Jahmyr Gibbs: The Dynamic Player Taking Detroit by Storm
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00:03 >> I think Gibbs is the best player on the football team.
00:06 I know he's the fastest.
00:07 And you know what?
00:08 He's a freak and he's why you won the game.
00:10 He's why you won the game.
00:12 >> He's so talented.
00:13 It's incredible.
00:14 I actually sent a tweet out yesterday and
00:15 it got more traction than anything I said all day.
00:17 It's that Brad Holmes knew that John Gibbs was a special player.
00:23 Dan Campbell saw it and now the whole city of Detroit believes it.
00:28 And it really is something that has taken time at the beginning of the season.
00:32 Other than the Jameson Williams questions like how is this guy gonna fit in?
00:36 And is he gonna be able to do anything?
00:38 And is he a bust?
00:39 And how is he ever gonna get, how is Jared Goff ever gonna trust him?
00:42 The Gibbs questions were just haunting every reporter in town.
00:47 They wanted to know when we were gonna, and fans really.
00:49 All of it starts with the fans kind of getting their panties in a bunch.
00:53 But everybody was really crazed about how is Gibbs gonna fit in and
00:56 why did they sacrifice that pick?
00:59 Why did they do it?
01:00 And now it is paying off and he is an incredible, he is a dynamic player.
01:05 And I really do wanna see Jamo and
01:08 Ja in a foot race because I do think that Jamo would beat him, but not by much.
01:13 Those guys, they're lightning in a bottle.
01:15 I mean, it is incredible.
01:16 Detroit in all the years that Matthew Stafford was here for 12 years.
01:20 He never had a running back.
01:22 And we've seen Gibbs do things that maybe mirror a little bit of Barry Sanders,
01:28 dare I say it.
01:29 A lot of people, I mean, he is a sexy player.
01:32 And not only that, he's got toughness.
01:34 He'll take on a linebacker.
01:36 He'll throw a block.
01:37 He'll run through the middle.
01:39 He doesn't care.
01:40 He just wants it.
01:41 >> He's violent and- >> He is.
01:43 >> It's surprising cuz I never thought he was violent at Bama.
01:47 I just thought he was fast.
01:49 And I gotta tell you, I don't care what anybody says about Jamison because one
01:53 way or the other, if they haven't figured out, which I think they have,
01:56 that they have to capitalize on his speed to get him the ball.
02:01 He is, I say both of them are Ferraris, 0 to 60 in three seconds.
02:05 I mean, both of them on a dime can start up and pull a guy's onions.
02:11 He will tear a groin.
02:13 I thought when he was running for that TD 31 yards,
02:15 watching the defender get smoked like a doobie.
02:20 And it was all that burst ability.
02:22 And I said, I was on here doing a game, I go,
02:25 why don't they just give him the effing ball on every single play?
02:30 Cuz- >> Yeah.
02:30 >> I started giving him the ball and they couldn't stop him and then they won.
02:33 >> And it's incredible how they did change the game plan.
02:37 Like they used the pass to set up the run yesterday and with good reason.
02:41 I mean, that Tampa front is really very strong.
02:45 And let's not, I don't want this to go unsaid.
02:48 Frank Ragnow deserves the Tough Man Award for what he did yesterday.
02:53 We thought that was a really bad knee injury and
02:56 he was not about to let his team down.
02:58 He even said in the post game press conference,
03:00 I signed they trusted in me to give me an extension.
03:03 There's nowhere else I need to be than on the field with my players and
03:06 I just played through the pain.
03:07 I mean, this guy has gone through so many things with a toe and a foot and
03:11 all this different stuff.
03:12 So he battled against Vita Veya, who is just a house.
03:16 I mean, he absolutely, yeah, he's a freak.
03:18 He stood so tall yesterday.
03:21 And that's the whole reason that this run game has had the success it has this year.
03:25 That offensive line, I mean, if there was a trophy in the NFL for
03:30 an offensive line, they should get it because they have just been studs up front.
03:33 And that's where this whole team begins and ends is they can outscore guys.
03:37 They're gonna give up some big plays, they're gonna give up some points.
03:41 But they'll go toe to toe with anybody in the scoring.
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