03-21-2022, 05:41 PM
(03-21-2022, 04:41 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: If you follow different social media, there is an ongoing argument who are top QB in AFC. The Herbert crowd freak if you mention Burrow as top 3 in AFC (as well as Ravens and now Browns). It is often based on different metrics like total yards which is skewed by attempts, TDs, INT. But the swag and intangibles that Burrow brings is immeasurable I feel.Can't believe Brunell was in that list. Didn't he have Boselli & Searcy as tackles? I thought they had really good lines.
There is an article that breaks down how awesome and historical super bowl run by the Bengals last year. I believe Burrow was sacked 3rd most in NFL history. This article written by Edward Sutelan before Chiefs game.
"According to data from Stathead, there has never been a quarterback lead the NFL in sacks in a season and reach the Super Bowl. Only four quarterbacks that led the league in sacks even reached the conference championship that season. Should Burrow beat the Chiefs on Sunday, he'll be making history.
Quarterback Team Year Sacks Conference Championship Result
Mark Brunell Jaguars 1996 50 Patriots 20, Jaguars 6
Jay Cutler Bears 2010 52 Packers 21, Bears 14
Alex Smith 49ers 2011 44 Giants 20, 49ers 17
Jay Cutler is the only quarterback to have been sacked more than Burrow in a season and reach the conference championship, and even he endured less of a beating in the playoffs, having been sacked just five times in the divisional and championship rounds.
Overall, players that finished the season leading the league in sacks missed the playoffs 42 times, or 79 percent of the time. The team they played for has, on average, a .430 winning percentage.
The quarterbacks in NFL history sacked the most in a season that still reached the playoffs were the Jets' Ken O'Brien, who was taken down 62 times in 1985, and the Texans' Deshaun Watson, who was also sacked 62 times in 2018. O'Brien led New York to the wild card round, where they were eliminated by the Patriots 26-14. The Texans lost their wild-card round round to the Colts in a 21-7 defeat. The overall list of players to reach the playoffs after leading the league in sacks is short.
Quarterback Team Year Sacks Round Reached
Ken O'Brien Jets 1985 62 Wild card
D Watson Texans 2018 62 Wild card
R Cunningham Eagles 1992 60 Divisional round
R Cunningham Eagles 1988 57 Divisional round
J Cutler Bears 2010 52 Conference championship
A Rodgers Packers 2012 51 Divisional round
J Burrow Bengals 2021 51 Conference championship (so far)
M Brunell Jaguars 1996 50 Conference championship
A Rodgers Packers 2009 50 Wild card
R Cunningham Eagles 1990 49 Wild card
A Smith 49ers 2011 44 Conference championship
Yeah, Randall Cunningham was sacked a lot, but still managed to take Philadelphia to the playoffs quite a lot.
Of those quarterbacks, only Cunningham in both 1992 (66), Watson (65) and O'Brien (64) have been sacked more than the 62 Burrow has sustained between the regular season and postseason. Burrow's 11 playoff sacks are already tied for the eighth-most in a single postseason in NFL history, according to Stathead.
It goes without saying that allowing sacks does not help a team win. Teams take about an average of 36.9 sacks per season...
Graph here sorry cannot reproduce
Based on a regression analysis, every sack allowed after 36 would be expected to reduce a team's winning percentage by .0069. The expected winning percentage for the Bengals, who allowed 55 total sacks to Burrow and backup Brandon Allen, this season based on sacks allowed would have been .374, or roughly a 6-11 campaign. Instead, they flipped that around to 10-7.
It has been a remarkable season for Burrow and the Bengals to advance this far despite their franchise quarterback taking so many shots. On Sunday, he'll look to keep the historic run going when Cincinnati faces the Chiefs on the road in the AFC Conference Championship."
Burrow was rated #1 of all QB in PFF but his metrics do not necessarily reflect what he embodies for Bengals.
Burrow is rated 95.6 PFF when in clean pocket. He is a surgeon in dissecting defense alignments when given time. He was 1.5 seconds of a block from possibly connecting with Chase for TD on the last drive.