Do You Realize How Long It Has Been?

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(05-05-2021, 12:00 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: It depends on what you consider a significant impact.

Burrow had an objectively good stat line for a rookie with a 65.3% completion percentage and 5 300 yard games in just 9 full games.

He didn't make too many mistakes with only 5 interceptions, 1 of which wasn't a pass but rather a janky little toss in his first career game.

He didn't rack up a ton of passing TDs, but he did have plenty of game tying/winning drives late in games that the defense and/or kicker promptly ****** up (See San Diego, Philadelphia and Cleveland just off the top of my head). He also had 3 rushing TDs and, in the Indianapolis game, he got the ball down to within the 10 yard line 3 times in the first 2 quarters, only for the TDs to be scored on the ground rather than through the air (which, incidentally, is why I don't really consider number of passing TDs to be all that relevant to a QB's success. Points scored is much more relevant).

In the 9.5 games he played, we scored 22.4 points per game, and in the remaining 6.5 games he didn't play, we scored 15.1 points per game.

So if your gauge for success is wins, he was not a significant impact, but if your gauge is anything else, I think you can pretty objectively say yes he was a significant impact.

See, we're already turning it from significant impact, to... for a rookie, which wasn't the criteria we were talking about. After all, Eifert was a "no" and he had a good season for a rookie TE.

Yards Per Attempt: 11% below average
Completion %: 4% above average
TD%: 14% below average
INT%: 18% above average
QB Rating: 3% below average
0 4th Quarter Comebacks
0 Game Winning Drives
25th Scoring Offense
2-7-1 Record

Overall, Burrow was a average/slightly-below-average QB. 300 yard games aren't really a measure of success. Nobody should brag about throwing 300 yards in 5 quarters while tying a terrible Philly team. Doubly so when you were leading the NFL in pass attempts.

You mentioned 22.4 points per game, it was actually 21.3 ppg in his 10 starts, and that would be good for the 25th scoring offense in the NFL in 2020 (even your 22.4ppg would only be 1 slot higher at 24th). If your gauge of significance is moving down to "does the offense get worse with his backup in?" then the answer is yes for probably about 30/32 QBs in the NFL in 2020 and there's no point in ever asking the question.