Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow took the accountability angle Sunday within the wake of his group’s season-opening loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.

A lot went flawed in Burrow’s debut however the No. 1 decide was greater than prepared to throw all of it on himself as an alternative of passing off blame whereas chatting with the media.

He instructed Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com, for instance, he was off-target on a throw to A.J. Inexperienced and made a foolish mistake on an tried pitch that acquired intercepted.

“I can’t miss that throw to A.J. A excessive schooler could make that throw,” Burrow mentioned. “And I can’t throw the ball proper to Melvin Ingram after we’re in scoring vary, so it was a tricky technique to lose.”

And through the sport, John Ross took loads of warmth when a would-be landing grazed off his arms and fell incomplete.

Burrow places that one on himself too.

“The best way I see it, I overthrew him. I’ve acquired to place it on his chest,” Burrow mentioned. “I’ll watch the movie and see what occurred, however I’ve acquired to make a greater throw.”

Burrow isn’t saying something too stunning given how the sport unfolded. His group had a number of probabilities to place away the Chargers and shouldn’t have wanted to win on a late flag A.J. is mad about or a freaky missed subject objective.

Nonetheless, it needs to be good for followers and teammates alike to listen to Burrow take this management strategy. He had some critical rookie rising pains clearly, however that march down the sector to place his group able to win with simply three minutes left is the definition of encouraging — Burrow’s progressing on the sector and saying the suitable issues off it, too.