Burrow is doing beyond fantastic

[Nicomo Cosca]

(10-28-2020, 08:24 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: My issue here is Mike Brown. He has always believed if a team has a franchise quarterback that is all they need. He did this with Akili Smith and he did this with David Klingler. Watching Joe Burrow get hurried and sacked is getting old fast. Tennessee and Pittsburgh are going to break Joe in half if pass protection doesn’t get better. An elite quarterback deserves an elite offensive line. We have the opposite.

Besides, let’s look at run blocking. It’s freakin’ horrible. Talented running backs like Joe Mixon and Gio Bernard should be rushing for a hundred yards per game, not averaging three yards per carry. It is not a coincidence that the one game the Bengals won Joe Mixon rushed for over a hundred yards.

Yeah, Mike Brown was so obsessed with having an elite QB that he gave Andy Dalton 9 years at the helm...

They’ve gone OL 5x in the first 2 rounds over the last decade (Jonah, Price, Ogbuehi, Fisher, Zeitler), and traded for Glenn. This assertion that they ignore the OL is completely untrue. The issue has been missing on the picks (and not addressing it in FA). But they do realize it’s a problem, and have been trying to fix it for years.

What happened in the 90’s is ancient history, and has nothing to do with how the team is currently being run (not saying it’s perfect or even close). Just like how some are choosing to completely ignore the 150 mil we just spent in FA (3rd most in the league) isn’t business as usual for this team.