11-22-2023, 10:06 AM
(11-21-2023, 08:07 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I get the value of evaluation, but wouldn't that send a less than stellar message to veterans who may want to come here or stay here if we send their asses to the pine because Burrow is out? Not to mention our inability to evaluate if Browning is actually a decent backup because he'll be throwing to a WR corps we didn't have Burrow throwing to.
Let's be honest, even if we get our rookies as much experience as possible, we're still 1 Burrow injury away from another meaningless year. Then again, we are Bengals fans and we've seen a lot of years that we knew were meaningless after a few games, whether we still had our starting QB or not. Hell, I remember going into 2019 with optimism because Jeff Driskel looked pretty good and ZT was an instant upgrade at HC and Dalton was coming back. Damn, what a fool I was.
We can debate on how meaningful meaningless victories are for a franchise endlessly, I guess.
I dont see the benching of any vets out outside of Scott and Battle earned that.
I can see them being more cautious with players with injuries like Tee and and Hubbard and not rushing them back.
