Two notable former quarterbacks brought up Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow recently and had some interesting comments about his path to the NFL and journey once there.
Both Kurt Warner and Carson Palmer talked Burrow on Arizona Sports’ Doug & Wolf (h/t Matt Layman, 98.7 FM). Warner said he liked that Burrow was compared to him before the draft:
“If you gave me one thing on the field and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got to play the whole game this way,’ I’m saying, ‘We’re going five out, and we’re going to block five and we’re going to put the pressure on the defense and you leave it up to me to make those decisions and get the ball to my playmakers,’ which is very much what LSU did in that great season that he had last year. So I like the comparisons.”
It’s no small feat for a quarterback like Burrow to be compared to Warner. It’s an even smaller feat to have Warner confirm he likes the comparison.
As for Palmer, he just sounds excited to see Burrow get to work in a city he calls home:
“The best thing he can do is go in there and work his butt off. He’s a hometown kid. He grew up an hour northeast of downtown Cincinnati. That city’s in his blood. He’s got family and high school teammates and teachers and so many people pulling for him. He’s going to have a ton of support.
Burrow has already been seeing the hometown love big time since the long-awaited move went official and the Bengals drafted him No. 1. Most recently, his “Color Rush” jersey blew up the sales charts.
While fans await the official Burrow debut in Bengals stripes, it sure doesn’t hurt to hear two prominent names like this offer this sort of commentary — and they’d know a thing or two about Burrow and his situation.
