Burrow vs. Herbert

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(12-05-2021, 10:43 PM)samhain Wrote: This is exactly what I'm saying here.  I don't at all look at the game I watched today and see Herbert as a qb that's head and shoulders above Burrow.  He has two big veteran wrs that win a lot of 50/50 balls and was utilizing them well early when they were gifted with outstanding field position.  A couple of his big second half throws were to targets that didn't have a defender in the same zip code.  

To be honest, his pocket awareness looked horrendous for a big chunk of the game.  He lost huge chunks of yardage on more than a couple sacks and it didn't seem like he had a clue what was happening until it was way too late.  He stood there with a defender wrapped around hs legs, staring downfield while another defender came in and pasted him rather than getting rid of it to prevent the loss of yards.  That's all stuff people consistently kill Burrow for on here.  

Other than the gameday doomsayers is anyone saying Herbert is head and shoulders above Burrow?  I'm just trying to see things from other perspectives here, but Burrow is in that position where hindsight says he should be head and shoulders above Herbert since we turned down multiple picks in order to take him over Herbert.

Burrow should be head and shoulders above Herbert, and time will tell but so far he isn't.  That's the curse of being the first QB off the board...you always have to be the best and you have to be better than the rest of the QB class in addition to "all the picks you coulda gotten if you traded down."

But again, I'm back to my habit of trying to explain dissenting opinion which makes me seem like I'm just being a sour jackass.  I'll just cover my ass and say Burrow at the moment has yet to live up to "Best QB the Bengals ever had" and "Shouldn't have agreed to play for the Bengals."  Hot takes, abound.