What can Burrow do differently?

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(02-17-2022, 04:58 PM)CincyDog Wrote: I have held off on positing this, because it seems nit picky - but if I notice it, then it is a thing. 

When he receives the ball in shotgun, he is nearly always leaning or moving slightly forward to meet the ball, then he is stopping his frwd momentum and kind of reversing and taking his drop as needed. 

It is a matter of tenths of a second, but it is something he can clean up. 

Has anyone else noticed this?  

Yes, and this technique done with good reason to this point in Joe’s career. It’s a left over move from OSU and LSU. While Urban Meyer and Ed Orgeron ran mostly pro-style offenses there were still traditional college elements in their play calling. One of these elements included a run option from shotgun where, if no linebackers were spying the quarterback, he had the option to just take off and run immediately after handling the snap.

In the pros this isn’t done too much although you see the same forward lean from Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray and occasionally from Patrick Mahomes. Joe Burrow isn’t a runner in the sense those other guys are!