Burrow and his grasp on this offense...

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(12-06-2023, 03:58 AM)Roland Wrote: You're criticizing Joe Burrow for Zac Taylor's offense and play calling.   The big difference in this game is that they ran the ball and they stuck with running the ball.   That helped the protection and kept the linebackers and secondary honest.

Zac Taylor's running game has always stunk. He's a quarterback-focused coach and it's on him that he puts the offense so heavily on the quarterback's shoulders.  With this game plan and Burrow at QB we would have won by two touchdowns.  There were touchdown passes there for the taking that Brown wasn't seeing.

When Zac thinks about being aggressive he needs to think more in terms of attacking the defense and less in terms of going for it on fourth downs and low percentage trick plays.

Yes, Burrow takes on more than his share sometimes - usually when the game plan is not getting it done.

Our best hope is that this and the remaining games will give Zac the opportunity to see where he can make changes to put his quarterback in a position to win games without requiring them to perform heroically game after game.

I mean, there's articles about this very topic. Why is Jake Browning handing the ball off on RPOs (and having success on the road against a good run defense I might add) and Burrow isn't? 

Why can we CONSTANTLY bash the coach, but not dare say anything critical about Joe? There's absolutely merit to this post.