Slow starts

With the Herd actually favored in a game, I find it worth pointing out the importance of getting a fast start — something Marshall has been struggling with horribly this season.
I had thought of one of those dream-like scenarios where your running away from a monster and you seem to be working like crazy but getting nowhere. But that would involve too many other elements such as "the monster" and giving the entire illustration a dream-like quality. This would go against the need to keep it simple. Most readers don't have the time to decipher an illustration unless its a Rube Goldberg-like thing. An illustration either succeeds in communicating quickly or it fails in confusion.
Also, the Herd's struggles are not derived from fanciful thoughts, but rather, a harsh reality. So here, I needed to show that reality.
Aside from doing a typical running posture, I needed to make sure I turned the bucket just enough to show its contents — and that those contents were solid.