01-27-2024, 01:04 PM
(01-27-2024, 12:43 PM)Destro Wrote: 4-3, across the year, still misses the AFC playoffs. And don't nevermind 1-5 against the AFC North with the win against the Browns back-ups. That 4-3 with wins only coming against those back-ups and teams that also did not make the playoffs.
The screens to show what the defense was doing. Ok, and what did we do with that? The answer is: not enough. And then why were we still running these plays in the 4th quarter? Play calls have been poor. If it is Taylor, Burrow or Callahan, someone needed to do better. Winning only in the middle of the season means nothing in January.
You can’t use the “we only beat backups” excuse when literally only 2 out of the 7 games came against starters and one of those starters was eventually benched for a backup, meanwhile we also had a backup who hadn’t had more than 5 snaps in a regular season game in his career.
Managing a winning season with a rarely healthy burrow and arguably the worst defense in the NFL, might be one of Taylor/Callahans best years and honestly probably the biggest reason Callahan got hired this year as opposed to the past two years
