Do You Realize How Long It Has Been?

[CJD]

(05-04-2021, 09:19 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: It's not a condemnation of Burrow as I believe he has tons of promise and potential, and at the risk of being lynched....

Did he?

Burrow was 2-7-1 as a starter and 3% below average as a QB. If you take away the name, the draft position, the promise and potential and just look at it from a purely statistical standpoint, I don't think he did.

It depends on what you consider a significant impact.

Burrow had an objectively good stat line for a rookie with a 65.3% completion percentage and 5 300 yard games in just 9 full games.

He didn't make too many mistakes with only 5 interceptions, 1 of which wasn't a pass but rather a janky little toss in his first career game.

He didn't rack up a ton of passing TDs, but he did have plenty of game tying/winning drives late in games that the defense and/or kicker promptly ****** up (See San Diego, Philadelphia and Cleveland just off the top of my head). He also had 3 rushing TDs and, in the Indianapolis game, he got the ball down to within the 10 yard line 3 times in the first 2 quarters, only for the TDs to be scored on the ground rather than through the air (which, incidentally, is why I don't really consider number of passing TDs to be all that relevant to a QB's success. Points scored is much more relevant).

In the 9.5 games he played, we scored 22.4 points per game, and in the remaining 6.5 games he didn't play, we scored 15.1 points per game.

So if your gauge for success is wins, he was not a significant impact, but if your gauge is anything else, I think you can pretty objectively say yes he was a significant impact.