That kind of throw is a reason quarterbacks-turned analysts, guys like Alex Smith and Chris Simms, tell their kids to watch Burrow play the position so they can learn. It's why his own play-caller and head coach, Zac Taylor, a former quarterback himself, hits rewind over and over to watch him outthink the defense with a simple screen pass.
"The game is just about finding a completion. Maybe your read isn't perfect, or maybe they're not playing the play exactly how it plays out," Burrow says. "But not everybody can feel what you feel back there, and sometimes you feel a little pressure on one side, you just have to give it out and find a completion. A lot of times that's to the back, it's to the tight end underneath.
"I just think the more opportunities that you can put the ball in your playmakers' hands and let them go make plays, the better your team is going to be. And I think I'm pretty creative in the way that I feel like I can always put the ball in a spot to give our guys a chance to catch it no matter where the defender is."
This is like talking to Tom Brady on the eve of his 50-touchdown season. Or maybe not.
"I feel like I'm closest to just when I drop back and throw in a clean pocket, I would say I'm pretty close (to Brady)," Burrow says. "Tom always did it very efficiently. In 2022, I really tried to replicate what he did with my motion."
But Brady was not always Textook Tom Straight Over The Top.
"It depends, it depends," Burrow says. "It depends if your linemen are getting pushed back, and then you have to get it over top. But if he just had nobody around him, no, he wouldn't be over the top. If it was slow motion, it would look sidearm, but it's not sidearm. It depends on what the throw calls for. Sometimes you have to get it up and over a defender. Sometimes you want to get it out around the defender."
Then came the crazy coverages on Chase and Higgins, the whacky blitzes, and all the rest that gave rise to different kinds of throws. And, he's always looking for more throws.
"I watch everybody. See how they do what they do. You can pull stuff from everybody's motion. Everybody has their own way of doing that," Burrow says. "Most guys can spin it. There are guys that can spin it better than others. Not every rep is the same, either.
"You see a rep that somebody spins it really well, and then they don't necessarily spin it quite as well, You can take things from everybody. From a high school quarterback to everybody in the league."
His favorite to watch?
There is a ten-second pause.
"Declined to answer," Burrow says with a laugh.
What is no laughing matter is that he watches himself every day.
"I'm just developing more and more ways to do what I need to do, and thinking about it critically every day and watching it every day," Burrow says. "Going home and watching my feet or my arm, or remembering how the ball came out, that specific ball came out that day, and matching that up with how my feet looked, how my arm looked, how my head looked."
This is how it must have sounded when Ted was rattling toward that last doubleheader hitting .3995 and he got six hits to finish the season at .406.
"That's what playing quarterback is," says Burrow, who at 68.6 is chasing his own decimal points. "You can talk about all the protection stuff and all the big plays and whatnot. If you complete every single ball, then, for the most part, you're going to score points on that drive. It's just how I think about it."