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Originally Posted by Warpaint69
So would you say those 70 something % of those catches within 10 yards were because of QB issues and needing to exploit his YAC ability? I just didn’t watch him enough to know as much as you do
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Absolutely.
Watch him downfield. There's not a guy in this class who tracks and adjusts to balls better than he does. He has enough speed to keep DBs honest and the fluidity and acceleration through his cuts to make them pay if they cheat on him.
He'll be an absolute demon in the intermediate areas, IMO.
He's not a limited receiver in any way, shape or form. It was ENTIRELY a by-product of his QB. And I do wonder if there weren't some attempts by Drink to keep him from getting killed. Because Cook misses downfield a lot and there were a ton of times that Burden just wasn't willing to let that ball go by -- he'd try to make a play on it and just get blasted.
I said it every year he was in CoMo -- Burden's going to get himself killed playing the way he does. I hear this 'desire concerns' stuff and its just dumb. The biggest issue that kid had was that he was exposing himself to some shots that he really shouldn't have trying to make a play.
Hits that would've broken Worthy in half.
And he'd do it in the return game as well; instead of going OOB after 12 yards, he'd cut upfield to get 15 and then get unloaded on.
No, he's not the reason he was catching short passes. He's just so good at YAC and his QB was so bad at...everything...that they were doing that to try to get him the ball.