ESPN article on Burrow’s bad@$$ demeanor

I’m proud for this young man.

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When another reporter asked Burrow if he considered himself among the best quarterbacks in the country, he didn't hesitate before answering.

"I always kind of knew it," he said. "I think everybody's starting to see it a little bit."

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Things that stood out to me:

When Joe started playing flag football when he was about 6, Jimmy asked one of the Cornhuskers' video assistants to film his games. He showed the tapes to Joe's older brothers.
"He was dropping like 40-yard bombs," Jamie said. "I was like, 'Is that normal? I don't think that's normal.'"

"Because I'm a sociologist that studies crime, after the game I told his parents that Joe had the kind of qualities that you find in cops and first responders -- and also serial offenders," Vander Ven said. "The point I was making was he had the kind of qualities those people have, where his pulse probably doesn't change no matter the situation he finds himself in. He could be mowing the lawn or pulling people from a fire and his pulse would probably stay about the same."