Summers gives us one, I am pretty sure. We know he can run and block. As he has never had the chance to go get it, we just don't know. But in an odd way the beauty of a wideout in Johnson's offense is that basically only one is a receiver, anyway. But is he the one? So yep, it is a concern.
I remember Cunningham as having excellent balance and making a lot of defenders regret trying to
I either did not know that or forgot that.
He also was well built in those days for a small guy. He was probably only about 5'8" and that is stretching it but he was over 185, which in those days was a lot of muscle for a little guy. I was amazed that against teams like Notre Dame he could still run through the middle of the line.
Moving a great runner to receiver might be one reason defensive coaches have a tough time getting HC jobs. Somebody somewhere last season wrote that offensive coordinators get head coaching jobs and big contracts; defensive coordinators get an apple and a road map out of town.
I don't remember that either, and I was a big fan of his!
Days has more problems than speed to be an affective rb in the nfl. He got better at it as the season went along, but he was falling down anticipating being tackled before he was being hit, so he was falling forward when he could have possibly gotten more yards. Days also doesn't pick his legs up very much, lynch has very high knees when he runs which gives you much more power when running. Another thing that days does not have is an elusiveness about him which all top rbs have. I'm not so sure this would be a problem with days but playing rb is a lot different than bback because at bback you are hitting the hole so hard and it's not as much reading till you get to the line of scrimmage, at running back you are further back so when you get the ball you aren't at the line of scrimage and you need to have good vision to be able to make cuts at the line of scrimage, I say I'm not sure that will be a problem with days because he had decent vision when he got through the line of scrimage although it still is different.
I agree he wouldn't be able to start immediately and be a 1000 yard rusher or anything; I just think he has the tools to be successful if he's given the chance. It's not like he played BBack for 4 years or anything, so I think he would work hard at it and could pull it off.
I can dream of Skov leading JT5 or TB as blocking back through the BB gap.
Hell yes! Or lead blockng for one of those inside A-back runs
I am trying to remember the times he fell down before he was hit, and I come up empty. But maybe I slept through those moments.
You misinterpreted what I was saying. I never said he fell down before being hit, but I did say FALLING, which would indicate he had not yet fallen completely until he was hit. In other words he was lunging forward anticipating that he was about to be tackled, so he gave himself up a little easier in doing so. I saw him do that many times when he first stared to get playing time at bback, but as I said in my other comment he got better at not falling forward. I'm also not the only person that noticed this about him, I have other tech fans that have said the same exact thing.
