re: Let's say Joe B wins the QB job

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If you think most college QB recruits have 70% accuracy, you'd be thinking wrong, that is an elite percentage, but hey, I guess watching isn't the same as seeing

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Assuming he will he great in college because he was accurate in high school 4 years ago is absurd. Be better than this

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Assuming he will he great in college

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You are correct, but its a good basis for being excited for his potential.

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Don't you believe that coaches know if a QB can make pre snap reads of the defence before they play the first game?
I suspect that was the big factor that made Burrow so much in demand by this staff. They have seen the guys in practice and know their weakness. They are not ready.

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I agree that our other QBs aren't ready, but Burrow hasn't practiced with us yet, so we really don't know about his pre-snap reads. Other than what our coaches have been told when they were chasing Burrow, but I don't know how much input, if any, they got from OSU coaches.

LOL. Re-read my post. I never said our QB’s were bad. The post I responded to said they were and therefore Burrow must be good. Which I pointed out was illogical.

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Keep believing JB is the savoir

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I’ve literally been arguing against this all afternoon. Try to keep up

I am a diehard Buckeye fan. If you want to see Burrow look at our last two spring games. You have a geat kid in Joe Burrow. He is very accurate, and gets rid of the ball quickly. He lacks experience, but will get it at LSU. Throws the deep ball well. I believe in tome you will be very pleased in Joe Burrow. Meyer was in love with J.T.Barrett or Burrow would have played a lot more.

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They also recruited and signed Torrence Gibson that year

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And? Everybody that recruited Gibson thought of him as an athlete, but knew they needed to get him in as a QB. Many predicted a huge year at WR before he screwed up.

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Size and strength sure. We just haven’t really seen those “skills” in an actual meaningful game or situation

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I can understand what you are saying, but like it or not, he did play in those games vs people trying to stop him and scheme against him

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The major premise of his article is that Burrow was accurate in high school. What college QB recruit isn’t? He then has two clips from Burrow playing up 46 points vs. Bowling Green and up 52 points vs Maryland. Look I hope he’s incredible and wins the heisman and LSU goes undefeated but the hype on this kid who couldn’t beat out JT Barrret or Haskins is out of control.

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I was cool with what you said until the last bit. Couldn't beat out Barrett? You mean the guy that rewrote Big 10 record books? The guy has 25 Ohio St records and several Big 10 records (including one that was owned by his now teammate Drew Brees). His numbers rival Tebow's. Hell, Cam Newton didn't beat out Tebow, (was there for two years) and you know the rest to that story.

Also not being able to beat out Haskins? Look, I know you guys barely pay attention to anything outside of the LSU bubble, but Haskins is legit. Lightning quick release, strong arm, extremely accurate, decently mobile, and ranked much higher than Burrow. The guy didn't want to risk not winning the job, so he left. Haskins has more eligibility and actually beat Michigan during the season.

Burrow didn't lose out to scrubs or average guys, hell, even above average guys. He lost out to a statistical juggernaut and didn't want to risk losing out to the guy who beat Michigan, and who NFL scouts are talking about with his pro potential. I know a lot of y'all are hesitant, and with good reason, but I'm buying one million percent into Burrow. Thank God he was coached under Urban Meyer's people. Combine that with his skillset and our talent, and he's going to be the best QB we've had since Russell.

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And? Everybody that recruited Gibson thought of him as an athlete, but knew they needed to get him in as a QB. Many predicted a huge year at WR before he screwed up.

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The post I responded to said Burrow was recruited above all other qb’s. I simply pointed out they signed another QB in the same class

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but like it or not, he did play in those games vs people trying to stop him and scheme against him

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So Bowling Green and Maryland both said okay guys we need to scheme against this back up Joe Burrow just in case Ohio St. gets up by 7 or more touchdowns? It was meaningless garbage time clean up duty against back ups of severely terrible teams

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Couldn't beat out Barrett? You mean the guy that rewrote Big 10 record books? The guy has 25 Ohio St records and several Big 10 records (including one that was owned by his now teammate Drew Brees). His numbers rival Tebow's. Hell, Cam Newton didn't beat out Tebow, (was there for two years) and you know the rest to that story.

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He played QB for 4 years, of course he will have some records. Why wasn’t he drafted if he was so incredible? Tebow and Cam Newton have nothing to do with this. Oh man Cam was good and he was a back up therefore that proves this guy Burrow who has never started will be good. Make a better argument, this is embarrassing

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Also not being able to beat out Haskins? Look, I know you guys barely pay attention to anything outside of the LSU bubble, but Haskins is legit

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He couldn’t beat out Haskins LAST YEAR. Haskins was the back up as a RS Freshman. And yes he looked great against Michigan when Barrett got hurt. Weird I was able to see game from inside my “LSU bubble”

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I know a lot of y'all are hesitant, and with good reason, but I'm buying one million percent into Burrow

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That’s abundantly clear. Look I hope he’s awesome and he might very well be. But there is nothing to suggest otherwise right now. Saying so is just blind delusion and hope