Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is often compared to Tom Brady for all the right reasons.
But when it’s the wrong reason, it tends to be bad.
Case in point, a stat highlighted by WLWT’s Charlie Clifford, via Dan Hoard. It reveals that over the course of 333 career starts, Brady had five losses in his career when his team scored 33 or more points.
Burrow’s Bengals have already done it four times this season alone.
The Bengals are often accused of wasting an MVP-caliber season from Burrow, which is true. He’s completed 67.7 percent of his passes for 3,337 yards with 30 touchdowns against just five interceptions. His play-extending heroics behind an iffy line don’t need to be explained, either.
But the comparison to Brady goes beyond this year, providing some serious historical context to what a colossal failure the Bengals organization has committed around the franchise quarterback.
While Burrow and the Bengals will keep fighting, the organization must look ahead and figure out how to pick up the pieces in a way that quickly gets things back on track.
