I used to love watching him twist up All-Pro CB's and it was obvious they had no idea what route he was going to run. Here are a few quotes....
So how did all of this happen to a supposedly too-small (5-11, 191), too-slow (4.6 seconds for 40 yards) kid from Tulsa – a player Raiders Pro Bowl cornerback Lester Hayes once dubbed “The Caucasian Clydesdale”? That answer is best supplied by those who played against Largent, and with him.
“I’ve observed and absorbed a lot from him,” Lester Hayes later said of Largent, when he also altered his descriptive reference tag from “The Caucasian Clydesdale” to “The Great Steve Largent.” Continued Hayes, “He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh. He ran stuff nobody had ever seen at the time. He’d run an out-hook-and-go; then a double-out-and-go; then a hook-and-cross; then a pivot-and-go. Some of the most exotic pass routes in the NFL began with him.”
And Largent only continued to refine and redefine those routes. Just ask Albert Lewis, who was a Pro Bowl cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs when Largent was running all those routes for the Seahawks.
“I study wide receivers as much as anybody, and Steve Largent never ran the same route the same way two weeks in a row,” Lewis once said. “And that was amazing. You’re preparing for him to do something off a move, then he’d break another way and make the reception. You really couldn’t get a read off him.”
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