Combine Chatter Thread

[Rockport]

Good news for Goff.

 

[Avery]

Serious question on the hand test: I know they measure pinkie tip -> thumb tip, but couldn't a person have small hands but high flexibility and be able to spread the distance from pinkie -> thumb to compensate?

As an example, I have pretty small hands and in a resting position, they're only 7.5 inches, but I can spread the distance considerably and bump it to almost 9.

 

[Alexander]

McShay's guide to the drills and thresholds:

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14837586/todd-mcshay-guide-every-combine-drill-nfl-draft

 

[Risen Star]

 

[Risen Star]

Reporter: How many teams have interviewed you so far?

Cook: One.

 

[texbumthelife]

that's an interesting one.
not sure i buy it tho.
guy is 6'3".
if he used hgh his hands and feet and head would have grown.

might chalk this one up to just being built a little weird.

russell wilson at 5'10" with almost 11" hands was just creepy, lol.

Every person I know (after having worked at Gold's Gym and been a four-sport athlete for six years) that used 'roids or other PED's, had hands disproportionately small to their bodies and massive heads. I believe it's due to the bone structure in your hands. They aren't effected the same by growth hormones etc. It is a bunch of tiny bones, instead of one or two long bones.

I don't throw this around lightly and I'm not saying he does anymore, but Henry absolutely screams PEDs. Awful complexion. Greatly receding hairline/thinning hair. Disproportionate body. He looks like a poster for PED side effects.

 

[Avery]

I'm not really a Cook fan. I think he's a 3rd rounder or later to me. His completion % really strikes me as low for a college QB.

 

[texbumthelife]

Serious question on the hand test: I know they measure pinkie tip -> thumb tip, but couldn't a person have small hands but high flexibility and be able to spread the distance from pinkie -> thumb to compensate?

As an example, I have pretty small hands and in a resting position, they're only 7.5 inches, but I can spread the distance considerably and bump it to almost 9.

I tried this too. Mine are 8 1/2 resting and a little over 9 1/2 spread. I wonder if this is something players can be coached to inflate.

 

[Avery]

Every person I know (after having worked at Gold's Gym and been a four-sport athlete for six years) that used 'roids or other PED's, had hands disproportionately small to their bodies and massive heads. I believe it's due to the bone structure in your hands. They aren't effected the same by growth hormones etc. It is a bunch of tiny bones, instead of one or two long bones.

I don't throw this around lightly and I'm not saying he does anymore, but Henry absolutely screams PEDs. Awful complexion. Greatly receding hairline/thinning hair. Disproportionate body. He looks like a poster for PED side effects.

Dude also one amazing set of choppers.

 

[Avery]

I tried this too. Mine are 8 1/2 resting and a little over 9 1/2 spread. I wonder if this is something players can be coached to inflate.

Seems like a number that is highly prone to who is measuring it as well:

 

[Direwolf63]

Dude also one amazing set of choppers.

Gross.

He has the teeth of an 80 year old.

 

[CATCH17]

Every person I know (after having worked at Gold's Gym and been a four-sport athlete for six years) that used 'roids or other PED's, had hands disproportionately small to their bodies and massive heads. I believe it's due to the bone structure in your hands. They aren't effected the same by growth hormones etc. It is a bunch of tiny bones, instead of one or two long bones.

I don't throw this around lightly and I'm not saying he does anymore, but Henry absolutely screams PEDs. Awful complexion. Greatly receding hairline/thinning hair. Disproportionate body. He looks like a poster for PED side effects.

I always look for the same thing..

JJ Watt.. Peyton Manning....

 

[Daillest88]

Dude also one amazing set of choppers.

Good lord

 

[texbumthelife]

Dude also one amazing set of choppers.

That's sincerely terrifying.

 

[Alexander]

Seems like a number that is highly prone to who is measuring it as well:

Tells me they need to standardize it or someone is not doing their job right.

 

[Alexander]

Gross.

He has the teeth of an 80 year old.

You mean an 80 year old mako shark.

 

[Risen Star]

Figured I'd just post this in here...

 

[Alexander]

I tried this too. Mine are 8 1/2 resting and a little over 9 1/2 spread. I wonder if this is something players can be coached to inflate.

Not sure about that but Brandon Allen is trying.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...trying-to-stretch-his-fingers-before-combine/

 

[Direwolf63]

You mean an 80 year old mako shark.

The first thing Henry has to do when he gets his signing bonus is to have a long visit with a dentist.

 

[Alexander]

The first thing Henry has to do when he gets his signing bonus is to have a long visit with a dentist.

And a dermatologist. His complexion does suggest steroids.