I was channel surfing last evening and came upon a program called ”Road to the Draft” on the NFL channel. The commentators were talking about and showing video clips of the Pro days (AKA – Meat Auction) at USC and University of Texas. They showed five players running the forty yard dash and two pulled hamstrings. What is wrong with this picture? How many of these guys went to draft preparati [...]

It is always interesting at this time of the year at the start of spring training and with the NFL combine to read the stories of how people have changed their technique. I have been following the Tim Tebow story with great interest. Apparently he has a team of “experts’ who have completely revamped his throwing style. He is not going to unveil his new technique at the NFL CONbine, but will wa [...]

There are three members today doing individual workouts with NFL teams this week. Two of them had good enough pro days to pick up agents and grab the attention of scouts on the spot. One is doing a workout at his home city for the team he has dreamed about since he was a kid. After running a 4.43 (hand time) on field turf he was able to move up his value a bit as a wide receiver by running again o [...]

It seems that the readers and myself question The Thinker's use of questionable shot put tables when the soviet men have one only one gold medal in the shot put when the Americans boycotted Moscow (the only olympics they have one) when we all know explosive 300 pound men tend to find themselves as linemen in Football instead of athletes in the throwing circle. Hammer is a great event but a poor d [...]

What's your 40 time? I don't know anymore as I don't see consistent timing and surface/testing venues. With track the 60m is uniform but with football we have grass, field turf, track, carpet, and wind. Hand times by scouts or by football "people" confuses me as reaction to first movement seems to bring up world class performances with those that are 6.6x 55m runners. What I can say is that [...]

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The latest word from that iteration of the circus known as the NFL Combine is that the theme of this combine is “Fluid Hips.” I was channel surfing yesterday and landed on several of the ESPN pundits talking about the combine. I sat forward in my chair hoping I would learn something about talent selection and identification when they started talking about “Fluid Hips.” Wha [...]

With the heated discussion of AC on this forum thread, I reached out to him to see if he'd be interested in an interview or checking in on the thread. He graciously sent this email in response. Mike,After thinking a bit, i decided to just email you info and leave it at that. This type of topic has been beaten to death on a few other forums. A few years ago on a few sites includeing yours i bele [...]

Vern recently wrote about the NFL combine...a topic that is up for frequent discussion on ET. Most of the time, we're debating the value of the combine as a means of predicting success in the NFL (or college since it's starting to be used at the high school level). The general consensus seems to be that the tests themselves are wrong (225 lb bench press test for reps) or that the very least the [...]

Combine training makes the player highly adapted to a few movements that really have no impact on their ability to play the game. Furthermore the movements in the combine tests bear very little resemblance to what actually happens in the game. So what are they doing? Now every sport is going to testing combines. Rumor has it that even Major League Baseball will have a combine. Has anyone ever take [...]