The REAL next Percy

[NavetG8r]

Just a High School Soph.

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[rogdochar]

Not being a contrarian, but looking great in 1 to 3 highlights is different from winning game MVPs against well-drilled
top teams. My following worry is the recruiting weaknesses. A Percy Harvin is a real rarity; Watkins at Clemson was
the closest state of Florida athlete to Percy. Blistering speed, great vision, and sticky hands are required at the top echelon. Solomon Patton made some amazing escapes but was small. Gotta have the top HC and gotta have the
top athletes.

 

[SaltGator]

He burned both of those guys pretty bad. To small a sample size to label as Percy, but those were some nice jukes.

 

[NavetG8r]

He burned both of those guys pretty bad. To small a sample size to label as Percy, but those were some nice jukes.

Well, I wanted to make the thread title "The next Percy?". But Ox hates punctuation in thread titles.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Not being a contrarian, but looking great in 1 to 3 highlights is different from winning game MVPs against well-drilled
top teams. My following worry is the recruiting weaknesses. A Percy Harvin is a real rarity; Watkins at Clemson was
the closest state of Florida athlete to Percy. Blistering speed, great vision, and sticky hands are required at the top echelon. Solomon Patton made some amazing escapes but was small. Gotta have the top HC and gotta have the
top athletes.

Solomon Patton? Nice kid but he had probably 500 yards of offense in his best year? Percy could do that in one month while stoned and suspended for two games.

CJ Spiller is my vote for the closest to Percy. Those guys don't come along very often. Imagine that we almost had two on one team. (I definitely still feel like he was the one who got away and we win in 2009 if he hadn't imo.)

And I'm tired of Clemson eating our lunch. Lately, I'm tired of Clemson, Bama, Georgia, FSU, Miami, and OSU eating our lunch. There's no excuse for Florida getting only one of the top 20 kids out of Florida while those guys get 3-5. FIX IT WM OR GET SENT BACK TO UGLY!

 

[GatorJ]

Percy is a once every 10-15 years player.

 

[Gatorphan]

Too much dance here. Percy didn't have to make people completely whiff, because he had the power to run through most tackles. This allowed a north-south approach that made him so special.

 

[sonomagator]

Too much dance here. Percy didn't have to make people completely whiff, because he had the power to run through most tackles. This allowed a north-south approach that made him so special.

Yep pretty sure while he's standing there looking at the guy who missed he'd get wiped out bya lb or safety or even a dlineman trailing the play in college.

 

[aka]

Yeah, Steve, I shake my head almost every time I watch this, too.

 

[rogdochar]

I never understood why, once Percy left, that Rainey couldn't do that ? Would he just jiggle the north-south stuff every time ?

 

[WobbleGator]

Rainey was quick and could juke anyone but he is not even close to Percy's talent level.

 

[NavetG8r]

Rainey was quick and could juke anyone but he is not even close to Percy's talent level.

Wasn't even close to as fast in pads either. Rainey got caught from behind a lot. Percy doesn't, ever.

 

[TallyGator]

Percy just had that "it" factor...he could run by and through a lot of defenses that others could not...angles be damned.

 

[WobbleGator]

Wasn't even close to as fast in pads either. Rainey got caught from behind a lot. Percy doesn't, ever.

Yep.

 

[GatorJ]

I think strength had a lot to do with it as well. Percy is freakishly strong.

 

[WobbleGator]

I think strength had a lot to do with it as well. Percy is freakishly strong.

True, I remember Percy running into people and they would get pushed back. Rainey couldn't move a single DB.

 

[NavetG8r]

True, I remember Percy running into people and they would get pushed back. Rainey couldn't move a single DB.

Rainey couldn't move a pinky finger.

 

[WobbleGator]

Rainey couldn't move a pinky finger.

He should have thought the defenders as being women. Pretty sure he would have hit them harder then.

 

[TN G8tr]

Percy could make that juke at full speed while Rainey couldn't match that kind of move. Although good but not Percy-esque.

 

[rogdochar]

Rainey couldn't move a pinky finger.

Does a black even have a pinky ? Does a giant have a little toe ?