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Originally Posted by Rain Man
My guess would be that faster is better, but .05 seconds or .10 seconds is probably smaller than the difference in players' abilities to recognize plays or pick angles.
When you think about a defender, it seems like there are three elements to making a tackle:
1. Recognizing the play and the flow and the ballcarrier.
2. Taking the best angle to the ball.
3. Getting there.
#3 gets all the publicity because it's easy to measure, and obviously speed is important. But I wonder how they measure #1 and #2 with as much accuracy. I think they can't.
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You measure #1 and #2 through the drills they are doing right now.
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