10-02-2023, 02:08 PM
If we all had a collective time machine, I think we all agree, Burrow would have been IR'd before the season and we would probably be 0-4 right now.
Hindsight is 20/20.
What the Bengals now have to ask themselves is: do they tank the season and put Burrow on the IR now, let him recover and then, in week 8 or 9, when he comes back, hope that Browning/McCarron kept them close enough that a 9 game winning streak may get them a wild card spot? Or do they keep going with a clearly injured and debilitated Burrow and hope that he can squeak out a win or two in the next 4 weeks before, hopefully, returning to prime Burrow in the second half of the season and then we'd only need a 7 or 8 game winning streak to sneak into the playoffs as a wild card?
The third option is to just shut him down until 2024, but that's not a realistic possibility. These guys need to protect their jobs, after all, and shutting Burrow down would be an admission that they gloriously ****** up the injury management of their 275M QB, which is absolutely a fireable offense.
Hindsight is 20/20.
What the Bengals now have to ask themselves is: do they tank the season and put Burrow on the IR now, let him recover and then, in week 8 or 9, when he comes back, hope that Browning/McCarron kept them close enough that a 9 game winning streak may get them a wild card spot? Or do they keep going with a clearly injured and debilitated Burrow and hope that he can squeak out a win or two in the next 4 weeks before, hopefully, returning to prime Burrow in the second half of the season and then we'd only need a 7 or 8 game winning streak to sneak into the playoffs as a wild card?
The third option is to just shut him down until 2024, but that's not a realistic possibility. These guys need to protect their jobs, after all, and shutting Burrow down would be an admission that they gloriously ****** up the injury management of their 275M QB, which is absolutely a fireable offense.
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