3: probably should have asked us had we been doing our
Speaker 3: job properly on Monday, is does that give him any restriction?
Speaker 2: How does it feel playing with it?
Speaker 3: I mean, in in all fairness, at that point on Monday,
Speaker 3: he had only been at practice one day, So you
Speaker 3: know that's what We're gonna have to wait and see.
Speaker 3: How does Joe Burrow respond once he returns to eleven
Speaker 3: on eleven activities likely next week, and how does it
Speaker 3: feel and how does his foot respond from playing repetitively on.
Speaker 1: It and drags In terms of a return to normalcy,
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase is back to messing with him again. Huh yep,
Speaker 1: And that was hilarious today, saying he given the fact
Speaker 1: that Joe Burrow is such an mma fan.
Speaker 3: He likes to kick him, head butt them, punch him.
Speaker 3: And once he starts, he said, once he starts punching him.
Speaker 2: Burrow will usually punch back.
Speaker 3: And I found that fascinating. Was also interesting this began.
Speaker 3: You know, I thought it was terrific of Paul Day,
Speaker 3: energy of the athletic to ask this.
Speaker 2: When did this begin?
Speaker 3: And you know the natural assumption would be at LSU. Well, yes,
Speaker 3: it started at LSU, but not until his senior year
Speaker 3: because initially, Jamar said, Joe Burrow didn't talk to anybody,
Speaker 3: so you didn't know. If the guy's not talking to anybody,
Speaker 3: you don't mess around with him until you really get
Speaker 3: to know him.
Speaker 2: And that wasn't.
Speaker 3: Until their senior year together, and it's kind of continued
Speaker 3: while they've been together with the Bengals. Also, he said,
Speaker 3: would he asked if he would do it during games,
Speaker 3: He really had to pause and think, and he said
Speaker 3: maybe after a touchdown drive kind of mess around with
Speaker 3: him then, But I don't think you're going to be
Speaker 3: doing that after he just went three and out and
Speaker 3: you're down by seven points in the middle of the
Speaker 3: third quarter.
Speaker 4: So trying to I don't know everybody you talked to
Speaker 4: when the toe injury happened. Everything, every indication to me
Speaker 4: was that this thing was very serious. You know that
Speaker 4: that kind of thing nothing to mess around with, a
Speaker 4: very complicated kind of joint. So I think him the
Speaker 4: fact that he was activated on the twenty one day
Speaker 4: window on Monday was such a shock. What do you
Speaker 4: think happened? Did was? Did he just accelerate his rehab
Speaker 4: and really respond well to that? Was it not as
Speaker 4: bad as maybe people originally thought? What's the case here?
Speaker 2: The former not the latter.
Speaker 3: He definitely accelerated his rehab. And if you know anything
Speaker 3: about Joe Burrow and his previous four significant injuries, he's
Speaker 3: attacked the rehab process incredibly aggressively, getting back.
Speaker 2: Way ahead of schedule. And this has been no different.
Speaker 3: And you know, take this for what it is, but
Speaker 3: Burrow said that this he's been through ligament injuries before,
Speaker 3: and this of course is one of those. He said,
Speaker 3: this is hasn't risen to the complexity, certainly of the risks,
Speaker 3: which I think was the most complicated to come back
Speaker 3: from and the knee. This is not those type of injuries.
Speaker 3: He kind of figured, I guess early on after surgery
Speaker 3: and the way it was responding that he would be
Speaker 3: able to attack it, go through everything and ramp it
Speaker 3: up more quickly, and as long as your body responds,
Speaker 3: there's no reason not to continue on that path.
Speaker 2: The moment you feel anything.
Speaker 3: Abnormal, obviously doctors and physical therapists are going to tell
Speaker 3: you to back off and let the thing heal because
Speaker 3: you don't want to do more damage. But in this
Speaker 3: particular case, Burrow has made it to this point without
Speaker 3: any complications, knock Wood, and he anticipates on keeping that
Speaker 3: acceleration through to the practice field this week, next week
Speaker 3: and see where it winds up on Thanksgiving night.
Speaker 1: All right, Trags, You've got a lot more on this,
Speaker 1: everything from Joe Flacco and the twist and turn of
Speaker 1: his season and his reflections and said Johnson's opportunity and more.
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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco.
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Speaker 3: Needless to say, he's just so much, He's so awesome
Speaker 3: to talk to and so insightful. That's going to be
Speaker 3: up there tomorrow. Look out for a story and column
Speaker 3: on Jamar. Chase and T Higgins also spoke, both being
Speaker 3: flat out surprised and almost shocked that Burrow was back
Speaker 3: on the field this week.
Speaker 2: That'll be up on CLNS since with a y dot
Speaker 2: com all of the locker room.
Speaker 3: Interviews, including a nice piece with Seda Johnson, who could
Speaker 3: be a big player in this week's game in Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: the defensive end in his third year out of Ole Miss.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, look forward to talking.
Speaker 2: To your next week. All right, gentlemen, take care