West TX Hawk":2u2mfavs said:
ACFan":2u2mfavs said:
lobohawk":2u2mfavs said:
Not to take away from Carson, but that was a pretty weak tackle attempt.
yep, every back we have except maybe Rawls and Prosise would have done the same on that play.
not to dreail the hype train, Carson does seem legit.
My friend, this is a Carson highlight thread. Your commentary appears you're trying to lessen the accomplishment of completely overpowering a 280 lb DE. That doesn't happen every day-especially by a rookie and was very impressive. If Collins had done something similar, believe me, people would've taken notice and appreciated it as well.
It was a nice play, but I'd strongly disagree Carson "completely overpowered" a DE.
Go look at it again, the DE is moving almost completely laterally upon contact.
How do you think they'd do in one on one lineman drills, when both have their feet set and are moving forward?
Think Carson would "completely overpower" a DE then? not even close. Carson had all the forward momentum, the DE had zero, all his momentum was sideways, Every back on our roster could have knocked him forward for a yard with the poor position he had.
Collins also had a physical, 1 yard TD, getting past two defenders who had a more N-S orientation at the point of attack.
And Collins was criticized by many for it, it didn't "look right" to them. it was a harder collision than it needed to be or something like that.
So I'm not the only one "lessening accomplishments". It was a good play, and Carson looks promising, I'm just looking at it more realistically I think.
I liked Pope too, but people would tend to exaggerate what he did as well, same story here?
fwiw, I do think Carson has a lot more going for him than Pope.
