Chris Collinsworth Explains Why He Thinks Joe Burrow & Co. Are Having Such Early Success

NBC Sports analyst and former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Collinsworth spoke to Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski on Coach K’s show on Sirius XM this week and talked about why he thinks Joe Burrow and the Bengals are having such early success. Per SDS:

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“I’ve never seen anything quite like what this young group of players is,” Collinsworth said. “Ja’Marr, Joe Burrow and Joe Mixon and I don’t know if you had one of those baby teams. That just comes in every single day wide-eyed, but so confident that they just can’t understand why they wouldn’t win, and that’s what this team is. ‘Like why would we not win? We won the national championship with this core group, we beat the Alabamas, we beat everybody along the way.'”

Collinsworth then recalled a story about legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, and his transition to the senior tour.

“I’ve been beating these guys my whole life, why wouldn’t I keep beating them now,” he recalled Nicklaus saying. “I think that’s the way Joe Burrow looks at this thing. I really do.”

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