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00:03 Now, one of the games yesterday, Warren, interestingly enough,
00:06 there was a lot of support for Arizona getting points at home.
00:10 We know going into the season, we thought they'd be a disaster.
00:14 Honestly, they kind of were a disaster yesterday.
00:16 Dobbs finally looked like I think most people thought he would.
00:19 But the Bengals offense, Warren, yesterday, and
00:22 most importantly, I saw Burrow scrambling a little bit.
00:26 Now, I know Jamar Chase was a monster in this game.
00:28 He had three touchdowns and a million yards.
00:31 I don't even know how many it was at the end of the day.
00:33 Can we take a positive now away from the Bengals in thinking that maybe they would
00:38 be back because we thought this a couple of weeks ago, they fell back down to earth.
00:42 Is this the point where they just take off from here?
00:45 >> Well, I don't know about take off, but I do feel like this is an inflection point
00:50 because I feel like Joe Burrow looked more like himself in this game.
00:55 His ability to move behind the pocket, I've got some stats here.
00:58 To share in a moment, but this was a great game out of Joe Burrow.
01:02 When you look at his wide receiver target rate, the first month of the season,
01:06 he was targeting wide receivers on only 68% of his passes.
01:09 Yesterday, that bumped all the way up to 85%.
01:13 And the biggest thing for me is when he was holding onto the football in the past,
01:17 he was trying to get it out super quick.
01:19 And when we see he was holding it onto the ball in weeks one to four,
01:22 he was basically taking sacks or these plays were amounting to nothing.
01:26 A lot of throwaways, a lot of dump offs to running backs, weeks one to four.
01:30 When he held onto the football for longer than three seconds, 1.9 yards per attempt,
01:36 no touchdowns, one interception, and
01:38 minus 0.95 EPA per attempt with a 4% success rate.
01:43 Last week, 1.9 yards per attempt against the Cardinals improved to 9.8 yards per
01:49 attempt, his zero to one touchdown to interception ratio on passes
01:54 that he held the ball for three plus seconds, weeks one to four.
01:56 That improved to three touchdowns, no interceptions last week.
02:01 His EPA per attempt improved to plus 0.45.
02:04 And instead of having a 4% success rate like he did over the first month of
02:08 the season, he improved to 42% success.
02:11 So when he was holding onto the ball longer in the pocket to allowing some of
02:15 these other plays to develop down the field, or guys to uncover and get open.
02:20 He could buy the time because he had the comfort level in his calf to move around
02:25 in the pocket a little bit, and that's what Joe Burrow does.
02:27 He's not gonna take off and scramble left and right, but he is gonna buy the time in
02:31 the pocket and get to a better position or get to a better throwing lane,
02:35 throwing window.
02:36 And he does that a lot, and he couldn't do that the first month of the season, but
02:40 he was able to do that this past week against the Cardinals.
02:43 And I think that that was a big difference in this game.
02:45 I distinctly remember one play where he was buying time,
02:48 buying time to allow Jamar Chase to run all the way from the left side of the screen
02:51 as you're watching it in the end zone, all the way to the right side to get open past
02:55 two defensive backs and make that touchdown catch on the right side of the end zone.
02:59 And that did not happen in weeks one to four because he didn't have the ability to
03:03 move around and buy that time.
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