Look around CF and you will see alot of speedy receivers. Where ours and a few other notable SEC schools differ is in their physical play, namely blocking/tackle breaking. "Mr." Lafell, to the MSU players, is the most recent example of our tough receivers... Later, Fur
Wait a minute... Last season all Lafell did was run fly patterns and was accused of not being able to do more that just "run like the wind". He was the "speedy" receiver last year!!! The big thing about LaFell was that he was all speed and had not shown any finesse. Did he get slower as soon as he proved his ability to run routes and make tough catches last week??? I am a huge LaFell fan after what he showed last week. He could be the total package much like Buster and Bowe were (and Early is) as Tigers. I still want to see him do it in more than one game and against a different defense (since he is no longer an unknown commodity, the defenses will be better prepared for him).
4.50 and 4.49 and 4.41 40's are all quick...that doesn't mean that a guy with 4.39 is faster in 100meters or 200meters. If you are 6' 4" and run a 4.5, you have more stride than a 5' 8" guy with 4.5 speed. You you really need to gauge a player, is 100yard time...how long will it take to get from end zone to end zone. Then you know who's the fastest.
He really disappointed me when he caught the wide open post across the middle and was in a foot race with the Vtech backs and he trotted out of bounds. I wanted him hit some body or cut back across the field. Oh well. That hit on the MSU guys is good enough for a couple of games.
True. But that early in the game we had no idea we were going to put the whoopin' on them that we did. Every possession was important. I'm going to give him the benefit and assume the coaches told them the most important thing is protecting the ball. Getting out of bounds was the safest thing.
To me, the fact that he had gotten a big gain and didn't need extra yards for a first down or for any field goal position or anything means that there was no need to risk a fumble to take on a tackler to gain an extra two yards. He had reached, as Reggie Bush would say, "The end of his journey." Nice though that journey was, there was no need to push it further. The upside just wasn't there and it risked a bad result (like a stripped football or an injury).
