12-02-2024, 05:34 PM
(12-02-2024, 04:51 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Influence may be a better word but I agree. I mean I don't think Joe is going to go into a Front Office post season meeting and pound on the table demanding a new whatever? I don't think the Brown family will just say "Joe, you're running the show, what do you want?"
But I do feel they will listen to what Joe has to say (he's that kinda guy) and probably will act on some of it. And I can see JB, behind closed doors, having a big influence.
Joe's not gonna come out in public and say the interior Olinemen suck, the defense is putridly awful, Stone is a joke at S, we have no DT's, and on and on.
But I feel when he talks, people listen.
As usual you are spot on. Influence is a much better word. Burrow is too classy to call out individuals or demand anything.
I have seen enough over the last 4 or 5 years to see it is different around here with the FO with the Blackburns and the youth instead of
just the old man that they will try and make Joe happy and try and put the best team on the field possible with what they have to work
with. Sucks when we lost Bates and Reader to only replace them with a one year wonder that cannot tackle and Rankins who doesn't
even play the same position as Reader.
It is unfair to criticize both Kris Jenkins and McKinnley Jackson as rookies, even Reader was a nobody as a rookie. I have seen good things
from Kris, he could be a good 3-tech down the road if he can develop some more moves and gain some more strength. Mims is probably
the best rookie OL I have seen us draft in the last 10 years or so. There are some good developmental blocks for the new coaches to work
with and both Rankins and Stone's money should be freed up along with many others. Not a complete rebuild, but change should happen
for the better and they should ask Burrow's opinion on it.
