Nightcap Hour 3: Joe Burrow says VIBES with Bengals are like 2019 LSU + New York Liberty HANDLE Chicago Sky + Play or FADE

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Joe Burrow said, the vibe on this year's Bengals team are similar to the ones that held the 2019 LSU team where he led college football to the Playoff Championship. You go back and watch what I said before the 2019 season at LSU. I feel very similar about this team. I'm so excited to get started and get moving. I wish we ramped this up right now in the training camp so we can continue to improve. I've tried to be a little more vocal in a mean way.
I think that's a little out of my comfort zone, but that's somewhere what I'm improving. Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad, but we'll find out. Ocho?

**Chad Johnson** (0:37)
Yes, sir.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:37)
How do you feel about your Bengals being compared to the 2019 LSU Tigers from Burrow?

**Chad Johnson** (0:43)
I mean, listen, only Joe would know. He was a quarterback on that team. So obviously, the vibe, the aura, the atmosphere is reminiscent of that time with him at LSU, with Justin Jefferson and Jamar chasing those boys. And obviously, I don't think he means it from an offensive standpoint. I think it means it collectively as a team.
With the move that they made in the off season, I'm assuming the vibe is a little different around there at OTAs and minicamp. So I kind of trust him being that he would be the one to actually know that. And I don't want to get too excited. I know we have some great players offensively and defensively. But again, on Sundays at 1 o'clock, can we execute? Not just on offense, but can we do it on defense as well?

**Iso Joe Johnson** (1:30)
Yeah. Hey, look, I like the Bengals, man. I get Ocho problem here and there. But for the most part, I like y'all, Ocho. I think for me, it's the defensive side of the ball. And obviously, Joe Burrow staying healthy.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:44)
Yep.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (1:45)
Clearly. If he stays healthy, I think y'all got a great chance, obviously, to do something special.
So, for him to feel the way he's feeling, saying it feels like their 2019 team at LSU, bro, that's saying a lot. That's saying a lot.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:00)
You know what, guys? I think the thing is, he says he's been meaner, and maybe that's good, maybe it's bad, and he's done this on purpose. I think that's the biggest thing. I think sometimes you're like, man, I don't need to get him. But I can honestly say John, hey, things didn't go, hey, I want to run it again.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:21)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:22)
No, we're not, no, no, no, no, no, no. Now, Mike was also like that, but we had a level of expectation because we was having a conversation, Rod and I, foot, about, we go to practice and the ball wouldn't hit the ground.
We know we're going to be ready that week. But that was the expectation level. No mistakes. Hey, mistakes drove me crazy. Even my own mistakes drove me crazy because I know better. But hey, I'm trying to jump the gun, Ocho. You know, hey, that snap cut, I'm going. But hey, I'm not in the blocks, I'm going. I'm going. I'm going. But we held everybody accountable. Stop bulljiving.
That'll get a, bro, you can't cover that dude. That dude on the practice squad, that guy ain't going to see the field.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:16)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:17)
What you think that, what you think they receive is going to do?
Yes, sir. Guy, you can't get open against this guy. This guy ain't going to play on, this guy going to be in the stands.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:27)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:30)
Bro, get it right. Bro, you hot.
How many times, see? Now, instead of running to the phone, get your ass in that playbook.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:40)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:41)
Get your ass in that playbook.
Training camp, Joe, they came by training camp because you know we had club shay-shay. If you busted a play, you couldn't come to club shay-shay. Get your ass up there and study your plays.
Because when my ass might go in, might go in there and shut not club down because your punk ass in here and you ain't study your damn plays. Get your ass out of here.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (4:03)
Hold on. You said when you was playing, you had club shay-shay.
What were going on in club shay-shay then?

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:10)
They playing Madden. We rolling dice. We playing cards.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (4:14)
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.