Burrow Proved Himself

[Murdock2420]

(09-20-2021, 03:29 PM)bfine32 Wrote: We are a week removed from applauding Joe for "Going rouge and calling his own plays" to "Zac's play calling is killing him".

It has been made known that Zac calls the plays but gives Joe the authority to change any he deems necessary after reading the D.

We cannot call ourselves rational if every time something goes wrong: "It's Zac" and every time something goes well "it's Joe".

I found nothing positive in Joe's performance yesterday. I do hope he learned from it.

This sums it up perfectly Bfine.

If the Bengals won a Super Bowl on some gutsy call with Burrow and Taylor and Burrow came out post game and said "That was Taylor's call" half the posters here would say Burrow was just giving credit to the guy because he was doing the right thing and backing his coach.

Flip it to, Burrow tosses an INT to lose a playoff game or the Super Bowl, and says "It was a bad read on my part" same half would scream that Taylor made a bad call.

I'm not saying that Taylor is a great or even good coach but the week one offense wasn't all Joe audibles. There was a lot of praise and talk of how well the team looked and that the playcalling had balance and things looked good... now it's doom and gloom. Sometimes the other team just has a better plan or just matches up better with what another team wants to do. 

The Vikings front four couldn't get pressure on their own, they had to blitz and had a corner that is worse then Eli Applie. That let the Bengals pick on Bashaud Breeland over and over. The Bears front four was getting pressure with no additional help needed. Let them drop more into coverage.