Zac Taylor

[SunsetBengal]

(01-17-2024, 02:23 PM)jj22 Wrote: I mean, the offense did look more consistently efficient under Browning.....

Maybe Burrow has too much control. That is what I took out of it. That's what many took away from the Browning run.

Which means maybe Burrow isn't a great play caller after all.

We can't eat our cake and have it too. They need to reign in some of that leash they've given Burrow. You don't do that if he is making great play calls.

I don't think it's a hot take to question Burrow the play caller.

Personally, I think that Zac and company saw in the first Pittsburgh game that Browning out of the gun was not even remotely capable of running the spread like Burrow does.  The transition to mostly under Center was something that most teams did not have a lot of footage of the Bengals, let along Jake Browning running.  Sure, Browning was able to get the team to rally with him, and they reeled off a few wins to keep the season interesting.  However, against tougher defenses like KC and Baltimore, the Browning led offense just had no answer.