Yah, our coyotes are bigger and wolfier than the western coyotes. But they're not normally almost as big as Apollo either! My bet is that 'yote is part dog personally. Big dog.....I've seen coyotes before, I'm born and raised in the NorthEast, trust me, thats a noticably larger than usual coyote!
Actually we're pretty sure we saw that same coyote, or maybe a close reletive, again just a few weeks ago. We were out in our new larger fenced dog area, about 7:45pm, dusk. When Apollo roared and bounced off the back fence. Look up the back line, to see what pissed him off, and dammed if theres not a really big coyote trotting down the back line. I got enough of a hold on Apollo to keep him from going over the fence, and the coyote disappeared into the brush pretty quickly.....