Truth B. Told wrote:
you're blowing smoke wrote:
It takes no more than a little though to realize this claim is bogus. In a football game each team has significantly less than 100 offensive plays and WRs and DBs run much less than 100 yards on each play. 100 x 100 yards is less than 6 miles and players get nowhere near this total yardage.
Bogus indeed. In an average NFL game the ball is actually in play for only about 11 minutes or less; that's for both teams. Each platoon would only be on the field for about half of that, so we're supposed to believe that some of the skill positions are covering 6 miles in 5 minutes and change? Please.
Let's take a D1 10k distance runner, let's say on average they run 90-120 mpw, maybe a lil more, maybe a lil less depending on the program..all that running for a 10k, usually less than 30 minutes of running for a race around the track..
I don't think many of you understand the amount of running skill players in college and the NFL do in their training and practice to be able to perform in the games just like a distance runner for their particular event. These guys train year round, and will run miles (in intervals) on any given day during the off season. Antonio Brown has said in the off season he goes for regular 5 mile runs just to shake the legs up and get his aerobic capacity up.
For the idiots posting about lineman, just stop it. Who in their right mind would believe a lineman can run a 4:30 mile? I'd still put my money on a skill player to come damn close to a 4:30 mile if not below it depending on their build and youthfulness. A young Ted Ginn would have absolutely run a 4:30 mile by the way.