Well, hello, Joe.<\/p>\n
After a grisly first half in Baltimore on Sunday<\/a>, Burrow lit Maryland on fire to the tune of 16-of-18 passing for 249 yards and four (FOUR!) touchdowns for a perfect 158.3 passer rating. The performance reminded everyone how explosive this Bengals offense can be when Burrow is kept clean — 15 of 19 passes for 173 yards for the game from a clean pocket, per Next Gen Stats<\/a>.<\/p>\n Through the first six games of the season, Burrow got the ball out quickly, averaging 2.57 seconds to throw, tied for second-fastest among QBs with at least 100 attempts, and 7.4 air yards per attempt. In Week 7, he was at 3.06 seconds to throw, per NGS, with an 8.8 air-YPA. When Burrow has time and can let things develop, with the weapons at his disposal, the Bengals’ offense is as deadly as any in the league.<\/p>\n Cincy entered the year attempting to tweak its approach, using more under-center work and play action. I\u2019m not suggesting they should scrap that plan, but it\u2019s notable that in the second half on Sunday, he was under center for a single pass play — 16-yard red-zone TD<\/a> to Drew Sample<\/a> — when he lit up the Ravens.<\/p>\n Burrow has been ripping accurate passes from the pocket all season, leading in completion percentage but trailing other MVP candidates in advanced metrics (sixth in EPA\/DB, seventh in success rate, fifth in CPOE). But if Sunday\u2019s outing was more than just him skewering a defense that has had issues, look out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, hello, Joe. After a grisly first half in Baltimore on Sunday, Burrow lit Maryland on fire to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4687,349,99],"class_list":["post-896903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-analysis","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}