Burrow vs. Herbert

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(12-05-2021, 10:51 PM)Nately120 Wrote: 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.

So...raw numbers and all that aside...i think Orlovsky--who played the position and probably watches more tape (differently) than fans do--is saying that 'in the art of quarterbacking, Burrow is a lot better than Herbert' based on the things they do on a play by play basis and how they came to do what they did. Too bad that doesn't determine the outcome of the game. 

To the layman, getting the job done "however you can" and posting better statistics, means the QBs are more equal or one is better than the other.