Zac Taylor

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(01-17-2024, 02:49 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Personally, I think that Zac and company saw in the first Pittsburgh game that Browning out of the gun was not even remotely capable of running the spread like Burrow does.  The transition to mostly under Center was something that most teams did not have a lot of footage of the Bengals, let along Jake Browning running.  Sure, Browning was able to get the team to rally with him, and they reeled off a few wins to keep the season interesting.  However, against tougher defenses like KC and Baltimore, the Browning led offense just had no answer.

I don't think there ever was? PFR has Browning as having 28 pass attempts from under center and 215 in shotgun. If you look at highlights..











...there's some instances of him having success under center. Particularly in the Colts game with faking the handoff and then throwing to the RB anyway. It's majority shotgun still. Maybe it shouldn't have been as PFR has him with a 92.6 QB Rating (barely above the 89.0 average) in shotgun and a 142.1 QB Rating under center.

Still much more under center than Burrow, who was at 350 passes in shotgun and 15 under center. Burrow also had a higher QB Rating under center this year. Heck, he has a career QB Rating of 98.0 in shotgun and 107.5 under center.