Blame Burrow

[SunsetBengal]

(10-02-2023, 01:42 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: It was obvious after the Cleveland game Burrow was still injured and not ready to be out on the field.  I'm not sure why some of our fans thought his injury would improve by keeping him out there week after week getting smacked around by NFL defenses when after 5 weeks of not taking any hits he wasn't recovered.

Burrow is still injured?  OK let's keep putting him out there in games.  His injury will get better doing that to him.  I've never understood why some of our fans thought that.

Like I said, it's easy to look back and say all of those things.  Hell, it looked pretty obvious that he shouldn't have played in the Cleveland game, but we didn't realize that until the game happeded, thus, in hindsight..  

Going into the opener the thought was that he'd just taken 5 weeks rest for a calf strain.  It appeared to be a minor thing at the time.  Even though he was held out of preseason games "as a precautionary measure", we still saw plenty of footage of him jogging and throwing, like he was going to be 100% by the opener.  Now one of two situations likely went down.  Either the team knew full and well how serious this injury was and they tried to downplay it, or Joe Burrow, one of the healthier and athletic people than 99.95% of people on this Earth simply didn't heal as quickly as prescribed.