Whatever the reason, it’s the same kind of DNA that puts Burrow out there Thursday. And wouldn’t you like to be the fly on that training room wall when they talk?

“We’ve had conversations about style of play,” Flacco says. “And his kind of default vs. my kind of default. Things like that. It’s a good conversation between quarterbacks. It’s always fun to talk football. Shoot the breeze with the guys.”

Burrow likes to extend. Flacco, a better athlete than you think, could never do what Burrow does. More check-downs than off-script. Could Burrow adopt some of Flacco’s style? Not when you’ve got guys like Flacco and Burrow who play by the creed, “Be yourself.”

But you know Burrow is taking notes, too.

“We’ll see. I’m feeling good enough to go out there and move and extend. Obviously, I’ll pick my spots when to do that and when not to, but I feel confident that in certain moments I’ll be able to do that,” says Burrow when asked if he’ll change his style.

“You think about a lot of different things when, number one, you have time to think about them. You watch a lot of games around the league. You see who’s playing well, who’s not, what’s working schematically, what isn’t. You evaluate everything.”

This is going to be the same Burrow. That’s what offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher expects.

“I expect Joe to pretty quickly be playing the type of football that we love watching him play,” Pitcher says.

But Pitcher also knows Burrow has been watching Flacco because anybody who cares about what they do would pick the brain of somebody who has been doing the same job three times longer. And Pitcher knows he’s had 74 days to think and Burrow is a thinker

“Maybe there’s something I can adjust here. Maybe, maybe there’s an element of my play that that can be tweaked,” Pitcher says. “I think he is open to that. I think it’d be foolish for any of us to say that, no, is no adjusting and deal with it.

“He’s obviously done a lot of incredible things in this league, and he’s an incredible player, and I expect him to continue to be an incredible player in this league, and how his career evolves, and how he evolves as a player, we’ll see. I’m excited to see it, because he’s a lot of fun to watch.”