02-14-2020, 02:50 PM
(02-14-2020, 01:03 AM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: Tua DOES NOT have a weaker arm!!! There are four of you that better start praying to your God right now, that Burrow isn't a bust or injured in ANY way! ( Busted thumb!!) No excuses for you folks. NONE!! No room for anything less than playoffs in his first year. NOTHING!!! NOTHING , less will be acceptable.
And, I am going to remind all four of you about it EVERY FN WEEK!! Every week!!!
That is just exactly how much BS and hype that you four have been slinging.
One of you also said that Burrow was the surest pick in this draft. He is not!! That would be Chase Young.
It's a win, win for me either way. Burrow wins, the Bengals win. Burrow loses and I'm going to call each if you out in a separate thread each week.
Calm down Coach, damn.
Been watching Tua try and throw deep balls like he did in the LSU game and he tried to throw it 50 yards using everything
he had, he doesn't have a weak arm, just weaker than Burrow from what I have seen. Neither have cannons. Also if MB and
the FO don't put players around Burrow to succeed you won't be able to call anyone out that knows it might not matter who
the QB is. The O-line needs improved and we need to have healthy weapons for any rookie QB, not just Burrow.
Chase Young is not the surest pick in the Draft either, at least not for us. He is a damn fine player but for us it is Burrow IMO.
(02-14-2020, 11:13 AM)Au165 Wrote: Burrow's tape from this year is better than any single season worth of tape Tua can put together. I am not alone in this take as I have heard it publicly from some guys but also privately from one of the Scouts I occasionally talk to. The other piece of this is that while his hip may be doing well, he is now on his 3rd relatively major injury in only 24 starts i.e a season and a half in the NFL. I think Tua could potentially be Sam Bradford, a great college QB who in the NFL shows flashes but constantly being beat up will never let him achieve his potential.
(02-14-2020, 11:35 AM)Au165 Wrote: Ron Jaworski also said he'd take Nick Foles over Russell Wilson and that Collin Kapernick could be the greatest QB of all time...that said it's an inexact science, my point though was the narrative that Tua was "the guy" if healthy wasn't universally held at all as some have claimed around here for a while.
The other thing that is very real in scouting, when guys make bold statements early in a guys career they do not like to come off of them. It's why a guy like Christian Hackenburg gets drafted in the 2nd round, because when you set up on the hill that a guy is "elite" early on they'd rather die on that hill than be open to any other belief. Many stated Tua was a can't miss prospect after the NCG his freshman year similar to Lawrence. Guys build that narrative and begin to refuse to second guess it so at this point they just stay with it. Tua is a really good prospect but to some people Burrow could throw for 100% completion percentage and 100 TD's to no INTs and Tua was always going to be "their guy".
Great stuff Au165.
