The exact nature of the 2020 NFL season and Joe Burrow’s rookie year with the Cincinnati Bengals remains a question mark.
There remains a reality where the NFL has to play games without fans in stadiums, or with at least dramatically reduced capacity.
And if either option unfolds, Philadelphia Eagles wideout DeSean Jackson had a great idea — mic up the players.
Jackson floated the idea on Lane Johnson’s “Outside The Lane” YouTube show (h/t Bleacher Report’s Tim Daniels):
“Yeah, it’s gonna get crazy. I think they should, though. They should give the fans the inside to really see what goes on between the white lines. It gets crazy, bro. I know in the trenches it gets crazy, and I know out there on the outside it gets crazy too with the conversations we going back and forth on.”
Thinking about this from a Bengals perspective, it’d be incredibly fun to hear Burrow’s rookie season. The highs, lows and everything else as he takes command of his locker room (and franchise, really) would make for superb viewing material.
And it’d be a nice way to bridge the gap for fans in general if the NFL can’t place them in stands this season. Burrow makes for one of the league’s biggest must-see items next year both for his status as a No. 1 pick and his confident, trash-talking demeanor when on the field.
Were this smooth idea to unfold and give Bengals fans an inside look at Burrow’s year, it’d be the best sort of consolation prize for a season that was surely going to see spiked attendance rates as a new era begins.
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