Building Ties: Zac Taylor in contact with the Burrow family

In an interview on the Stick to Football podcast Jim Nagy revealed that Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor has reached out to the family of Joe Burrow.

Jim Nagy is the executive director for the Reese’s Senior Bowl and is in communication with both Joe Burrow’s family and the Bengals coaching staff. Zac Taylor and Cincinnati are locked in to coach the South team of the annual exhibition, however it has yet to be determined if Joe Burrow will be in attendance.

There’s a lot of information that can be taken from Nagy’s response to a question about whether Burrow will be attending this year’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.

First, Nagy states that Burrow’s father Jimmy Burrow said that Joe was “fired up” after meeting Jim Nagy, because Joe has “Always wanted to play in the Senior Bowl”. This is great news for anyone who has a desire to see Burrow attend the Senior Bowl. It’s the opinion of some that he can only hurt his draft stock if for some reason he had a poor performance.

However, Nagy goes on to say that Zac Taylor and the Bengals have actively been recruiting Burrow to attend the Senior Bowl stating, “They just want to get Joe here and spend the week with him.” Adding, ” a point they made to the Burrows is that they want Joe to get a feel for them and what their organization is about.” You would assume “they” refers not only to Coach Taylor, but to Duke Tobin and the Brown family as well.

Hearing statements like these, you could imagine that Burrow has the opportunity to walk out of Senior Bowl week as the locked and loaded number one draft pick for the Cincinnati Bengals based solely on the relationship that they can build during their time in Mobile. If that’s the case, it’s hard to imagine that any performance during the actual game could be so bad that it would undo the ties the Bengals organization seems to be actively working to build with Joe Burrow as well as his family.

Jim Nagy concludes by stating that there is no better place than the Senior Bowl in Mobile Alabama to “get this marriage kicked off” between the Bengals and their potential future franchise QB. If true, this year’s Senior Bowl might be one of the most important events for the future of the Bengals franchise.