01-01-2024, 06:48 PM
(01-01-2024, 04:38 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: I agree 2020 was a young and growing roster but that also supports the premise that to win and make a real continued run in playoffs you need more than a top tier QB. Also on the idea of winning with a healthy Burrow so excuse those games he was not healthy, i would have to put an asterisk on the 4 wins against the Ravens with Burrow and no Lamar which means Burrow is 5-4 counting the playoffs games vs AFC North with their top QBs and 1-2 vs Lamar still a small sample size but they are going to be facing each for a while in AFC North so we need to start beating Jackson if they can both stay healthy which has not been the case over the past few years.
I don’t know what your real argument is. I’m not counting 2020 as a rookie. Joe vs Lamar when both fully healthy 1-1. Joe won 41-17 in ‘21 and Lamar 19-17 in ‘22. If your argument is Baltimore has a better team than Cincy with backup QB’s I agree. I’m not counting Joe’s rookie year just like I don’t count Peyton Manning’s rookie year of 26 TD 28 INT or Troy Aikman’s 9 TD 18 INT or how pitiful their teams were. It’s silly nor am I grading how good any team with a top tier QB is without them. They never get far. Baltimore last year w/o Lamar was 3-3 before losing to us in the playoff. Sound familiar? They lost their last regular season game to Cincy 27-20. Sounds strikingly similar to us losing to KC?
Romo “ so impressed with Zac ...1 of the best in the NFL… they are just fundamentally sound. Taylor the best winning % in the Playoffs of current coaches. Joe Burrow” Zac is the best head coach in the NFL & that gives me a lot of confidence." Taylor led the Bengals to their first playoff win since 1990, ending the longest active drought in the four major North American sports, en and appeared in Super Bowl LVI, the first since 1988.
