This is a pretty awful football thought. Hope you didn't spend too much time on it.

Not sold on Joe Precinct.

I'd expect the 2nd best QB in football to at least march the team down into field goal range on the last drive.

I think he is. Watching Mahomes and Burrow is going to be fun.

Edit: I the Mixon is going to get cut and CEH will be back with Burrow on a prove it deal.

Just realizing this:

In Burrow's first complete season, which was his sophmore campaign, he went to the SB.
In this second complete season, he lost a 50/50 AFC championship game.

Mahomes is legit, no doubt, but this Burrow dude is no joke. If they get consistent play from their line...they could easily go back to the SB. The injuries on the line killed them yesterday. Is Burrow etched in stone as the NFL's no 2 QB, with a possibility to ascend to no 1, for the next 10 years?

The playoffs as a whole showed that mahomes and burrow are at the top of the tiers and there is no one else close to them. Mahomes is still a top that list, but Burrow is not far behind.

Burrow is still pretty far behind, by at least two MVPs, two All Pro teams, two conference titles, and one (maybe soon to be two) rings. And Burrow was 100% healthy yesterday and had a much, much better surrounding cast than Pat did, and still couldn't get it done. It's only going to get tougher from here with Burrow's rookie contract running out, Mahomes is already playing on his 2nd contract, one that forced them to trade his best playmaker. It didn't matter, Pat won MVP anyway and just beat Joe with a high ankle sprain and depleted surrounding cast.

You guys are in too big a hurry to crown the next thing. Let Joe earn it. If he's as good as Mahomes like you guys think, he will. So far he hasn't come close.

I agree Chase, Higgins and Boyd are better than Hardman, MVS, Kelce, etc but you are still unfairly not acknowledging the o-line injuries. Burrow/Cincy lost an entire quarter to start the game simply because the line couldn't protect burrow. He got sacked and smartly threw several balls into the dirt to avoid more sacks, something Fields should take notes on. That evened the playing field a bit so let's not just outright assume Cincy was at 100 percent full strength while only KC was hampered by injuries.

Philly is gonna curb stomp KC

Cmon, you can’t be serious with this “Burrow is close to Mahomes” argument.

Did Cincy not go into KC with a sophomore QB and rookie wr1 and beat a superior chiefs team last year led by superstar Mahomes and all world players like Kelce and Hill?

Don't forget about the great offensive line and HoF offensive guru as a head coach.

Missing 3 WRs and missing 3 OL cancel eachother out.

Did Cincy not go into KC with a sophomore QB and rookie wr1 and beat a superior chiefs team last year led by superstar Mahomes and all world players like Kelce and Hill?

Joe Burrow has played in 7 playoff games and never thrown a TD in the 4th quarter. Carried by the defense these runs. He's definitely hindered by o-line play but let's pump the breaks.

Boxscore watching doesn't work. There's no one who believes that the Bengals scored a 4th quarter touchdown in spite of Burrow yesterday.

there is a decent sized gap until he gets some hardware.