Zac Taylor on Joe Burrow's health, Bengals' matchup vs Ravens

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00:00T will be out, Trey will be out, Taj Brooks will be out, Cam Sample and Samaje.

00:12We'll get through the week and see where they end up.

00:16Obviously, Cam was out last game, trying to progress back.

00:20Same as Samaje, he had a good week, feels good.

00:23We'll just take these extra couple days, see where he ends up.

00:25So those three out, you mean they're not playing first?

00:28Yeah.

00:29How did T progress through?

00:31Obviously, it looks like a hard hit.

00:32How has he been over these last 24 hours?

00:35Yeah, I don't want to speak for him.

00:36It was obviously a tough one, so that's where it'll end.

00:40Are you ready for any announcement on Joe?

00:43I anticipate him playing, but we'll continue to work through the week.

00:45I'm not going to declare that definitively.

00:48Work through the week, coming off an injury, he's done everything he could.

00:50He put himself in a position to do his best to play yesterday.

00:54And we'll continue with that mindset.

00:56But he looks like he's in good shape right now.

00:58He'd be ready to go.

00:59Flacco active as the backup if Burrow starts?

01:01That's how it'd go.

01:02Yep.

01:02If Joe ends up being the starter, then Joe Flacco would be the backup.

01:07Joe, is that like on a short week?

01:09I mean, how much did you guys bait that into the practice schedule last week?

01:13No one.

01:13It was going to be a limited week this week to get Joe those reps last week?

01:16No, I mean, really, last week it just fell because it was easier for us to handle because

01:21Joe Flacco has been limited in practice.

01:24And so his schedule had been conducive to Burrow coming in there and taking all the snaps.

01:28So it didn't throw anything off kilter because that had been our routine previously.

01:32He just took a bunch of reps that Jake Browning had been taking when Flacco was out.

01:36So from that perspective, it worked out well.

01:39We were able to balance that without disrupting anything.

01:42And now you'll go into this walkthrough reps, which is really what we're doing the next two days.

01:46So it's nothing physical.

01:47Walkthrough mental reps and getting everybody ready to go play.