Blame the run game

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(11-27-2023, 09:07 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Some of us were asking for this, even before Burrow went down with the injury.  This cult like adherence to the shotgun, 11 personnel formation is really making the team so one dimensional to defend.  If it wasn't exactly blowing teams away with Joe Burrow leading the charge, what in the hell would make Zac Taylor believe that it was the right situation to throw Jake Browning into?

Many around here want to look at the individual failure of players and the OL as a unit, and say that they need to be replace with better players.  Well, they did that.  Those players aren't even able to play up to levels that they had established with their previous teams.  It's so much less about the personnel on the field, than it is so much more about the scheme, play calling and coaching failing to change and adapt to ever evolving defenses.

Exactly.  This team would be better off running a high school offense right now.  Let these guys just get back to basics and play some good old fashioned power football.  Zac Taylors excuses for not being able to run against the Steelers were pathetic.  They're like 23rd or 24th right?  But he put them in a pedestal and said, "That's life vs Pittsburgh." That's just terrible. 

We got a serious problem here and everytime they showed Burrow yesterday, you could really see it in his face as well.
Makes me wonder about Burrows 5 year deal and if the length of it was built with an escape hatch.