Is this ridiculous or what?
Bolt could stride the last 50m and still breeze to victory.
Lets get this race going at the end of next summer when both are in shape.
Is this a clean Bolt, or a Bolt on drugs (the typical Dolt)?
It's not as a crazy as you might think. In a 100m Bolt would definitely win, but Chris has a chance in a 40 or 50m race. We're talking about the leading rusher in the NFL here.
But we are talking about the fastest human ever over 100m, who also has one of the best starts.
There are prob a few guys in the nfl that could beat Bolt in 100 meters. They don't run track because they're making a lot more in football. Johnson is definitely one of these guys. If he trained, he could go under 9.5. Bolt is fast, but he is not exactly racing the cream of the crop. He is racing guys that couldn't make it in the nfl or nba.
I like you. I mean, I REALLY like you.
Actually, most of these NFL speed guys ran track in HS, some in college.
Needless to say, they weren't the best or fastest then so why would you expect them to magically beat everyone now.
In a 40 meter dash from a standing start it would be close I think.
100 meters starting in blocks wouldn't be so close.
Maybe I'm wrong though? Demps ran 10.01 or whatever and he looks fast on a football field but nothing like Johnson. Not even close. Maybe Johnson could be the fastest guy in the world with a few years of specific training.
Anyone know if the combine is FAT? I would imagine it is.
If Johnson or any of the fast guys in the NFL did the specific work they could be damn good. I would still go with Bolt though. His reactions and starts the past 2 seasons have been amazing.
You guys are funny.
NFL money is fine, but being the fastest in the world is unique (and very lucrative).
Please don't kid yourself about how "fast" these supposed raw talents are. If they were really that fast they would have been world beaters a long time ago.
The Combine 40yd dash is timed by hand, going on first movement, then automatically stopped when a string is broken. There is a definite degree of uncertainty, the times are fine to compare relative to other people at the combine (4.5 is definitely faster than a 4.6, but 4.5 doesn't convert to anything in a 40 in track circumstances (blocks, go on gun) so take it with a grain of salt)
CJ is a burner but Bolt would run circles around him.
Teddy Ginn would have been a 12.75 hurdler but went for the money in the NFL.
I'm guessing none of the people with this opinion have ever played sports with football players (be it pick-up games or in an organized competition). I go to a top 25 D1 football school, and the football players are laughably bad at the non-football sports they claim to be amazing at. After being humiliated in pickup basketball, they will generally revert to traveling and charging with a vengeance, and they still generally lose. The same things happen if you have a footrace with, say, a defensive back (say you are doing a workout on the track in the off-season, and so are they, and you offer to do their workout with them after you finish yours); they are comically slower than you are. (To be fair, I am a fairly good 800 meter runner). Do you guys not remember gym class in high school? The GOOD football players would talk big and try to the point of violence, but they were generally just not that athletic. These were the one's who were recruited to play in college, too. You have to remember, track is actually a higher participation sport than football, and the opportunities to play at the next level are significantly more limited. WE are generally the ones competing against the creme of the crop.
Ginn was good but not 12.75 good. He would have been a better 400IH man.
i am always amazed at the stupidity of some of the people on these boards. I mean, do you really think an nfl player could beat bolt? like seriously? that is some of the dumbest crap ive ever heard someone on these boards say
splits for Bolts 40 times have been posted in a previous letsrun posting, they came to 3.9 or 4.05, around there, clearly faster than CJs 4.2.. whatever he ran
PLUS ..the clock for 40 times @ nfl combine doesn't start until the player moves, track and field the clock starts when the gun goes off.. sprinters have to react.
Bolt's 40m split in Berlin was 4.64 seconds. Assuming no critical changes in velocity (though there were certainly some changes), his split at 40y would have been approximately 4.24sec, from a dead start. Taking reaction time out (as it seems the NFL does), that turns to 4.09 seconds for 40y.
With a running start, Bolt split 2.52 seconds from 30m-60m, which, when extrapolated, yields a 40y time of 3.07 seconds.
It's awfully ludicrous to suggest anyone in any other profession could challenge Usain Bolt. Most anyone in the NFL will have more body fat than bolt or almost any other top class sprinter.
Most folks don't take track as seriously as football. I would also argue that football players are generally better coached than track athletes.
I don't think Chris Johnson could beat Usain Bolt (out on a big ledge there), but I think if there was as much money and interest in track as there is in football the record books would look quite different.
Raghib Ismail beat Frankie Fredericks indoors when Fredericks was at BYU and Rocket was at Notre Dame.