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For this thread, it's kind of fun to look back at our early thoughts on C-Mac now from an old thread after the US Army All American high school game.

http://thecardboard.org/board/index.php?topic=9342.0

I am on record there as comparing him to Reggie Bush, but C-Mac is a little different, isn't he?  His stride is not as long, and he has this really compact choppy stutterstep-cut move that is just so fast, and he does it in traffic.  He has an economy of motion, he cuts but he is still usually moving North/South rather than very far laterally, which is why I think he is still successful in between the tackles.  You can see it in the below practice video at 34 seconds in.  His stutterstep is just a bit faster than Barry J's.

https://youtu.be/83J1p59Hbnw?t=34s

In the UW game against a pretty stout front, I loved how they used him as a receiver out of the backfield to get him into the 2nd layer.  If he has a head of steam coming out of the backfield, and he can put one cut on a linebacker who can't legally touch him, then it is game over.  The amount of separation he gets makes it an easy throw for Hogan too.  Twice we had 2nd and 19 deep in our own end, and twice he converted on routes out of the backfield, as below. 

https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status...5714010112

https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status...3164934144

[scorecard]

For this thread, it's kind of fun to look back at our early thoughts on C-Mac now from an old thread after the US Army All American high school game.

http://thecardboard.org/board/index.php?topic=9342.0

I am on record there as comparing him to Reggie Bush, but C-Mac is a little different, isn't he?  His stride is not as long, and he has this really compact choppy stutterstep-cut move that is just so fast, and he does it in traffic.  He has an economy of motion, he cuts but he is still usually moving North/South rather than very far laterally, which is why I think he is still successful in between the tackles.  You can see it in the below practice video at 34 seconds in.  His stutterstep is just a bit faster than Barry J's.

https://youtu.be/83J1p59Hbnw?t=34s

In the UW game against a pretty stout front, I loved how they used him as a receiver out of the backfield to get him into the 2nd layer.  If he has a head of steam coming out of the backfield, and he can put one cut on a linebacker who can't legally touch him, then it is game over.  The amount of separation he gets makes it an easy throw for Hogan too.  Twice we had 2nd and 19 deep in our own end, and twice he converted on routes out of the backfield, as below. 

https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status...5714010112

https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status...3164934144