Postgame Press Conferences: Joe Burrow & Zac Taylor React to Bengals' Week 1 WIN Over Buccaneers

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

What were your biggest make aways, Joe, of the defense and how it allowed you to play complimentary football?

Joe Burrow (0:05)

Yeah, I mean, four turnovers, you're going to win a lot of football games if you get four turnovers, and we got to be able to capitalize on them a little bit more. We had, I think, two touchdowns and two field goals off of them, but so we got to get that fixed, but it was a good one.

SPEAKER_3 (0:20)

You said you were excited to watch this defense before you got in the season. What was it like to see them do what they did today?

Joe Burrow (0:24)

Yeah, pressure was there, guys sticky in coverage, making a lot of plays. I'm sure they have some things that they want to fix just like we do, and get back in the lab tomorrow.

SPEAKER_3 (0:32)

What is it do for y'all to see this kind of performance from your defense this early, and knowing where y'all want to go, what does it mean for you to see all that?

Joe Burrow (0:39)

Yeah, it's great, but just like I said earlier, we got a lot of room to improve, and we're going to continue to work for it.

SPEAKER_4 (0:45)

Team makes that catch on the final drive. Is that just, he's a great player, give him a chance to make a play?

Joe Burrow (0:50)

Yeah, just give him a chance, put it in a place that only he can get in, and let you guys go make plays. They were worried about Jamar, they basically doubled in there. Safety came out of the post and cut his crosser, and so that's an alert for Tee, and Tee made a big play.

SPEAKER_5 (1:05)

Joe, what do you think about those hockey line changes up front for the defense, kind of four in, four out on the defense in Lytle?

SPEAKER_6 (1:12)

What'd you like about that?

Joe Burrow (1:13)

Yeah, I mean, that keeps guys fresh. When you have eight guys that you feel great about going in there and making plays and performing well and executing, that makes their job a lot easier.

SPEAKER_7 (1:22)

Obviously today was a Mike G day, but it was Mike Myers made a big play on that final drive. He kind of capped it off. Just you having your eight different guys that you can go to with the game on the off.

Joe Burrow (1:32)

Yeah, I have so many guys that I can put the ball in their hands quickly and they're going to go make plays. You know, some Ajay on the last drive making a guy miss getting a first down. Dante, two guys catching in the flat, going and making guys miss and making big plays for us. It's going to see a lot more of it.

SPEAKER_6 (1:46)

Too fast at the start. Do you think that's going to surprise the ball to Dante and the ball to Smite?

Joe Burrow (1:51)

Yeah, I mean, they're playing man. They're trying to stop the run. They know the situation and so we know the situation too.

And we got to go and make plays against man coverage. And that's what we did, T, Samaje, Dante, big time plays, Chase being smart, staying in bounds on a good run. That's how you win football games.

SPEAKER_4 (2:06)

Every week is important in this league, Joe, but to get off to a one and no start, how important is a week one?

Joe Burrow (2:11)

Yeah, it's great for the vibes. It's great for the vibes.

You know, there's a lot of attention around week one just because, you know, there's so much anticipation around it. So going on and getting a win feels great, but we just got to keep it rolling.

SPEAKER_7 (2:25)

Let's take us through the interception.

Joe Burrow (2:27)

Terrible, terrible for me.

You know, I had an hour out to the field, the flat defender got underneath it, so I'm trying to throw the replacement, and the guy made a good play. I can't make that sort of...

SPEAKER_6 (2:38)

What was he violent like out there?

Joe Burrow (2:41)

Yeah, it was great. Fans were into it. We're going to keep giving them things to be happy about.

SPEAKER_6 (2:45)

Yeah, but they seem to be bothered by it, a bunch of delays, a bunch of delays and faults that seem to bother them.

Joe Burrow (2:50)

Yeah, that's what you see in week one, a lot of procedural penalties. You know, we had some as well on defense, so we got to get that cleaned up. I think offensively, our procedure was pretty good. You know, we had one that we had to call timeout on.