Is Brady Pallante still on the roster? Thought not.
Pretty cool if he's still invited to hang out and be part of the Mattison meals, though.
No, believe he took a medshirt and is just finishing up his degree. Many players in those situations still end up being around the team in supporting roles, though.
A member of the support staff.
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!
Don't cut in front of any of them at a buffet. Also, avoid the color red.
No Mone, Hudson, Paye? Anyone else missing? Are all freshmen on campus now?
I read that Hudson is expected on campus on 6/24.
First team won't fall off at all probably. The thing we'll miss from last year is a legit 8-9 man rotation. If they can get off the field quickly with a lot of 3 and outs, we should be fine. I'm a little worried about teams that can string together some drives and tire them out.
Mo looks like he's not going to be happy until he snaps a QB collarbone.
He sort of looks hangry. Needs to fill his belly.
Aubrey Solomon going to be a beast.
Imagine how much food that would take though..
Lawrence Marshall with a large set of arms.
If you have 15 large dudes over for dinner, do you need to plan the food prep around trying to feed 30-40 regular sized folks?
16. Have you taken a look at Mattison lately?
For some reason, Rashan Gary just doesn't look like a football player in that photo.
Hurst, Marshall, and Chase look like monsters. Huge, QB eating monsters.
Bet you won't say it to his face
I run a 4.6 40, and I still wouldn't say it to his face (well, 50 yards away from his face).
Approach like a Grizzly Bear; there is no safe distance to escape from Rashan Gary.
Unless you are still playing football (or maybe soccer or track) in a professional league I would bet everything I own that you cannot run a 4.6 40, random internet guy. I was a walk-on and am currently 40 pounds lighter than my walk-on days and still training like my football days and there's no way in hell I could still run the 4.7 I peaked at. A 4.6 40 would make you one of the fastest 20 players on the team right now.
I remember a couple weeks ago Sam Webb was talking about the number of dudes in the stands at Comerica that could throw an 85 mph fastball and he was way overestimating it. People who watch a lot of sports vastly overestimate how easy it is to do what the athletes are doing, just because they see it so much that it becomes common to them.
I would be surprised if 5% of this board could run a sub-5 second 40 yd dash. This poster above is claiming to run a 4.6. Remember that Devin Funchess ran a 4.7 at the combine. Does anyone on this board that is not currently a college or professional athlete think that they are as fast as an NFL receiver?
I mean, I could just be telling lies because this is the internet and there's no way to prove anything, but I'm still crazy active, workout twice/day, and spend all my free time running and working out.
I currently run a 4:10 mile, a 17:30 5k, and my long weekend runs are 20-25 miles with 5,000' elevation change.
Yeah I get that, and those distance figures may be accurate as well. It's also true that distance training only doesn't help much with improving 40 times. Like I said, I still train in many of the same ways as I did when I was actually running a sub 4.8 40 and I am much lighter with lower body fat, and there's no way in hell I could match my best 40 ever. You have to be born special and continuously training to run a 4.6 40. I'd say the percentage of people that can do this outside of major college and pro sports is less than 0.1%.
I was pretty decent all-around athlete in my younger days. I played travel hockey and high school baseball. Back in my early 20s, my brother and I got curious, marched off 40 yards and grabbed the stop-watch.
We ran matching 5.2 second 40s. We were both crushed. That's the last time I tried that nonsense.
Very true.
Would I bet my life that I could run a 4.60 at the NFL Combine right now? Heck no.
I might be closer to a 4.69 and I run more consistently around a 4.75. But for the example I gave above, if I'm running away from Rashan Gary, I think I might find that extra gear and run a perfect 4.60 lol. Which, by the way, probably wouldn't be fast enough to run away from him. And he's got around 140 lbs on me...
Good to know there are others on the board who keep up an intense workout schedule.
Yeah marathon runners have those long and skinny frames, but so does Usain Bolt, so maybe they could run a decent sprint.
It'd be pretty interesting to know. I remember hearing during the Olympics that Bolt has never ran a mile in his life. So I don't think sprinters would do well in distance, but distance runners might be OK at sprinting?
I coached a high school lacrosse team and we tested 40's every year as part of tryouts, electronically timed. Our fastest athletes were consistently around the 4.6 range. Not world class, but very good athletes near their prime. The top half were probably around or under 5.0.
At work we played soccer at lunch time, a bunch of hacks but there were S. Americans and a Cuban guy who was a former professional in Cuba. That freakin' guy could handle the ball like Messi and fast. Just being a hack going up against a guy like that, he can litealaly and did often make us look stupid.
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You heard it here first, Lawrence Marshall will be the top 10 NFL pick, not Rashan Gary.
I think there just may have been a touch of sarcasm especially given the conversation above where Gary is said to not look like a football player.
Looks like he'll read you his favorite Oscar Wilde poem before bashing the back of your head into the turf. He'll then read you his next favorite poem as he helps you up.
I saw him in person when I was in AA a couple of weeks ago. Trust me, he looks like a football player.
The part about Rashan Gary. Please grace us with some tips on how to look like a football player.