Worried About Burrow

[*jason*]

(09-20-2021, 11:12 PM)Bengalstripes9 Wrote: You're not wrong here. His pocket awareness and movement was amazing last year. This year he's a bit of a statue. He doesn't look comfortable back there at all. 

I'm beyond pissed what this coaching staff did to him last year by having him drop back 40-50 times a game and get crushed when playoffs were out of reach. If they just had the foresight to protect their investment with a run game, he wouldn't have regressed so much. He can still get it back. But man have we done a great job of proving all the pundits right that we would ruin him. Not to mention his knee injury is serious enough that he may already never return to what/who he was before. The damage has already been done. 

I'm hopeful he can get back to 100% and still manage a successful career. But doubt certainly creeps in. I've had an ACL reconstruction. It's not easy. Your knee isn't the same after. It gets tired, weak, etc. Mine was just ACL. No MCL. No structural damage. 

A coupla things... Nobody was talking shit about Joe Burrow last week. Second; Joe Burrow isn't an investment for Zac Taylor. Zac is coaching for his job, and doesn't really care about the long term future if Burrow or the Cincinnati Bengals. Third; you didn't have the resources Joe Burrow has when it comes to surgery, therapy, and rehab. You may or may not be as young as him, or in similar physical shape. Joe Burrow stunk it up for a stretch of yesterday's game, but we're getting a lil hyperbolic about him being broken and the damage already being done.