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“Burrowhead” is dead in the Bengals’ locker space … a minimum of, that’s according to Cincinnati star kicker Evan McPherson, who informs TMZ Sports the jab was a one-time thing that the team is certainly not utilizing as a rallying cry heading into the huge video game versus the Chiefs.
Cincy protective back Mike Hilton created the term following the Bengals’ playoff success over the Bills last weekend … utilizing it as a method to explain Joe Burrow‘s current supremacy over Patrick Mahomes, K.C. and Arrowhead Stadium.
Hilton was commemorating, and a hot mic recorded him screaming, “We’ll see ya’ll in Burrowhead!” in this week’s AFC Championship Game.
K.C. gamers have actually appeared to utilize it as inspiration and bulletin board system product … however McPherson discussed it’s not a jab the Bengals are stating routinely — if at all any longer.
“I think that was just something Mike Hilton said,” McPherson informed us.
“I haven’t heard ‘Burrowhead’ in the locker room. I just seen it on the videos. So I think it was just kind of one of those media things.”
To be reasonable, Burrow has actually been dominant when playing the Chiefs — and in the AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead in 2015, he played well, winning in overtime. McPherson, however, informed us he and the men are remaining as modest as possible, not celebrating about everything at practices and exercises.
“Obviously, it seems like Joe and the Bengals, as of late, have the Chiefs’ number,” McPherson stated. “As a team, we’re really taught to take it one game at a time and separate all those.”
We likewise talked with McPherson about beginning huge video games, Burrow’s boodle, and, yes, even the upcoming Rihanna Super Bowl halftime program. Check out the convo — as many things including McPherson are, it’s cash.