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(05-23-2023, 03:41 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Burrow Super Bowl and AFC Championship game apperance. Beat Allen head to head. 

Also, this is Allens 6th year in the league compared to Burrow's 4th - that matters to an extent. 

Burrow did not beat Allen head to head.
The Bengals beat the Bills.
It was a full team effort.

If anything, Burrow beat the Bills defense better than Allen beat the Bengals defense.

Personally, I feel comparing playoff stats is a bit more unfair because it's not just the QB vs QB but instead team vs team, and thus teams are going to have (way) more games played than others. With that said...

Josh Allen the past two seasons in playoffs (4 games):
67% completion for 1253 passing yards, 12 TDs, 3 INTs. Another 180-1 for rushing.
313 passing YPG, 3.0 TD/G average

Joe Burrow past two seasons in playoffs (7 games):
67% completion for 1826 passing yards, 9 TDs, 4 INTs. Another 101-1 for rushing.
260 passing YPG, 1.28 TD/G average

The only reason I am sharing these is I think one can make an argument by looking at these stats that even though the Bills didn't advance as far as the Bengals in the postseason both years, Josh Allen played pretty damn well.

As for Burrow's 4th year vs Allen's 6th...there's a reason Allen wasn't #1 overall, as it was known he was definitely a project coming out of college.
Dude had things to work on.
Burrow was NFL-ready and expected to be good right from the get-go.

Honestly, Allen turned out (way) better than I expected he would. I did not like him as a prospect. I thought accuracy was something that he would never improve much on, having just a 56% completion at Wyoming, and also his first couple seasons in the NFL. But he proved me and others wrong, showing he could finally get it right after working at it for his first two seasons. Dude deserves some credit and respect for what he's been able to do these past few years.