While I think this sort of ability is still in Zeke I don't think we are ever going to see it in this offense. He's just not a shotgun type runner.. It's a bad marriage IMHO. Much as I would love to see us go back to a downhill power running attack Moore isn't going to do that.
The best chance we have of ever seeing Zeke at his best is in another uniform in a different offense. We drafted Zeke to be a bigger version of Emmitt.. this offense demands that he be a bigger version of Barry..
yeh Peterson was not a shotgun RB either. That style of RB offense is more suited to a scat back, multi-move types
Guys that are real big on top shiftiness, and elusiveness .
and having ZKE stop/re-start again, is not into his style. Coaches have to know what their players strength
and weaknesses are. and work and scheme best to what their players do best.
- When we watch Derrick Henry and how the Titans utilize him, they do run some draw plays for him but
they also allow him to run downhill , plays where he can build momentum and take off to homerun pay dirt.
and it's not just up the middle - Henry's 60 yard TD run vs Seattle was of tackle, he bounced it outside, on the
edges and he flat out-geared any incoming would be defenders.
- But from I've seen from the Chargers game, there were some handoffs that were not sprint draw plays, that were
handoffs that allowed Elliott to survey any leaks and cracks and it was a matter of how fast he needed to hit those
skinny lanes and opens in a blink.
- I often say we drafted Zeke to be more Peterson than an Emmitt.
As a Peterson type, in a breakaway threat that also had a power game to his weaponry.
That's why we invested such a high draft pick in him per 4th overall.
- Instead of allowing him to remain more Adrian Peterson like, The Garrett regime bulked him up to be
a methodical bell cow pounder, and he also took way too many pounding and toll that could have added to his decline.
And that's what likely started and begun the decline of Zeke after the 2017 season.
We still saw the Angry runs, but far less splash plays.
- The first thing that came out of Wil McClay was how they noticed and liked the speed element to Zeke's game
how quickly he gets in, out of holes and into 2nd level of defenders - and how he ZKE also had a power game.