Joe Burrow's last four games

[Nicomo Cosca]

(01-30-2022, 11:06 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: When you focus purely on stats, you miss the key aspect about NFL football:  It is ALL about matchups.  The Bengals for years during Palmer's time had great success against Baltimore but not pissburgh.  It wasn't because piss was better, but because the matchups of the two teams were just different.

That Titans game was the perfect storm for Cincy.  They have one of the best combination interior defensive lines and solid ends as well.  They were doing all kinds of things (different almost snap to snap) on the back end of things (coverage).  Even Burrow mentioned that he was seeing things he had not seen before.  Vrabel is a hell of a coach (especially on defense) and has made a living killing great offensive teams in the playoffs.  Joe getting sacked 9 times sounds just obnoxious, but the key thing about Joe was he didn't make the killer mistake....Tannehill did.  Those turnovers cost Tennessee the game.  Sure, there were times Joe could have checked it down, or threw it away, but as he said:  he had confidence in his guys to break open and he was holding the ball as long as he could to wait for that to happen.  

Whether you want to call in "makeup yardage" (which doesn't make a lot of sense, because it is HARDER to deliver the ball downfield when "off schedule" or "behind the sticks" as folks say) or not "championship ball", it is discounting what Burrow did in order to put his team in position to win.  

Every game situation will be different because of the matchups and what Joe has shown us this year is that he can beat any team with any defensive scheme that they throw at him.  Remember, that Titan's defense held Mahommes to 3 points earlier in the year. 

Well said, Racer.