A positive today (for me)

[Essex Johnson]

(12-12-2021, 11:49 PM)TheFan Wrote: Clearly you didn't read my posts in the thread comparing Burrow to Brady because I was basically arguing the same thing. 

Saying he was the reason we struggled because we didn't score most of our points until the 4th is not indicative of how the game actually played out. 

We only had 4 drives in the first half and scored on 2 of them. Our first drive died because Chase, once again, dropped an easy first down conversion so it's hard to blame Burrow for that. Burrow did have 1 bad throw that should have been an int but the other, if not for Chase getting hit in the face and slowed down, probably is a complete pass if there's not penalty. 

In the second half we have 5 possessions, scored on 2, missed a fg on 1, and did 3 hand offs then a punt on another one of them. I haven't rewatched the game but I'm hard pressed to remember more then maybe 2 throws Burrow missed today and can recall a number of times when he made great throws. 

There's little doubt in my mind that if we played to win in OT that we would have scored a touchdown. That obviously means nothing but Burrow was by far the most productive part of our offense today despite the handicaps placed on him. 

Ok missed that on Brady but we i totally disagree about this misconception playing to win.. the idea that you can move the ball inside the red zone like outside is football 101 nope... we were bad in the red zone all game.... pass or run.. it the end we have to start better in game since we are leaving zero margin of error late... Taylor and Burrow have not been able to start well in 1st and being so behind in 4th.. they have zero comebacks in 4th...