Injuries week 5

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(10-02-2023, 08:54 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Ofc it’s possible. But if we’re going to give Zac all the credit for “changing the culture” and getting Mike Brown to finally open up the checkbook when it comes to signing outside FA’s and giving out big guarantees, etc then he’s also going to be held accountable wrt personnel decisions. Because he obviously has a level of control within the organization we’ve never seen before under any other HC. Again, if Zac is seeing Burrow literally not be able to accurately throw over 15 yards in practice it really shouldn’t be that tough to convince old Ebenzer Scrooge that 9 isn’t good enough to go right now.

I'm repping both sides of this argument and I can see it going either way.

I'll propose that it's a three-way issue where MB wants Burrow out there because he's a cheapo who just spent a buttload of money on him, plus MB seems to just have that zeal for ignoring issues and not changing things including who is playing QB.

ZT needs Burrow magic to win games, so he wants Burrow out there magically getting more magical and saving his W/L record again.

Burrow wants to play because he's a young cocky this and that who thinks he's invincible.  


If MB is the one leading the charge on this, the other guys are at least complacent for their own self serving reasons.  With that being said, if ZT and Burrow decided it was best to start Browning what could Mike Brown do?  The idea of an owner insisting his QB who can't throw the ball more than 10 yards needs to be on the field would really reignite those "Should Burrow demand a trade?" assertions the media would just love to trot back out there.

I've never had a high opinion on Mike Brown, but him retaliating against ZT and Burrow for making a logical football move would be low, even for him.  It'd be interesting though, I'll admit.  Would the players union get involved if an owner is legimately forcing a player to play hurt when most other teams would have him on IR?

I can already hear the media dusting off the Greg Cook and Carson Palmer narratives and rubber banding them together to talk about how Burrow is the can't miss kid the Bengals ruined with the double whammy of bad ownership and injury mismanagement.