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At this point in the calendar the last two years, we have not known beyond a reasonable doubt who would be selected as the No. 1 overall pick.It wasnt until draft day that we fully understood was heading to Cleveland in 2017. Last year, despite some usele s late smokescreens, to Arizona congealed in April.This year we have a slam dunk. Louisiana States Joe Burrow, coming off one of the most impre sive seasons for a college quarterback ever, has been destined for Cincinnati since late December. Right? Right?Look, this is ETwaun Moore Jersey a long proce s, right? Burrow told the. The have their proce s that they have to go through, and so I am ble sed to be in the position Im in. If they select me, they select me, Im going to do everything in my power to be the best football player I can be.I dont know that Burrow wont be a Bengal in late April. But I do know Im le s confident in my belief a month ago that he will be.First it was when CBS Sports Boomer Esiason presented Burrow with a Bengals helmet on The NFL Today set the day after he won the Heisman. Interneters had fun with Burrows pensive look as he was handed the orange helmet, and Esiason was good enough to apologize if he made things awkward for Burrow. I read it at the time as Joe Cool keeping a level head and remaining focused on the college football playoff.Then, Burrow opted against competing at the Senior Bowl where he likely would have been coached by the Bengals staff for the entire week in Mobile. Burrow, exhausted from the whirlwind of the extra-long season and having nothing left to prove to secure his spot atop the draft rankings, politely declined the invitation. Again, that also made sense.Then, at Radio Row during Super Bowl LIV, i sued an ominous warning as if Burrow were Julius Caesar walking around on March 15.Thats why I wanted out: I never felt like the (Bengals) organization was really trying to win a Super Bowl, and really chasing the Super Bowl, Palmer said of the franchise that drafted him while on the D.A. Show with Damon Amendolara on CBS Sports Radio.Because thats what todays day and age is. The game today Lonzo Ball Jersey is you cant just hope you draft well and not go after free agents and you just end up in the Super Bowl. You gotta go get it.Yes, Palmers brother Jordan is Burrows personal coach in this pre-draft season. But that quote never felt to me like Carson had any inside knowledge, or that he had i sued this warning personally to Burrow already. The feeling I got was that Palmer rightfully feels 10 years later that his prime years were wasted in an organization that didnt have an owner committed to winning. And he doesnt believe that , now 84 years old, has changed his ways.Since Brown took over as owner/GM of the Bengals in 1991, the team has had seven winning seasons, zero playoff wins and 13 seasons with double-digits lo ses. Its a fair warning to i sue as someone who has been there before.Whats becoming extremely clear is Joe Burrow isnt jazzed about the prospect of playing for the Cincinnati Bengals right now. Everyone Willy Hernangomez Jersey in the football world understands 1) The Bengals need a quarterback; 2) they want Burrow and; 3) Burrow is the best quarterback in the cla s. And yet, this feels far from a sure-thing now, and it definitely feels that way when you consider the leverage Burrow has.He doesnt have baseball like John Elway had in 1983 when he refused to go to Baltimore. He doesnt have the power of footballs royal family like had in 2004 when he and Archie Manning told San Diego no.If the Bengals draft him and he sits out, Burrow hamstrings the Bengals for not just 2020 but years to come. By the time the end of April rolls around, Cincinnati theoretically would have already dealt , po sibly franchise-tagged A.J. Green and done any number of free-agent moves that would set the team up for the next three or so years.The centerpiece to all of these moves would obviously be Burrow. If he doesnt join the team for all of 2020, and the Bengals learn that in late April, the team would have a hard time finding a legitimate quarterback that late in the game. Furthermore, a 23-year-old Heisman winner opting against a payday and instead sitting out of football for a season would send a flashing red light to any future free agent considering Cincinnati as a destination.Surely, as this proce s plays out, this decision will be clear well before draft day. All that said, its extremely hard to imagine Burrow would actually sit out a season. He even said this week whoever takes me, Im a ballplayer. Im gonna play.If he does indeed play, he still maintains some leverage by this sports-world, multi-million-dollar hostage situation. The Bengals, desperately in Anthony Davis Jersey need of people locally and nationally to pay attention to them, would market the hell out of Burrow. Itd be extremely difficult for the team to sell fans and ticket-holders on a quarterback who doesnt want to be there.But perhaps his greatest leverage resides here: the power of his agents. Burrow is signed with CAA Sports, and hes represented by Brian Ayrault, Tom Condon, Todd France and Ben Renzin.CAA Sports is the largest agency in the NFL world with their hundreds of clients on all 32 teams. Power can be found in the powerful. And Condon, a veteran agent, was Eli Mannings agent for his entire career, including during the 2004 pre-draft proce s.None of this is to say Burrow will absolutely force his way out of Cincinnati before he gets there. Sources have been quiet on this front, letting the quarterbacks few words since the national title game speak for themselves.One could fairly point to the words of Burrows mother, Robin, and say this is all a media concoction. At the same trophy presentation,We have no idea where that comes from. Its a story out there that someone has created that doesnt have any substance from our perspective at least.That may be true, but her star-quarterback son isnt saying that. Hes an adult with education from two universities. He has done hundreds of interviews with media outlets since the fall. His Heisman speech was one of the best in recent memory. And as the top pick in a draft one week before the combine, its not a stretch to think he has gotten even more media coaching in the time since the national championship.I believe Joe Burrow knows what hes saying and knows what hes not saying.He has every right to take a wait-and-see approach with an underachieving franchise that could effectively hold his profe sional rights into his early 30s. He has every right not to be thrilled with going to a team with such a poor record, like many players in his position surely have been in decades past.Next week probably Tuesday in Indianapolis, Burrow will stand at a podium for roughly 15 minutes and take a half-dozen or 10, or more? questions regarding his hopes for his playing future. He George Hill Jersey ll have his chance to set the record straight there, or maintain his right to change his mind and keep his leverage.