{"id":774200,"date":"2026-02-24T22:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774200\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:27:52","slug":"joe-burrow-is-ramping-up-pressure-on-the-bengals-front-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774200\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Burrow is ramping up pressure on the Bengals\u2019 front office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Throughout his career so far in Cincinnati, Joe Burrow has not been shy about voicing what he believes the Bengals need to be perennial Super Bowl contenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bengals<\/a>\u2018 regular-season finale defeat against the Cleveland Browns in early January, he called this offseason \u201cas big as it can get,\u201d and the free agency period was one he deemed \u201cparamount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But he hasn\u2019t stopped there, according to Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic. Dehner explained what Burrow is doing behind the scenes on a recent episode of The Growler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe\u2019s changed the way they\u2019ve made decisions around here in recent years,\u201d Dehner said of Burrow. \u201cAnd his lack of happiness, whether he says it\u2019s cause he had a bad day at a press conference or not, has a major influence inside the building. He called this free agency \u2018paramount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe\u2019s certainly done more than just lay the groundwork on, \u2018If I\u2019m not happy here, I don\u2019t plan on staying here.\u2018\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It sounds like Burrow has done some hard campaigning without it all making headlines. The headlines will come in two weeks when the legal tampering period starts for free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If the Bengals come out swinging, then the Bengals\u2019 front office will show they are backing up their words and honoring Burrow\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The opposite? Well, good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout his career so far in Cincinnati, Joe Burrow has not been shy about voicing what he believes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,54,107374,7,1577,6,12054,2975,582],"class_list":{"0":"post-774200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-cleveland-browns","13":"tag-downtown-cincinnati","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-joe-burrow","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-paul-dehner-jr","18":"tag-the-bengals","19":"tag-the-browns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116127971200888755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}