Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton talks to Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow at Super Bowl LIX Radio Row about why it’s so important for him to keep his core guys together in Cincinnati. Joe joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of FedEx.

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Hanging out here with Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow joining us on behalf of FedEx.

We'll get to that in just a moment, but first, let's have some fun.

We're in New Orleans.

It's the home of voodoo.

Let's play a game.

You pick a tarot card.

I'll ask you a question based off the tarot card, right?

Let's see.

You picked the moon, which actually this one is my favorite card of them all, um.

Moon represents intuition and dreams.

You were talking this morning about your contract in the future in Cincinnati.

Obviously your dream as a kid is to play in the NFL and make a whole lot of money.

You said that you were willing to kind of restructure that contract to pay your other teammates to keep this group around.

Why is that something that you're willing to do?

I just love playing with these guys, you know, there's, there's 4 or 5 guys on the squad that deserve to be paid, and you know I never want me to, to get in the way of that and so you know if if we don't need that great I we don't have to do anything but uh you know I wanna work with with our organization to be able to to keep the guys that we need to keep.

Why is that so important to you to keep this core together?

You know we got we got some great players T Jamar, Trey.

Mike G, you know those guys had great years for us and continue to work hard and produce and are great week in and week out, so you know when you have great players, you don't want to let them leave.

Yeah, go ahead and pick another one.

OK, let's see.

You picked the hermit, which is Aaron Rodgers, which is just kind of perfect.

Self-reflection.

Let's let's end it on this note.

2nd consecutive season, not making the postseason.

What do you need to do to change that next year?

We got to get to 10 wins.

10 wins usually gets you in the division is always the goal.

You win your division, the rest usually takes care of itself.

So we just got to do what we got to do this offseason.

Everybody needs to up their game on another level, and we'll get there.

2025.

That's the year.

Joe Burrow, you were here on behalf of FedEx.

Tell us a little bit about that.

Yeah, FedEx Aaron Ground Player of the Year.

I won it in 2022.

It'd be cool to win it two times.

This is the first year that Tight ends and receivers are up for it, so I think it would be pretty cool for me and Jamar to both win.

Joe Burrow, appreciate you.