(11-11-2023, 03:12 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: If Chase is not 100% and Tee out then Joe has a great showcase and many won’t be able to attribute it to his star receivers

(11-11-2023, 03:12 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: If Chase is not 100% and Tee out then Joe has a great showcase and many won’t be able to attribute it to his star receivers

(11-11-2023, 05:41 PM)depthchart Wrote: Multiple Bengal Tight Ends got involved with catches last week against the Bills and this should give Texan defenders something

else to have to plan for. Burrow can hopefully build on the Tight End involvement this week.

Boyd and Iosivas should get more involved with Tee out & Mixon provides a receiving target.

It looks like Chase has practiced some and will play. 

Having both Tee & Chase missing practice time allows for Joe to get on point with the others who were practicing, so I expect good results.

(11-11-2023, 03:29 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: The whole “carried by his WR’s” narrative should have died for good during the first 5 games of this season. We’ve seen this team with and without a healthy Joe Burrow, and it’s a night and day difference.

(11-11-2023, 06:52 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I don't believe that he is "carried" by his WRs, but I also don't think that your logic in this post works.

If you're throwing the ball into the ground, or 7 yards out of bounds, or 12 yards past the WR, and when you are completing passes it's almost exclusively -3 to 2 from the LoS, it doesn't matter who the WR is. You could have 4 Prime Jerry Rices out there but that wouldn't change that an uncatchable ball is an uncatchable ball, and Burrow was throwing those in spades at the beginning of the season.

(11-11-2023, 07:28 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Interestingly enough, Chase actually had quite a few more receptions through the first 5 games this season (44) than either of his first two years (2022 - 33) (2021 - 23).

There was definitely a lot of short stuff, but it does kind of go against the “Ja’Marr Chase merchant” narrative. It obviously takes more than just merely getting Chase the ball.

(11-10-2023, 04:26 PM)Bing Ghuls Wrote: In 1981 Ken Anderson was benched in the season opener after completing only 5 of 15 passes for 39 yards, zero tds, and 2 interceptions.  But when fans talk about Anderson's '81 season most people just refer to winning the MVP and going to the Super Bowl.

In a strange kind of way Burrow's slow start actually proves how valuable he really is.  Some people used to claim he just looked so good because he had the best WR trio in the league.  Can't say that any more.

(11-11-2023, 08:12 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: It does? The Bengals were 2-3 in those games, and the two games they won Chase had 58% of Burrow's yards and 100% of his TDs... and they were as you said very short passes that Chase produced with.

(11-11-2023, 09:15 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: I think it does, yes. It takes Burrow being able to at least move around a little bit to fully utilize Chase (he didn’t even have a TD through the first 4 games). The only win they got before he could was the Rams.

And the deep bomb against Arizona was the longest air pass of Burrow’s career, so they weren’t all short. That was the first game he really started looking like himself again (although I don’t think he was fully back until SF).

(11-11-2023, 09:23 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I wouldn't say it's impossible, but it's a big uphill climb for this season.

(11-12-2023, 01:58 AM)Housh Wrote: The thing helping him is no QB is running away with it

If he finishes strong and we, Knock on wood, win out there is no way he doesn’t get it

(11-12-2023, 10:08 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Zero after subpar performance today

(11-12-2023, 09:56 PM)Chezaugie Wrote: Venture to say, after today, CJ has a better chance than Burrow. However, I am putting my money on Lamar.

(11-12-2023, 10:09 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: What are Herbert’s odds?