Joe Burrow not immune from Bengals' early offensive struggles - Cincinnati Bengals Blog- ESPN

CINCINNATI — As he does after every game, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow sat in front of his locker and pondered what had just happened.

Seven months after the Bengals made an unlikely run to the Super Bowl, Burrow was going over Sunday’s 20-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys in which he threw for just 199 pass yards while being sacked six times. In the visiting locker room at AT&T Stadium, Burrow sat introspectively, looking to see if there was anything differently he could have done to help the reigning AFC champions avoid back-to-back losses.

“Oh and two is tough, but it’s no panic,” Burrow, who completed 24 of 36 passes and posted a QBR of 48.4, said after the game. «We’ve lost two games in a row before, we lost two games in a row several times last year. Lot of football left to be played.”

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Through two games, the Bengals (0-2) are 21st in the NFL in points per drive and next to last in yards per play. The latter statistic indicates just how difficult things have been for an offense that ranked seventh in that category last season. Cincinnati’s offense has been in a funk that has ensnared everyone on the team — including Burrow.

“I think as a unit, we just need to continue to improve and score more points,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said when asked about Burrow on Wednesday.

Much of Cincinnati’s problems in 2022 involve the team’s offensive line, which is still ranked in the bottom quarter of the NFL in pass block win rate despite four new starters on the five-man unit. Center Ted