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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
So he's kind of like Nick Bolton in that regard. I had never thought about that until reading this post.
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I just think the idea of 'football speed' is kinda silly.
Really? 20 ounce worth of football pads are going to slow down guys who can squat 300+ lbs? These guys are freak athletes, they aren't effected by the weight. And most of them don't wear the thigh/hip pads anyway so it's not like they're encumbered.
Most of the time a guy running on a track IS running about as fast as he can possibly run on a football field. But when you see Burks hit 22 mph on the field...well clearly that's faster than he ran on the track.
So I guess I just say he had an off day at the combine? Because if you're a 4.6 guy there's no amount of 'he's faster in pads' that will ever convince me. Even with Bolton it didn't/doesn't. He isn't any faster on the field than he times - he's just REALLY decisive so he appears to be faster than he is.
But Burks actually RAN 22 mph. He's just freakin' fast. So you ignore the combine and look at the tape at that point.