ForJimmy

Yeah and everything he indicated before the draft showed that Young was his choice. Wait that doesn't count though because he was just doing what he was told??

So let me try to understand again. Everything Reich has said about his ideal QB described Young. Young was also the top QB in this draft by a majority of analysts, BUT Reich really wanted another player and is now benching Young intentionally to show his good he (a seasoned HC with plenty of experience) is without Young????

Correct and if the pick fails HE fails. Reich is tied to Young. He was describing Young with the point guard comment from the beginning and mentioned size wasn’t as big of a concern. If he was truly AGAINST the pick he would be letting Brown handle the play calling as well. He wants Young running HIS offense because he wanted Young.

Regardless he signed off on Young and is directly tied to the success of Young. Everything he has been saying is he was the guy all along and they are infatuated with him. If he is feeding us all BS and it’s really just what Fitt or Tepper wanted he won’t last here anyway. There really isn’t much to gain for Dalton looking much better. For the record I don’t think he will look that much better. To me it’s why Young is more that likely banged up/injured.

Then the QB he went all in on was the issue. It’s not a win for him if Dalton looks much better. I don’t understand why people don’t see this?

Meh winning games with Dalton doesn’t do much in a year we are trying to develop our rookie QB. Unless people actually believe this team is a playoff team and needs some wins ASAP. Anyone believe that right now?

Stroud’s OL hasn’t been doing him any favors either. It’s still very early but Stroud has flashed some talent.

It’s as deflating as a Tom Brady Super Bowl football.

That guy loves some clowns!

But Dalton SHOULD play better at this point. Minshew SHOULD play better than AR and Mills SHOULD play better than Stroud. These teams are focused on developing their franchise QBs this year so they are rolling out the rookies week 1. Unless you have a solid QB ahead of you (which most teams picking high for QBs don’t) you roll out the high pick rookie and get him use to the soles of the game.

Maybe or MAYBE he rolled his ankle on that scramble where it’s clearly twisted under the defender. He looks to be DTD with no boot which means it was looked at but nothing too serious. It is dumb to roll him out there to play through it possibly making it worse and ruining his footwork. Did you watch Burrow play through his calf injury? Yuck…

I kind of wanted to see Bryce against a weaker secondary/defense. You bring up some valid points though.

Not like MAD mad, but I guess I should have used the word annoyed or frustrated at Reich for basically saying we aren't a playoff team before the season started. I wasn't calling you out, just reminding him of a conversation where our coach said it was going to start off rough this year.

Nothing we can do but sit back and see how it unfolds. Hopefully Young and the offense will look a lot better in the second half of the season and give us some optimism going into 24 with some cap space to spend. I do think we have too many holes to pay Burns. He will probably get flipped if we keep sucking and we will have a first plus some in return. Not the Rams offer, but that's a sunk cost.

If Dalton looks great I would be calling up the Jets to trade him away. If we keep sucking trade away Burns too. Get those future picks.

I'm fairly certain they stated we would start off slow, but see improvements towards the end of the year. That was after the preseason. Remember @CamWhoaaCam got mad and you were telling him that our staff is saying what you were saying all offseason? As for the offseason quotes, I wouldn't put too much weight into any of that.

Right? Yeah we still have a long way to go. We won't be that competitive at the beginning of the season. Imagine a GM saying that during the offseason...

It's always within reach until it isn't. It's a lot tougher to flip a roster in the NFL then they realized I'm sure.

OR maybe he rolled his damn ankle and we don't need him to play through an injury that can get worse because we aren't making a playoff run this year. Sometimes the simplest answer is the right now.

You talking about the Andy Dalton Red Rifle World Tour Opening Act?? I wish I was going!!

I'm glad you addressed this. I literally choked on my water for a moment when I read "too early" and "knee jerk reaction" in these replies. Umm check every other topic on this site and that is all you see??!?!

It's why we really need Young to play this game. Defense shouldn't be as tough as the previous two.

Honestly our offense should look better having another week under their belt and going against a defense that isn't as good as the previous ones we played. We really need Young to play in this game.