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Sounds like we should make a strong move to land Joe Burrow if he's available for the fall.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/04/the_throw_that_may_have_won_oh.html
Nearly flat-flooted, taking half a stride with a blitzing linebacker sidling toward him in a spring game when no Ohio State quarterback was worried about truly absorbing a hit, Dwayne Haskins ripped the ball through the air and showed why he's different.
Joe Burrow moves the offense. Tate Martell runs and cuts like a dynamo.
But the arm. That throw. Those possibilities.
All spring, Urban Meyer has described the Buckeyes' quarterback battle as changing day to day, practice to practice, sometimes play to play. Saturday's spring game showed the rest of us what Meyer was talking about.
Burrow can do a lot of things as a quarterback. The guess is that he's a starting quarterback this fall, because he is undoubtedly good enough to be one. But the guess is that it's somewhere else. Because it's hard to imagine Meyer turning away from a guy who can throw it like Haskins.
And that's the battle. Burrow can do it all. But Haskins can do that.
It's not that Haskins isn't good enough to play. He is. It's not that Burrow can't make big throws. He can.
It's just that Saturday, Burrow looked a little more consistently in control, a little more comfortable in the pocket, a little more able to slide as pressure was coming and then complete a 10-yard throw.
And Haskins dropped dimes. More than once.
Haskins changes the offense, and that's what Meyer probably can't ignore. In everything the Buckeyes do as a national contender, an idea in the back of their minds must be, "Does that beat Alabama?"
Those Haskins throws beat Alabama.
The battle may not be over, but a Burrow transfer before the fall would end it. Burrow is a starter. But Haskins may be a star.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/04/the_throw_that_may_have_won_oh.html
Nearly flat-flooted, taking half a stride with a blitzing linebacker sidling toward him in a spring game when no Ohio State quarterback was worried about truly absorbing a hit, Dwayne Haskins ripped the ball through the air and showed why he's different.
Joe Burrow moves the offense. Tate Martell runs and cuts like a dynamo.
But the arm. That throw. Those possibilities.
All spring, Urban Meyer has described the Buckeyes' quarterback battle as changing day to day, practice to practice, sometimes play to play. Saturday's spring game showed the rest of us what Meyer was talking about.
Burrow can do a lot of things as a quarterback. The guess is that he's a starting quarterback this fall, because he is undoubtedly good enough to be one. But the guess is that it's somewhere else. Because it's hard to imagine Meyer turning away from a guy who can throw it like Haskins.
And that's the battle. Burrow can do it all. But Haskins can do that.
It's not that Haskins isn't good enough to play. He is. It's not that Burrow can't make big throws. He can.
It's just that Saturday, Burrow looked a little more consistently in control, a little more comfortable in the pocket, a little more able to slide as pressure was coming and then complete a 10-yard throw.
And Haskins dropped dimes. More than once.
Haskins changes the offense, and that's what Meyer probably can't ignore. In everything the Buckeyes do as a national contender, an idea in the back of their minds must be, "Does that beat Alabama?"
Those Haskins throws beat Alabama.
The battle may not be over, but a Burrow transfer before the fall would end it. Burrow is a starter. But Haskins may be a star.
