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(03-21-2022, 01:54 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 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.

Heck even the Browns are taking backup QB seriously by getting Jacoby to stand in for Watson's suspensions.  We should as well.  I agree.  Out of that list, we should get Dalton.