Great series on the Combine by former player (1 Viewer)

[sho nuff]

Matt Bowen who writes for the National Football Post.

Part 1

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/2009/0...e-tales-part-i/

Part 2

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/2009/0...-tales-part-ii/

I suddenly thought my urine test was about to turn into an after-school special about not talking to strangers, but this is the NFL. You do what you’re told, just like all the other programmed robots in this league. So I dropped my pants and pulled my shirt up to my chin and did my business — while a stranger stared at my junk and made sure the pee I was so willingly giving up to the league actually came from my body.

No whizinators for him...And another great line...

Suddenly, I was frazzled. I lost concentration, and the weight above my chest felt like I was trying to hold up LenDale White after the postgame meal.

 

[Matt Waldman]

Excellent find.

It's interesting the amount of disdain for the process coming from the writer in this piece and I think it accurately reflects some of the over analysis. I understand that close scrutiny of an injury is important, but the story of him on the table with the doctor leery about his cut from the bicycle accident and his broken thumb is borderline nutty.

 

[sho nuff]

Excellent find. It's interesting the amount of disdain for the process coming from the writer in this piece and I think it accurately reflects some of the over analysis. I understand that close scrutiny of an injury is important, but the story of him on the table with the doctor leery about his cut from the bicycle accident and his broken thumb is borderline nutty.

Yeah...also reminds me of all the criticism a guy like Brady got...they still run the video of him in the little shorts and how the scouts were killing his body type.Now look at him and what he has accomplished and who he has been with (I bet they think enough of his body...lol)

 

[akaoni]

Part III is here.

 

[mmmWaffles]

All you need to know about the relevance of the Combine to the NFL is found by reading the combine reports on Larry Fitz.

 

[Matt Waldman]

All you need to know about the relevance of the Combine to the NFL is found by reading the combine reports on Larry Fitz.

Got a link?

 

[sho nuff]

Par IV is out too

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/2009/0...-tales-part-iv/

 

[Spike]

If you are into this stuff at all, you've got to read this.



Pretty cool read.

 

[pyite76]

 

[Das Boot]

 

[puckalicious]

Guy can write.

Ah, yes. The bench press. Probably the least functional exercise to judge football talent in the world. In an actual game, you are never seen lying on your back bench pressing other humans, but the NFL still believes this thing matters. Trust me, it doesn’t.

A Cybex machine is similar to doing leg extensions at your local gym, except that it provides resistance—both up and down—while you do this thing to complete leg failure. Yes, you rep out each of your legs until you can’t do it anymore. You are strapped in, not unlike Ivan Drago in the training scene of “Rocky IV,” except that there is no super hot blonde watching you, nor is there some big Russian guy shooting you up with steroids before and after each rep.