12-05-2021, 11:12 PM
(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.
Should he, though? He missed a lot of games and had to sandwich a major injury and rehab into his first 2 years in the league. The team he was drafted into was by the nature of being the one with the first overall pick, very bad. He had an 18 million dollar hood ornament with zero interest in being a productive football player as his alleged number 1 wr last year.
As some here say, perspective matters. This team was comically bad before Burrow arrived and after his knee injury last year as well. In terms of winning ball games and positioning his team for the playoffs, he's right there with Herbert despite the obvious setbacks. Why is this team 7-5 and not 4-8 or worse? Is it Zac's great scheme or in-game awareness carrying them?
Anyone expecting even a veteran elite qb not to have bad games or make mistakes is going to be let down. Josh Allen and Mahomes both have had major disappointments this year. Lamar is going through it at this very moment. Even the mighty Justin Herbert has a reputation for throwing costly picks and losing to inferior opponents (see last week in Denver). The Goat cost his team a games vs New Orleans with a pick 6 and forgot what down it was in Chicago last year.
