03-21-2022, 01:54 AM
(03-20-2022, 11:41 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: They aren't getting $1.5M, though. They will probably get quite a bit more than that and I am not paying a backup QB much more than that. It is simply not worth it. If the Bengals are on a one game razor wire to make the playoffs this season, there is significant problems with the team other than backup QB. This is a SB runner-up that just majorly improved their biggest weakness. On paper, this is one of the best teams in the league.
Let's say Burrow sprains an ankle and has to miss 4 games, and we go 0-4 with Allen.
That could drop us from an 12 win team to an 8 win team, missing the playoffs. Allen is that bad. He could easily go 0-4. At best you get 1 win from him.
Or say Burrow has to miss 2 games while we're fighting for the top seed. We go 0-2, lose the division on a tiebreaker and have to play a road playoff game instead of getting the #1 seed.
It's easy to say in March "meh, who needs a semi decent backup". Tunes will change awfully quickly if Burrow has to miss a few games and such a scenario plays out. Then we'll be wondering why we couldn't dish out $2-3 million more for a much better guy when we had the $ to do so.
Water under bridge though. They already brought back Allen. At least Joe is much better protected.
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