After closing out the 2022 regular season with a win over a Baltimore Ravens team that was resting several starters, Cincinnati Bengals franchise quarterback Joe Burrow told reporters that his team’s ‘Super Bowl window’ was his “whole career” and that “things are going to change year to year but our window is always open.”
At the time, Burrow’s comments were viewed cocky and confident but in truth, they were a reflection of his naivete because, in his first full season as a starter, he took his team to the Super Bowl and came up short of winning the franchise’s first-ever championship to the Los Angeles Rams.