Re: Excellent GT preview from College Football New
Deion Sanders ran a 4.19 in a track event, but 'only' a best of 4.29 at the NFL combines.
Other players have acheived the 4.2 he couldn't in past combines; and Daryl (Green?) outran him about 3 times in winning the Fastest Man in the NFL contest.
It's game speed vs. straight ahead 40 speed.
Reggie has 4.46 which is pretty fast, but not explosive in the 40.
Deion is simply the fastest man I have EVER seen in person on a football or baseball field. Period. Game speed is different than 40 time and Deion had that in a way that was incredible.
Reggie has decent 40 times but huge game speed in relation. He's no Michael Vick, but he's a TON faster on the field than a lot of guys with a better 40 time. He may get caught on a 50 yard run by those guys, but he will beat most of them around the corner a ton also.
I'd say he WILL outrun FSU - and UGA. Maybe not in the 40, but he sure gave them fits last year. When Odell Thurmon says Reggie had to be planned around and accounted for the entire time he was in the game, that says something.
Odell gives nobody props - and he said the UGA defense had to account for two things during the first half of last year's game - the GT offense AND Reggie Ball. UGA doesn't see a game changer in each offense they face. There is s big difference in accounting for the talents of each offense and changing your defense around one person.
Odell said that as soon as Ball went out, they went back to the defense they played all year. i.e. They specifically accounted for Reggie.
When UGA's defense - who I (begrudgingly) consider one of the best in the country - sees Reggie as the game changer to account for, that's speed enough for me.
