08-17-2021, 09:05 AM
Here's my worry about Burrow not playing a snap in the pre-season.
Everyone's saying last year he didn't play a snap in the preseason and had a good year until he went down. Problem with that theory is if he doesn't play 1 snap of football this preseason he's 3 games behind everyone else.
I guarantee you that week 1, Mike Zimmer isnt going to put white gloves on his defense and say don't hit Burrow hard. Zimmer's defense is going to come out firing and blitzing like he did here in Cincinnati.
Burrows going to get hit sometime, so he might as well take a few hits against Miami because he may be a little shell shocked after Game 1 against Zimmer's bunch.
I agree with what most have said, If he's healthy and cleared he needs to play in game 3. If not then let Allen take us into the regular season until Joe feels comfortable with playing or Zac feels comfortable playing Burrow.
Everyone's saying last year he didn't play a snap in the preseason and had a good year until he went down. Problem with that theory is if he doesn't play 1 snap of football this preseason he's 3 games behind everyone else.
I guarantee you that week 1, Mike Zimmer isnt going to put white gloves on his defense and say don't hit Burrow hard. Zimmer's defense is going to come out firing and blitzing like he did here in Cincinnati.
Burrows going to get hit sometime, so he might as well take a few hits against Miami because he may be a little shell shocked after Game 1 against Zimmer's bunch.
I agree with what most have said, If he's healthy and cleared he needs to play in game 3. If not then let Allen take us into the regular season until Joe feels comfortable with playing or Zac feels comfortable playing Burrow.
