If Burke is as skilled an orator in the locker room as he is in front of the media, then head coaching is not his calling.
The point of which is that he seldom has given an interview where he hasn't sounded like he's muddling thru it.
Putting Tim-speak into English, what I take away from that interview was he knew it wasn't a great situation to be in but went ahead with it anyways.
What upsets me most about 2013 isn't Burke or his coaching style, it's that everything about that season was a repeat of the mistake we made with Jim Daley. Repeating such an obvious stupid mistake. Giving the interim guy a job because he put up an almost .500 finish to the season. Stupid. Include him in the next coaching search if you want, but do the stinking due diligence when it's a position that important. They just looked at their notes from 2010 and said "Whelp, he came in second to the guy we just fired, therefore he must now be first. Right? Duoy!11!"
You don't remember any of the pre-game speeches they showed on TSN? Maybe you slept through them.