His and others demeanor have to change. We are too lazy on defense whether it's presnap getting set in gaps, or during plays mot moving as a unit to the ball. That'll be baker and staffs biggest hurdle. Get the celebrating other teams 20 yd Gans out of their system, and have them start playing business like no bs, hard nose football. It's a change in mentality, and watching better defenses last yr (bama, atm, uga), those guys aren't celebrating every day play. Especially their impact ful true fr, their no bs ready to punch your teeth in. Anderson , downs, those guys just line up and ball. We gotta take yds and plays given up personal, and be ready for every play. Excited to see baker change the tone of the def

1 Jump to Post ...

Report Post Jump to Post

Posted by Tigger98

Member since Oct 2020

914 posts

Posted on 1/20/24 at 11:54 am to tgdk11

quote:
That'll be baker and staffs biggest hurdle.

I don't really call this a hurdle. It's his primary job and I think he'll do it well.

quote:
I caught on to Burns being soft and slow at processing the game several years ago. I’m not trying to crap on the kid, but he is NOT LSU starter level and never has been. He should be nothing but a backup. And it’s disconcerting the trend we see of coaches in recent years elevating players that we’ve seen do nothing but be a liability on the field for years, to crowing about them being “leaders” and the best of our players. Just because of their seniority on the team, not because of talent or ability. I understand how coaches want to portray senior players as pillars of the team to help their draft status as much as possible… but it’s disingenuous.

Truth is, Burns is not light enough on his feet to recover and make a solid tackle after he overcommits and gets put on skates. When he does make contact, it isn’t solid most of the time, he has trouble diagnosing plays and knowing where he needs to be, he sucks in coverage and tries to compensate by keeping space between him and receivers - all that does is create easy completions. RARELY do we see him being confident enough to jump a route. When he does, his instincts are usually wrong and he ends up getting burned. Also he’s not fast, violent, or maneuverable enough to cause QBs to hesitate to throw into tight windows or RBs to stutter step and lose momentum. They just run right through him.

Again, Im just making an honest assessment of what I’ve seen. Got nothing against him. Just know he doesn’t belong as a starter or especially a star player. And if he’s the best we got, our D is TRULY trash (it is).

I hear you, but I still think he has a shot to be above average this season with Baker and Co. coaching... we shall see.