Jake Browning appreciation thread

[Shake n Blake]

(12-17-2023, 11:55 AM)Au165 Wrote: There has been some magic here and if you are thinking short sighted about results, which makes sense, then he’s great. The reality though is he is doing a lot of half field reads and still missing a ton. Yesterday his INT was thrown on a curl/flat combo which is one of the most basic reads in any level of football. He had a dropper under his curl with a wide open flat. What makes it all worse is if he came off that combo he had a backside dig wide open for 20. There are numerous examples of him basically staring down one combo and missing getting to his 3rd option (except when it’s outlet, he is solid there).

He is bailing from clean pockets way too early at times. Sometimes he won’t make a decision and holds the ball past the window so then he has to bail to make a play versus taking what the play gives him.

Now, that all said as a back up he’s killing it. This run is magical and he will get better with more game reps. I’d just be very leery about some of the wild statements about comparing him to Burrow or that teams will be tripping over themselves to get him. We are having a great team run here and we need to recognize a lot of the magic isn’t just Browning. The screens that went for 30+ yards, the new found running game, the YOLO balls that are being caught, and the defensive turnover…they are all factors here.

Nice analysis, but I feel like some are judging him based on the Joe Burrow standard.

You can be a starter, and often times a successful one, despite flaws. I'm unsure of how many times I heard that Andy Dalton was a one read guy, or stared down AJ, but it was a lot.

I'm not saying Browning will have that type of success or even be a starter.

From what I've seen, no one has said Browning is better than Burrow. I don't even think anyone is really guaranteeing he will be a starter next year. I'd say the unreasonable ones are those who are suggesting he has no shot.

We can nitpick this guy to death and analyze every throw looking for flaws, but in the end, he's hitting more than he's missing, and most of them aren't "luck".

Also, do we treat Burrow the same way? When he has a RB take a dump off 30 yards for a score, are we putting an asterisk on that? Of course not.

We have to he fair, here.