Joe Burrow, the Bengals quarterback, laughed, lifted his eyebrows, and smiled as he spoke the most traumatic topic in Cincinnati.
Online sleuths asked how his surgically repaired wrist felt after TV cameras caught him carrying a water bottle in an unusual way during the team's Week 1 loss to the New England Patriots. Burrow was oblivious to the conversation
However, after being photographed flexing his wrist throughout the team's surprise defeat Sunday, Burrow insisted the wrist felt wonderful and was "absolutely not" impeding his throwing.
"It feels better this week than it did last week, than it did the week before, so it's continually getting better," Burrow informed me.
Burrow was on the team's injury report for the second week in a row due to a wrist ailment.
He tore a ligament in Week 11 last season against the Baltimore Ravens and underwent surgery in November.
Throughout the offseason and training camp, Burrow regularly flexed his wrist, as seen on Sunday's television broadcast.
Burrow minimized the relevance or the fact that his wrist was hindering him from making downfield throws.
"That's a part of ligament injuries," Burrow remarked. "If you don't move it, you're going to lose it, so I'm always moving it around, keeping it loose, keeping my mobility the way it's supposed to be, so it's going to continue to happen."