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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Who cares what you want?
Did you read the SI roundtable with 5 NFL QB's earlier this year? Carson Palmer predicts that someone will be killed. Seriously.
When you've got 300 pound guys who bench press 600 pounds that run 4.7 40's (basically like 35 miles an hour) hitting QB's in the motion of throwing, it only makes sense to protect those guys.
This isn't 1960, when guys weren't nearly as big, strong and fast as they are in 2009. They didn't have nutritionists, supplements and weight training. They didn't train 365 days a year. Many had full time jobs in the off-season.
The league MUST protect these guys. To think otherwise is uninformed and tenuous at best.
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Ok I have to disagree with guys running 35 and 40 mph.
Let's say a guy runs a 4.5 forty which is pretty common in the NFL.
40/4.5 =8.89 yrd/sec
40/1760(yards to miles conversion) / 4.5/3600 (sec conversion)
.0227/.00125= 18.16 mph
So a guy running a 4.5 forty would be 18.16 mph.