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Joe Burrow Was So Tickled by His Offensive Lineman’s Angry Run

Cody Ford showed off some impressive YAC skills after his unlikely reception.

Tyler Lauletta

Joe Burrow was hyped with the stellar play of lineman Cody Ford.
Joe Burrow was hyped with the stellar play of lineman Cody Ford. / @NFL / X
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Everyone loves a gadget play in the NFL that puts the ball in the hands of a big man.

The Bengals pulled off such a play on Sunday in their dominant win over the Cardinals when they decided to line up offensive lineman Cody Ford wide on the right side. Joe Burrow dropped back and threw to Ford, who made the catch and decided to do some damage to the unlucky Cardinals charged with defending him. Ford pushed his way through the opposition before being taken down at the five-yard line.

In a delightful bit of good timing, Burrow was mic’d up on the play, meaning the rest of us were able to get a first-hand look at his reaction to the big play. Look at how Burrow literally drops his jaw as Ford breaks free.

Burrow had one word to describe the play: “Sick.”

Burrow wasn’t the only one tickled by the big play. After the game, Ford received some chants of encouragement from his teammates in the locker room. According to Ford, the play was drawn up during the week and went about as well as anyone could have hoped for it to go.

Ford said that throughout the week, Burrow had continuallly told him to get wider, which he took as an instruction to get him out of the way. As coach Zac Taylor explained later, Ford’s positioning was actually aimed at forcing the defense into a tough position.

Taylor also pointed out that the entire Bengals sideline was standing right on the edge of the field, knowing that something special was about to happen.

Ford’s big play wasn’t the only highlight from Burrow’s day mic’d up. At one point, the star quarterback requested a waffle to snack on. Thanks to modern technology, we were able to follow him through his entire mid-game meal journey.

There are few things better than a mic’d up superstar.

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TYLER LAULETTA

Tyler Lauletta is a staff writer for the Breaking and Trending News Team/team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI, he covered sports for nearly a decade at Business Insider, and helped design and launch the OffBall newsletter. He is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, and remains an Eagles and Phillies sicko. When not watching or blogging about sports, Tyler can be found scratching his dog behind the ears.

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