No, this isn’t about the pass-blocking struggles of the Cincinnati Bengals offensive line in front of Joe Burrow.
It’s about the complete lack of fire from an offensive line that watches its quarterback get mauled — even after whistles — and just trots back to the next huddle for another play.Anyone observing Cincinnati’s Week 10 loss to the Baltimore Ravens saw Burrow getting abused on most snaps. On some snaps, there were unflagged late hits, and there were multiple instances of hits to his helmet and facemask, including on the unflagged penalties on the game-deciding two-point conversion.
And it’s going to keep happening until Burrow’s line actually does something about it.
Thursday night was merely the start of a trend. One late hit, three steps after the throw, has Burrow dealing with an injury called a “bruise” by Zac Taylor:Go back one week, too, to where Las Vegas Raiders defender Maxx Crosby kept hitting Burrow after plays while the offensive line did nothing, via Chris Maathuis of CBS:
Onlookers and even Burrow’s teammates can argue until they’re blue in the face that maybe they just didn’t see these things happen in real-time. But if fans are seeing this over the last two games, it’s hard to imagine it hasn’t been pointed out on the sidelines.
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