[Spiny_Norman]

[quote author=OutsiderFan link=topic=11805.msg113909#msg113909 date=1425220919]
Let's be real.  Burns isn't ever going to be the starter unless Chryst is injured.  Burns is too tentative, too mechanical, and if he doesn't know the playbook after three years, well, the writing is on the wall.

I have to wonder about this.  he didn't suck in high school, he was pretty darned good.  What happened so that he now can't take a snap?
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Mick - the article said that Burns still has problems occasionally when he has to take a snap from under center.  He was in the shotgun for his entire high school career and just does not have much experience under center.  The biggest adjustment is probably reading defenses and calling audibles and then integrating those mental processes into the mechanics of taking the snap and running the play.  One would think that a lot of practice repetition would overcome a prior lack of experience.  But the learning seems to be coming slowly.

[Spiny_Norman]

[quote author=OutsiderFan link=topic=11805.msg113909#msg113909 date=1425220919]
Let's be real.  Burns isn't ever going to be the starter unless Chryst is injured.  Burns is too tentative, too mechanical, and if he doesn't know the playbook after three years, well, the writing is on the wall.

I have to wonder about this.  he didn't suck in high school, he was pretty darned good.  What happened so that he now can't take a snap?
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Mick - the article said that Burns still has problems occasionally when he has to take a snap from under center.  He was in the shotgun for his entire high school career and just does not have much experience under center.  The biggest adjustment is probably reading defenses and calling audibles and then integrating those mental processes into the mechanics of taking the snap and running the play.  One would think that a lot of practice repetition would overcome a prior lack of experience.  But the learning seems to be coming slowly.