No Go Joe

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(08-17-2021, 08:50 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I think it all just boils down to the fact they are still putting the oline together, WFT has one of the best D lines in the league, Joe is lighting it up in practice now, and the risks in a meaningless game are just not worth the reward. Letting him sit this one out and giving him a couple of series against Miami is the smart play. Much of this is just people being anxious to see him again. I am too. But I can wait.

I'm a bit of a fatalist, I guess.  I feel like we've been waiting for the o-line to "get right" for years now, though jettisoning Turner for Pollack is legitimate change.  A few years ago we "didn't need to get a new QB until the line was better" but we still declared Dalton done and Burrow the cure to our ills, so I had the same mindset then that I do now.  Eventually our new QB (as I said before we drafted Burrow) is going to have to play behind a less than stellar line, so why stick with Dalton until 2025?

I get it, meaningless games and all but if week 1 is his first game action in a long time then we have to brace ourselves for a season where "we don't know what he have" in ZT and Burrow and the o-line going into 2022.  We are kicking the can down the road week by week, and I get it. Er, then again we have 17+ weeks of games to see what we have so maybe we "know what we have" by the end of the season...maybe.