12-23-2019, 10:34 PM
(12-23-2019, 03:03 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You can't convince me that Burrows skill level just suddenly went from "good" to "greatest" at age 24 in his SIXTH college season.
He is a good QB, but his greatness is a product of the coaching and talent around him.
I think he is way overrated. If his greatness was a product of his skills we would have seen it before this year.
It's his 5th college season.
Joe Goodberry has an excellent article today in The Athletic looking back to when the Bengals took Palmer 1.1. Carson went from mediocre (39:39 TD:INT his first four years, including just 13:12 his 4th year) to great in his 5th year. More specifically, Carson wasn't great at all except his last 7 games at USC. Granted, Burrow doesn't have Palmer's arm strength, but by all accounts his football IQ is leap years ahead of Palmer (the real reason the Bengals decided to sit him his first year) and his accuracy is off the charts by any standard.
