[Husker] Marlon Lucky

[andy at knipp.com]

>Still, in all of these situations, yards after contact are desired.
>I thought that was the difference when Brandon Jackson won the
>starting job last year.
>


No question there, though reading my original email I can certainly 
see there should be a lot of questions with my complete inability to 
type.

I also did not mean to imply that ML cannot break a tackle. I am 
certain he can, if a CB is hitting him. But if you are designing a 
running game, you need to keep the ability and strength (and 
weaknesses) of your RB and OL in mind. For a player like ML, you call 
sweeps/traps, shovel passes, screens, anything that can get ML outside 
the box with the ball and let his speed make plays. He needs the room 
to cut back or out run the D. He will not be running over a lot of 
them. Steve mentioned yards after contact, teams also track yards after 
avoided contact. If a guy that BJ would have run over, gets juked out 
by ML instead, the net is that there is a sizable gain. 

Andy