Afternoon Games

There really is no excuse to have a QB throw for 43 TDs and almost 5,000 yards and not be contending for a championship. Wild.
Playing yearly in a brutal, ultra-competitive division and not necessarily having the tough, nasty fearsome defenses of Baltimore and Pittsburgh plus he doesn't have the most competent, intelligent owner and FO striving endlessly to make his supporting cast better and you get great, MVP-CALIBER statistical seasons with a winning season but you're still sitting on your couch watching the playoffs in mid-January.

Burrow won't admit it because it would be PR suicide and highly unpopular right now since he's an Ohio native, but I seriously suspect he's privately wondering whether it would be in his best professional interests to have great statistical seasons but sub-par team success and risk having his great career being watered down just like Bengals QB greats before him like Boomer, Carson Palmer, and Andy Dalton. If I'm him, in a few years, do I consider maybe risk asking for a trade to a team like Miami, L.A. Rams, Seattle or Minnesota?