Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17221940)

Burrow played at a high level for 3 quarters last night. Had a 70 QBR. That dropped to something like 20 in the 4th quarter. I don't know what we chalk that up to exactly, but regardless Joe played pretty well for 3/4 of the game. We'll see if that was an outlier performance pretty quickly.


Still certain CIN makes the playoffs, so we'll see.

Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 17222014)

This isn't even close to the same thing as saying you're "certain" they make it.

Maybe try not talking out of your ass?

Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17222033)

Actually it is. you just have a problem reading. I'm certain they're making the playoffs, up until they're mathematically eliminated. Do you understand what that phrase means?

Try taking a class in comprehension.

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 17222038)

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Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17222026)

Maybe you missed my point about his QBR being 70 for most of the game? That's more than just completions/misses. It speaks to efficiency, and he was pretty efficient, according to QBR.

And I'm not shrugging off taking sacks. I chose not to take a deep dive into that for this conversation. I'll give you that he takes too many sacks, if you concede that not every sack is his fault. Fair?

Also, some of those punts were the result of receivers not catching a perfectly catchable ball. Is that really Burrow's fault? Should he have walked over and handed the ball to the receiver? Or, realized through his precognitive abilities that that particular receiver was going to drop the pass, and chosen a different receiver instead?


We could even get into play-calling, if we wanted to, though I'm not going to dive into that. But is it Joe's fault when the first play is a run that gets a yard, then they run the next play that gets flagged for holding or whatever, and now they're 2nd and really long? Is that Joe's fault, or does he get a pass there?

If we take Joe out of it and it's Pat in there instead, do you give him a pass in those situations?

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 17222040)

A TD pass isnt' a game winning TD pass when there's that much time on the clock and the other team just knifes down the field for the game winning fg.

Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17222033)

Actually it is. you just have a problem reading. I'm certain they're making the playoffs, up until they're mathematically eliminated. Do you understand what that phrase means?

Try taking a class in comprehension.

Originally Posted by rfaulk34 (Post 17222056)

And when a team's playing for 3 or 4+, the play calling is different and you can't assume the exact same thing happens.

Originally Posted by tredadda (Post 17222039)

Is Carolina mathematically eliminated? By your logic you are certain they are making the playoffs.