11-23-2020, 02:17 AM
Yahoo Sports, Bengals failed Joe Burrow:
The underlying ideology was hard to argue: Healthy quarterbacks are good for virtually everyone, including the fans who consume the product.
But there has always been a flip side to that effort by the league. And it required really only one thing from teams. When you’re blessed with a quarterback who can dramatically alter the future of your franchise for a decade or more, handle him with care.
The league can’t legislate stupidity out of the system. So it has been incumbent upon team owners, general managers and head coaches to make sure they do their part with their defining quarterbacks. If they are blessed with someone special under center, do everything they can to preserve him — both schematically and from a roster-building standpoint.
The Bengals screwed that up in 2020. Plain and simple.
The underlying ideology was hard to argue: Healthy quarterbacks are good for virtually everyone, including the fans who consume the product.
But there has always been a flip side to that effort by the league. And it required really only one thing from teams. When you’re blessed with a quarterback who can dramatically alter the future of your franchise for a decade or more, handle him with care.
The league can’t legislate stupidity out of the system. So it has been incumbent upon team owners, general managers and head coaches to make sure they do their part with their defining quarterbacks. If they are blessed with someone special under center, do everything they can to preserve him — both schematically and from a roster-building standpoint.
The Bengals screwed that up in 2020. Plain and simple.
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