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Originally Posted by mr. tegu
It’s easy. He hasn’t performed in the post season, especially when it matters most. This keeps getting ignored but when discussing elite, for me, to meet that you elevate the team and do everything reasonably possible to get wins in the post season which is a huge factor (among others), otherwise you are a SB winner getting dragged to championships like early Brady, Dilfer, etc. but not elite, or you are a regular season stat builder who fails in crunch time in the playoffs, not elite. Heck if you consistently play only average in the playoffs but have some hardware to point to along with sustained huge regular season I can say that guy is elite as well.
So far Burrow has good to great regular seasons but average at best post seasons and even worst 4th quarters in the playoffs. With such a brief career thus far and lacking big post season moments or hardware he just hasn’t earned elite yet.
Being a top regular season QB in a given small period is not the same as being elite. Any number of guys can be a top QB in given year or brief period and have a good post season run. Elite takes some combination of more time with regular season numbers, post season success for team, QB performance, and hardware.
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How can you say he hasn't performed in the postseason when he got the Bengals to the SB and helped them comeback from a 21-3 deficit at Arrowhead stadium? I mean come on lets give the guy some credit. That's not easy to do.
I think he's a really good QB and I think Bengals will definitely be back. A QBs job is to win the game by scoring more points than the other team not get fantasy football stats. His stats aren't even that bad.
As far as the 'elite' well that word does get thrown around a lot and there doesn't seem to be any clear cut definition of what an elite QB actually is. However if you take the webester definition
e·lite
[əˈlēt, āˈlēt]
NOUN
a select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society:
So once again who would you put over Burrow? Right now -- I'd say he is elite. Only QB I'd take over him would be Mahomes.