Ten Things: Time For a Hopefully Brief Change

1-3 Bengals need to give Joe Burrow a break.

The Cincinnati Bengals play offense in a 7-yards-by 7-yards box. It’s not hard to defend a space like that. Ponder an orangutan in a walk-in closet and ask him to defend his dinner. Would you want to take that monkey’s food spread?

The Bengals lost badly in Nashville. They’re 1-3 and of all the teams starting an NFL season 1-3, 14 percent have made the playoffs. Given that the Bengals aspirations are somewhat taller than simply partnering with the postseason, you have to feel the local situation is getting dire. Then again, in the suddenly sad AFC North, hope springs eternal.

Here’s what The Men should do, in the wake of 27-3 Sunday in Music City:

Sit Joe Burrow and hand the keys to Jake Browning for the foreseeable future.