11-04-2021, 03:59 PM
(11-04-2021, 01:32 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: Burrow's weakness may be the Farve syndrome if it's not rectified.
Trying and doing too much by himself. Farve was great then became an INT guru, specially late in his career when the tried too hard to be the hero or try to live up to the expectation splashed on TV weekly.
Even in Minnesota, he took the Vikings to the playoffs but would shoot himself on the foot with INTs.. costing them the division championship i think.. cant remember
Favre's reputation as a turnover machine isn't really accurate. He only led the league in INTs 3 times in a 20 year career, and his career INT rate of 3.3% was exactly league-average during the time he played (1991-2010).
He just had memorable picks in the playoffs and a few dud games, and I think that plus the fact that he's thrown the most INTs in NFL history leads people to believe it was a worse problem than it really was. Thing is, he threw more times than anybody other than maybe 3-4 guys who all played in the modern era where rule changes have led to fewer picks overall.
So his INT record will probably never be broken.
As for Burrow, his INT rate this year (3.7%) is MUCH higher than than the overall league average (2.2%). That said, it may take years to tell if it's a real problem or if it's just a one year issue that he'll grow out of.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
