12-06-2021, 10:57 AM
(12-06-2021, 05:28 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Kyler Murray was a Pro Bowler in his 2nd year. His passing stats were augmented with 800+ rushing yards and 11 rushing TDs.
Also worth noting that both Murray and Allen came into the league for their age 22 seasons as rookies. Burrow's rookie year was his age 24 season. He SHOULD be ahead of them in development at equal points in their careers.
My problem with this whole "schedule" and "house money" talk is it may be for Burrow, but it's not for Taylor. Nobody will say "Year 4, right on track!" with a head coach next year... the Patriots went from Tom Brady, to 8 TD/10 INT Cam Newton, right back to #1 seed in a span of 1.75 years. The reason the Bills were able to be patient with Josh Allen is because McDermott went 9-7 and playoffs with Tyrod Taylor in his first year, and his third year (Allen's 2nd) they went 10-6 and playoffs. (Side Note: I think 2020 might go down as Allen's peak. I think he's a little overrated.)
As to the Taylor point; maybe.
Please note that I'm not a Zac fan and have called for him to be replaced more than once (probably more than ten times, lol).
The transition from Marvin to Taylor was handled pretty poorly. The team took forever to hire a new staff and did practically nothing in free agency in his first season. They were trying to win with what they believed were viable holdovers from Marvin's roster, and it was a disaster. Luckily it was bad enough to become a tank-for-a-qb season for all intents and purposes.
"Zac's team" didn't begin to really take shape until last year, and even then there was still a lot of obvious dead weight to bail. I write off 2019 as a truly lost season for many reasons. Whether they were intentionally tanking or just really bad or both is debatable, but the team had few players on board that would be considered core pieces when/if they contend again.
Also, can anyone say what Zac's philosophy is on offense? Is he implementing McVay's system as was likely intended in 2019 when Andy was still under center? Is he trying to run the LSU Brady offense that Burrow thrived in? I don't think that the system is the same in any year he's been HC. Obviously that could be a major knock against him as chief play caller, but it could also be construed as not being so rigid about his system that he refused to bend it to changing personnel. Either way, whatever he was doing in the beginning was still something different from what's going to be in place when the final product arrives. The consistency has not been there for 3 years.
