NFL Draft Anybody here ever actually run the 40?

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-04-2011, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Why would they have bombed if they were actually slower?

Are you kidding?

Let's say a receiver is timed at running a 4.5 but in reality runs a 4.9. Are you claiming that he'd have the same success on the field as a receiver with true 4.9 speed as opposed to 4.5?

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Again you gave said speed is not indicative of football skills.

Of course it's not. But the two aren't mutually exclusive. A guy that has great football skills while being fast athletically is going to have a better success rate than a guy with great football skills that runs 5/10ths of a second slower.

Get it?

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

And you aren't the only guy to play ball or go to school with guys who went on to ncaa football success

So? Does that mean that their 40 times were accurate or inaccurate? What's the point?

**SAUTO** · 03-04-2011, 07:06 PM

I could see a slower wr having more success than a faster guy. Yeah. It happens all the time in the nfl.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Are you kidding?

Let's say a receiver is timed at running a 4.5 but in reality runs a 4.9. Are you claiming that he'd have the same success on the field as a receiver with true 4.9 speed as opposed to 4.5?

Of course it's not. But the two aren't mutually exclusive. A guy that has great football skills while being fast athletically is going to have a better success rate than a guy with great football skills that runs 5/10ths of a second slower.

Get it?

So? Does that mean that their 40 times were accurate or inaccurate? What's the point?

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**DaneMcCloud** · 03-04-2011, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

I could see a slower wr having more success than a faster guy. Yeah. It happens all the time in the nfl.
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So, if all things are equal except speed, a linebacker that runs a 5.2 is just as successful as a linebacker that runs a 4.7?

Really? Since when?

**SAUTO** · 03-04-2011, 07:14 PM

You didn't say all things being equal about that point read your first paragraph again.

Don't move the posts.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

So, if all things are equal except speed, a linebacker that runs a 5.2 is just as successful as a linebacker that runs a 4.7?

Really? Since when?

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**DaneMcCloud** · 03-04-2011, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

You didn't say all things being equal about that point read your first paragraph again.

Don't move the posts.

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Bullshit. I've stated this throughout the thread.

That's the point!

That's why our 40 times were accurate in high school!

Because no one that was timed at a 4.7 or a 4.6 or a 4.5 was then deemed to be slower than shit and unworthy of playing time when they hit the next level!

JFC.

**SAUTO** · 03-04-2011, 07:26 PM

No one has said 4.5 to "slower than shit"

A tenth or two is very easy to be off on a hand timed 40.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Bullshit. I've stated this throughout the thread.

That's the point!

That's why our 40 times were accurate in high school!

Because no one that was timed at a 4.7 or a 4.6 or a 4.5 was then deemed to be slower than shit and unworthy of playing time when they hit the next level!

JFC.

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