Woodson has high praise for Burnett
By Greg A. Bedard of the Journal Sentinel
June 22, 2010 |(67) Comments
Green Bay - We'll have more from Charles Woodson in Wednesday's paper, but wanted to pass along two notes.
Asked Woodson about his level of confidence if rookie safety Morgan Burnett has to start. Woodson's answer surprised me a bit:
From what I've seen early out of him, he's not making mistakes, or if he is making mistakes, it's no more than anybody else is making. He's got a lot of experience back there with him, with Nick, myself and Tramon. So if he is to play in there, we'll carry him as long as we can until he's up to speed but, (shoot), he's good. He looks good to me, you know. Now it's just a matter of experience getting into a game and getting a feel of it and playing at this level. So we'll see what happens when he's thrown in the fire."
Woodson is also in game shape already. He said he normally is at least 12 pounds overweight at this time of year, and then uses training camp to get ready. Woodson is at 200 pounds after taking a boxing class in Florida, which also has improved his troublesome right shoulder:
I feel good. I feel even better coming in this year than last year. The thing is, just go out there and continue to make plays. As long as you do that, you're fine.
I actually took a boxing class down in Florida. Some of the toughest work I've done, so it kept me trim.
It built my shoulders up. You know I had the shoulder kind of coming off at the end of the year, and the shoulder work those boxers do is tremendous. So it actually had me looking kind of big up top. I had to lay off it a little bit. (laughing
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