Ask anybody who they assume is one of the best quarterback within the NFL, and also you’re more likely to get a variety of various opinions. Most individuals would most likely say reigning MVP Patrick Mahomes, however there are others who would possibly select Josh Allen or Justin Herbert or Jalen Hurts or Joe Burrow, simply to call just a few. One of the Burrow Backers is former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer.
“I feel Joe [Burrow] is one of the best quarterback within the league,” Palmer stated throughout an look on The QB Room podcast, in keeping with NFL.com. “I do know Patrick [Mahomes] is phenomenal, however I simply assume Joe’s extra constant. He’s extra constant. He’s extra accountable to run the system and the play that is known as and never really feel like, ‘Well, he did not win final time and get open for me, so I’m gonna do it with my toes,’ after which earlier than it, you are sacked for a four-yard loss since you tried to make two or three guys miss.
“Joe is simply — speak about not having a weak point — mentally sturdy, bodily powerful, correct, can throw it far sufficient, quick sufficient, will get the ball out fast, after which he can truly do quite a bit together with his legs. He simply not often exhibits it. I feel he is as athletic exterior the pocket and may do plenty of the identical issues Patrick Mahomes has performed. He hasn’t performed it and confirmed it but. He’s performed extra inside his system and elegance. But I feel he is one of the best quarterback within the league.”
There are actually arguments one could make in Burrow’s favor, however the ones Palmer made are literally issues that may seemingly tip the scales in Mahomes’ route.
Mahomes is probably the most constant quarterback within the league, and presumably ever. In 5 seasons as a starter, he is accomplished between 65.9 and 67.1% of his passes yearly. He’s thrown an interception on between 1.0 and a pair of.1% of his passes in each season, and averaged between 8.1 and eight.8 yards per try in yearly however one. He’s gained MVP twice, Offensive Player of the Year as soon as, and two Super Bowls, and his staff has hosted the AFC title sport in each season he is been a starter.
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Mahomes is very unlikely to take a sack, as evidenced by his microscopic 3.9% profession sack price. (Burrow’s is 7.5%, by comparability.) You may argue that Mahomes has had higher safety, and you’d be proper, however that may be negated by the truth that Burrow has taken a sack on 23.8% of his pressured dropbacks throughout his profession, third-highest amongst 42 certified quarterbacks over the previous 5 years, whereas Mahomes’ 11.1% sack-to-pressure price is second-lowest among the many identical group of gamers. (It’s price noting that Burrow dramatically improved on this space in 2022, however was nonetheless nowhere near Mahomes’ degree.) Mahomes has certainly taken off to scramble extra usually than Burrow (17.7% of pressured dropbacks vs. 12.1%) and has gained significantly extra yards per scramble when doing so (7.8 vs. 6.1).
None of which means Burrow is not glorious, or that he definitively is not one of the best quarterback within the league. (Even although he most likely shouldn’t be, given Mahomes’ excellence in each space.) It simply signifies that Palmer selected the fallacious basis on which to base his argument, as a result of the areas of quarterback play he selected to focus on Burrow over Mahomes are areas the place Mahomes is definitively superior.
