What is a Finesse Player (vs Power Player)?

[peenie 1,906]

I was listening to Michael Strahan explain that he tried to be a "finesse" player and failed. That as a "power" player he was successful and more true to himself.

What does that mean in football?

[Cruzer 1,995]

Power player use brute strength to win positions, make tackles, get from point A to point B.

 

Finesse players use technique, leverage, strategy.

[peenie 1,906]

Okay, I guess that is the literal interpretation.

Thanks!

Feel free to present a visual example (YouTube).

[TD Ryan2 316]

Vince Wilfork... POWER approach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RIfy-gRa4

[peenie 1,906]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfU39xDceqM

[MDC 7,192]

Power player is the pitcher. Finesse player is the catcher. The "power bottom" is a combination of the two approaches.

[TD Ryan2 316]

Demarcus Ware - speed, technique "finesse"

 

EDIT: (I guess they block it here - watch it on Youtube)

 

 

[peenie 1,906]

Oh, thanks TD!!

[Hardcore troubadour 15,081]

Tony Romo- finesse. Eli Manning- power

[peenie 1,906]

Power player is the pitcher. Finesse player is the catcher. The "power bottom" is a combination of the two approaches.

 

Are you talking about baseball or something else.

[Cruzer 1,995]

I don't have a video - but I can give you an example.

 

Reggie White and Dwight Freeney were both prolific pass rushing ends.... Reggie did it with straightforward, brute, bull rushing strength - and he was damn good at it.... Freeney was much smaller than Reggie - he did it with speed, his famous spin move in fact... That's about as good as an explanation as you might find.

[TD Ryan2 316]

the greatest players have both Power and Finesse... size matched with speed... strength matched with quickness... like Jamie Collins (6'3, 250lbs.)

 

this right here is Crazy Town:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6g6yKEcug

[peenie 1,906]

Thanks guys! Now I understand.

[cyclone24 1,913]

Like john Travolta is a finesse homosexual male actor while Tom Cruise is a power homosexual male actor?

 

Am i doing that right?

[peenie 1,906]

[frank 2,278]

A finesse player uses more finesse and a power player uses more power.

[cbfalcon 825]

A finesse player will make love to you nice and slow. A power player will take you from behind and he won't be gentle.

 

It's really the best explanation out there.

[listen2me 23 1,836]

Which type of player do you prefer Peenie?

[SUXBNME 1,460]

A finesse player is a cheetah

A power player is a pitbull

[Chronic Husker 85]

Translates better to basketball. George Gervin, Alex English, Pippin, and Durant are finesse players (scorers).

 

Barkley, Oakley, the Davis Boys, and Shaq are power players.

[Voltaire 5,237]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GykaB6Fip8U

 

 

This is a great place to re-experience the shake-and-bake Barry Sanders highlight reel.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Heres an analogy.

 

A power player is a guy with a hooge cack, but he has no skill in using it.

 

A finesse player is a guy with a tiny package, but he is very skilled in technique.

 

The best players are both.

[RLLD 4,156]

I equate finesse vs power with RB, but I know it can apply across the board...except for kickers...lol

 

Finesse would be someone like say Dickerson (who had power but avoided contact where he could), maybe Jamaal Charles, Priest Holmes?

 

Power makes me think Lynch, Riggins, Bettis, Campbell

 

But even the power backs had some jitter and speed, they had to of course, but finesse is shifty or "quick", and maybe some speed.

 

My daughter recently asked me the difference between speed and quickness, I explained it that speed is your ability to outpace someone over 15-100 yards...pure burning speed that sometimes only gets you maybe a yard, but that is all you need....

 

Quickness is what you can do within a 10 yard box to make people miss, hit a hole and burst through or away from someone close....

 

Few players have both, then you could add in power, the ability to blast through one or two tacklers.....all three is truly rare.....I think of Adrian Peterson as a perfect example of all three in one person.

[WhiteWonder 2,688]

The finesse player gives you all the foreplay you need. He varies positions and is very agile.

 

Th power player saddles up and pounds away

[cbfalcon 825]

I equate finesse vs power with RB, but I know it can apply across the board...except for kickers...lol

 

 

Legatron is a power kicker. Kick it a mile, but it won't go straight. Then you got the reliable kicker that won't ever miss, as long as you don't ask him to push it past 44 yards. Think Gary Anderson.

 

Also, Gary Anderson will caress the vagiina in tender ways. Legatron will powerfock that pusssy.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Finesse=Barry Sanders

 

Power=Earl Campbell

[Cruzer 1,995]

Power = Bob Gibson

 

Finesse = Jamie Moyer

[Mookz 1,338]

Finesse is citing a couple apt examples to help peenie understand.

 

Power is plowing forward and piling on more and more redundancy long after peenie has left the thread.

[frank 2,278]

Finesse - SRV

Power - Angus Young

[tanatastic 2,062]

Peenie- Finesse poster

 

Edjr- Power poster

[peenie 1,906]

Lol, this is a great thread. I won't delete it.

I can wrap my head around a RB that is a finesse or power player, but couldn't understand how a defensive end would be a finesse player.

TD Ryan gave me a good example.

Barry Sanders, wow!! I'd never seen him play. That clip was awesome. He was a like a slippery fish.

Chronic, I don't watch basketball. I watched the last 2 min. of the finals between Cleveland and Steph Curry's team....whatever it's called.

[WhiteWonder 2,688]

Steph Curry's team....whatever it's called.

 

the Golden State Currys

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Lol, this is a great thread. I won't delete it.

I can wrap my head around a RB that is a finesse or power player, but couldn't understand how a defensive end would be a finesse player.

TD Ryan gave me a good example.

Barry Sanders, wow!! I'd never seen him play. That clip was awesome. He was a like a slippery fish.

Chronic, I don't watch basketball. I watched the last 2 min. of the finals between Cleveland and Steph Curry's team....whatever it's called.

Ok. A power DE purely relies on brute force. Bull rushes. Has no moves.

 

A finesse de uses his hands to gain leverage. Knows which shoulder to attack to put the lineman off balance. Has a swim move, a spin move, and other little tricks.

 

The best de's can do both.

[shotsup 832]

 

Are you talking about baseball or something else.

MeThinks MDC just came out of the. Closet.

[TD Ryan2 316]

TD Ryan gave me a good example.

 

 

another satisfied customer!

[Hardcore troubadour 15,081]

When Strahan, Tuck, Osi and JP3 were rag dolling Brady and the Pats offensive line all over that field in the Superbowl time after time, that was power. When Eli threw a perfect pass under pressure to Manningham, that was finesse. The one to Plaxico too.

[TD Ryan2 316]

sorry peenie - troubadour is clouding the thread by comparing short-term success with long term dominance.

 

"teachers" with a poor grasp of the subject matter will often wander and confuse their students with vague and irrelevant analogies.

[shotsup 832]

sorry peenie - troubadour is clouding the thread by comparing short-term success with long term dominance.

 

"teachers" with a poor grasp of the subject matter will often wander and confuse their students with vague and irrelevant analogies.

Whiners with finesse and lack of power