Joey B full go at training camp

[Nicomo Cosca]

(07-26-2021, 08:54 PM)Nately120 Wrote: AJ and Bullock weren't rookies, they were past their "BEST BY" date veterans.  All I'm saying is that Burrow made a specific "That doesn't work in the NFL, but it's good that you know that now" INT in his very first NFL action and that MAAAAYBE could have been sorted out with some pre-season work (not that he had the option, but I was responding to someone who said Burrow didn't need the pre-season).

All I'm saying is that if you look at Burrow's first game with an objective eye, the guy could have used a pre-season.  If we roll into week 1 this year and Burrow seems a bit rusty and out of sorts then maybe he needed a pre-season this year.  We won't know until it happens, but week 1 of 2020...he could have used a few pre-season reps.  No harm in admitting that.

He shouldn’t have needed a PS to know that shovel pass was ill advised. He also said himself that a high schooler could hit that deep ball to AJ that he missed. I guess you can try and argue a handful of snaps in some exhibition games would have helped, but considering he didn’t clean up the issues with the deep ball in the rest of the 9+ games he played I don’t really buy it.

To me it was all the other stuff he missed that was more important. Not the vanilla offense most teams practice in PS games.

Anyway, it sounds like he’s not playing in any this year either, and I for one think it’s the right decision. If he’s rusty week 1 so be it. Rushing him back into meaningless action is the last thing I want to see. We should be thinking long term here considering who the player is.