Here is the 925 windfield which is a good proxy to core of winds. You can see even at this latitude it remains tight. It also weakens quickly before landfall. If this were other tropical systems that were ETing and accelerating...the wind field to the east would be much more expansive. This is why I think any wind of relevance is near center and just to the east of it. It's a much smaller area than what we would typically see.