"He shouldn't even be doing that in the regular season," Jason Kelce said of Joe Burrow. "Sometimes you've got to save somebody from themselves."
During halftime of the Cincinnati Bengals' NFL preseason game Monday night against the Washington Commanders, ESPN's Monday Night Football halftime crew of Scott Van Pelt, Ryan Clark, Jason Kelce and Marcus Spears agreed that watching Bengals starting quarterback Joe Burrow get brought down twice by the Commanders' defense was cringeworthy.
"I get it, the starts to the season mentally with all of that foolishness," Spears said. "No. 1 is Joe's got to be smarter than this. And then, Zac Taylor's to that point got to protect him. 'Look man, you ain't going out there no more (after the sack).' After this one happened, that was it. But then he goes in and gets hit again. This is the absolute worst possible scenario of your pseudo-I'm-trying-not-to-slow-start season. I don't care what nobody says. Joe Burrow might go throw for 500 yards in the first game, which is highly likely with what he has. But this situation has never been right to me. It's never been right."
"He shouldn't even be doing that in the regular season," Kelce added. "Like what are you doing running around taking those hits? He's pressing because he knows the sense of urgency is right now. And yeah, I would've pulled him after the first one. Sometimes you've got to save somebody from themselves."
Washington Commanders starting quarterback Jayden Daniels briefly put himself at risk of injury during the only drive he played. MNF analyst Troy Aikman criticized Bengals defensive back Jordan Battle for not hitting Daniels on the QB's first-quarter touchdown run.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Jason Kelce would've pulled Joe Burrow after Commanders' first hit
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