03-21-2022, 06:33 PM
(03-21-2022, 06:13 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Yeah, you're right. He is a master technician in the pocket. Flawless. Somehow, he was sacked over 70 times....absolutely outstanding. None were his fault, though.What I think you’re referring to is his “pocket eject” move (it has some other names too) where he turns his back and runs in a looping semi-circle pattern, and I mentioned his use of this earlier in the season. It’s become a pretty popular drill and move for agile qbs and It worked very well many times, but I was hoping opposing defenses or coordinators wouldn’t see the pattern of his reliance of the move. I suppose with the line we had, it might not have ultimately mattered, but he certainly used it a lot and it was much more effective early on than later in the season (altho the personnel was a little better then too ).
Sarcasm aside, he has a poor tendency to turn his back on the play and escape the pocket. And yes, there were multiple times were he just turtled up and took a sack. In the Super Bowl, he missed a wide open Perine on a checkdown and ran right into a sack. In the Titans game, he turned his back on the play and tried to escape but ran right into pressure instead and was sacked. He completely missed a screaming blitzer in the Jets game and stepped right into him. He tried to scramble in the Chargers game and ran right into a sack, right up the middle.
The examples are quite numerous. This isn't a dig at Burrow - he is a young QB and an incredibly talented one at that. I love the guy, I wouldn't have anyone else here. He's also not perfect, and that's alright. He has some flaws and it is okay to discuss them because I fully believe he will work them out. However, we'll just have to disagree that Burrow is some pocket master. You don't get sacked 70+ times if you are some wizard in the pocket, and the tape backs that up. Several of the sacks were his fault. And he'll improve on them.
If all of this makes me "out of my mind", then so be it I guess.
