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DJ Foster looks really quick even quicker that Dion Lewis....(((ducks of of the way)).:p
Feel sorry for the Safety or LB who has the assignment.:D

Foster may be quicker and straight line faster, but it's Lewis' combination of quickness and shiftiness (moves, dekes, whatever you want to call it) that makes him better. Feast your eyes on this (that TD against the Cowboys, WOW). I feel if we had him the whole year, would've won more games, had home field, and possibly won another SB. He was a huge loss.

 
Foster may be quicker and straight line faster, but it's Lewis' combination of quickness and shiftiness (moves, dekes, whatever you want to call it) that makes him better. Feast your eyes on this (that TD against the Cowboys, WOW). I feel if we had him the whole year, would've won more games, had home field, and possibly won another SB. He was a huge loss.



Remember it quite well.:cool::D
 

Jimmy G completed more passes in 11-on-11 drills. I'm going to start a trade Brady threa
Foster may be quicker and straight line faster, but it's Lewis' combination of quickness and shiftiness (moves, dekes, whatever you want to call it) that makes him better. Feast your eyes on this (that TD against the Cowboys, WOW). I feel if we had him the whole year, would've won more games, had home field, and possibly won another SB. He was a huge loss.


Two attributes, to me, that make a great runner a great runner but are seldom talked about when listing said runner's attributes are vision and anticipation. Those, to me,are what made guys like Sanders, Sayers, Dillon, Allen so great (I know there are others obviously). Lewis has great vision and anticipation. Go back and watch the game in Dallas when he eluded four guys on the way to the score. He should have been tackled on the 5-yard line. He set the first guy up beautifully by using those very attributes. Go back and watch what he did to Misi in the first meeting with the Dolphins as well. He sees things almost before they happen.

So I agree, Scott. Foster may be faster and quicker, but that does not necessarily mean he is a better runner than Lewis. Lewis' problem is the little guy just can't stay healthy. I do not believe this will change much throughout his career. He's a really good NFL player whose body just may not be suited to the rigors of the game on a consistent basis. They'll definitely have to manage his snap count so that they can have him down the stretch. Man, I would have loved to have had him in both of those Broncos games especially.
 
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Jimmy G completed more passes in 11-on-11 drills. I'm going to start a trade Brady threa

Two attributes, to me, that makes a great runner a great runner and is seldom talked about when listing said runner's attributes is vision and anticipation. That, to me, is what made guys like Sanders, Sayers, Dillon, Allen so great (I know there are others obviously). Lewis has a great vision and anticipation. Go back and watch the game in Dallas when he eluded four guys on the way to the score. He should have been tackled on the 5-yard line. He set the first guy up beautifully by using those very attributes. Go back and watch what he did to Misi in the first meeting with the Dolphins as well. He sees things almost before they happen.

So I agree, Manxman. Foster may be faster and quicker, but that does not necessarily mean he is a better runner than Lewis. Lewis' problem is the little guy just can't stay healthy. I do not believe this will change much throughout his career. He's a really good NFL player whose body just may not be suited to the rigors of the game on a consistent basis. They'll definitely have to manage his snap count so that they can have him down the stretch. Man, I would have loved to have had him in both of those Broncos games especially.

I never said Foster was a better runner than Lewis. I compared Foster to Vereen in 2014 and would have stuck with that comp if Foster hadn't slimmed down to play WR last year. I'be been high on Foster since '14, but wouldn't say, for a minute, that he's a better runner than Lewis.
 
I never said Foster was a better runner than Lewis. I compared Foster to Vereen in 2014 and would have stuck with that comp if Foster hadn't slimmed down to play WR last year. I'be been high on Foster since '14, but wouldn't say, for a minute, that he's a better runner than Lewis.
I never said you did. In fact, my post was to expound on your post, which I agreed with. I, like you, was responding to what you were responding to in your post. I even started my second paragraph saying that very thing just about.

EDIT: But I do now realize that it was actually Scott99 that I should have named in my post because he was the one who put up the video. Sorry for the confusion. At any rate, I was not responding negatively or in disagreement with anything you posted.
 
I never said you did. In fact, my post was to expound on your post, which I agreed with. I, like you, was responding to what you were responding to in your post. I even started my second paragraph saying that very thing just about.

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to be argumentative, I was just responding to this sentence:

So I agree, Manxman. Foster may be faster and quicker, but that does not necessarily mean he is a better runner than Lewis

And I like you too ;) :)
 
Thanks for the twitter updates and pix guys. Feel like I'm there in a far from the field spot....only not suffering from heat stroke.
Yeah, I agree, Clonamery. Were it not for those I'd only have articles to read. Looking at clips, even the short ones that are only a few seconds, makes me happy. I am all the way in FL and cannot make it to TC. I am, however, trying to save some money for an actual game at Gillette. And they play the Bucs in FL next season, so I will likely be there as well, as I'm only about two hours away. But I guess that's more than enough info.

I am thankful to all who continue to post these clips and updates on things that may not necessarily appear in articles.
 

I'm actually a bit surprised with Edelman, considering the reports were so recent that he had the clean up surgery and was in a boot. But I'm happy to read this about both players. I hope Amendola is his steady, reliable self this season, even with a stacked offense.
 
Anybody else having problems with the videos linked from twitter? Chrome 64bit is only showing maybe half the video and i can't enlarge it or see bottom half at all.
Mine was doing this weird thing where it kept pausing during the clip and I had to keep clicking play until I made it through the whole clip. I didn't think Twitter vids needed to buffer, especially when I'm on a network right now.
 
More funny signs from camp.



This Haramabe?..........and a 69 to boot?!

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