Burrow vs. Herbert

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(12-05-2021, 10:57 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: 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. 

I get that.  Maybe that INT Burrow threw in the endzone just left more of a bad taste in my mouth than it should have.  I admit I was willing to call it a "bad luck" game by that point with the Mixon fumble and fluke Chase thing, but I just didn't see enough "tape" to erase that 19 point defecit and gap in stats between Burrow and Herbert.

If Burrow throws a TD there we can at least have some reason to say it was within a score and an onside kick and hey it was close and bad luck did us in, but that was a very not-flukey kick in the arse to end things.

(12-05-2021, 10:59 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Please allow me to remind one and all before Joe Burrow’s amazing final season at LSU the consensus was the Bengals would pick Tua Tagovailoa.  That was the hip choice until Tua dislocated his hip.

That makes me think of the times where a QB who is going to go #1 overall falls down the board and the rhyme/saying ends up looking absurd in hindsight.

Play dead for Ted(dy Bridgewater) comes to mind, but at least he went 32nd and has a career.  Fail for Cardale (Jones) is a laugh at how little that one panned out for anyone involved.