This highlight has it all...

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(04-16-2020, 03:36 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: 1992 - David Klinger - #6 overall - Big time college QB that set the record for TD's in a season and was super accurate and had all the talent to be a star, yet was put behind a bad O-line, with a young head coach and we ruined his career. (Is this foreshadowing to this year?)

No, it isn't foreshadowing this year at all.  Klinger was the classic "take a square peg and try to make him fit in a round hole".  He was an air raid, run-and-shoot, whatever you want to call it, QB.  He was not asked to read defenses.  He was not asked to stay in the pocket.  It was basically one read and the ball was out and he would throw it 50+ times a game.  

The offense the Bengals are hoping to run will likely have more of what Burrow loves:  5 man protection.  He has an uncanny ability to find the opening downfield.  Even in an offense where he threw the ball a lot, he still had one of the highest (longest?) yards per attempt in the league.  In other words, it was not dink and dunk.  

Akili Smith was similar and was overdrafted because of his athleticism.  He simply didn't have any football IQ and he also had a drinking problem.  

The Bengals started to get it right with Palmer and Dalton.  More cerebral guys with higher football IQ.  

Now you get Burrow.  Football IQ is off the charts.  He is a born leader.  He has outstanding athleticism.  He will be our QB for the next 15 years and will likely win several Super Bowls.  I am THAT confident in the guy.  

There is no foreshadowing of this year's pick in relation to Klinger.  They are totally different players in totally different circumstances.