The Ja'Marr Chase Thread

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(08-10-2021, 12:08 AM)Joelist Wrote: Chase will be fine. He did not play last year and is both adjusting to the NFL game AND absorbing a new offense. These things take time.

Our top 5 pick and our 1st overall pick aren't going to get any real experience together until the regular season which already has me worried that 2021 can be written off as a recovery/evaluation year and we won't be able to judge if ZT is truly any good until after 2022.  Of course, I'm just a big ol' scaredy cat, so take that as you will.

I get the idea of holding off judgment on Burrow and Chase and Carman and Mixon and so on and so forth, but we aren't going to see Burrow and the o-line and our top 5 WR pick in action together until the regular season.  I'm not concerned about W/L stuff, but even the super bowl champ Buccaneers didn't "get it together" until after their week 13 bye so I'm just fearing a whole lot of "can't judge, wait and see, this all doesn't count" going on this year.  I get it, Burrow is going to be here for 15+ years so 2021 might not mean anything in the long-run...I guess.  Ok, that's the extreme view, but you get the idea.

I'm just saying that I can see 2021 not being the "year we find out if XYZ is good" kind of year we were talking about all off-season.