DA-FINZ: not quite. that so called 4.3 clocking of brown was just that,
so called nd no PROOF ever surfaced. it was one guy, a lacky who
couldnt even rememebr if he started his watch on time and it was in
PRACTICE runs.
ronnie CONSISTANTLY ran in the 4.5 range in real drills and with calibrated
watches run by the people who were hired to do so.
that 4.3 speed thing ran WILD amongst fin hopefuls that were praying
for us to take him.
ok, every point of that can be argued or debated. but ask yourselves
this question.... what have you seen so far our of brown in games
that made you think he had 4.3, other worldy speed? dude is slow and
out runs no one. cant get to the edge at all.
when you watch him, HONESTLY, do you see 4.3 or upper 4.5's?
ronnie doesnt even play quick!!
i dont know how booker will pan out, the whole offensive system
at fla state was wack,expecially the o-line so who knows. but one thing
sticks out when you watch him play, VERY quick and has REAL moves that
brown can only dream of.
Ronnie isn't fast? Not quick? Watch Ronnie in this Bucs game from 2005. It comes on at the 1:26 mark. He hits that hole about as fast as you can hit it if you ask me. I want him to run just like
that all this season. I wish they had some YouTube of Ronnie's 150 yard day against the best defense in the NFL last year ... da Bears. Ronnie showed his talent there for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJXqADx-XqI&mode=related&search=
Ronnie was electronically timed at the combine running a 4.43. He ran a 4.40 at his Pro Day.
http://www.nfl.com/draft/profiles/2005/brown_ronnie
AGILITY
Campus: 4.4 in the 40-yard dash … 330-pound bench press … 365-pound power clean … 32½-inch vertical jump … 9-foot-7 broad jump … 4.18 20-yard shuttle … Left-handed.
Combine: 4.43 in the 40-yard dash … 2.57 20-yard dash … 1.54 10-yard dash … 4.08 20-yard shuttle … 7.10 three-cone drill … 34-inch vertical jump … 9-foot-9 broad jump … Bench pressed 225 pounds 18 times … 31 5/8-inch arm length … 9 5/8-inch hands.
Ronnie isn't Ted Ginn fast, but he's fast enough. Ronnie's has a good combination of speed
and power ... very important for the NFL unlike in the college game. A lot of the DBs and a few of the LBs run 4.4 something in the NFL you know. They catch a lot of running backs. On some of his runs last year, Ronnie might have been having groin problems. I hope Ronnie goes out of his way to keep those minor injuries from happening this year.
When 100%, I definitely wouldn't call Ronnie slow. For
a 232 lb back, he's pretty fast. LaDainian Tomlinson and Larry Johnson were timed running about 4.38 and 4.40 when they were drafted. Ronnie does need to work on his cutting ability and vision though .... knowing just the right times to burst and when to follow his blockers, etc.
That is what makes LT so good. Doing the right things at just the right times.
I googled up an interesting article about our new RB coach Bobby Jackson a few months ago that describes what makes the good athletes make it to elite levels ...
mind speed. You want your top backs to have just as much
mind speed as they have physical speed. Things happen very fast in the NFL ... like a computer game running at its highest level. When they get used to that speed level, things start to "slow down" in their mind and they can anticipate making just the right cuts at just the right times, etc. Cam talked about it a few times over the past few months. I hope Bobby Jackson can teach Ronnie and Lorenzo some of this stuff like he did with Marshall Faulk.
http://espn.go.com/magazine/vol5no11freaks.html
"Mind speed provides the framework to explain the way
Marshall Faulk runs with the football. It might look random, but Faulk bases his water-bug moves on a number of nearly instantaneous observations. Before the ball is snapped,
his mind takes a series of snapshots of the defense -- starting with the defensive linemen, then the linebackers, then the defensive backs -- and plots his course accordingly. In an era of max speed, with 260-pound inside linebackers running 4.5 40s,
knowing tendencies and spotting patterns can mean the difference between being the best offensive player in the game and being a second-stringer. “Some guys have tunnel vision, but Marshall sees everything,†says Rams running backs coach
Bobby Jackson. “
I think he sees not only the guys approaching him, but the guys to the side of him and the guys behind him.â€Â
"Consider this move Faulk performed late last season against Indianapolis: Breaking through the line of scrimmage on an off-tackle play, Faulk found himself behind Rams center
Andy McCollum, who had just made contact with a Colts linebacker. McCollum and the linebacker separated, and at that moment, with barely a body’s width separating the linebacker and the center, Faulk split the gap between the two and gained another 10 yards. “He went through them like a dart,†Jackson says. “I’ve never seen anything like it.â€Â
"More than foot speed or strength or nerve, a move like this takes the kind of mind speed that blurs the line between thought and action. How much time did he have to
see the separation,
make the decision and
split the difference? Probably less than a half-second. Faulk’s physical skills aren’t carrying him; he’s not the fastest or most punishing back on his own team, much less in the entire NFL. In fact, the growing Faulk legend might simply be a triumph of the imagination. Despite the barely organized chaos of an NFL running play, with 22 bodies in various stages of commotion,
Faulk’s assumptions are uncannily accurate."
