Even though Joe Burrow is the NFL’s only quarterback to rank in the top 10 of every major passing category heading into Sunday night’s (8:20-Cincinnati’s Channel 5) game in New York against the Giants, he says there are times he’s still not spinning it the way he should.
“I would say I’m still not quite throwing it the way that I would like,” Burrow said after Wednesday’s practice.
Despite coming off surgery for his throwing wrist, Burrow has come out steaming in the first five games and is on pace to break his Bengals season records with 41 touchdown passes, 4,658 yards, a 113.6 passer rating, as well as Ken Anderson’s season accuracy record with a completion percentage of 72.3.
“I’m making good decisions, I’m putting the ball where I want to,” Burrow said. “I still think there’s another level of improvement I can get to coming back from injury on ball rotation and spin rate and all that. So, that’s going to continue to get better as I get healthier, so there’s always another level to find.”
Burrow is leading the league with 12 touchdown passes and that passer rating carved out of throws like the insanely accurate 41-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase.
Let offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher tell you why it wasn’t as easy as it looks after studying how Burrow let it go when Chase was at about the Baltimore 25 on an across-the-field post and then ran it down on the other side of the field at the 5.
“The route by Ja’Marr and the throw by Joe, I mean, it doesn’t get better than that,” Pitcher said before practice. “That’s a concept that when you call some of those deep downfield play-action spots, you know the area of the field where the ball is going to be caught, and you trust that the receiver is going to get there.
“When you have people that are that talented, and the two of them have the rapport that they have, Joe can trust that he can throw the ball to that spot and…
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