Things Zac Taylor knew

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(11-23-2020, 10:48 AM)PhilHos Wrote: I once saw Troy Aikman get hurt handing the ball off on a running play. Injuries happen. The only way to prevent them is to not even have the player play. Then again, wasn't it Mark Sanchez who got injured in the parking lot right before a game? Guess that's not even a good enough way to prevent injury. Just don't have them in the league.

Fact is, Burrow has a chance to get injured at any time. Unless you're advocating for him to never see the field, there's ALWAYS a chance he'll get injured. You telling me you'd be fine with Burrow sitting on the sidelines? How about if he only threw the ball 5 times a game. Then again, he could still get injured those 5 times. I think he'd be better off sitting on the sidelines. Less chance of an injury.

There's a chance you get injured when you get out of bed in the morning just like there is a chance you get injured when you're speeding down the highway on the wrong side of the road.

But one of these two things is slightly more likely to cause injury than the other.

Would I have been happy if Burrow was sitting on the sideline? No. Would I have liked Zac to attempt to protect his rookie QB with a gameplan that features a running game that has shown to have some life in the last few weeks, while lowering (not eliminating. lowering) the chances of a freak injury happening? Yes.

This is not a binary situation like you and Fred are trying to make it seem. Zac could have taken precautions via gameplanning and play calling to protect Joe behind an awful Oline but he simply...didn't. He chose not to take those precautions because he knew his best chances of not getting fired were relying on Joe 50 times a game because, as you and Fred have rightly pointed out, that is what was keeping this team and its awful coaching staff close in games that they had no business being in, given their dearth of coaching talent.