Marshall Faulk's Top 5 RB's...No Portis?!

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Originally Posted by SBXVII

I wonder how much of that is due to Denver's zone blocking and cut blocking vs. the Skins (Gibbs) man-to-man blocking. Last yr they used some zone blocking.

This is a good question but to me it is somewhat irrelevant. When you are already 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, the blocking scheme from that point on really doesn't matter.

Put differently: CP had several runs last year where he had just one last defender to beat and then CP was takin' it to the house. In these situations it was a one-on-one: could CP make that last guy miss or not? Sadly, the answer again and again was "not," i.e., CP did not make that last man miss. Hence no runs over 40 yards.

My own subjective memory of his first couple of years in Denver was that he did, in fact, make that last man miss. Hence the 40+ yard runs reflected in the numbers posted above.