PFF's Seth Galina breakdown of Joe Burrow 2020.

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(04-10-2021, 10:11 AM)PDub80 Wrote: That's a fair question, although Next Gen stats only tracks separation on COMPLETED passes. The deep ball misses, some - admittedly - were bad throws by Burrow (SD game, anyone?), weren't counted in those numbers.

Burrow needs to improve deep ball arm strength and drive to help his receivers out.

Also, scheme and route trees aren't taken into consideration with those numbers. Could Taylor's offense NOT be lending itself to clean routes? Too much congestion in the cuteness? Fair questions, too, but doubtful, to me, since they incorporated a some LSU stuff last year and that didn't look wildly better as far as "scheming guys open" goes. Certainly not on deep throws.

Either Paul Dehner Jr, Dave Lapham, or one of the Locked On Bengals guys had stated in a podcast last season that AJ Green's GPS data showed him running his routes at several MPH below his previous avgs and below dbs who had had major injuries, like Richard Sherman. This made AJ easily coverable, even by avg NFL CBs. He looked horrific and a shell of himself.

Couple the above with Lapham & Hoard discussing AJ Green's interview after signing with the Cardinals where they pointed out that AJ basically hated Taylor3offense, never bought in, never liked his role or the routes/job he was asked to do, and basically needed a change of scenery.  They didn't accuse him of "mailing it in", but I would say they went pretty close to saying he gave selective effort when he could.

It was time for the AJ Green era to end in Cincinnati.

Agreed it was time to end....and if Lap and Hoard are correct....he should've been gone after 2019.