NEW ORLEANS _ This is Joe Burrow’s world, and we're walking through it with him on a wild dish-then-dash Thursday morning on Radio Row here during Super Bowl week.

Along with more handlers than a heavyweight champ, not to mention two Louisiana state troopers, he bounces from microphone to camera in a relentless spate of interviews.

This is breaking news as Burrow walks past the set of the Pat McAfee Show. The host bellows a live mic "Joe Burrow's here. I'm glad you got your (bleep) together this year."

Burrow, the Bengals quarterback who's a finalist for MVP and Offensive Player of the Year later Thursday night at NFL Honors, is proving he put enough stuff together this year to be the hottest and coolest quarterback in all the land. He doesn't even turn to McAfee. He just lifts his arm in a salute and keeps walking.

Just before that, the former NFL quarterback and current analyst Chris Simms, about to do a take on the Pro Football Talk set, sees Burrow and leans off the stage with his hand out.

"I have to say hello to Niner," Simms says. "Hello, Niner."

Later, Simms reveals why he tells his son to go watch Burrow.

"If you really want to learn how to play the position in the pocket," Simms says. "Make decisions. It's not about athletic ability all the time. Just the nuance of quarterbacking. Joe Burrow is probably the best in the NFL at that."

Then a man with a gray beard leaning against another set calls out, "Joe. Good to see you, Joe." Burrow must recognize him because Ed Reed, the Ravens Hall of Fame safety, is from here and Burrow won a national title here. He walks over to shake Reed's hand. "Good to see you, too."

"I can read all quarterbacks. Especially from Cincinnati," says Reed, who had 22 of his 64 career interceptions against the Bengals and Browns. "Actually, in Ohio." Those 64 are still one interception shy of the total of Bengals Hall of Fame cornerback Ken Riley. Reed knows Burrow is a Bengals great.

"I'm a safety. I don't like quarterbacks. None of them are good," Reed says. "And he's really proven to be more than capable. I like Burrow."

So do offensive linemen. When Burrow sits down for NFL Network, Prime Video's Andrew Whitworth, the massive former Bengal who already this morning has had the top of his bald head kissed by George Kittle when he lifted Kittle in a hug, nimbly hops up on stage and sneaks up Burrow's back.

A few minutes later, the Bengals' current left tackle, Orlando Brown Jr., is looking for Burrow. Brown, in town as Cincinnati's NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee, knows his guy isn't big on media displays.

"Awesome. I love that the world gets to see that side of him. A lot of people don't. A special talent. A special guy," Brown says. "I wish I ran into him here. Where is he?"

Where isn't he?

He began the morning in the French Quarter with FS1, then shot over to the Dan Patrick Show, then ESPN's First Take. Once he hit Radio Row, it was the league network, CBS, USA Today and Up and Adams.

Burrow told Kay Adams he's going to walk the runway in Paris again this offseason ("Awesome," she exclaimed) and after visiting Australia and New Zealand last month, he hopes to visit Spain, Portugal and Dubai.

"Not all this offseason," Burrow said. "Those trips are years and years away maybe."

No doubt Burrow was sorry he missed the guest Adams had on the show two segments before him: Former Saints quarterback Drew Brees, Burrow's idol. They shared the No. 9 and great moments in this city, not to mention two of the greatest completion percentages in the NFL in this century.

"You and Burrow are the only guys who have ever had multiple 70% seasons," someone told Brees.

"Really? How many does he have?" Brees asked.

"Two."

Brees admitted that Burrow is "my guy," and there are many reasons.

"I think he's highly composed. I think there's an air of confidence to him. It's hard to describe if you really don't know what it is," Brees says.

He says Burrow doesn't get enough credit for the amount of plays he makes out of the pocket. He says that 70.6% completion percentage of this season is even more remarkable because of the pressure he sees from defenses.

"We're in a league now where there's a lot of attention on athleticism for guys like (Patrick) Mahomes, Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson and others," Brees says. "When people think about mobile, athletic quarterbacks, they're not thinking about Joe Burrow.

"They're thinking, 'Methodical pocket passer.' Processes the game. Get the ball out on time. That guy makes more plays outside the pocket. For him to be a 70-percent passer this year (against pressure) that tells me about his (accuracy). It really forces you to be so locked in and on point and precise when you've got the ball and how you're getting it there."

Burrow is the NFL's all-time completion percentage leader at 68.6. Brees is third at 67.7. He laughed when asked if he thinks Burrow can hold on to that one-point lead.

"Give it some time," says Brees, expected to be elected to the Hall of Fame next year in his first try. "But he's on pace."

On Thursday morning, it was a torrid pace.

"Damn," Orlando Brown Jr. says. "Where did he go?"

NFL Honors waited for Burrow and, as has been predicted by many, maybe another NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

He already won Radio Row.