Blame Burrow

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(10-02-2023, 02:29 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: This pretty much sums up the offense at this point...and how limited everything is, from Joe's limitations to the scheme trying to account for those limitations...which they haven't done a very good job at.

Joe Burrow is the 1st QB in NFL history to attempt at least 150 passes in his team's first 4 games of a season, and average fewer than 5 yards per attempt on those passes. pic.twitter.com/yPKCPUCfWU

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 2, 2023

 

Burrow's stats this year are more akin to a rookie QB who is playing for a hopelessly bad franchise, rather than a guy who has put up MVP adjacent seasons.  Losing sucks, but when it comes to losing I extra hate seeing a QB in a loss with fewer than 250 or so yards and 0 Tds and 0 INTs.  Maybe this is just a holdover from the old days when we had to cope with a lot of losing, but if we get the L I'd much rather see a QB throw the damn ball and I'd rather see 1TD and 2+ INTs on the sheet than the dreaded 0 TD 0 INT stuff.

Scoring 3 points and having 0 INTs and a measly YPA is just boring and infuriating football.  Burrow has half of the INTs Mahommes has this season so far, so that's nice.  BUt yeah, this goes back to Burrow probably just being unable to physically play an interesting and effective game of football week in and week out this year so far.

Hindsight is 20/20 but if we're going to lose I'd rather see Browning go out there and chuck and duck.  Yet, we're 2 decent Burrow games away from going into the bye .500, so back to the wait and see.