re: Haskins completed 56% against Penn State on Saturday.

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haskins was atrocious early. at the half, he was 7-16 with an int

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Haskins was actually excellent early. If you think our WRs have drop problems, OSU would have given you an aneurysm in the first quarter.

Haskins was bad in the 2nd quarter as PSU turned up the pressure. Prior to that he was putting the ball on the money and getting zero help.

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The next logical question is, why did player A quit if he still had a chance to be the starter?

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Meyer moved the goalposts. Promised to name a starter the week after the Spring game, then didn't. No longer a fair competition. Burrow is now competing quite nicely.

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Burrow's whole family is football savvy. Logjams of talent happen all the time. Meyer balked at naming a starter. Said it was too close to call. Why would a QB with NFL potential accept a coin flip? Particularly when the HC reneged on his promise to name a starter.

The Burrow clan ain't gonna play "Lucy and the Football" with Coach Meyer.

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if you take out the 3 halves when lsu shut the offense down, burrow is among the national leaders in yards per completion. it's somewhere around 16 yards per completion and that's against 2 really good defenses

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Your argument is "if you take away the 30% of the games when Burrow wasn't very good, he's really good."

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Haskins was actually excellent early. If you think our WRs have drop problems, OSU would have given you an aneurysm in the first quarter.

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Penn State had Haskins off his spot and out of rhythm. Haskins throws bullets even on short passes. Bullets are great if they're on target. But Haskins was a little off the strike zone on those early bullets. Very hard for WRs to catch those things if they're not spot-on.

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so what could the burrow family possibly have been upset about when, according to you, their son was still competing to be the starting quarterback at ohio st?

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Meyer made the Burrow's a promise. That he would decide on a date certain. Meyer broke that promise. Game over.

Is it difficult for you to contemplate a team having 2 QBs with NFL potential (read: Millions of dollars at stake).

If I had a son in that positions (flip a coin over millions he may lose) I'd do the same as the Burrow's. Particularly when I knew damn well he had MUCH better than 50/50 odds at scores of other schools. Tell the truth, so would you.

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Meyer made the Burrow's a promise. That he would decide on a date certain. Meyer broke that promise. Game over.

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so youre telling us the burrow's took their ball and went home when their son still was still competing to be the starter at ohio st, because a decision on the starter wasn't made when they wanted it to be? and you keep posting it as if you think that makes the burrows look good? it doesn't, it makes them look like petulant children that are afraid of competition.

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Is it difficult for you to contemplate a team having 2 QBs with NFL potential (read: Millions of dollars at stake). If I had a son in that positions (flip a coin over millions he may lose) I'd do the same as the Burrow's. Particularly when I knew damn well he had MUCH better than 50/50 odds at scores of other schools. Tell the truth, so would you.

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no, it isnt. thus the reason for this part of my last post that you completely ignore and act like i didn't say.

"and kids transfer, because they either officially get beat out or they see the writing on the wall that they are going to. its not good or bad, its the reality of college football nowadays. you continuously trying to spin it as a positive for burrow is pathetic."

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no, it isnt. thus the reason for this part of my last post that you completely ignore and act like i didn't say.

"and kids transfer, because they either officially get beat out or they see the writing on the wall that they are going to. its not good or bad, its the reality of college football nowadays. you continuously trying to spin it as a positive for burrow is pathetic."

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What you're missing is that Burrow wasn't "beat out". Meyer had them equal.

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so youre telling us the burrow's took their ball and went home when their son still was still competing to be the starter at ohio st, because a decision on the starter wasn't made when they wanted it to be? and you keep posting it as if you think that makes the burrows look good? it doesn't, it makes them look like petulant children that are afraid of competition.

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Don't know about you, but when someone breaks an important promise to me or mine, it's a whole new ballgame. Trust is dead. Every man for himself.

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What you're missing is that Burrow wasn't "beat out". Meyer had them equal.

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im not missing anything. i keep asking very pointed questions addressing that, and you keep ignoring them:

"The next logical question is, why did player A quit if he still had a chance to be the starter?"

"why would a quarterback with nfl aspirations care about any of the above? why would a quarterback with nfl aspirations think he wouldnt beat out the other player for the starting job? why would the quarterback with nfl aspirations quit instead of competing to be the starter in a race that was too close to call?"

"that the burrow's think meyer was going to name haskins the starter despite burrow being better? no, it cant be that because you continue to tell everyone that meyer didnt name a starter and the competition was still open. so what could the burrow family possibly have been upset about when, according to you, their son was still competing to be the starting quarterback at ohio st?"

"so youre telling us the burrow's took their ball and went home when their son still was still competing to be the starter at ohio st, because a decision on the starter wasn't made when they wanted it to be?"

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Don't know about you, but when someone breaks an important promise to me or mine, it's a whole new ballgame. Trust is dead. Every man for himself.

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so instead of competing to win the starting job that you are in open competition for as a quarterback with nfl aspirations, you quit so you can go to one of the "scores of other schools" where your chances of being the starter are "MUCH better than 50/50 odds"

that tells me youre afraid of competition and just want to be at a school where the job will be handed to you. thats what you keep telling us burrow did.

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Kinda shitty as a Buckeye fan to not recognize that you guys could have a special season going on there just because your guy didn't win the job.

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No matter what his screen name is, I'm not sure that the OP is a Buckeye fan. He may be an Ohioan and hence from the Buckeye state, but may prefer his local MAC team, such as Ohio U or Toledo or Kent State or BGSU, etc. While the vast majority of Ohioans root for both their local MAC team and Ohio State, there are a few who like one and dislike the other.

The OP has made enough derogatory statements about OSU and how they treated Joey B that I doubt he is a Buckeyes fan.

I'm telling you exactly what happened. Sorry it doesn't fit your assumptions.

The Burrow's weren't going to be dinked around by Meyer anymore. Either Meyer made up his mind in May, or he was gone. Meyer said it was too close to choose. So Burrow left.

Seems like one hell of a great decision for Burrow and LSU.