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Originally Posted by moon
The turnovers definately hurt but if all people do is focus on that and put the blame on that they miss the fact that our defense was very poor when we needed them to come up big, were completely ineffective versus the run and has been awful on the road this year. The special teams has been brutal all year long.
Sure Burris wasn't great but there are bigger issues and more important areas to address than the QB position.
Burris is far from holding this team back form winning games. Unless the defense and special teams pick it up we won't win whether we have 0 or 10 turnovers.
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You can look at it from that perspective or from the point of view that turnovers will always lead to the stamps defense being forced to remain on the field. turnovers lead to short drives which places extra pressure on your defense.
I'm not saying the D isn't responsible for some of this, but a fumble by burris before the half, the overthrow when copeland was wide open in the endzone and the interception to begin the third are directly the fault of Burris. It's hard not to argue that fact.
It seems as though a majority of people including the CBC crew seem to analyze Burris' performance with rose coloured glasses. Yesterday was a fine example, they (media) tend to focus on Burris leading the team back, but he put the team in the losing position they were in and for some reason they don't focus on that. He hasn't lived up to his salary expectations yet and i personally don't think he ever will.