Coach Zac Taylor announced an injury case today
In the absence of their franchise quarterback, the Cincinnati Bengals will have to salvage their season.
Coach Zac Taylor announced the wrist injury Joe Burrow suffered on Thursday night in Baltimore was a season-ending ruptured ligament. On Friday, the results of an MRI showed the severity. Surgery is probably needed to treat the injury.
If Burrow were an ordinary person, you would be concerned about it. He isn’t,” Taylor declared on Friday. “His wiring is different.”
The Bengals’ season is running out of time while they wait on Joe Burrow’s wrist diagnosis.
According to a team source, Burrow was hurt on the play that would have been his final touchdown pass to Joe Mixon and felt the pop on the subsequent ball.
At quarterback, the Bengals will start backup Jake Browning.
Two injuries and two compression sleeves will define Burrow’s worst season as a professional. Burrow wore a compression sleeve on his right calf when he left for the second training camp practice of the season on July 27. He left the session after two hours due to a tight calf.Several times, notably on the last play of a Week 2 loss to the Ravens, he made the injury worse. It wasn’t until Week 5 against Arizona that he was nearly perfect. A four-game winning streak and a run of stellar quarterback performances by the team were ignited by his health.
Then Burrow appeared with a compression sleeve on his right wrist on the bus and the flight to Baltimore. After another touchdown throw against the Ravens on Thursday night, there was yet another injury.The Bengals are under investigation by the NFL for failing to include Burrow on the injury report.
He gained 2,309 yards on 244 of 365 (66.8%) completions during the season, with 15 touchdowns and six interceptions. He recorded a 91.0 passer rating, but his four games with the calf injury left him largely immobile, which had an impact on all of his stats.
Before the season began, on Thursday, Burrow inked a $275 million contract with $219 million guaranteed. As a result, he will no longer be the highest-paid cheerleader in the world and will instead be backing Browning.
Browning, who had only tried one NFL pass before Thursday, will have the responsibility of leading the high-profile Bengals team to victory this season.
With a 5-5 overall record and a 0-3 division record, the Bengals are not in the AFC playoff picture. All seven of their remaining games are against other teams at the moment. 500 or higher.
They’ll map out a new course of action during the extra days.
Taylor stated on Thursday, “One game at a time.” “It starts with Pittsburgh. This is our home game; it’s a huge one. Since that’s all we now have control over, I know our soldiers will be thrilled.
After Thursday night’s game, Taylor reaffirmed that he was not demoralized about the remainder of the season, playing the optimistic card that he frequently turns to when things are tough.
Defensive coordinator Brian Callahan and tackle Orlando Brown Jr. “will have a terrific scheme,” Brown Jr. stated following the game. The thing about this organization is that they never give up. I became much more confident in our group, our players, and our staff. Jake will complete the task at hand.
Browning will have the support of AJ McCarron, who is all too familiar with these circumstances. With Andy Dalton’s thumb broken in December of last year, he took over a Bengals team that went 8-0 at the beginning and won the division in 2015.
Famously, a touchdown pass from McCarron to A.J. Green would have won the Bengals a playoff game.
A division-winning Bengals squad that was hoping to make it to the Super Bowl witnessed Carson Palmer tear his ACL after his first playoff pass in 2005.
To the list of devastating quarterback injury derailments, now add Burrow’s wrist.
During the Bengals’ four-game winning streak, Burrow was considered a top MVP candidate, and they were the popular choice to win the Super Bowl.
Instead, they are defeated by the harsh parity and capriciousness of the NFL injury cycle following two incredible seasons that saw Burrow lead them to both the AFC Championship Game and Super Bowl 56. And whatever they can gather, rally around Browning.
