03-21-2022, 01:50 PM
(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.
With this OL we can rely on the running game much more than in the past which should take the ball out of Allen's hands.
We can still win games with Allen if Burrow misses a few IMO.
That is why these OL signing are so huge. Run the ball, takes pressure off of everybody including the Defense.
I understand your thoughts here, but really was Brandon Allen THAT bad in his career that there is no hope if he has to play
some snaps? I mean, he had a big game or two when Burrow went down his rookie season and we won a game with a terrible
OL and a worse Defense.
