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One of the best snow-runners of all time, with a history here.  Maybe even bring Shady in as a consultant for this game.

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It's not about his brain. 

 

Marv used to talk about 'balance' as one of the most important and underrated attributes for a RB.

Thurman and Shady did not have amazing straight line speed but they had balance. 

 

This will be a good test for Cook

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Was his mother a mudder?  Was his father a mudder?  Has his brother been a mudder?  We will know very quickly his mudder abilities from his first few carries.

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I remember a snowy Steelers game where Le’veon Bell never sprinted to the hole. He hesitated and short stepped his way down the field.  He destroyed us in the game.  Last year in our Snow game against Cinci, our offensive game plan was for a good track. Players were slipping and sliding on our side all over the field.  They seemed most concerned with cleaning their shoe off between plays and being distracted.  In their mind they were out of the game and it showed. Meanwhile Cinci came with the correct game plan, better plan for poor footing and they came to execute.  
 

There are valuable lessons there.   Training staff get it right this time on foot wear choice. Coaches come better prepared with and executable gameplan. Players get you head right and don’t let the conditions distract you.   Have an attitude that you are above the conditions.  The Steelers have to play in it too.   Tomlin will have everything right, he showed us before in the game I mentioned.  
 

I hope the lesson was learned……

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1 hour ago, Flip Johnson said:

It's not about his brain. 

 

Marc used to talk about 'balance' as one of the most important and underrated attributes for a RB.

Thurman and Shady did not have amazing straight line speed but they had balance. 

 

This will be a good test for Cook

Who the hell is Marc?  Marcus Allen?

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43 minutes ago, since79 said:

I remember a snowy Steelers game where Le’veon Bell never sprinted to the hole. He hesitated and short stepped his way down the field.  He destroyed us in the game.  Last year in our Snow game against Cinci, our offensive game plan was for a good track. Players were slipping and sliding on our side all over the field.  They seemed most concerned with cleaning their shoe off between plays and being distracted.  In their mind they were out of the game and it showed. Meanwhile Cinci came with the correct game plan, better plan for poor footing and they came to execute.  
 

There are valuable lessons there.   Training staff get it right this time on foot wear choice. Coaches come better prepared with and executable gameplan. Players get you head right and don’t let the conditions distract you.   Have an attitude that you are above the conditions.  The Steelers have to play in it too.   Tomlinson will have everything right, he showed us before in the game I mentioned.  
 

I hope the lesson was learned……


That wasn’t the snow game.  That was just how Bell used to run behind the Steelers OL in 2016.  It was a combo that worked well until he decided he was going hold.  His career was never the same.  

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5 minutes ago, Bogie_Klinkhammer said:

Travis Henry could run in snow and make new kids every week end

Bring him in too 


Did OJ ever run in the snow ?


Get him in as well.. if he hasn’t got too much media on this weekend 

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OJ was a mudder.  One of the criteria already mentioned was great balance.  Bowed legs and a wide stance is another.

 

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7 minutes ago, realtruelove said:

OJ was a mudder.  One of the criteria already mentioned was great balance.  Bowed legs and a wide stance is another.

 

 

'slashing away at helpless defenders'

 

i'll see myself out

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3 hours ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

One of the best snow-runners of all time, with a history here.  Maybe even bring Shady in as a consultant for this game.

 

Thing is, if it's true as someone said that Shady grew up playing ball on snowy fields in PA, Shady probably doesn't know what it is he does.

 

It's second nature to him, so he just plays.

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2 hours ago, Flip Johnson said:

It's not about his brain. 

 

Marc used to talk about 'balance' as one of the most important and underrated attributes for a RB.

Thurman and Shady did not have amazing straight line speed but they had balance. 

 

This will be a good test for Cook

 

Singletary also has pretty good contact balance. Bounces off tacklers and finds ways through creases. James is more elusive tho. And Thurm ran so low to the ground he was hard to take down. 

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1 hour ago, Aussie Joe said:

Just don’t fumble it 

this. bro scares me... nobody's talking about the MULTITUDE of times he's almost lost the ball... that one lucky bounce he got is most likely why were in the playoffs. 

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40 minutes ago, CNYfan said:

Cleats matter

 

And gloves.  When Flutie came from Canada he brought glass cutter gloves which really seemed to work.

 

 

https://uni-watch.com/2012/01/31/a-visit-to-the-little-league-museum/

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Responding to yesterday’s info on glass cutter gloves in the CFL, Jason Cutts writes: “I think the website you were looking at was a bunch of Saskatchewan homers patting themselves on the back. I believe the first CFL player to wear glass cutters was Dave Sapunjis. Another fun fact: The technology was patented, where nylon was applied to the back of the gloves, and they were called cutters. It’s true that Flutie brought the gloves to the NFL and many Buffalo receivers started wearing them. I recall hearing that the NFL bought out the patent after being sued or at least threatened.”

 

 

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