The universe...

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(11-22-2020, 06:45 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Not the universe, just bad management, followed by bad coaching (hired by bad management), and the law of averages.

You go into this season, knowing your OL has been a problem for years, and do absolutely nothing to fix, you're asking for problems.

If you ask a QB to throw the ball more than any other QB in the entire league, behind said shitty OL, you're even more asking for problems.

If you go into a game, with said shitty OL going against a very good pass rush, and decide to throw the ball 50+ times, in a 9-7 game, you're basically screaming for bad things to happen.

I'd love to blame this on just sheer bad luck, but it's not.  They put the future behind a garbage OL and paid the price.  And their garbage HC deciding to let this kid continue to get hit over and over, only add fuel to the fire.

This was a disaster just waiting to happen.  It's a shame Taylor didn't realize that maybe in a 9-7 game we shouldn't throw the ball 29 times in a half, or 34 times in 33 minutes.  Especially since Burrow had already taken some absolutely brutal hits.  Unfortunately he didn't make any adjustments to protect his QB, and we're left with what we're left with.

Mike Brown, Duke Tobin, and Zac Taylor are to blame for this.

I seriously hope they get a ton of heat for this. I seriously hope Zac is gone and we get a legit HC that brings Burrow to a Super Bowl. 

Will the Bengals learn from their mistakes though? That's the key. If they don't, nothing good will come of this.


The kicker to your point is we are basically eliminated from the playoffs at this point. It would have been wiser to start Finley and get a high draft pick. Albeit nobody would respect the move. That said, somewhere in between? Work on the running game the rest of the year and lower the chances of Burrow getting injured.