05-30-2022, 10:00 AM
(05-30-2022, 01:15 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Bengal QBs may have had better seasons than Joe Burrow, but he's the best QB the Bengals have ever had. Outside of Klingler's 70 yard arm, he has every previous Bengal QBs strengths and NONE of their weaknesses.
I'm sorry, but Anderson is better and it isn't really close. When Kenny retired he was the only QB in history to lead the league in passing 4 times. Today Steve Young is the only QB to do it more times (5). Burrow has never even done it once.
In 1982 Anderson set an NFL record with a 70.6% completion percentage that would stand for TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS. In '82 when Anderson set the record the league completion percentage was only 56.4 When Brees broke that record in 2009 the league completion percentage was 60.9. In 2021 when the entire league completed almost 65% of their passes Burrow could still not match Anderson's 70.6%. A QB today would have to complete over 81 percent of his passes to match what Anderson did in 1982 compared to league average. And Kenny was not just dinking and dunking in '82. His 11.4 yards per completion was higher than the league average in 2021 (11.0).
Ken Anderson was also a much better runner. When Ken retired in '86 the only other QB with 30K passing yards and 2K rushing yard was Fran Tarkenton. Among all players in NFL history with at least 300 rushes Anderson is #13 in yards per carry (5.6). He had 4 seasons where he averaged over 7.0 yards per carry including 2 with over 300 yards.
Burrow is a damn good QB and easily among the best playing today. But Ken Anderson set multiple NFL passing records with some of them standing for decades, and he was a much better runner than Burrow. Burrow just is not in his class yet.
