12-28-2023, 03:58 PM
(12-28-2023, 02:47 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: I would say Burrow being banged up has been a large reason for this. Need to improve big time on Defense of course, but if we had a
healthy Burrow I highly doubt our Division record would be this bad. Both last year and this year we opened up against our rivals with a
hurt Burrow coming off an appendectomy and a bad calf strain.
It might not be this bad, but a healthy Burrow only led us to a 7-5 record in the division the past 2 seasons. 7-4 if we consider him banged up for week 1 Steelers game last year (he was clearly off, like you've said).
In those two years, the Ravens had pretty severe injury issues both times we met them the 2nd time round (the 525-yard game, I think guys from this forum were in the Ravens secondary! They were on 3rd string QB in Week 18 last season). We could've won those games in any case (beat them the next week in the playoffs after all), but I don't think we met the Ravens best on either occasion.
I dunno man, I just think the way we are built is bad for how the AFCN plays. I think even if Burrow is healthy we'll on average get 3-4 division wins. Which granted would've been more than enough this year!
