Jul 23, 2021
Joe Burrow has to be at least as good if not better than he was as a rookie while coming off major knee surgery. Tee Higgins needs to play as well as he did last year The Bengals need big contributions from rookie Jamarr Chase. Joe Mixon has to be able to take pressure off of Burrow.
With all of those things needing to work out, it all may come down to a questionable offensive line improving dramatically. Both Nicole and I struggle with the notion that they need Burrow to save the franchise while also not taking an aggressive approach to building the offensive line.
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In Tribute to Raiderdamus
We have all heard of Sabermetrics and its use and impact in sports. Moneyball was a movie that highlighted the use of statistics to drive decisions about players and new ways to think about the game. While I love crunching through data sets to see the zeros and ones within the Matrix, I recognize that relying solely on numbers attribution is a trap. As Mark Twain put it, Lies, damned lies, and statistics . In other words, it’s possible to make the numbers dance to your particular bias. With that acknowledged, I found an interesting article on Pythagoras on the Grid Iron referenced here. https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2003/pythagoras-gridiron