FoxSports: Jimmy Johnson: Cowboys are back?

[goshan]

Austin and Felix do look like 4.5 guys to me.
Neither is a burner, but both are pretty fast.
Again, Felix isn't as fast as out fans make him out to be. He has gotten caught a couple of times already from behind.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Austin and Felix do look like 4.5 guys to me.
Neither is a burner, but both are pretty fast.
Again, Felix isn't as fast as out fans make him out to be. He has gotten caught a couple of times already from behind.

Felix looked faster last year for some reason.

Miles has perfect speed for our offense.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Felix looked faster last year for some reason.

Miles has perfect speed for our offense.

True, especially on kickoff returns. It's baffling because he seems to have lost a full step.

Regarding Miles, doesn't he lead the league in reception of more than 20 yards? It's very difficult to disagree with Jimmy, though.

 

[Smiles Baustin]

True, especially on kickoff returns. It's baffling because he seems to have lost a full step.

Regarding Miles, doesn't he lead the league in reception of more than 20 yards? It's very difficult to disagree with Jimmy, though.

felix looks slow on kickoffs because he takes his time to accelerate, you can always see the first 5 yards where he is picking his hole and then going through, but in the open field it`s hard to catch the man..

 

[goshan]

felix looks slow on kickoffs because he takes his time to accelerate, you can always see the first 5 yards where he is picking his hole and then going through, but in the open field it`s hard to catch the man..

That is totally against the book on Felix. He is known for getting to top speed very quickly. But his top speed isn't suprt fast. On kickoffs, he is jogging most of the time.

 

[NextGenBoys]

I hate argue Coach Johnson's point but there are only a handful of wide receivers in football who have this kind of deep speed to beat man coverage consistently. Even those that do do not have the total package. Austin is fast enough.

Well played.

 

[Smiles Baustin]

That is totally against the book on Felix. He is known for getting to top speed very quickly. But his top speed isn't suprt fast. On kickoffs, he is jogging most of the time.

no don`tget me wrong, his acceleration and cutting ability are his best traits, but on kickoffs he deliberately jogs dlike you said to see his holes and blocks, and then just BURSTS

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

People forget Miles is 6'3/6'4 and between 215-220 lbs... He runs a sub 4.4 right now I'm willing to bet. Like I said, Jimmy needs to put down the Coronas.

 

[RealCowboyfan]

Jimmy's hittin' the sauce again.

:laugh2: :laugh1: :laugh2: :laugh1: :laugh1: :laugh2:

 

[SibannacRex]

Look, I love Jimmy. But, I've read this twice and both times it reads in Emmitt's voice inside my head.

I know what you mean and I agree. Jimmy is much better at talking than writing. Emmitt is much better at playing football than talking/writing/reading or anything that requires non-physical effort.

 

[tyke1doe]

Short area quickness is one of the best qualities any receiver can have.

Deep speed is entirely overrated unless you are running an offense Al Davis would give up his walker for.

Agreed.

Straight-line speed is so overrated.

How many teams are going to let a receiver just burn you straight down the field, especially if they play Cover 2?

You need to be quick and run good routes. If you do, you'll get open.

Marvin Harrison, Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Sterling Sharpe, et. al, weren't speed merchants. But they could burn you deep because they knew how to run great routes.

Speed is for fear, and to keep teams honest.

But you can get away without having a burner at the wide out position.

 

[T-RO]

Jimmy is suffering from sun stroke. Our offense hasn't changed much at all...

- We started the year doing lots of 2 tight end stuff and we still are.
- At no point this season have we tried to go deep more than once or twice a game
- We had even less speed and explosion with Miles out of the line up
- Roy, Patrick, Hurd are no faster or slower than before and Jason never had any illusions about it.

Humorous how columnists make these silly proclamations after a single win or loss.

We were dead. Hosed. Awful a week ago. Now suddenly we are a team reborn.

 

[utrunner07]

Jimmy, we are not back until you are back. Come back Jimmy!!!

 

[21Savage]

I guess even the great ones have brain farts some times.



He probably wasn't in the line up earlier because he doesn't have separation speed but Crayton and Roy have plenty of it



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Jimmy Johnson on Austin


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Gerry Fraley/Reporter http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg E-mail | http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg News tips Former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson is lukewarm on his old club's leading wide receiver: Miles Austin.
Johnson, an analyst with FOX Sunday, games, believes a lack of speed holds back Austin.
``Austin is strong and has a great burst,'' Johnson said. ``But he doesn't have any separation speed, which is probably why he wasn't in the lineup earlier in the season. He's not really a fast guy but he does break tackles and make big plays.''
Austin is tied for 24th in the NFL for receptions with 65, and he ranks seventh in yards with 1,138. He has the fourth-highest total of yards after the catch with 523. By comparison, fellow wide receiver Roy Williams has 214 yards after the catch.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Subtract the Walker trade (robbing the idiot Vikings blind), and him hitting on some lucky draft picks (2 of the best players to ever play the game, even though he didn't like Aikman that much) Jimmy Johnson was never really an extraordinary coach.

Look at the job he did in Miami. He was a great motivator and a master psychologist but he was always a little more lucky than he was good.

(Ducks)

 

[Cover 2]

Please peep the speed, athleticism, and swag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2wKsbKGdY

McCordsvilleCowboy?

 

[BlueBandit]

Subtract the Walker trade (robbing the idiot Vikings blind), and him hitting on some lucky draft picks (2 of the best players to ever play the game, even though he didn't like Aikman that much) Jimmy Johnson was never really an extraordinary coach.

Look at the job he did in Miami. He was a great motivator and a master psychologist but he was always a little more lucky than he was good.

(Ducks)

 

[vlad]

Less shotgun, more playaction.

Exactly. I was shocked we actually ran play action!

 

[mmillman]

Less shotgun, more playaction.

Amen. Dallas needs to be a running team with high percentage passes thrown in. Playaction once the defense is on its heels with the running game. Screens,draws and wheel routes to Jones. Slants to Williams. I liked that screen play to Ogletree. Where did that go?

Once the safeties come up you hit them deeper with Austin.

 

[jobberone]

Amen. Dallas needs to be a running team with high percentage passes thrown in. Playaction once the defense is on its heels with the running game. Screens,draws and wheel routes to Jones. Slants to Williams. I liked that screen play to Ogletree. Where did that go?

Once the safeties come up you hit them deeper with Austin.

Sounds like a plan to me.