The Bengals have risen to the NFL’s elite thanks to the superpower that may define this season: Burrow’s ability to scan a field and see more than anyone else.
All the quarterbacks had developed personal systems, mechanisms to discern complex patterns within fractions of a second in the cauldron of an NFL field. Burrow was different. He did not key in on one player. He had no tricks to determine what he needed to do. He just … knew.
Burrow’s sense for football also came naturally. When Burrow was in fourth grade, his father watched him audible to a quarterback run because of how linebackers had reacted to a bunched set of wide receivers. He tapped his center on the backside, then ran for a 70-yard touchdown. There have been other times, Pitcher said, when Burrow might make a similar decision based on a minuscule tell in a defender’s stance.Coaches marvel at Burrow’s access to memory. In his rookie season, Washington’s defense played a formation the Bengals had not expected or prepared for. But another opponent had used it earlier in the season. On the fly, Burrow recalled the proper audible and changed the play to a run the Bengals had installed weeks prior.“He never really misses,” Taylor said.
“He’s seeing the defenders, and he’s expecting me to turn up the field,” Hurst said. “That’s why I’ve had so much success on third and short, because of his ball placement. As soon as he puts it on a certain shoulder, I’m going to turn and burn for a first down.” During the Bengals’ playoff victory in Buffalo in January, Burrow saw the Bills line up in the exact wrong front for a particular play call; the Bengals would have had nobody to block Buffalo’s defensive end. In an instant, Burrow diagnosed his problem. Before the end could reach him, he dumped a quick pass that gained five yards.
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