{"id":846055,"date":"2026-04-01T01:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/846055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:06:15","slug":"zac-taylor-gets-honest-about-joe-burrows-risky-flag-football-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/846055\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Taylor gets honest about Joe Burrow&#8217;s risky flag football outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> quarterback Joe Burrow gave some fans serious anxiety during his showing at a recent flag football tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Burrow was his usual competitive self there, taking <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/22\/joe-burrow-injury-risks-flag-football-terrorize-bengals-fans\/89274664007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dives and even hits while going to the turf<\/a> in his pursuit of a win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">One would think, then, that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> were just as anxious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Speaking with reporters at NFL league meetings, Bengals head coach Zac Taylor sort of sounded just like fans about the whole thing, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A fun quote from the chat, courtesy of the Cincinnati Enquirer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/31\/zac-taylor-on-risk-reward-of-joe-burrow-playing-flag-football\/89405201007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Conway<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We got through it, and fortunately, I was at the Nebraska-Vanderbilt (NCAA Tournament) game and pretended like it wasn&#8217;t happening until it was over. So thankful we got through it and we&#8217;re good, and we&#8217;ll just move forward and get ready for our season now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The real kicker was the idea that Burrow will just be Burrow: \u201cYou don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s going to play out. Obviously, you should all know, if Joe&#8217;s going to do something, he\u2019s going to go all out and do it, he&#8217;s going to try to win, and that&#8217;s why we should love him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No word on whether the rest of the Bengals organization shares that sort of happy-go-lucky attitude about Burrow risking injury doing non-football activities. But what can they do?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It\u2019s not like the Bengals can weave in some clauses or demands about Burrow\u2019s life, to briefly mention the dramatic side of things. And they\u2019re going to need to reckon with the inevitability that <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/22\/bengals-joe-burrow-shares-surprising-olympics-take-2028\/89279840007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burrow wants to partake in the 2028 Olympics<\/a>, too, if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 31, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow gave some fans serious anxiety during his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,95882,95913,96121,95896,101727,95888,95899,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-846055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-accessfree","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sstssportsnflbengals","tag-sstsnbengals","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","tag-tagjoe-burrow","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagncaa-mens-basketball-tournament","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-coaching-training","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116326772724653549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846055","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=846055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}