I was excited to see that the team took Burrow's injury last season as an opportunity to try a different approach - play action, drop back passing - that paid immediate dividends in the run and pass game. Eureka! The hope was that they could learn from that and add it to Burrow's game, and we would grow this year.
If I had to pinpoint the most disappointing thing about this team to me, that has been the case for so long and was simply reinforced today, it's just how little this team actually ever evolves. Everyone and their brother knew what the weaknesses were in the last season, and the team simply didn't do what it had to do, in the draft, with trades/FA, and/or scheme, to improve. How on earth they can sit back and tell themselves that almost is good enough, and then not do anything to get better, is beyond me. It's like they actually think last year we could have been contenders if Burrow had a healthy season. With the 5th worse D in the league and a reprehensible O-Line (run and pass).
How do we not evolve?