Jordan Palmer has been a point of frustration for Cincinnati Bengals fans this offseason.
Through no fault of his own, Palmer has been thrust into the spotlight by questionable national narratives simply due to his last name.
Palmer is a prestigious pre-draft quarterback mentor who Joe Burrow elected to train with this offseason. Despite Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson and a host of other big names turning to him, speculation suggested Palmer’s connection to his brother, Carson, would result in his bad-talking the Bengals to Burrow.
But Jordan is merely focused on the prospect and it’s hard not to get excited about what he sees in Burrow, as he told Albert Breer on the MMQB podcast:
“Those are things where I think there’s a gap in both of those categories between Joe and anybody else I’ve ever been around. I am … unbelievably impressed with him going from completely irrelevant to pandemonium everywhere he goes. … He’s just handled it like a 42-year-old dude who’s been doing this for years. It’s confidence and maturity – this strange concoction of the two of them that I just haven’t seen before.””
This interview neatly coincides with Burrow drawing rave reviews from his combine meet with Mike Brown and the Bengals, before even more reports came out saying the same thing.
And for what it’s worth, T. J. Houshmandzadeh — also helping train Burrow this offseason — has said nobody there would have a reason to say anything bad about the Bengals.
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