Things I Know Part I
by edwzipper on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 at 8:08am
Further evidence of Bengals owner Mike Brown’s devastating lack of intelligence (or criminal lack of caring) is that Carson Palmer has not been shut down for the year.
Your quick Bengals recap (like I was going to break a three month dry spell in posting and not start here):
—0-5.
—An offensive line that has ushered angry large men to the QB in frightening ways since pre-season.
—Palmer’s bloodied and broken nose not enough of a warning in the pre-season, profoundly stupid offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski is either unwilling or unable to change blocking schemes and approach, and Palmer spends weeks one, two, and three being pounded into a gelatinous mass.
—At the end of the week 3 pounding, his elbow comes up lame. Uber-lame. They won’t specify, but it ain’t good.
—Palmer sits out a week, comes back for week 5 at Dallas, looks nothing like the Palmer who entered the league in terms of arm strength or accuracy, and is now out for week six.
So, what do I know Part I?
That Carson Palmer should be put on IR, like yesterday. This season had a bullet in its brain for Cincinnati before it started. To continue to hold open the option of playing a damaged Palmer in a season with as much life left in it as a rotting corpse is insane, even by deranged Bengals standards.
The whispers are that Palmer needs Tommy John surgery. Like Delhomme had last year. So, um, hey dumbasses? Get the fuck on with it.
37 years of life, 32 with a rooting interest in one of the most profoundly lame organizations in the entire sporting world.
Yea me.