Bengals have had 3 #1 overall picks since inception

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(12-23-2019, 10:34 PM)RiverRat13 Wrote: 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.  Gran

(10-07-2019, 09:29 PM)Circleville Guy Wrote: The team basically had zero playoff hopes after only playing a quarter of a season. How F’n pathetic and embarrassing!

ted, 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.

It's impossible to compare circumstances around QBs to the current batch.

Burrow has great accuracy, pocket presence, and he knows where to throw the ball. Those are good traits.

His arm strength seems adequate.

Gotta go with him and try to develop him.