12-13-2024, 06:20 PM
(12-13-2024, 03:50 PM)3wt Wrote: Agreed.
When other teams take advantage of what the officials allow, you have to be willing to take things in to your own hands to send the message the opposition.
The hits on him are gratuitous and getting to be dangerous.
Take the penalty, but make the players pay. They did it to us until Whitworth mopped the field with John Henderson.
Someone should have put Parsons on his ass. It sends a really bad message when our players tolerate that. And I don't care what Zach and Joe say.
That's where I'm at with it. Dude is arguably the best player at the most important position in professional sports. We've been told since the Manning-Brady era that these guys need to be protected. They are a big part of why people watch football.
Yet, somehow, after all of the player safety posturing, we get a truly elite qb in Cincy and he's a human piñata every single week. It's not borderline fan grievance. It's blatant and demonstrably repeated. No talking head or retired ref can argue the facemask. Or the late hit in Baltimore. It's potentially cost the Bengals at least 1 game. That game might have been the difference in deciding a playoff birth. It's discouraging.
Our season is functionally over. Burrow is not going to sit. He's playing an MVP season as is Chase. They won't pack it in. IMO if the stupidity continues, the OL needs to mess someone up. We aren't playing for anything, so who gives a shit about a penalty? There's literally no better time to establish a reputation than the next 4 games. Get ejected. Eat the penalty. Now is the time.
