Burrow terrible down the field

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(10-04-2020, 08:00 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: Eh, the bigger bone of contention was the constant throw-aways and giving up on plays, that along with playing his worst when the games were bigger.

Agree

My pet peeve with Andy was him throwing balls away and not even trying to extend plays. It saved his INT stats but I believe it irked the WR core and contributed to them not really going hard to get open. When you play with Andy he rarely makes throws rolling out of pressure so 95% of the time if he doesnt hit you right off snap you may as well stop running.

Then factor in how afraid of the fade route he was in his last couple years with us. When Dalton was your QB having a tall WR really didnt mean nothing because Andy was too soft to give him a 50/50 ball. 





I understand and am willing to admit that Andy was a good QB and took unfair blame. But to act like he was anything but average is disingenuous. Dude routinely didnt give his WRs shots at jump balls, dude routinely missed deep balls WITH A CLEAN POCKET, and dude every year but once choked in the playoffs, even after ranking as a top QB against the blitz a couple times. 




My 2 pros for Andy that he seemed to have even when he was inconsistent was that he always seemed to instinctively know when to run for a first down. I loved that about him. He was really slick at converting runs for firsts. And after that his short to medium accuracy was great. When you got Andy going in that range he threw accurate LASERS. That was fun to watch. 

But with Burrow I feel like he throws those accurate lasers NORMALLY. I feel like Burrow has the same instinctive ability to run for firsts with even more speed. I feel like Burrow is already better than the best Andy we ever got to see. Thats sad but it makes sense for a number 1 overall pick.