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[2much2soon]

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.

Thank you.

I wonder how many people that are obsessed with 40 yard dash times have seen two runners racing that were separated by .10s of a second? Like a 4.4 guy and a 4.5 guy. That ain't much of a spread. Nothing that couldn't be overcome by a half-diving tackle.

Like you said, route running and knowing when to react - to accelerate - are the keys.

Just ask Deion when Rice toasted him badly a few times. Or when Terrell Davis made him look like he standing still in Denver in '96 or '97 on a long TD run.

Deion was officially like .20 of second faster in the 40 than those guys, but those guys made him look he was running in glue because they set him up and then reacted faster.

Here's the deal; if a guy can outrun the tacklers on the field, he is fast enough.

 

[zeroburrito]

Thank you.

I wonder how many people that are obsessed with 40 yard dash times have seen two runners racing that were separated by .10s of a second? Like a 4.4 guy and a 4.5 guy. That ain't much of a spread. Nothing that couldn't be overcome by a half-diving tackle.

Like you said, route running and knowing when to react - to accelerate - are the keys.

Just ask Deion when Rice toasted him badly a few times. Or when Terrell Davis made him look like he standing still in Denver in '96 or '97 on a long TD run.

Deion was officially like .20 of second faster in the 40 than those guys, but those guys made him look he was running in glue because they set him up and then reacted faster.

Here's the deal; if a guy can outrun the tacklers on the field, he is fast enough.

the difference between a 4.4 and a 4.5 guy may not be much in a track race, but in football that's a step. a step is what you would call open in the nfl.