NEW ORLEANS _ This is Joe Burrow’s world, and we’re walking through it with him on a wild dish-then-dash Thursday morning on Radio Row here during Super Bowl week.
Along with more handlers than a heavyweight champ, not to mention two Louisiana state troopers, he bounces from microphone to camera in a relentless spate of interviews.
This is breaking news as Burrow walks past the set of the Pat McAfee Show. The host bellows a live mic “Joe Burrow’s here. I’m glad you got your (bleep) together this year.”
Burrow, the Bengals quarterback who’s a finalist for MVP and Offensive Player of the Year later Thursday night at NFL Honors, is proving he put enough stuff together this year to be the hottest and coolest quarterback in all the land. He doesn’t even turn to McAfee. He just lifts his arm in a salute and keeps walking.
Just before that, the former NFL quarterback and current analyst Chris Simms, about to do a take on the Pro Football Talk set, sees Burrow and leans off the stage with his hand out.
“I have to say hello to Niner,” Simms says. “Hello, Niner.”
Later, Simms reveals why he tells his son to go watch Burrow.
“If you really want to learn how to play the position in the pocket,” Simms says. “Make decisions. It’s not about athletic ability all the time. Just the nuance of quarterbacking. Joe Burrow is probably the best in the NFL at that.”
Then a man with a gray beard leaning against another set calls out, “Joe. Good to see you, Joe.” Burrow must recognize him because Ed Reed, the Ravens Hall of Fame safety, is from here and Burrow won a national title here. He walks over to shake Reed’s hand. “Good to see you, too.”
“I can read all quarterbacks. Especially from Cincinnati,” says Reed, who had 22 of his 64 career interceptions against the Bengals and Browns. “Actually, in Ohio.” Those 64 are still one interception shy of the total of Bengals Hall of Fame cornerback Ken Riley….
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