Joe Burrow’s mindset during 2025 Bengals training camp revealed by Zac Taylor

The Cincinnati Bengals enter the 2025 NFL season under pressure after missing the playoffs two years in a row. Head coach Zac Taylor shared insight into Joe Burrow’s focused mindset as the team aims to return to postseason contention.

Last season, Cincinnati came out of the gate slowly, starting 0-3, with a disappointing Week 1 loss to the New England Patriots. As a result, this training camp and preseason are all about ensuring the team can come out flying out of the gate.

Taylor appeared on "Up & Adams," and he shared the mindset that Burrow is displaying this training camp, which isn't limited only to the offense to ensure that the team is ready to go Week 1 and avoid starting another season going winless in the first three weeks.

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"He's just a tremendous resource," Taylor told Kay Adams. "And so, shame on you for not using Joe. And it's not that Joe has to go to every player and say, 'Here's how I can help make you better.' A lot of it is the ownership of those players to go to Joe and not be afraid of a guy who's in his sixth year and been a Pro Bowler, and all these great things Joe has done.

"We got a lot of guys with a different mindset that are willing to go approach him. And Joe is an open book. He wants to make everybody better. And so he'll tell you, 'Hey, here's what I saw from you that made my life a little easier, that you can do to complicate things a little bit.' And I think those guys have really taken that information and run with."

— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) August 5, 2025

Burrow will be looking to make every player on the team better as the countdown to their Week 1 game against the Cleveland Browns nears. If Burrow can have the entire team ready to go by helping anyone out during training camp and the preseason, then that might be what prevents the team from having a slow start in 2025.