Joe Burrow's Turf Toe Injury May End His Season Prematurely

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00:00Joe Burrow, in the first half of the game

00:02against the Jacksonville Jaguars, is sacked

00:04and ends up with a very severe case of turf toe.

00:09This feels like we now, as a nation,

00:13will fully understand that while turf toe sounds

00:15like it's a nick, get out there with your toe.

00:19It seemingly immobilizes anybody that this hits.

00:25And Burrow is now going to miss

00:26a minimum of three months.

00:30We've even seen from the pro football doc, Dr. David Chow,

00:34he thinks this could be season ending

00:37for the Cincinnati Bengals star quarterback.

00:40So as I compose myself, as I say that,

00:43because I picked the Bengals to win the Super Bowl,

00:45I'll throw it over to a former Joe Burrow believer

00:49in Joe Lisi to give me your outlook on this situation.

00:53Let's not forget, I jumped off him.

00:54Yeah, yeah, you did.

00:57I said it to you last week.

00:59I said, I don't know if I, I got to stop, you know,

01:01picking up the things you leave behind.

01:03And so here we go.

01:04So he cost me a bet yesterday because I had two and a quarter.

01:08Okay, that's not, come on.

01:09But what I don't like, obviously,

01:11is he can't stay on the football field.

01:13I mean, it's numerous years now where Joe Burrow's

01:15had an injury, whether it be the knee, the calf,

01:18now the turf toe with torn ligaments,

01:21where it affects his team.

01:22Does it affect the Super Bowl odds

01:24and their aspirations to potentially win a title?

01:28Absolutely.

01:29Would I feel confident with Jake Browning

01:31at least trying to win me nine or 10 games this year?

01:35I mean, here's the thing.

01:38I don't think, and I've heard the reports,

01:41Kirk Cousins isn't going to elevate this team

01:43to a Super Bowl or an AFC championship.

01:45Okay.

01:46All right.

01:46I think you'll get the most, and productivity-wise,

01:49there's probably more out of Jake Browning

01:51that at least knows the offense has worked.

01:53I mean, Jamar Chase got his on 65 yards.

01:57It's not like Jake Browning didn't toss it around.

01:59I understand two touchdowns, three interceptions,

02:01but isn't that what Kirk Cousins does?

02:03So, I mean, what are we missing here?

02:06If the defense could take the next level

02:08and the next step and shut down opposing offenses

02:11to the point of 20 points per game,

02:14there's as good of a shot with Jake Browning

02:17trying to win a championship

02:18than with Kirk Cousins or anybody

02:20they're going to scrape off the street.

02:21So, let's just go back a second.

02:25I'll get to the Cousins stuff.

02:26Let's go back a second.

02:27Sure.

02:28For Cincinnati, why I think this is devastating.

02:32Oh, of course.

02:32It's devastating.

02:33But here's the thing.

02:35If they were 0-2, which they could easily be, right?

02:38Yeah.

02:39The game against Cleveland was, you know, nip and tuck,

02:41and they had a big comeback against Jacksonville.

02:43If you lose, Burrow, you know what it is?

02:46Four to same.

02:47We start the season slow.

02:48Joey B's down.

02:50What are we going to do?

02:51Instead, instead, oh my gosh, we're actually 2-0.

02:56We're never 2-0.

02:57We're never 2-0.

02:58And we're not even playing that well.

03:00There's a lot of season in front of us.

03:02Chiefs are 0-2 who have owned this conference now

03:05for, you know, more than half a decade.

03:08There's runway here for Cincinnati, right?

03:12And now Burrow's gone.

03:13And that is devastating.

03:15And the timeline that we're being given of a minimum of three months

03:20seems to be this ultra, ultra optimistic timeline.

03:25Now, if Burrow misses three months, I'm going to assume it's not like to the day,

03:30that would leave three remaining regular season games when Burrow gets back.

03:35I assume 10 wins will get you into the playoffs, right?

03:38Their final three games are at Miami, home against Arizona, and home against Cleveland.

03:44Burrow would be favored in every single one of those games by quite a bit.

03:47Let's say he needs to go 2-1.

03:49That means over the next 12 games, this team would need to go 6-6 to give Burrow a chance

03:55to, you know, go 2-1 and make the playoffs.

04:00And if that happens, Cincinnati at 80-1 is an incredible ticket.

04:06It really is.

04:06It is.

04:07Because if they make the playoffs, who cares what the seat is?

04:10Just give me a chance with Joe Burrow.

04:12The problem, though, is I'm not sure he's actually going to be back in week 16-17,

04:18the wild card round, the divisional round.

04:21And that's the struggle of this situation.

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