Eli is the only comparison point, and a dumb one on multiple levels.
Firstly, Joe Burrow and his dad have spent most of their football lives in Ohio. The Mannings spent their entire lives in the Deep South, they didn't and don't give a freak what anyone in SoCal thought or thinks about them.
Secondly, the consolation prize for trading Eli within minutes was Philip Rivers. Mike Brown is an idiot but even he doesn't think that Justin Herbert is a consolation prize. No one is paying the compensation he would demand.
Thirdly, why does anyone think that Brown gives a freak what Joe Burrow thinks? He's 84 years old and everyone already hates him. He isn't going to get his derriere handed to him by a one year wonder, he'll dig his heels in. He already got punked by Carson Palmer, that's not happening again.
The only way Joe Burrow doesn't go #1 to Cincinnati is if they somehow fluke their way into a top FA quarterback and trade out of it, and that won't happen. This article is preseason column filling bullshit and if you give it any credence you're drunk, stupid or both.
