Chase Brown hears the Batman jokes. He kind of loves them. “Everybody’s making it seem like it’s gonna be like this big like Dark Knight Rises return or something like that,” the Cincinnati Bengals running back said of Joe Burrow coming back from turf toe surgery.

“It could be. I’m just excited for him to get football back. He loves football, and taking that away from him, for however long, it’s probably been hard.” Brown said via John Acree of the Cincy Jungle.

Joe Burrow was given roughly a three-month timetable after surgery on Sept. 14. He is beating it by about two weeks to start on Thanksgiving night against the Baltimore Ravens, with the Bengals sitting at 3-8 after going 1-8 without him.

Cincinnati’s season is hanging by a thread, but Burrow’s mindset hasn’t changed. “I

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