Bengals QB still proving doubters wrong

“You throw like a girl!” “You’re a D-II quarterback!” “You can’t throw!”

Those are some of the taunts Joe Burrow said he heard from Coach Urban Meyer during the three years he was with the Ohio State Buckeyes.

“He was really hard on me,” the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback said earlier this season.

“Coach Meyer, when he gets a new quarterback there as a freshman he kind of pokes and prods them to see what they can take and if they can go out and execute while he’s back there yelling at them. He wants to see if a quarterback can handle it.”

Burrow said the Buckeyes coach wanted to see what he was made of.

Meyer never quite figured it out, or at least not until it was too late.

Burrow was redshirted his first year in Columbus and then relegated to the bench, getting only meaningless mop-up duty on the field.

Finally, when he’d more than paid his dues, Burrow found himself cast aside as Meyer fixed his attention — and the Buckeyes’ hopes — on big, howitzer-armed Dwayne Haskins.

Appearing on Fox Sports’ The Herd with Colin Cowherd, Meyer said he’d become sold on Haskins when he was in high school. He called him the best high school quarterback he’d ever seen, betterthan most of the college quarterbacks he had ever been in contact with.

The sexism, the bullying, the myopic vision aside, Meyer did Burrow a big favor. He made him dig deep within himself — while also enlisting the help of quarterback guru Tom House to work on his arm strength — and become the quarterback who is now the talk of the NFL.

But for this to happen, Burrow had to transfer from Ohio State to LSU, where, in his second year, he had one of the greatest quarterbacking seasons in college football history, throwing for