Do You Realize How Long It Has Been?

[CJD]

(05-05-2021, 01:15 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: See, we're already turning it from significant impact, to... for a rookie, which wasn't the criteria we were talking about. After all, Eifert was a "no" and he had a good season for a rookie TE.

Yards Per Attempt: 11% below average
Completion %: 4% above average
TD%: 14% below average
INT%: 18% above average
QB Rating: 3% below average
0 4th Quarter Comebacks
0 Game Winning Drives
25th Scoring Offense
2-7-1 Record

Overall, Burrow was a average/slightly-below-average QB. 300 yard games aren't really a measure of success. Nobody should brag about throwing 300 yards in 5 quarters while tying a terrible Philly team. Doubly so when you were leading the NFL in pass attempts.

You mentioned 22.4 points per game, it was actually 21.3 ppg in his 10 starts, and that would be good for the 25th scoring offense in the NFL in 2020 (even your 22.4ppg would only be 1 slot higher at 24th). If your gauge of significance is moving down to "does the offense get worse with his backup in?" then the answer is yes for probably about 30/32 QBs in the NFL in 2020 and there's no point in ever asking the question.

I deducted half a game because he didn't play in the second half of the Washington game, but regardless, I didn't realize we were talking about impact across the NFL. I thought we were talking about being a good rookie. And Burrow was an objectively good rookie QB.  He was on pace for breaking several rookie records before being injured.

But if the bar for a rookie is to be one of the best in the league from the day he plays, then of course no Bengals first round pick is going to exceed that bar because basically no rookie exceeds that bar. 

Because they're rookies.