“But it’s like Zacciah says,” says Burson, quoting from the book. “If Joe didn’t like it, he wouldn’t have worn it.”
That’s the way Lassiter sees it, too. After Bengals head coach Zac Taylor revealed Burrow changed a called run into a run-pass option (RPO) on the last series in Arizona as they killed the clock, the debate was on if Burrow did it to get Lassiter the catch in his hometown against his father’s team.
Actually, he said, “No charity.”
Lassiter agrees. Burrow read it and flipped it to him for two yards.
“I think he just saw the (run) alert. Went by his rules for real. No charity. That’s what I’m talking about,” Lassiter says.
“He asked me (later) if that was my first catch.”
There’s always a little mystique around Burow, anyway, so why not now? But there’s no mystery about this. He’s still the same teammate he was as a Bulldog and he shows it every night in the now famous Monday night X-Box games.
“We do it religiously,” Adam Luehrman says. “About eight to 12 of us get together (via computer) every Monday night. We don’t miss them. If he has a Monday night game, like against the Rams, we make it Tuesday night. We don’t miss them. Most of us are from high school. It’s a way of keeping in touch with each other and it gets pretty intense. Great friend until you get into one of those games.”
Luehrman, who was a die-hard Bengals fan when he was catching touchdowns from Burrow for Sam Smathers, doesn’t like to…
