Cincinnati Bengals QB Joe Burrow on Analytics

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00:00Completion percentage I would say is the biggest, for the most part, indicator of

00:05of how you're playing. If you can just find completions, get the ball in your

00:10guys hands, then you're gonna give them more opportunities to go make plays

00:15after the ball, go score touchdowns, get the ball in your playmakers hands. It's

00:20not always gonna be the coverage that you expect versus the concept that you

00:24call it for. It's can you still get a positive gain in those looks, you know,

00:29some of the best plays turn out to be two or three four-yard gains, but maybe

00:37you got pressure and you had to slide in the pocket, you get hit, but you find the

00:41back. Just trying to keep keep the ball in your guys hands, let them give them

00:46more opportunities to go make plays. Do any of these new analytic categories? I would have

00:52to understand, like, what goes into the formula to really understand whether I

01:00care about it or not. Like, there's a lot of, like, there's a lot of ones that

01:07people use that I don't know, like, what is weighted within the formula higher

01:14than others, so I can't really make a decision on whether I care about that or

01:20not because maybe yards per attempt is weighted too highly, maybe

01:24touchdowns are weighted too highly, maybe completion percentages, maybe they're

01:29taking into account things that they think matter that, you know, you don't

01:35really think about as a quarterback because it doesn't really translate to

01:38winning games. So I'd have to do a deep dive on the formulas and the weighted

01:44values of these analytics to really understand them, and I can't say that

01:50I've had time to do that.

02:03Yeah, I'd have to, yeah, QBR, you know, I think, I know passer rating is weighted

02:10heavily towards touchdowns. Touchdowns don't really necessarily mean you're

02:15playing great. You could throw a dime and get tackled at the one and then you run

02:19it in. I think yards per attempt is also weighted pretty highly in that, and

02:26that's pretty dependent on how you play offense. EPA, I don't know what that is.

02:34I've never seen the formula for that. Those are the three that I, like, advanced

02:40analytics that I know. I don't know the other ones.

02:41I think you've said in the past that you judge good practices by how few times it all hits the ground.

02:47How have you done this year, and the team done this year, in that regard? How would you assess that?

02:54Yeah, you know, I think that that's, that more rings true later in the week when

03:00you start to dial in your, like, you've talked about the routes, you've talked

03:05about the concepts against each individual look, and then you rep it at

03:08the end, and then you're on the same page. You know, early in the week it

03:11can be, you can be not on the same page and some balls hit the ground, and you

03:15come back and talk about it. Like, hey, I want you to run this route a little

03:18differently, get a little wider in your release, or change your split. And so

03:22Friday practice and late in the Thursday third down practice are critical in

03:31that Wednesday's more so. You still think about it, but not quite as much.