Taylor attempted to massage this a bit by going into expected coach-speak about coaching every game like his job is on the line: “You coach every game like it could be your last game.”
“I think that Mike does a great job with the scheme. I don’t want to call it unique because we’ve seen it over the years with him at different places,” said Taylor, who beat McDaniel in their only meeting as head coaches three years ago.“He does a really good job being creative and stressing you in different ways, maybe that some other teams don’t in the run game, and not afraid to be very creative with how he does it … It’s a very difficult offense regardless of who the quarterback is. They put a lot of stress in the run game. They do a great job getting guys open with a lot of speed in the pass game that can finish on explosive plays.”
“When he’s in the phone booth or in the box. I mean, he arrives with violence here,” says Kovacs, clicking the remote to and fro and watching through the reaction. “Great play. Good energy right here.”
Better believe it, though. Jordan has a 52.9 PFF grade this season and a surprisingly good 70.4 pass-blocking grade. He’s a top-five player at his spot in pass-block win rate.
“I can’t see that, no,” Burrow said.As for whether he’s ever thought about the possibility of not being the quarterback in Cincinnati during his career, well, the answer was less definitive.“You think about a lot of things,” Burrow said.
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