The Cincinnati Bengals and Joe Burrow are doing just fine.
Duh.
National discourse over the last eight months or so, which speculated if Burrow might be upset or eventually on the way to a fallout with the Bengals, always fell flat. There were many factors, but misreading a few Burrow comments and a general unfamiliarity with the small-market franchise led to those.
Even so, it never hurts for Bengals fans to hear that all is well either, right?
This week, Bengals executive vice president Katie Blackburn sat down with Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic and expanded on that relationship.
“There were conversations with him, and he’s always pretty easy to talk to and there was no rub that he just, he has good conversations that are, I think, productive, certainly not edgy in any way,” Blackburn said.
Vice president Elizabeth Blackburn followed up with this: “Internally, there’s a good comfort and confidence with the communication with Joe, and externally that can be spun a little differently.”
In Cincinnati, the ghost of Carson Palmer will always create little national narratives or even localized anxiety about Burrow’s future with the franchise.
But Burrow also happens to hail from Ohio and, if nothing else, any asks of the front office he might have aren’t all that outrageous, since they might simply request the team act more like a modern franchise.
And to the Bengals’ credit, they have. But there’s little reason to think that the relationship between the team and Burrow is anything but fantastic as they march toward the same goals while on the same page.
This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: Revealing Bengals interview hints at relationship with Joe Burrow
Reporting by Chris Roling, Bengals Wire / Bengals Wire
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