01-13-2022, 06:42 PM
(01-13-2022, 06:32 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Ehh... not really. 20 TD/11 INT before the bye. That's a 36 TD/20 INT pace for 16 games for reference to other seasons. In comparison after he cleaned up the INTs after the bye week, he finished with 34 TD/14 INT. That's much much better. 20 INT would have been just bad. You can't turn the ball over that often, it would have led the league by 3 and led 3rd place by 5.
Even Matthew Stafford who starting throwing INTs like crazy at the end of the year (7 in the final 3 weeks) finished with 41 TD/17 INT and that's viewed as a huge point of concern that he has 17 even with 5 more TDs than Burrow's pre-bye pace.
I'm real glad Burrow cleaned up the INTs and I hope it continues, because the post-bye Burrow was a hell of a QB. (And was 5-2, compared to 5-4 when he was throwing all the INTs.) Bengals lost all 4 games where Burrow had multiple INT, they were 5-1 when he had 0 INT. Turnovers kill.
Turnovers are brutal and I seem to remember him playing better than that. I checked his EPA per pass and sure enough, he was 22nd in the league. However, if you remove only week nine, he was 14th in the league in EPA per pass, so doing okay (which I think is what I am remembering, I didn't remember him that low). That Cleveland game was just such an awful, awful game. He was 2nd in the league in EPA per pass after the bye.
