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White's game more conducive to NFL success than Bush's
August 22, 2006
Look, I'm not saying I told you so, but -- OK, I'll let DeMarcus Ware do it.
There was this moment in last night's Cowboys-Saints preseason game when Reggie Bush took a handoff and tried to use his speed to beat the pursuit to the corner. Not surprisingly, Ware, the Cowboys' 270-pound DE/LB, strung the play laterally and pounced on Bush for no gain. He then hovered over him shaking head, as if to say what I said a couple months ago -- this isn't college ball, kid.
All of you who emailed and said I was an idiot for saying LenDale White will be a better pro than Bush (if White gets his Del Taco-eating butt in shape) -- and you know who you are -- please see video of last night's game. Bush: four carries, seven yards.
The NFL is a between-the-tackles league. Guys who can gut it out and pound away at defenses (White) will succeed. Guys who are outside the tackle runners are third-down specialists and return men. And that's fine; there's a place in the NFL for those type players.
In college football, Bush was faster than anyone on the field -- except during the Texas game. The Longhorns defense had (and still does have) fabulous lateral speed. Is there any wonder, then, that White had the better game in the Rose Bowl?
And now that we're at the elite level, White will again be the more productive player -- if he can stay in shape. Bush will be a fun player to watch in the league, but he has to get bigger and more physical to be an every-down back.
And then, I heard the unthinkable: the three doofuses in the television booth were debating if the Texans would be the Portland Trailblazers of the NFL by passing on Bush in the draft. The Trailblazers, of course, passed on some guy named Jordan. Merely the best athlete of our time.
So now it has come to this: we're comparing a third-down specialist to the best team sport athlete in the history of the planet. I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it again: If God himself came down and played Jordan in a game of 21, I'd take Mike and lay the points.
Bush, meanwhile, is battling to stay ahead of a kid who can't drive by a Del Taco without throwing down a few value meals.