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Mdot21

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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #42 on: July 15, 2019, 02:41:37 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 15, 2019, 02:38:24 PM
I like the quote about needing 3 yards.

I'd prefer to have a runner who almost guarantees 3-4-5 yards to one who breaks long ones every so often.  Sometimes, you can just RTDB and wear out the defense.

It's like the VY story that someone told him the defense knew their plays and he said "So?".
VY was the most unstoppable college player I’ve ever seen. I swear when the guy was on and in the zone he was literally impossible to stop. Still to this day the best college QB that I’ve ever seen.
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #43 on: July 15, 2019, 02:46:09 PM »
That NC game remains the best CFB game I've ever seen.  The key players involved were determined to win.
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #44 on: July 15, 2019, 03:20:21 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on July 15, 2019, 02:41:37 PM
VY was the most unstoppable college player I’ve ever seen. I swear when the guy was on and in the zone he was literally impossible to stop. Still to this day the best college QB that I’ve ever seen.
Okay, but what about when he wasn't in the zone?  

OU fans were big VY fans in 2014, when he went 8-23 with no TDs and didn't have any big running plays.  Got shut out.  It's nothing against you or Young, it just bothers me when the focus is on the outliers of what a guy did.  

VY was a good passer, great runner, and the best scrambler ever, probably.  Saying he could've been a better passer doesn't take away from who he was or the other great things he did.
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #45 on: July 15, 2019, 03:20:57 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 15, 2019, 02:38:24 PM
I like the quote about needing 3 yards.

I'd prefer to have a runner who almost guarantees 3-4-5 yards to one who breaks long ones every so often.  Sometimes, you can just RTDB and wear out the defense.



You say this, and everyone falls over themselves jerking off over Barry Sanders and shitting on Emmitt Smith.
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« Reply #46 on: July 15, 2019, 03:21:24 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 15, 2019, 02:46:09 PM
That NC game remains the best CFB game I've ever seen.  The key players involved were determined to win.
All players in every NC game are determined to win.  Some are just more able.
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #47 on: July 15, 2019, 03:22:35 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 12, 2019, 11:29:20 PM
There's a lot of luck involved when you start talking about career-ending injuries.  Earl's luck was not good.  Neither was Billy's.
You couldn't run like Campbell did and have a long career.  
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #48 on: July 15, 2019, 03:40:10 PM »
The Campbell era and before, it was thought cowardly to run out of bounds.  Never let the sideline make a tackle.

TD Tony Dorsett was one of the first to avoid contact and head for the sideline
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« Reply #49 on: July 15, 2019, 03:56:58 PM »
I just watched my first extended highlight film of Tony Dorsett the other day.  Boy, he played fast!  Not just a fast RB, but hit the hole fast - like he had supreme confidence in his blocking.  
Also, when did his name go from Dorsitt (how multiple announcers said it) to Door-sett, how I've heard it pronounced my whole life?
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #50 on: July 15, 2019, 04:19:39 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on July 15, 2019, 02:41:37 PM
VY was the most unstoppable college player I’ve ever seen. I swear when the guy was on and in the zone he was literally impossible to stop. Still to this day the best college QB that I’ve ever seen.
VY was one of those guys who just didn't look "fast", but left everyone in their dust. I found Calvin Johnson to be the same.

They look like they're basically just jogging, and nobody can keep up. 
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #51 on: July 15, 2019, 04:57:01 PM »
long strides

VY was one of the best in the open field
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #52 on: July 15, 2019, 07:23:16 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 15, 2019, 03:56:58 PM
I just watched my first extended highlight film of Tony Dorsett the other day.  Boy, he played fast!  Not just a fast RB, but hit the hole fast - like he had supreme confidence in his blocking. 
Also, when did his name go from Dorsitt (how multiple announcers said it) to Door-sett, how I've heard it pronounced my whole life?
Re "Dorsett," he changed the pronunciation around his senior year.  I remember that his sister basically rolled her eyes when he did that.
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Re: Slow RBs
« Reply #53 on: July 15, 2019, 07:43:23 PM »
Hypesman campaign
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« Reply #54 on: July 15, 2019, 07:52:39 PM »
You betcha!
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