07-30-2023, 08:10 PM
(07-30-2023, 03:44 PM)Joelist Wrote: So where are we at on this now? It sounds like we don't think Burrow misses regular season games but that (as usual) he has no preseason or camp. So we can look forward again to him struggling in the first couple of games - which happen to be division opponents and thus hyper critical. Then he gets into form and the process begins of digging out of the usual early season hole. About right?
No it’s a completely different situation to the past couple of years.
In 2021 he hadn’t run or thrown for nearly 9 months and basically had to learn to walk again from scratch let alone get his timings right with receivers.
In 2022 he lost 25 pounds of muscle and the worst case scenario is we had to draft another qb because of the rumours are true that his appendix fully ruptured it could have killed him.
This time around he has a small calf tear that will keep him out for a couple of weeks but won’t stop him from lifting as he doesn’t have to worry about ripping any stitches and because he’s all football he’s already done OTA’s and wouldn’t surprise me at all if he’s done throwing work with the receivers away from Cincinnati in the off season.
He’s basically going to be playing catch up cardio wise for a couple of weeks and we need the OL to protect him because the last thing we need to see is Burrow scrambling and risking pulling the calm again.
He’s probably going to be back “fully fit” a week to 10 days before the Browns game so plenty of time to get sharp before start of the season.
