Chase not Practicing

[jj22]

(08-30-2024, 12:36 AM)Whatever Wrote: Focusing on the OL is your personal preference, which has its faults and merits just like any other team building philosophy.  

Drafting one guy doesn't fix the OL.  Even if you take Sewell over Chase, we still have to buy an OL because every other draft pick we sunk into the OL has underwhelmed.  At best, you don't have to get Brown, but good luck getting a WR anywhere close to Chase's caliber for what Brown is getting paid.  Even a good #2 WR like Waddle, Slim Reaper, or Tee commands more than that.  

Neither of Burrow's major injuries post the Chase draft had anything to do with the LT.  Drafting Sewell, Chase, Slater, Pitts, Parsons, or whoever else doesn't change that.  It's false causality to claim his career was shortened by the Chase pick.

I agree and disagree.

An Elite LT has lifted the whole line for teams.

And Burrow career is in jeopardy of being shortened with ALL of his injuries, and really after drafting a generational QB, this is the biggest and only concern / disappointment. How did we get here, why, what if.... No one will ever know. But what we do know, is that we are on the verge of a disaster. Burrow is walking a fine line of being great, or busting (2 back to back AFC championship games did nothing for Sanchez career narrative), and that 5 years into his career the Bengals are desperately still trying to fix the Oline. 

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