Turf Toe is a shockingly bad injury, considering the nickname. If you weren’t aware of what it actually is, it’s a sprain/tear of your big toe ligaments. Makes it really hard to walk. Or pivot. Or do stuff with that foot. Burrow suffered a grade 3 Turf Toe, which has full tears and requires surgery. He’s out for 3 months minimum, probably the season. The Bengals finally managed a good start to the season and it didn’t matter.
After the Burrow diagnosis came out people were beginning to compare him to Andrew Luck. Luck also seemed to suffer a series of cascading problems that ended each season with him out or suffering. We all know what that did to Luck. It mentally broke him just as much as it physically broke him, and he retired out of nowhere. The Colts spent so many years failing to build around and protect Luck and the team has been in limbo ever since. It’s hard not to see the parallels with Burrow.
Burrow seems like more of a baller than Luck did. Luck was a smart guy who had aspirations and intelligence beyond football that would allow him to move on, even if he didn’t necessarily want to. Burrow seems to be more about football, maybe more trapped in it. I don’t think Burrow is going to retire the same way Luck did, but if this keeps up, we might see another waste of a true talent. The Bengals have already squandered some of the best offensive play in the league with bad defense and bad roster building.
Nobody wants this. Even a rival fan wants to see the Bengals suffer for football reasons and not health reasons. It’s always a shame when talent is robbed due to the harsh limitations of the human body. I hope he’s able to heal up and keep going for years.
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