JOE PULLS IT OUT: Joe Burrow did what he does best Monday and bounced back from something gone awry.
Burrow, the rookie quarterback who has taken training camp by storm, had been cooled off on Sunday by a stout pass rush. But on Monday morning he was back responding by sifting 16 of 20 passes (stats supplied by Bengals radio maven Dan Hoard) in 11-on-11 and that included a practice walk-off fourth-and-six touchdown pass to wide receiver Auden Tate at the corner of the goal line from 28 yards to lift the offense against many of the No. 1 defenders in the two-minute drill.
As Paul Dehner, Jr., the estimable Bengals columnist for The Athletic observed. "I could have written 1,000 words on just that. Fourth-and-six when he could have played it safe and instead dropped a dime on the pylon."
And, as if to add to some kind of burgeoning southeast Ohio legend, before all that when the drive started Burrow told them exactly how they were going to score.
"He said a few things just to get us motivated," Uzomah said. "He said we're going to do this real quick and see what happens and then I will check us in and out of this play if we need to and I think we executed pretty flawlessly going down the stretch and knowing we needed a touchdown."
Burrow shook off cornerback Darius Phillips' diving pass defense on the previous snap, where Phillips pretty much came flying to the sideline to knock the pass virtually out of the hands of wide receiver Mike Thomas.
On fourth down, Burrow went fail safe, not safe, and went upstairs down the right side. And who else but Tate got behind Phillips and in front of safety Jessie Bates to pluck Burrow's pass as he was falling down in the end zone?
Uzomah says Burrow sensed they wanted the kill.
"We don't want to hear the defense talking crap the rest of the day, because it's the last period," Uzomah said. "We know the defense is going to jaw the entire rest of the day. We have tomorrow off and I don't want to hear their voices, so we treated that like let's go win this and I think that just shows the confidence that he has in his playmakers, in his receivers and his tight end and his line to get everything picked up and make a play."
Tate continued his monster camp. After point guarding it to Thomas and slot receiver Tyler Boyd to kick start the two-minute drive from about the offense's own 30, Burrow found Tate wide open on a side-line route for about 15 yards that put the ball inside the 25.
The drive hiccupped when right end Sam Hubbard appeared to work left tackle Jonah Williams for a first- down sack, but after a quick, short throw to Thomas against a blitz (running back Giovani Bernard did a nice job against strong safety Vonn Bell), the stage was set.
Uzomah and the rest just can't get enough of Seamless Joe.
"He's a beast. He's an absolute beast. He's an animal out there," Uzomah said. "You see college. You see what's going on, you watch him beat your alma mater and do so in convincing fashion and you're like, 'Dang, this sucks,' but he's that guy. He's making all the right reads. He's getting us in and out of all the right protections and making all the right checks and certain checks I didn't even know we were allowed to check into.
"He's like, 'Why not? Go out there and do this. Come in here and do this.' It's been a lot of fun, honestly. It's been a lot of fun to build a relationship with him, to build that chemistry with him and see how he operates and how he wants certain routes run on certain coverages. He's the real deal, I will say that."
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