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Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has expressed that he’s discontent with his football career and that has led many to speculate that a trade request is on the horizon. When you’ve made as many high profile trades as the Rams have made under general manager Les Snead, including the biggest trade for a discontent quarterback in the history of the NFL, it’s inevitable that the Rams will become a part of the rumors too.
The moment that Matthew Stafford’s future in football becomes a question in any way, shape, or form, the Los Angeles Rams will move directly to the front of the line for Burrow and usurp all the weak franchises rumored to make sense for the quarterback right now. But forget the Raiders or Jets: If the Rams need a quarterback in 2026 and the Bengals are even 1% open to trading Burrow, the quarterback could very well be on a plane to L.A. by the next day.
In a meeting with the press on Wednesday, Burrow expressed that he’s not having fun anymore.
“If I want to keep doing this, then what am I trying to do with myself?” Burrow told reporters. “And I have to have fun doing it. You know, if it’s not fun, then what am I doing it for? So, that’s the mindset.”
“Do I have fun playing?” Burrow asked while at the press conference. “I mean, how much? Winning’s always fun, but in general, was it as fun as before? No, I wouldn’t say it was that way.”
Fans couldn’t be blamed for sarcastically saying “boo-hoo” to a multi-millionaire athlete with a very successful football career. But even if Burrow is overreacting to a few bumps in the road with the Bengals over the last few years (mostly tied to his own inability to stay healthy) he’s not wrong about Cincinnati’s shortcomings when it comes to building a competitive roster. “People will write book about it” says Dan Orlovsky:
Of course the Bengals constantly have bad defenses too.
It’s just hard to believe that Burrow could be this mad at the Bengals after they overpaid Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins for him. He’s really leaving Cincinnati out in the lurch if he asks to be traded right after the Bengals added $30-$40 million annual price tags on two receivers for him.
Burrow’s attitude here looks a little weak, but it’s hard to argue with results. He’s been good in almost every respect when he’s been healthy even in spite of being on bad teams. Chase says the narrative being pushed on Burrow right now is completely false, despite it not being a “media narrative” other than literally just quoting him:
Trading Burrow in 2026 would not even be that complicated, believe it or not. It would leave $56.5 million dead money on Cincinnati’s cap next year, which these days is chump change for trading a franchise QB with...
