Nervous? Not Joe

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(08-20-2020, 04:45 PM)odysseus32 Wrote: So, I think this is where the two camps on Burrow diverge.  I had MANY arguments with people on TigerDroppings during the off-season between 2018 and 2019 that Burrow was in fact a very good QB.  I predicted that he would throw for 3500 and 30 TDs in 2019.  I slotted him as, I think, the 3rd best SEC QB behind Tua and Fromm.  My personal thoughts were that it was evident that he can manage and take over a game.  He did it against Auburn, UGA, Texas A&M (in losing fashion), and UCF.  There were many instances in 2018 where you saw that he had it, he was just in a new offense.  I was drooling waiting to see him with a full off-season with his WRs under his belt, as well as a year+ in the same environment.  I had no clue he was going to do what he did last season, but to say that nobody thought he was good before 2019 is false.  A handful of us over on Tigerdroppings knew he was good, we just didn't understand just how unshakable he would be when put in the right situations.

But I can understand how people get the impression that he was average in 2018, because statistically he was.  But his on the field play week in and week out told an entirely different story.

Yep

Some live and die by stats alone, they can't see the forest for the trees. They gauge how good an NFL player is by his paycheck, it's hilarious. If a player is cut by a team he's no good and so on. 

LSU had been a run first, field position, defense, team since F.D.R. was in office. And it took Burrow and Co. some time to get out of that groove. The narrative that Burrow was just this garden variety ho hum QB in 2018 is just incorrect if you actually care to look instead of jumping on the band wagon.