Man I wish they would trade for Jameis, you know he'll chuck it to the alpha WR studs.
You'd have to have him take the snap like a punt to have a chance, this line is made of tissue paper and cincy can't scheme any help for them
We'll never know the answer to this and obviously things would be a lot better but if Burrow had not got injured I think the narrative very likely would have been how disappointing he has been for fantasy the first few weeks. We know he struggled in game one, was merely ok in his brief week 2. But that OL, lack of scheming and schedule are all real factors that are tough for any QB to deal with. Eventually Burrow would have figured it out, but this is almost stupid to say but " only if he could have stayed healthy". I feel like if the toe injury did not get him another one likely would have soon because he was getting hit constantly. I swear about a day or two before he went down I was talking to a friend of mine telling him how worried I was about him, how he might go down as Andrew Luck 2.0, because I had a bunch of Tee/Chase on my redraft teams and he was taking way to many hits.
But all that being said I was thinking last night how the Bengals remind me of last years Dolphins when Tua went down. Not the same stratosphere of QB but in the way the entire Dolpins offense just crumbled, they only had one guy on that roster who could make it work. That's were Cincy is right now.
I think a Russ or Winston would help the fantasy numbers for the offense, Jameis for sure, but not sure they'd be better for the team with neither knowing the system and dealing with the OL. If the Giants every made on of them available I'm afraid it's not likely to be Jameis, not likely at all.
Browning should be a little better. As was pointed out he faced two strong D's and I think mentally he was extra conservative last night after that debacle against the Vikings.
Kind of makes me wonder if WR's are worth all this money a lot of them are getting? They need so much around them to be in place in order for them to impact the game to the level of their pay.