Todd McShay: "Joe Burrow Makes the Game Slow Down"

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(01-07-2020, 09:14 AM)Au165 Wrote: It was 20 years ago, let it go.

As to the Tom Brady comp, it isn't silly at all. I've heard it from analysts and you see it on tape. When you say these comps you aren't saying they are that person because those guys have a lot of intangibles who make them who you are, what you are comping is skill sets. I keep bringing up one play against, I think Alabama, that if you couldn't see the jersey you would have thought it was Brady. He was on the right hash mark the to his left there were two wide. The route combination was a post wheel concept but the outside WR working in broke off the post into a curl and the Wheel route ran clean but was pressed to the boundary a little more than you'd like. Burrow flicks the ball with perfect touch just over the outside shoulder in a place the defender had absolute no play on the ball allowing him to catch it in stride picking up a couple more yards before going out of bounds. 

While Tom Brady doesn't have the greatest arm in the world him and Randy Moss made a great duo while Moss was in NE because of Brady's touch on the deep ball. You hear touch a lot with QB's but what that means is not just placement but trajectory. I hammer on this a lot but it is so important and very rarely gets talked about. QB's who throw flatter trajectory passes on intermediate to deep passes have more interceptions and more batted balls than those who have a better arching ball. Now the issue with this is some guys put too much arch on the ball which causes it to hang in the air letting DB's undercut the receiver. The reason I often mention Tom Brady when talking about Burrow is that Burrow is really good in that intermediate and deep game at putting just the right trajectory on the ball, even into contested catches, to give his WR the best chance to get the ball with the least risk involved. 

Really

And if the time doesn't make you let it go. Take a look at all the household names the Redskins got in those two drafts. Then take a look at the dynasty they were over the next 5 years.