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Originally Posted by JohnnyV13
One of the knocks on Allen coming out was that he had poor weight room strength (only 13 reps of 225). To put this in perspective, about 2 years ago when I was 5'7 and 172lbs, I used to do 4 sets of 8 with 220 in my regular training routine.
But, Allen put up 9 sacks as a rookie. In training camp, DV talked about how "strong" JA was. The only thing that makes sense is JA is terrific at using leverage. Hence, he could "play strong" even though he had poor weight room numbers.
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Also, Allen was not a combat veteran.
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