Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has dragged his team kicking and screaming to relevancy this year, somehow putting them into a position to possibly make the playoffs.
On a recent episode of “First Take,” Dan Orlovsky profiled Burrow’s season as one of the best-ever campaigns.
“No one is throwing the football better than Joe Burrow,” Dan Orlovsky said. “This is the best offense in the NFL. … This is one of the great quarterbacking seasons in the history of the NFL.”
Along that same theme, Orlovsky also said the Bengals missing the playoffs would be one of the biggest whiffs and wastes of an individual performance ever.
Whether Burrow can remain in the MVP conversation might hinge on whether other results around the league help lift his team to the playoffs.
But the numbers, endless reel of play-extending efforts and overall season is by far Burrow’s best campaign and if his team were a lock for the playoffs, he might just be the MVP front-runner.
