Joe Burrow isn’t spending much time chasing individual milestones. On Ja’Marr Chase’s new podcast, “Chasing No 1,” the Bengals quarterback made his priority plain: winning.
Burrow was the first guest on the show, which Chase co-hosts with Annie Agar, and Chase pressed him on what he wants out of the upcoming season.
“Do you go into the season with goals?” Chase asked Burrow. “And if you do, just give me like one of your goals.”
“I just want to win this year,” Burrow said. “I just want to win.
The rest will take care of itself. We'll break a bunch of records eventually, but I think we're going to have a really good team that has a chance to win every game that we step foot on the field for.
I don't know about you, but I could really feel it in my bones (and) in my soul in OTAs this year − different from years past.
“We brought in a lot of the right guys, a lot of the right people with the right mindsets to go and chase this goal of winning a Super Bowl and winning as many games as we can and being the best possible team that we can. I felt it from our D-line.
I felt it from our defense. Our offense has the same guys as years past … But these veteran guys that we brought in on defense to be able to help our younger guys …”
Agar also asked Burrow whether he pays attention to criticism or cares what people say.
That conversation followed comments Burrow made in an in-game interview with CBS sideline reporter AJ Ross during the Bengals’ final preseason game in Philadelphia, when he said he tries to treat every day like it’s his last.
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