Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has freedoms during the course of a game that most young quarterbacks don't have.

The former LSU star can change plays as he sees fit — depending on the coverage the defense presents.

That freedom, however, isn't something that Burrow wields whenever he wants. It's something he has to be judicious with — otherwise, it might get taken from him if he's careless.

There's a way, though, that Burrow can change the play without fear of repercussion (not that Cincy's coaches are going to be on him too much).

Burrow can simply pretend like the headset that coaches use to communicate went out.

This is actually a scenario that really happened last season.

Against the Tennessee Titans, in the divisional round of the playoffs, Burrow's headset went out before halftime, leaving him "blind" on the field.

Unsurprisingly, Burrow engineered a drive that went for 48 yards while calling four plays in a row due to the faulty headset.

From SI.com:

“Zac was in the middle of calling the third-down play, and it went out halfway through it,” Burrow said. “I knew the rest of the play, based off the beginning of the formation, so I called that. But then, if I remember right, we were out of timeouts, so we couldn’t call one to get it switched out. So I knew I was on my own. I wound up calling four plays in a row.”

Burrow’s actually wrong about one thing there—the Bengals did have a timeout left. They didn’t use it. And in that spot? A lot of coaches would’ve called it. Cincinnati didn’t.

“Certainly they would,” Callahan said. “And some quarterbacks would panic.”

Burrow didn’t.

The drive went so well that Cincinnati's coaches started joking to Burrow that the headset can't always "go out", insinuating that Burrow might go rogue and act as the offensive coordinator at any time.

“And after that we started joking with him. It’s like, Oh, yeah, the headset went out again,” Callahan continued. “It’s like the headset can’t always go out, dude. But I think he kinda liked that. He liked having that kind of control and command. … On that one, I just said, Good job to him. But that’s who he is. He never panics.”

Burrow is a coach's dream, so I doubt he'd go rogue.

But if there's a situation where Burrow truly believes in a play, he could certainly pretend as though the headset went out and go forward with the play. Beg forgiveness, not permission.

Then again, this Bengals staff has so much trust in Burrow, that they probably wouldn't argue with him. If he believes in a play, they'd almost certainly give him the green light.

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