Joe Burrow Speaks on Recently Losing Passion for Football

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00:00Joe Burrow, you may have heard at a press conference earlier this week,

00:03talking about how he's not having fun anymore.

00:05Quote, if I want to keep doing this, I have to have fun doing this.

00:09I've been through a lot.

00:10If it's not fun, then what am I doing it for?

00:13My first reaction to that when I heard him say it,

00:15you know what, let me just play it for you first,

00:17so you hear it out of his own words, so I'm not paraphrasing here.

00:20Here's Joe Burrow earlier this week. Go ahead.

00:22If I want to keep doing this, I have to have fun doing it.

00:25But, you know, I've been through a lot,

00:29and if it's not fun, then what am I doing it for?

00:32I'll just stop it there. Answer the money.

00:35That's what you're doing it for.

00:36You got the wealthiest contract in the history of football when you signed it.

00:40Yep.

00:40You have over $200 million guaranteed coming your way

00:43to play quarterback in the NFL.

00:45If that's not fun, I don't know what is.

00:49Now, I'm sure you're frustrated.

00:50You know, the Cincinnati Bengals got to a Super Bowl

00:53and have done a bad job putting better players around you

00:56or to protect you on the offensive line.

00:58The defense has stunk throughout your career there.

01:00So I understand why it's frustrating,

01:02and I understand that losing sucks.

01:04But to be fair, you've also been an absentee quarterback

01:08for a good portion of your career.

01:10How many games has he missed thus far in year six?

01:13I think 21 games.

01:14Yeah, you've missed a season and a half of football

01:17in five and a half years.

01:19So you also have to take some accountability for the fact

01:22that not your fault, but you have suffered a lot of injuries

01:25that have precluded you from playing football.

01:28Right.

01:28They're a better team when he plays, and he doesn't play often enough.

01:34He's a top three quarterback when he plays, but that is the problem.

01:38You know the old cliche, what's the greatest ability of all?

01:40Availability, right?

01:41So this is not a referendum on his ability.

01:44He's a badass quarterback.

01:45But when I first saw this, because I went through an evolution

01:48on this, okay?

01:49Okay.

01:49My first thought was, screw you, Joe Burrow.

01:52Like, what are you complaining about?

01:54You're dating a hot, thin model, right?

01:58Everyone adores you.

02:00You've been to a Super Bowl.

02:02You've got $200 million guaranteed coming in.

02:05You bought the freaking Batmobile.

02:08Life is pretty good, I would think, if you're Joe Burrow.

02:11But wah, I'm not having fun.

02:14And wah, if I'm not having fun, then what am I doing this for?

02:19You're doing it because you got $200 million guaranteed.

02:23You bought the Batmobile, and you're dating a hot, thin model.

02:26That's what you're doing it for.

02:28The thin part keeps coming up.

02:30Yeah.

02:30Yeah, because, you know, SI now thinks, you know, there's a place for fat moms, too.

02:35Oh, all right.

02:36Which is another story.

02:36I should have brought it up.

02:37So I wanted to make the point.

02:38I'm good.

02:38He dates the thin ones.

02:39I like, we love all the women on this program.

02:42Yes, we do.

02:43We like all the women.

02:43We don't fat shame at all, except in Victoria's Secret, we don't need fat girls.

02:47That's a good story.

02:48We don't have that.

02:48All right, here's the deal.

02:49So my first reaction was, screw you.

02:52Like, you're living this gilded life that the rest of us would dream to live, and you're

02:57not happy?

02:58Oh.

02:59And I wanted to attack because I'm like, you know, talk about a guy completely out of

03:03touch with the common man, or like the hardworking blue-collar Bengal fan that spends all of his

03:08paycheck to watch you play football, and it means something to him, and I was just going

03:12to attack, attack, attack.

03:14But because my brain has evolved at a level that most aren't.

03:19Most aren't.

03:20It's like, yeah, a thin model, right to that.

03:22Right.

03:22Like, my brain is at just a higher level of evolution than most people's brains.

03:29You know, most people just attack Joe Burrow.

03:31You're completely out of touch.

03:32Screw you.

03:33If you don't like it, give the money back.

03:35You know, I hear that.

03:36I got voices in my head that want to go in that direction as well.

03:39But you're not going to.

03:40I'm not going to do that.

03:41Okay.

03:42Because my evolved brain now sees this as an opportunity.

03:47Oh.

03:47What Joe Burrow is saying without saying it, because remember, he wanted to go to Cincinnati,

03:53Ohio kid, all that stuff, right?

03:56And he's been great with that.

03:58I'm good.

03:59What Joe Burrow really meant when you heard those quotes earlier this week was, I'm done

04:05being a Bengal.

04:06Ooh.

04:07That it's not fun being the quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals.

04:12So.

04:12Yeah.

04:13Okay.

04:14Yeah.

04:14So.

04:15I'm good.

04:17I'm good.

04:30So.

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