{"id":281142,"date":"2025-08-12T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/281142\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:15:12","slug":"bengals-offensive-line-ripped-for-failing-to-protect-joe-burrow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/281142\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals offensive line ripped for failing to protect Joe Burrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Cincinnati Bengals are in the second week of the 2025 preseason as they prepare to bounce back from an embarrassing 9-8 finish, despite their top-tier offense, which kept them out of the playoffs for the second year in a row. In their first preseason outing against the Eagles, Burrow and the rest of the first-team offense looked like they hadn\u2019t missed a beat, and the quarterback seems poised for an MVP season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Folks around the league obviously see what Bengals fans all over the world see in Burrow, as 50 NFL coaches and executives have unanimously ranked him as a top-tier quarterback. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6514160\/2025\/08\/11\/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Mike Sando;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Mike Sando<\/a>, he is tied with Patrick Mahomes as the best quarterback in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis is Burrow\u2019s fourth consecutive season in Tier 1 and his first as a unanimous top-tier selection,\u201d Sando wrote. \u201cRodgers (six), Mahomes (five), Tom Brady (four), and Russell Wilson (one) are the only other unanimous Tier 1 selections in the survey\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One offensive coach even knocked the Bengals for how they\u2019ve protected him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBurrow could be a 1 with a red cross on him. They don\u2019t protect him, and he gets the s*** knocked out of him constantly,\u201d the anonymous coach said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/bengals\/stat-of-the-jay-where-does-bengals-joe-burrow-rank-among-most-sacked-hit-qbs-since-2020-all-time-01k2dh49va7j\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jay Morrison pointed out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jay Morrison pointed out<\/a> that Burrow is the second-most sacked quarterback in the league, behind Russell Wilson and slightly ahead of Baker Mayfield, Justin Herbert, and Daniel Jones. Since the 2020 season, he\u2019s the fifth-most hit quarterback behind Wilson, Herbert, Kirk Cousins, and Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Bengals cut Alex Cappa, restructured Cordell Volson\u2019s contract, signed Lucas Patrick, and drafted Dylan Fairchild this offseason to attempt to stabilize the guard position, which caused the majority of the issues in 2024. While some fans, and at least one coach, don\u2019t believe they\u2019ve done enough, Burrow has done amazing things with much less (see the Super Bowl offensive line in 2021).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hopefully, some combination of Lucas Patrick, Dylan Fairchild, Cody Ford, or Volson can give Burrow the protection he needs from the interior of the offensive line, which, in turn, gives him time to find one of his ridiculously talented receivers down the field. If not, he\u2019ll likely do it anyway, but he\u2019ll just get the snot knocked out of him while he\u2019s doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals are in the second week of the 2025 preseason as they prepare to bounce back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[7037,1842,228,1574,227,256,2296,10143,9150,2772,1165,7,1159,294,10142,8575,6,499,572,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-281142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-alex-cappa","9":"tag-baker-mayfield","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-burrow","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-cody-ford","16":"tag-cordell-volson","17":"tag-daniel-jones","18":"tag-dylan-fairchild","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-justin-herbert","21":"tag-kirk-cousins","22":"tag-lucas-patrick","23":"tag-mike-sando","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-patrick-mahomes","26":"tag-russell-wilson","27":"tag-tom-brady"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115013623742942173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}