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Yeah but LSU beating Texas would just mean more to the talking heads.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
From OSU Castoff to SEC Difference-Maker: QB Joe Burrow Sets a New Tone for LSU
He is one tough S.O.B.
"You have no idea," says LSU safety Grant Delpit.
Try me.
"So we're in spring practice," Delpit begins, and he stops and smiles at the thought of his tough-guy story about Tigers quarterback Joe Burrow.
But something doesn't feel right.
"He got hit, he thought late, on a play," Delpit continues. "They call [quarterback] run on the next play, he comes around the end and he goes right after the guy he thinks hit him. Running right at him, and the next thing you know, we're all fighting, offense and defense."
Who hit him?
"I think," Delpit laughs, "he thought it was me."
It doesn't matter who you are. An opposing defender, a teammate in practice, a projected top-six pick in next year's NFL draft, like Delpit.
Joe Burrow is coming. Get out of the way.
"There was a little fight after I got hit late that first time, but I wasn't part of it," Burrow explains, and he's starting to get lathered up right now just thinking about it. "So, yeah, I gotta start another fight. Next play, I started another one. I have no idea how long it lasted. But we were getting after it."
Said Delpit: "Man, I love that guy."
That, more than anything, is why we're where we are today, with a loaded LSU team rolling into Texas this weekend and staring at a statement game with a tough-guy quarterback who has changed the way they think and act.
We barely heard from LSU this offseason. No problems, no drama. None of those questions of what could be from seasons past.
All those years of everything in place except the quarterback, all those wasted seasons with all that NFL talent—only to come up short while chasing Alabama in the SEC. And all that changed with the addition of one tough and talented player in the spring of 2018.
Just how important was it when Burrow, the hardscrabble grinder from Athens County, Ohio, found his way to the South and caught on with a program desperate for real, genuine attitude?
"He saved our ass," says LSU head coach Ed Orgeron.
Burrow hears Orgeron's words, and his head drops. He has just returned from a trip to Athens, where so many live below the poverty line and have never made it out. A place that can swallow hope.
He sat for three years at Ohio State, backing up Braxton Miller and J.T. Barrett and Cardale Jones. Dwayne Haskins was next in line when Burrow finally bailed.
He never wanted to go home to Athens during those three years at Ohio State, because he'd only hear the inevitable: Even he, a kid from a proud football family, was swallowed. May as well come back home.
Now he's nervously rubbing a big oak table in the LSU football offices, and the toughest guy in college football is about to reveal a side few see.
"I didn't save them," he says, his eyes beginning to well. "They saved me."
The momentary silence is overwhelming.
"Without Coach O, without him believing in me, who knows, I might have gone to Cincinnati and lost the job," Burrow says. "I might have gone to North Carolina and lost the job and not be playing.
"Now we're getting ready to make a run at this thing, the whole thing, and who knows what will happen with my career after this."
He knew it was a bad throw in last year's Fiesta Bowl as soon as it left his hand. What he didn't know as he tried to run down UCF cornerback Brandon Moore to rectify his mistake was that defensive tackle Joey Connors was zeroing in on him.
Connors took Burrow down with a blindside hit. A dirty hit. Burrow was decleated and driven into the ground. Moore turned the poor throw into a 93-yard touchdown return, and suddenly, LSU was down 14-3 early, looking like it might be the latest Power Five team taken down in a major bowl by giant killer UCF.
On the sideline, Orgeron screamed at his offensive staff to get backup quarterback Myles Brennan ready to play. Burrow slowly pulled himself off the turf, walked to the sideline and got in Orgeron's face.
"You're not taking me out of this game!" he screamed.
Then he went out and completed 19 of his next 28 passes for 363 yards and four touchdowns—and no more interceptions—and a depleted LSU team beat UCF and wrapped up its first 10-win season since 2013.
"We put two full IV bags in him after the game," Orgeron says. "He's not one of those fake tough guys. He walks it every day."
When Burrow was leaving Ohio State, he chose LSU because he wanted to play in the SEC and he wanted a program that needed him.
He knew about the shaky history of LSU quarterbacks since the national championship season of 2007 (no All-SEC selections, 84 INTs) and knew he had to shake it up from Day 1.
He arrived in June of 2018, and his introduction to the team was set in the heart of the bayou summer: 95 degrees, 100 percent humidity. He blew away his teammates, winning nearly every conditioning test.
"I remember thinking, Who is this guy?" says LSU center Lloyd Cushenberry III. "The next thing you know, he's in the locker room, and he's hanging around the offensive linemen. You know, those quarterbacks usually stick together. Not Joe. He belongs with us."
Teammates can tell when someone on the field with them isn't genuine. More to the point, they can tell when someone is. But when you grow up around football—when your dad was a longtime successful defensive coordinator at Ohio and your brothers played at Nebraska—lacking an understanding for how to thrive within a team environment doesn't tend to be a problem.
Those who work and lead and set an example for others are those who find success.
A few months after that day in June, Burrow was picking himself off the turf in the season opener against eighth-ranked Miami and its athletic and dynamic defense and persevering in a big win over a Top 10 team. Two weeks after that, he led a game-winning drive in the final minute at No. 7 Auburn.
The locker room after the game was a madhouse.
"That's when everyone was like, Hey, we got something here," Delpit says.
After years of the unknown and uncertainty with Jordan Jefferson and Ryan Perrilloux, and Brandon Harris and Danny Etling, and every quarterback in between, LSU finally knew what it had at the most important position on the field.
Someone who could win big.
"I didn't consciously try to be someone different," Burrow says. "A lot of coaches try to tell people what kind of leader they should be, but everybody is kind of their own leader. Tom Brady's leadership isn't the same as Matt Ryan's. Everyone has their own secret sauce. You can't steal someone else's secret sauce. If Burger King tried to make Cane's sauce, it would be crap.
"Everyone has their own. You just have to find yours."
The Tigers, too, have clearly found their secret sauce.
"It's more than their ability to throw the ball consistently now," says one SEC coach. "It's Burrows' attitude; they're feeding off it. He has made them the most dangerous team in the league."
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continued
Entire article: https://bleacherreport.com/articles...e-maker-qb-joe-burrow-sets-a-new-tone-for-lsu
He is one tough S.O.B.
"You have no idea," says LSU safety Grant Delpit.
Try me.
"So we're in spring practice," Delpit begins, and he stops and smiles at the thought of his tough-guy story about Tigers quarterback Joe Burrow.
But something doesn't feel right.
"He got hit, he thought late, on a play," Delpit continues. "They call [quarterback] run on the next play, he comes around the end and he goes right after the guy he thinks hit him. Running right at him, and the next thing you know, we're all fighting, offense and defense."
Who hit him?
"I think," Delpit laughs, "he thought it was me."
It doesn't matter who you are. An opposing defender, a teammate in practice, a projected top-six pick in next year's NFL draft, like Delpit.
Joe Burrow is coming. Get out of the way.
"There was a little fight after I got hit late that first time, but I wasn't part of it," Burrow explains, and he's starting to get lathered up right now just thinking about it. "So, yeah, I gotta start another fight. Next play, I started another one. I have no idea how long it lasted. But we were getting after it."
Said Delpit: "Man, I love that guy."
That, more than anything, is why we're where we are today, with a loaded LSU team rolling into Texas this weekend and staring at a statement game with a tough-guy quarterback who has changed the way they think and act.
We barely heard from LSU this offseason. No problems, no drama. None of those questions of what could be from seasons past.
All those years of everything in place except the quarterback, all those wasted seasons with all that NFL talent—only to come up short while chasing Alabama in the SEC. And all that changed with the addition of one tough and talented player in the spring of 2018.
Just how important was it when Burrow, the hardscrabble grinder from Athens County, Ohio, found his way to the South and caught on with a program desperate for real, genuine attitude?
"He saved our ass," says LSU head coach Ed Orgeron.
Burrow hears Orgeron's words, and his head drops. He has just returned from a trip to Athens, where so many live below the poverty line and have never made it out. A place that can swallow hope.
He sat for three years at Ohio State, backing up Braxton Miller and J.T. Barrett and Cardale Jones. Dwayne Haskins was next in line when Burrow finally bailed.
He never wanted to go home to Athens during those three years at Ohio State, because he'd only hear the inevitable: Even he, a kid from a proud football family, was swallowed. May as well come back home.
Now he's nervously rubbing a big oak table in the LSU football offices, and the toughest guy in college football is about to reveal a side few see.
"I didn't save them," he says, his eyes beginning to well. "They saved me."
The momentary silence is overwhelming.
"Without Coach O, without him believing in me, who knows, I might have gone to Cincinnati and lost the job," Burrow says. "I might have gone to North Carolina and lost the job and not be playing.
"Now we're getting ready to make a run at this thing, the whole thing, and who knows what will happen with my career after this."
He knew it was a bad throw in last year's Fiesta Bowl as soon as it left his hand. What he didn't know as he tried to run down UCF cornerback Brandon Moore to rectify his mistake was that defensive tackle Joey Connors was zeroing in on him.
Connors took Burrow down with a blindside hit. A dirty hit. Burrow was decleated and driven into the ground. Moore turned the poor throw into a 93-yard touchdown return, and suddenly, LSU was down 14-3 early, looking like it might be the latest Power Five team taken down in a major bowl by giant killer UCF.
On the sideline, Orgeron screamed at his offensive staff to get backup quarterback Myles Brennan ready to play. Burrow slowly pulled himself off the turf, walked to the sideline and got in Orgeron's face.
"You're not taking me out of this game!" he screamed.
Then he went out and completed 19 of his next 28 passes for 363 yards and four touchdowns—and no more interceptions—and a depleted LSU team beat UCF and wrapped up its first 10-win season since 2013.
"We put two full IV bags in him after the game," Orgeron says. "He's not one of those fake tough guys. He walks it every day."
When Burrow was leaving Ohio State, he chose LSU because he wanted to play in the SEC and he wanted a program that needed him.
He knew about the shaky history of LSU quarterbacks since the national championship season of 2007 (no All-SEC selections, 84 INTs) and knew he had to shake it up from Day 1.
He arrived in June of 2018, and his introduction to the team was set in the heart of the bayou summer: 95 degrees, 100 percent humidity. He blew away his teammates, winning nearly every conditioning test.
"I remember thinking, Who is this guy?" says LSU center Lloyd Cushenberry III. "The next thing you know, he's in the locker room, and he's hanging around the offensive linemen. You know, those quarterbacks usually stick together. Not Joe. He belongs with us."
Teammates can tell when someone on the field with them isn't genuine. More to the point, they can tell when someone is. But when you grow up around football—when your dad was a longtime successful defensive coordinator at Ohio and your brothers played at Nebraska—lacking an understanding for how to thrive within a team environment doesn't tend to be a problem.
Those who work and lead and set an example for others are those who find success.
A few months after that day in June, Burrow was picking himself off the turf in the season opener against eighth-ranked Miami and its athletic and dynamic defense and persevering in a big win over a Top 10 team. Two weeks after that, he led a game-winning drive in the final minute at No. 7 Auburn.
The locker room after the game was a madhouse.
"That's when everyone was like, Hey, we got something here," Delpit says.
After years of the unknown and uncertainty with Jordan Jefferson and Ryan Perrilloux, and Brandon Harris and Danny Etling, and every quarterback in between, LSU finally knew what it had at the most important position on the field.
Someone who could win big.
"I didn't consciously try to be someone different," Burrow says. "A lot of coaches try to tell people what kind of leader they should be, but everybody is kind of their own leader. Tom Brady's leadership isn't the same as Matt Ryan's. Everyone has their own secret sauce. You can't steal someone else's secret sauce. If Burger King tried to make Cane's sauce, it would be crap.
"Everyone has their own. You just have to find yours."
The Tigers, too, have clearly found their secret sauce.
"It's more than their ability to throw the ball consistently now," says one SEC coach. "It's Burrows' attitude; they're feeding off it. He has made them the most dangerous team in the league."
.
.
.
continued
Entire article: https://bleacherreport.com/articles...e-maker-qb-joe-burrow-sets-a-new-tone-for-lsu
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
I still believe that Burrows beat out Haskins during spring. So when Urban mumbled and stumbled, and hesitated, Joe transferred. If you look at the year Haskins had, it really appears that Urban made the best choice. But maybe when THIS year plays out, maybe not. Depends what LSU's supporting cast does relative to this year's SEC season. Anyway, I will always root for an Ahia guy, unless he plays for the school up north. Go Bucks, Geaux Joe!
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Eh.....I was a Burrow guy going in to last year. I would trade 2 years of Joe Burrow for 1 year of Dwayne Haskins every time.....even without knowing that Justin Fields is a possibility. I can't imagine Urban watched Dwayne Haskins and thought anybody in the country was better than him.....because nobody was.
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yeah.....I guess I couldn't argue him when we're talking strictly about college. here's to hoping Washington's garbage OLine doesn't fuck Haskins up before he comes the beast that we all know he can be in the NFL.
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I'd still trade 2 years of Burrow for 1 year of Haskins....even if that means we're left with Tater or whatever other QB we could trot out there this year. Haskins was special, and I enjoyed every second of him.
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