Am I Unrealistically Excited?!

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(06-21-2024, 06:33 PM)PDub80 Wrote: I'm actually glad you're the new Fred Toast. Incomplete, hypocritical, contraband, non-critical thinkers were about to run short around here...

- Reiff was shot and we'll past his prime. Same with Collins. Not exactly an investment into the O line. More of a bandaid. 

The Lions once drafted a WR in the 1st round 3 years in a row. All of them were trash. Does that count for anything? NO. Neither does your Bengals used draft picks response. It's stupid to ignore the results.

I appreciate the cuteness and golly gee willicker Leave It To Beaver mindeset of applauding the "try", but try is worthless. It is succeed or fail. Bengals failed at those draft picks and failed to put an above avg O line aroind Burrow for the majority of his career thus far.

The result is what matters. Carman, Smith, & Hill combined for 3 snaps last season... all on Special Teams. That is failure. The FAs they have signed have been sometimes good and sometimes just ok.

Burrow is going into his 5th season. They just added OBJr last year. That's 75% of Burrow's season with a below avg LT (Williams). His line has been bad most of his career and he has been smashed for it.

Your pitch count rebuttal is missing context: What other QB has been sacked and hit like Burrow while having anything close to this injury track record? NONE.

ZT playing Burrow after that calf injury when he couldn't even backpeddle from shotgun was INSANE and grossly irresponsible to do to Joe. This win a single game at all costs mindset they keep throwing Joe into is what has gotten him crushed and risked his future senselessly. 

Unlike you; I'm going to reply to you like an adult.

Of course, trying matters and I provided you with numerous examples of how the Bengals have made moves to improve JB's Oline. Has it worked out? No. Have they spent money and assests to try to make it work? Yes

JB takes more sacks than most because he's on record of saying "not all sacks are bad". If he was a 3-step throw QB his sacks would be about half.

Tua and Herbert are a couple QBs that have taken a lot of sacks and been plagued by injury, so your "NONE" rebuttal is moot; unless you're asserting we should "pitch count" JB because he's fragile.