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@richeisen if he tie my forty or beat it ill pay for his plane ticket home but I'm telling u it aint gon happen
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@richeisen Man yall #killsme me w/ ths 40's stevie wonder must B doing the unofficial times how u go from 4.24 2 4.43 I made em kissdababy
Originally posted by Ninerjohn:Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:
People should read the post I made in the Spiller thread about what is an "official" time at the combine. The point of the post is, nobody really knows how they come up with that "official" time since there are several "times" that they use to determine it (hand-held, video, team numbers, etc.).
That explains some of the discrepencies we've seen over the years. In fact, one scout said something to the effect of, "I just care if the guy is slow, fast or DAMN fast."
Mays is DAMN fast.
Sure he is but again we ALREADY knew that. We also know that he has huge flaws in his game. I just dont see what today changes at all.
Originally posted by Butter:
This just doesn't change anything. The Niners have to take an OT at #13, and then BPA at #17. If they're going to draft a S, I'd much rather see them take Earl Thomas.
Originally posted by Knowledge:
these 40 times are bs...they showed the ghost with mays and ford and mays was one step behind...somethings up...they messed up on spillers time to if you ask me
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http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/story/12989449?tag=untagged
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Many different 40 times will be reported over the next few days, with discrepancies as wide as a full tenth of a second like those for Spiller, so it's important to understand where they come from.
The only listed times available during the event come from NFL Network and NFL.com, neither of which discloses how they arrive at the timed speeds.
As Rob Rang noted in his blog this weekend, beware of any 40 time labeled as "official" from the combine. Those who participate in the 40 typically run twice, and on each run they are timed by two hand-held stopwatches and one electronic timer, which is actually initiated by hand on the player's first movement.
Combine data put together for NFL teams by the National Football Scouting service, the private entity not owned by the league but which is actually in charge of running the event, includes all six of those times for each player, but no single official time. Teams and scouts don't receive that information until at least two weeks after the event.
Team scouts and coaches have various approaches for getting the 40 time they use from those six timings. Some use averages. Some throw out the slowest and fastest and then average the rest. Some ignore the whole thing and use a time taken by their own scout.
In deference to the players, NFLDraftScout.com uses the best verifiable --- or listed -- time from the combine unless it is conspicuously skewed from the other times, which happens when a hand timer has an itchy trigger finger on the stopwatch.
However, the times are usually well-grouped so a general idea of the player's speed is easily attained. As one longtime NFL scout once told me, "all I want to find out is if a guy is slow, fast, or damn fast."
Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:Originally posted by TX9R:
OFFICIAL TIME - 4.43 Big difference.
At that size and for that position, that's still amazing.
Originally posted by kronik:Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:Originally posted by TX9R:
OFFICIAL TIME - 4.43 Big difference.
At that size and for that position, that's still amazing.
I wouldn't call that amazing. It's pretty good no doubt. But amazing is VD running 4.38 at 250+ lbs and Calvin Johnson running 4.33 at 6-5 230+ lbs.
The thing I can't stand is all these prospects bragging about how they run 4.2s in high school or college thenwhen it comes to the combine, reality hits home.
Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:Originally posted by kronik:Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:Originally posted by TX9R:
OFFICIAL TIME - 4.43 Big difference.
At that size and for that position, that's still amazing.
I wouldn't call that amazing. It's pretty good no doubt. But amazing is VD running 4.38 at 250+ lbs and Calvin Johnson running 4.33 at 6-5 230+ lbs.
The thing I can't stand is all these prospects bragging about how they run 4.2s in high school or college thenwhen it comes to the combine, reality hits home.
VD and CJ's times were mind-blowing...Mays' "official" time is amazing. Btw, I bet there are a number of scouts that have hand-held times for Mays at under 4.40, and some might even have him at under 4.30.
Just gives you an idea of how inexact this whole thing is.
Originally posted by wailers15:
my only concern with mays is he's not fluid enough. very stiff in the drills. he needs to work on his footwork & be more fluid into going after a wr/ball
Originally posted by RedWaltz24:
mattbarrows
NFL Net just showed simulcast of fastest 40 times. Mays was ahead of Trindon Holliday, who ran a 4.34. Mays' true time probably 4.30 ...
