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Getty Images With the Joe Burrow will-he-or-won’t-he story continuing, there have been plenty of chances for people to pile on the Bengals. There will be more. They earned them, by going 2-14 last year, and not winning a playoff game since 1991. But Bengals coach Zac Taylor knows that until...

Getty Images The questions regarding whether quarterback Joe Burrow truly wants to play for the Bengals got started during Super Bowl week, when: (1) former Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer said the team isn’t committed to winning; (2) Burrow hired Carson Palmer’s brother, Jordan, to help...

Getty Images In 1975, Steve Bartkowski sat where Joe Burrow does today. The Falcons traded with the Colts a few days before the draft and selected the Cal quarterback with the No. 1 overall choice. The Falcons were bad before Bartkowski got there. They were bad for three years after he arrived...

Getty Images Joe Burrow surely wants to go first overall. What NFL draft prospect doesn’t? But does the LSU quarterback want to go to the Bengals? That has become the subject of speculation after some recent comments by Burrow and the fact that Jordan Palmer, the brother of Carson Palmer, is...

Getty Images One of the main problems for minor league football operations has been finding competent quarterbacks, to create enough offense to keep things interesting. The XFL was already struggling with that, and is already dipping into the depth in Week Two. According to Joey Knight of the...

Getty Images Bengals coach Zac Taylor wrote a letter to Bengals season ticket holders, and it said a lot of the things it seems Joe Burrow wants to hear. Mostly, it was rah-rah stuff designed to make the regular customers feel good about their investment, but given the recent comments from the...

Getty Images When Bengals director of player personnel Duke Tobin discussed the team’s plans for quarterback Andy Dalton last month, he said the team would not do anything that Dalton is “uncomfortable with” and that they will be in “constant communication” this offseason. The backdrop for...

Getty Images Chaos is very good for this specific business. And quarterback chaos could be coming, very soon. The 2020 offseason could consist of unprecedented movement when it comes quarterbacks, with a chain reaction of dominoes driven by where and how quickly the biggest rectangular...

Getty Images Safety George Iloka did not play in the league in 2019, remaining a free agent after the Cowboys cut him last summer. Iloka, though, isn’t ready to call it quits. He wants to play this season. “Yeah, absolutely,” Iloka told Tyler Dragon of The Cincinnati Enquirer. “We’ll see if...

Getty Images We recently pieced together the various bread crumbs pointing to Joe Burrow potentially hoping that the Bengals won’t draft him. Past comments from one of the people who is working with Burrow before the draft adds to the pile. In 2018, former Bengals receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh...

Getty Images Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa continues to make progress in his recovery from the hip injury that brought his final season at Alabama to an early end. Tagovailoa went for a CT scan of his hip recently and Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the results were “as positive as...

Getty Images The Bengals are adding another coach to their offensive staff. According to Paul Dehner of TheAthletic.com, the Bengals are hiring Troy Walters as an assistant wide receivers coach. Walters spent the last four years with Scott Frost at Central Florida and Nebraska, but was fired...

Getty Images The 92nd Oscars have begun, and a former NFL player has carried away one of the statues. Matthew Cherry, who played receiver for several teams more than a decade ago, won the best animated short prize for Hair Love. “I wanted to give kids a character that normalizes and...

Getty Images The puzzle pieces are piling up. And it’s not all that hard to see what Joe Burrow may be trying to assemble. Burrow may be thinking about trying to get the Bengals to not draft him — or to get someone else to trade up and get him. And the evidence is becoming more and more clear...

Getty Images Jimmy Burrow said he can’t figure out where all the chatter about his son not wanting to play for the Bengals is coming from. Even though most of the chatter — which leaves plenty of room between the lines — is coming from the mouths of his son and those around him. The father of...

Getty Images Presumptive top pick in the 2020 NFL Draft Joe Burrow has assembled quite a team of trainers with Bengals ties. And one of them insists they won’t be disparaging the team which earned the top pick in the draft. Via Geoff Hobson of the team’s official website, former Bengals wide...

Getty Images Marvin Lewis is back coaching full time. Arizona State head coach Herm Edwards announced Tuesday that Lewis and former NFL linebacker Antonio Pierce will serve as co-defensive coordinators. They replace Tony White, who left to become the defensive coordinator at Syracuse. Lewis...

Getty Images The Bengals are hiring Colt Anderson as assistant special teams coach, Field Yates of ESPN reports. It will be Anderson’s first coaching job. Anderson, 34, spent the past two years in his hometown of Butte, Montana, with the Colt Anderson Dream Big Foundation among his endeavors...

Getty Images With the Super Bowl in the books, the NFL is back in offseason mode today, and open for business. And for the teams at the top, that means the big focus will be the 2020 NFL Draft. After last night’s game, the rest of the order of the first round was filled in. There are still...

Getty Images The confetti is still in the air in Miami, and there are people anticipating the Chiefs to enjoy it again in Tampa next year. Via David Purdum of ESPN.com, the Chiefs have already been installed as next year’s favorite to win Super Bowl LV. The Chiefs were given 6-1 odds for next...