Scared Noah Lyles dodges Tyreek Hill

Football players are more dodgy than Noah could ever be. Tyreek only did this because everything lined up perfectly for him at his convenience. But yes, credit Tyreek and DK Metcalf for at least getting to that point of lining up. Most football players would be too afraid. I don't think Tyreek would possibly do US champs because of his football commitment and the timing (closer to nfl szn). This early track season date worked for Hill, but now he has to get into football shape again.

It depends on the distance. In a 100m race, I'm with you. Lyles beating Hill by .2 would be a huge margin that would make Lyles look great. That's the same gap Bolt had in his star-making win at the 2008 Olympics. People watching that race didn't need to be track experts to understand Bolt blew his competitors away. It was clear from the gap.

A 50m race would be a different story. I agree a 50m race would be a lose-lose situation for Lyles. His margin of victory wouldn't be as visually impressive as in a 100m race. And if he stumbled out of the blocks, there's a non-zero chance Hill could actually beat him, which would be devastating.

If I was advising Lyles, I'd tell him to make Hill challenge him at 100m. If Lyles wants to compromise on the distance to give Hill more of a chance, I'd tell him to go no lower than 70m, which would be roughly the midpoint between football's standard 40-yard dash and track's standard 100m.

It would have zero affect on T&F. Few casual fans will watch it, or even hear about it. Was it going to be part of a DL, or a one-off somehow?

Yaa lets be real...Hills 10.15 is surprisingly good and this performance has certainly put some pressure on Clown. But then Clown already put tons pressure on himself.

He should still be able to beat Hill by two meters in an actual 100 even on an off day but I agree a nonzero chance of getting beat at 50 or even 60.

I like it when the athletes mouth off at each other and compete in these duels but only when they deliver eg Mondo vs Karsten. The fake #noballs hype p1sses everyone off

On this topic ...

Bol disappoints me with her failure to even attempt to make good on her self-promoted 600 match race with Keely.

The mistake was made when Lyles took Hill seriously and started responding to his smack talk. Same with the YouTuber. He should laugh it off and focus on his own sport.

With Hill, he should have responded with something like "Tyreek is the man. Very fast on the football field and has shown that he can mix it up on the track as well. I would love for him to compete in some meets and see if he can make the USA team. We'd love to have him."

I learned this the hard way back in High School when a soccer player and I both got scholarships to the same University (I was a distance runner running 1600 and 3200). The soccer player was a friend, but I admit he was cooler than me, and he was known as the fastest kid in the State on the field. So naturally, people around school started wondering if he could run with me. Having an ego, I started talking smack back and the next thing I knew I'd agreed to an 800 meter race. I was a pure distance guy and didn't have a super fast 800. I was scared. The race was planned and even my coach was out there with a huge grin watching it go down. I won by 50 meters after easing up with 200 to go and everyone said he almost beat me and that he could run in college (he was a great athlete and likely could have been a solid middle-distance guy, to be honest). All I got out of the situation was a bunch of people telling me I was lucky he hadn't trained or chosen track.

The TL;DR moral of the story is to not get yourself into a lose-lose race, especially one that you might lose because it is outside your comfort zone.

Yes, I realize upon reading this that is sounds like an 80s movie. But it happened. There was no rich blonde waiting at the finish line for the winner, though. I think John Hughes would have added that to the plot.

A much better response would have been for Clown to gather his media team and moments after Hill issued his challenge get on the plane and show up at Hills door with multi Insta feed the same day with the local track rented.. knock on Hills door and as he opens it...

"Yo bro! U wanna rumble? Lets go!"

When I sawMark Wetmore, Lyles agent at NCAA indoors, he told me Lyles was very much into racing Hill. I'm stunned he cited "personal reasons." I'd jus t say, "Injury."

He got injured a few weeks ago, right? So he can't really agree to close down Times Square while injured.

If you think NFL superstars get tackled at practice, you're sorely mistaken. I still agree with the sentiment, though--Tyreek is taking the bigger risk here.

Not even, 50 yards

I do not get the timing of making his "announcement" - I don't know who advises Noah on stuff like this but he needs to hire someone new. Then again this was the same guy that was wheel-chaired off the track in Paris, only to be spotted in da club 72 hours later - didn't matter if he passed his covid test and was fine, that optic wasn't great. General awareness of how his actions can be perceived seems to be amiss.

Firstly I don't think he or anyone expected Hill to run a legal 10.15 100m. The guy coaching Hill told me he thought he was in 10.2-10.3 shape which seemed more reasonable. But at 10.15, first race up, there is a real possibility he could run 10.0X or is at least in that shape. Noah can manage that but he can't mess around. Like he can't just wear trainers and do a stride out - that's a legit effort. So with a time like that from Hill, Noah really is in a no-win situation. If he wins he's done what he should. But Hill is close enough that if something goes wrong, could get real embarrassing.

Back to the timing. Why announce this basically a week after Hill runs that time? Because now to the mainstream sports fan it looks like you watched Hill run this time, took a few days to think about it and then pulled the plug because you were afraid. It 100% looks like you are dodging him now. And you are totally correct with the "injury risk" angle - Hill is doing OTA's and managing this - doesn't show well no matter how rational (and probably correct) the logic is from Lyles to not want to do this.

I was just watching some eps from season 4 of The Wire and you better watch it, Malmo. They are good but rough and tumble kids and Prezbo is not afraid to lay down some serious corporal punishment.

I really hope this happens but I'm not holding my breath. Either way, I know it's a meme but I love 'Reek dropping a classic reference from the Golden Era of The Simpsons.

Two greatest shows ever in their respective genres.

So track’s fastest man ducks football’s fastest man.

Track guys (and girls) ducked GST (at least the first two) and all the money because they might have to run 2 races over 2 or 3 days.

What a bunch of absolute embarrassing wuss athletes there are in this sport!!!!

You honestly believe an Olympic caliber sprinter like Noah Lyles is worried about a 10.15 guy, hahahahaha~~~~~~~~~

I have no idea what you're talking about. I dont watch TV. Haven't for decades

Dude, what male Olympic 100m gold medalist only weighed 126 pounds?

What Olympic gold medalist took 5th at that years NCAA's

Rookie?

Hate to say it, but this was a great opportunity to get eyes on track and field and Noah blew it. Too self-absorbed to take a chance.