Joe Burrow VS Justin Herbert

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(09-18-2022, 01:15 PM)Synric Wrote: To me it's the second level that separates the two QBs. Herbert is still a little more inconsistent at those second level throws were Joe Burrow lives there with his post snap vision, anticipation, and accuracy/ball placement. 

I think the thing most don't recognize is that it's not that hard to tell a QB, here's read #1, here's read #2 and here's read #3, then here's your checkdown (not that simplistic cause they're not usually that stupid--but to make it easier for a fan to understand). Sometimes, read #3 is the checkdown. 

You can teach just about any QB to do that and then the announcer goes, "wow, look at him go through his reads!". That's not rocket surgery. 

A guy like Burrow can look at a D and know which option is the best from the go and he will do things like pump fake or keep his head/eyes one way to draw a defender before coming back to who he was looking for all along. A guy like Herbert has a lot of snaps, so i don't doubt he can recognize a defense and adjust or change the play and i don't think he's terribly behind Burrow in that respect, but there is a noticible difference. 

I also agree that Herbert is more inconsistent and if you're good at disguising your defense and you can get a little heat on him, i think you can prod him into mistakes that a guy like Burrow is less likely to do.