The case for Joe Burrow

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(01-05-2020, 10:26 PM)jason Wrote: It's all the worse when they pass on a DK Metcalf when he falls to them in favor of a blocking TE I'd never heard of...

...which leads me to the following: Cincinnati will take Joe Burrow with the first pick. Not even Mikey Boy will screw this up. That’s good. However, in rounds two through seven, do the Front Office and the coaches even have a plan? Based on what I saw in the 2019 Draft and the 2019 offseason, I say no. The only plan I see is to draft Joe Burrow and hope for the best — and hope is not a strategy. I can see Joe Burrow drafted followed by six “reaches,” “stretches,” “guys with potential,” and “future prospects.”

This scenario scares me because Joe Burrow deserves an honest shot to lead the Bengals out of the basement and if he’s surrounded by the same players it won’t happen. It scares me because we fans deserve a winner. Here’s what scares me most of all: The stadium lease in Hamilton County expires in 2026. I fear the Front Office looks at Joe Burrow as the last quarterback they’ll ever have to draft and they’re just kicking the can one more time until retirement and folding the team.