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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1031943" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>Several of you guys are obviously much better judges of football talent than I am, but I really struggle to get a clear read on just how good Estime actually is without Alt and Fisher.</p><p></p><p>Every single play on his highlight films seem to begin with Alt or Fisher blasting a hole 3-6 yards wide in the defensive line, often plowing D-linemen all the way into the faces of the linebackers, and Estime just racing through the hole while the safeties and cornerbacks try desperately to get an angle on him from halfway across the field. Which is a lot harder for them to do when not a single lineman gets a hand on him to slow him down; the dude's going full speed by the time he's past the D-line, and he just races through the 2nd layer so much faster than the DBs are used to seeing. They just don't have as much time to react and adjust as they're used to. They're not used to seeing a big, powerful running back hitting the secondary so unimpeded.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying the man's a one-trick pony, because he clearly has some tools - his power, for one thing; I think a lot of the tackles he breaks are made easier by the fact that he gets through those big holes so fast nobody's close enough to get a clean grasp of him, and first contact is a one-handed grab or a glancing blow, but even when someone does draw a bead on him, he's hard to stop. He also seems to have a gift for spotting late-developing lanes through the linebackers as they adjust to the collapsing line. He has terrific balance and vision, and is a very smart and patient runner. He's a good back, no question - I'm just not sure how good he'd be if he didn't have those snowplows mowing down the D-line ahead of him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1031943, member: 18006"] Several of you guys are obviously much better judges of football talent than I am, but I really struggle to get a clear read on just how good Estime actually is without Alt and Fisher. Every single play on his highlight films seem to begin with Alt or Fisher blasting a hole 3-6 yards wide in the defensive line, often plowing D-linemen all the way into the faces of the linebackers, and Estime just racing through the hole while the safeties and cornerbacks try desperately to get an angle on him from halfway across the field. Which is a lot harder for them to do when not a single lineman gets a hand on him to slow him down; the dude's going full speed by the time he's past the D-line, and he just races through the 2nd layer so much faster than the DBs are used to seeing. They just don't have as much time to react and adjust as they're used to. They're not used to seeing a big, powerful running back hitting the secondary so unimpeded. I'm not saying the man's a one-trick pony, because he clearly has some tools - his power, for one thing; I think a lot of the tackles he breaks are made easier by the fact that he gets through those big holes so fast nobody's close enough to get a clean grasp of him, and first contact is a one-handed grab or a glancing blow, but even when someone does draw a bead on him, he's hard to stop. He also seems to have a gift for spotting late-developing lanes through the linebackers as they adjust to the collapsing line. He has terrific balance and vision, and is a very smart and patient runner. He's a good back, no question - I'm just not sure how good he'd be if he didn't have those snowplows mowing down the D-line ahead of him. [/QUOTE]
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