CowboyRoy
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Nice to see Zeke finally get a long one. Should have scored easily on that one, however.
They both were close to breaking one, several times yesterday. I commented in the game day thread. Either Zeke or Tony may break one soon, maybe both.
Bother were running well, and this is a great thing.
Chinn got off his block and was in full sprint while Zeke was fighting off 42. You can see here in this picture that Zeke is gearing down to evade the tackler and Chinn and #29 are in pursuit..
Notice Zeke is near the hash marks ..
Then here when #42 gets to him he is moving sideways.. meanwhile Chinn continues sprinting upfield.
Now here you can see Zeke has finally completely shed the tackler and turns upfield.. But by this time Chinn has run 10 yards towards the endzone while Zeke has been trying to avoid the tackle. Chinn is MUCH closer to full speed at this point than Zeke is.
You can see here where Chinn is already ahead of Zeke as they are about to cross the 35 yard line.
They basically remain in that relationship for the next 25 yards until Chinn pushes him out of bounds. One thing I didn't notice before was that Zeke clearly slows down towards the end of the run in anticipation of the hit. I think if he just keeps his head down and moves away from the sideline he probably breaks the tackle and scores. Either way, the run was not long enough for Zeke to reach full speed no matter what people try to tell you. But kudos to Chinn.. great hustle play by him. Like I keep saying, you don't get coast to coast runs without wide receivers blocking.. Notice no wide receivers out there blocking on this play and the DB chases it down.
Not hard to figure out why both guys are having success.
Dude is a baller. I was hoping we could have gotten him in that draft.But kudos to Chinn.. great hustle play by him
From the replay it looks like Chinn was moving fast so either Zeke slowed down or is slower overall, Chinn was a 4.45 guy in the combine Zeke is 4.47. I do not think those times are accurate now.
Cant be. I heard here he was done and doesnt have that speed anymore.
If this is true then safety Jeremy Chinn must be an Olympic level sprinter.
He started out farther downfield and thus was able to get the angle on Zeke.
Angle schmangle. Rookie Zeke scores there.
I agree it was a good run by Zeke. And i think he did the right thing, so much could have gone wrong trying to avoid the tackle like a fumble or something.Looking at the replay posted, Chinn was sprinting at the angle while Elliott was still working his way through a couple of defenders (he had to bend his run in and then out), which definitely slowed him from just being able to hit full sprint. There's really no way he should have been expected to outrun Chinn unless he had 4.2 or 4.3 speed with a fantastic after-burner kick. Best he could have done IMO is to try to cut back inside of him, but he might not have gained as much yardage if Chinn played that well.
Heard the field is slanted downhill going that direction
He started out farther downfield and thus was able to get the angle on Zeke.
Dude is a baller. I was hoping we could have gotten him in that draft.
Yeah, there hasn't been any evidence of it on the field the last several years. It's just those damn "haters" again.
Chinn was already in full sprint with an angle before Zeke went into full speedIf this is true then safety Jeremy Chinn must be an Olympic level sprinter.