Sit Joe Burrow down

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(09-20-2023, 10:38 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: It doesn't matter if you sit him or not.

If you sit him, the season is over and there's a good chance he doesn't fully recover all year he if does come back and play. If you let him play and he strains it again or re injures it, the season is over.

Bengals made their bed. They need to continue to play him and just roll with it. Hindsight is they should have sat him the first two weeks but no one wanted that before the season started.

There's no doubt that the season lives or dies with Burrow. If you bench him now, we're likely looking at a wasted year. If you play him and he re-injures it and he's out for 5+ games, you're also looking at a wasted year.  

So, by that logic, may as well see if he is healthy enough to keep going, because whether he is injured or not, him not playing means we are done.

My only hesitation is that there seems to be a correlation between strained calves and torn ligaments. If the calf muscle is not performing its duties fully, more strain is put on the connecting ligaments to keep the leg moving and that could result in tears.


If our choices are:
1. Sit Burrow and let the calf fully heal while throwing away the season.
2. Play Burrow and risk him tearing his ligaments again, leading to another rehab off season and another missed training camp and another slow start to 2024

....#2 becomes a bit of a harder sell.

It'll all come down to the confidence of the doctors that he isn't risking catastrophic injury by playing on this injured calf.