Joe Burrow on A.J. Green, Bengals' Explosiveness on Offense
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00:00 I loved AJ.
00:01 I was lucky to be with him for a year.
00:03 I was excited about that coming in,
00:06 playing with a player of his pedigree.
00:08 And so, you know, whenever he comes back,
00:12 I haven't seen him in a while,
00:12 but I'm looking forward to it
00:15 because he did so much here for this organization,
00:18 for this city.
00:19 I'm excited for the fans and for him to come back
00:23 and hopefully they give him a good response.
00:25 - Joe, when you have a game like you had on Sunday,
00:27 in the rain and everything else that went with it,
00:28 do you just rely on the fact that you know
00:30 you have one of the most explosive teams in the NFL?
00:33 Just kind of know that's the baseline
00:35 for who you guys are supposed to be?
00:37 - Yeah, we know that what we put on film on Sunday isn't us.
00:42 We've proven that in the past,
00:46 so we gotta go out and prove it again.
00:47 Each season is new.
00:49 We're not relying on anything we've done in the past.
00:52 You just have to push forward.
00:53 And right now, where we're at after Sunday,
00:56 we didn't play very well
00:58 and we didn't prove that we were that explosive team,
01:00 so we gotta go out and prove it this week.
01:01 - I guess I'll flip the question about you after a loss.
01:04 How are Cali and Zach after a loss?
01:06 Are they the same every single week or can it vary?
01:10 - No, they're the same every week.
01:11 And honestly, I think that's why.
01:14 We've been able to overcome a lot of adversity here.
01:17 We've started slow some.
01:20 We've had stretches of a couple losses in a row,
01:23 but nobody ever panics.
01:25 Coaches don't panic, players don't panic.
01:27 And like I said, it starts with Zach.
01:29 He's the same every week.
01:30 We're gonna come in, get our work done, have fun,
01:33 and go out and perform on Sundays.
01:34 - Going back to what you're saying about her first draft,
01:37 do you know Aaron Rodgers?
01:38 Have you met him more than when you played him?
01:40 - Just when I played him.
01:43 - Have you reached out to him after the injury?
01:44 - I have not.
01:46 I'm sure he's got so many attacks going on,
01:48 but obviously when something like that happens,
01:51 it's not ideal.
01:55 I know we've all been, if you play this game long enough,
01:57 you're gonna have something like that happen to you.
02:00 So that's obviously really tough to see.
02:02 I know how excited they were to have him there
02:05 and how excited he was to have a new start.
02:07 So that's a tough way to start off the year.
02:11 So I'm feeling for him.
02:12 - Zach, you mentioned how impressed he's been
02:14 with Troy Walters continuing to be able
02:16 to raise the bar in that room.
02:19 What makes Walters so good and what he does?
02:22 - Well, one, he played the position at a high level.
02:25 You know, he's a Bolitnikoff award winner.
02:27 And so whenever you have that kind of pedigree as a coach,
02:29 you know, your guys are gonna buy into what he's saying.
02:32 And he knows his stuff.
02:34 He's, in my opinion, the best receiver coach in the league.
02:37 One of the best that I've been around.
02:38 He really understands the minute details of each route
02:43 and spacing and timing and what the defense
02:47 is throwing at you.
02:48 And so when you have a guy like that
02:50 to compliment the offensive minds that we have
02:53 in Zach and Brian and Pitch and Frank,
02:56 you really have a great coaching staff
02:59 that really compliments each other.
03:01 - Feels like the pattern in the last couple of years
03:03 has been slow start to the season,
03:05 then you heat up later on, you go on a run.
03:07 How do you go about fixing the first part of that
03:10 being a slow start, like in the future?
03:12 - Yeah, you go out and win a game.
03:13 We gotta go out and get one this week.
03:14 Like I said, we're focused on being one and O every week.
03:18 So this week we just gotta go be one and O
03:21 and then take it from there.
03:23 - Just following up on the haircut.
03:26 Were you just kidding about being related to the bad game?
03:29 (laughing)
03:30 Or was that truly your motivation?
03:31 - A little both.