Henry is a hell of a guy, basically demanding Lewis get the ball on those first two goal-to-go plays. Teammates have to love that attitude.
Once Henry gets going, he's incredibly fastI'm not sure who the analyst is on the Westwood One radio broadcast, but he's ripping the effort of the Jax defense: "Henry ran a 4.7 at the combine, and he's running away from the Jacksonville defenders tonight"
The 40 seems like an especially imperfect tool to gauge game speed, since it’s basically a track sprint where starting technique can be the difference between a 4.7 and a 4.45. And you start from a position you never will in an actual game. Why not time RB by having them start 5 yards deep and take a handoff and timing their 40 from there? Or timing from the point they start to the point they get the ball to get a sense of how quickly they can “hit the hole” and then time them separately from there to get a read on their “open field speed”? No test is ever going to be a real approximation of game situations but when you have everybody going to track guys to train for their 40s it should be obvious that test isn’t any sort of useful approximation at all.I'm not sure who the analyst is on the Westwood One radio broadcast, but he's ripping the effort of the Jax defense: "Henry ran a 4.7 at the combine, and he's running away from the Jacksonville defenders tonight"
I work with student athletes and I've had several of my guys get drafted in the NFL. One of them was a receiver and needed to improve his 40 time for the combine. I suggested that he spend a lot of time with the university's sprint coach, not a football coach, because the 40m dash is nothing like a football experience; rather, it's much more like the start of a 100m dash, and that's a sprinting experience. The sprint coach could help him with the start, which alone could improve one's time by a tenth of a second, which might be enough to move a guy up a few rounds in the draft.The 40 seems like an especially imperfect tool to gauge game speed, since it’s basically a track sprint where starting technique can be the difference between a 4.7 and a 4.45. And you start from a position you never will in an actual game. Why not time RB by having them start 5 yards deep and take a handoff and timing their 40 from there? Or timing from the point they start to the point they get the ball to get a sense of how quickly they can “hit the hole” and then time them separately from there to get a read on their “open field speed”? No test is ever going to be a real approximation of game situations but when you have everybody going to track guys to train for their 40s it should be obvious that test isn’t any sort of useful approximation at all.
That's pretty interesting. I wonder how the more consistently successful front offices approach this. Does your work expose you to their thinking?I work with student athletes and I've had several of my guys get drafted in the NFL. One of them was a receiver and needed to improve his 40 time for the combine. I suggested that he spend a lot of time with the university's sprint coach, not a football coach, because the 40m dash is nothing like a football experience; rather, it's much more like the start of a 100m dash, and that's a sprinting experience. The sprint coach could help him with the start, which alone could improve one's time by a tenth of a second, which might be enough to move a guy up a few rounds in the draft.
Which is all completely crazy because none of that has anything to do with the kind of football player any of them happens to be. But, as I tell these players, it's a major part of what NFL scouts and front offices use, so you'd better get good at it if you want to play on Sundays.
No, I wish!That's pretty interesting. I wonder how the more consistently successful front offices approach this. Does your work expose you to their thinking?
In some ways, it reminds me of the approach to drafting pitchers and their velocity.
And yet the guy I'm playing has him in.I know nobody in the world gives a flying eff about anyone's fantasy football team but how could anyone start Derrick Henry this week unless they have virtually no other options. And yet...
I didn't get a great look at them, but it sure looked to me like both of those catches should have been reversed. I can't believe they upheld both of those.Green Bay is 0/2 on challenges already.
That was an extremely cheap cheap shot.A Jets special teamer just blind sided Steven Hauschka after a blocked kick, and Hauschka looked to be very injured afterwards. The game went to halftime but I wouldn't be surprised if he's out for a while.
Wait...wut?Cleveland accepting an offsides penalty on a completed extra point and kicking again, then missing, is the Brownsiest thing ever.
I'm still not sure what happened, but it looked like Gregg Williams accepted the penalty rather than taking it on the kickoff, then they missed the shorter extra point. It's insane.Wait...wut?