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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 880661">I believe that's so much of an oversimplification as to be wrong.Consider Derrick Henry, a guy some folks have tried to compare Dillon to <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/whistling.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":whistling:" title="Whistling    :whistling:" data-shortname=":whistling:" />:[MEDIA=youtube]Yt0htcrtlA8[/MEDIA]Play after play after play--Henry isn't torpedoing anybody.  Patience, setting up blocks, vision, jump cuts and redirection at the line, then burst, and then slippery.  His power isn't in taking on tacklers; it's in breaking their arm tackles without losing steam.  He got subtle twiches into optimal angles.  Oh, sure, some of those DBs are making business decisions as he barrels at them under a full head of steam.  But there's your secret sauce--getting to the 3rd. level clean to put the fear of God in them. No running back in this league can be successful if he's just one cut and go, taking on tacklers.  If that's all Dillon brings to the table he'll be running into the backs of his own lineman as we can see in his college tape.  So you need one yard?  OK, but you wouldn't want to spend a second round pick for that.When he shows one of those redirct, bursty cutbacks with guys off balance waving him by I'll be the first to note it.  I'll wait.</blockquote>

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