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Lesnar a Viking?

As someone wrote earlier, it gets publicity for any team which sticks him on its practice roster. As we all know, football is a lot about business for the people who have a real say in it (see that little weasel Robert Kraft for details) and such publicity makes good business sense. It might be financially worth it for a team to drop their worst player and put someone like Lesnar on for the odd kickoff. He's big enough and reasonably fast, so he might make a passable special teams blocker, if his attitude is right and he works hard enough on it.

Maybe Lesnar could become a mediocre football player. I doubt he would ever be a particularly good player but I imagine he's not afraid of working hard to be as good as he possibly can, if it is really what he wants to do and not just a big scam.
 
There is a lot more to football than just being athletic! Think of all the tecnic that a player learns through PW HS Col and so on! It is going to take him a very long time to learn how to beat a seasoned player on a O-line that has been doing it his whole life! Just being big and strong is going to get it done! There are a lot of big strong guys that have played football there whole life that can't make it in the NFL! I don't see him actually making it in the NFL!
 
there was a time when nfl teams would sign people who ran track thinking that they had the speed and all they would have to do is teach them the game. i don't remember any of them really panning out.
 
there was a time when nfl teams would sign people who ran track thinking that they had the speed and all they would have to do is teach them the game. i don't remember any of them really panning out.
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On the contrary at least one of them is in the hall of fame and the entire league went through a copycat stage where every team was like "We need our own Bob something-or-other" (that was the guy's name I forget his real name he died not too long ago so they did a special on him) because the speed killed defenses. We're talking about a while ago, but our own Mark Duper I believe was a track convert. Nowadays I think that whole thing is outdated because our football player WRs, now ARE like as fast as track stars. I mean seriously these guys run almost as fast as some of the fastest people on the planet.

But that doesn't mean a similar thing couldn't happen at a different position. Brock Lesnar doesn't just have pro wrestling under his belt, he did play football in high school (at least I hear he did) and in college he was the NCAA wrestling champion. The latter put together with his size and speed characteristics especially, make him a pretty intriguing prospect especially at a position where you don't have to be a rocket scientist to play good football (see Simeon Rice). For passrushing, at DE its pretty much all about one-on-one and his freakish abilities could shine (along with his experience with ncaa wrestling). For defending the run though thats where he's got to learn some technique I would think.

The main reason I think there's an opportunity for him at DE is because there are DEs out there that have his kind of freakish abilities (the freak, for one...and jason taylor) but there are not that many. The WR market is flooded with guys who can run a 4.4 or even better though...so thats why the whole track star WR thing has fizzled IMO.

I'll just add real quick that Tony Dungy tried to recruit this guy into football after he got done with college, before he became a pro wrestler. Its a case by case basis here I'm not saying pro wrestlers make good football players, what I'm saying is in this particular case this was a guy some football coaches liked coming out of college just because of his raw ability and his being an NCAA wrestling champ. The pro wrestling thing happened after all that and its the pro wrestling I think that is making us all jaded about the whole possibility.
 
ckparrothead said:
On the contrary at least one of them is in the hall of fame and the entire league went through a copycat stage where every team was like "We need our own Bob something-or-other" (that was the guy's name I forget his real name he died not too long ago so they did a special on him) because the speed killed defenses. We're talking about a while ago, but our own Mark Duper I believe was a track convert. Nowadays I think that whole thing is outdated because our football player WRs, now ARE like as fast as track stars. I mean seriously these guys run almost as fast as some of the fastest people on the planet.

But that doesn't mean a similar thing couldn't happen at a different position. Brock Lesnar doesn't just have pro wrestling under his belt, he did play football in high school (at least I hear he did) and in college he was the NCAA wrestling champion. The latter put together with his size and speed characteristics especially, make him a pretty intriguing prospect especially at a position where you don't have to be a rocket scientist to play good football (see Simeon Rice). For passrushing, at DE its pretty much all about one-on-one and his freakish abilities could shine (along with his experience with ncaa wrestling). For defending the run though thats where he's got to learn some technique I would think.

The main reason I think there's an opportunity for him at DE is because there are DEs out there that have his kind of freakish abilities (the freak, for one...and jason taylor) but there are not that many. The WR market is flooded with guys who can run a 4.4 or even better though...so thats why the whole track star WR thing has fizzled IMO.

I'll just add real quick that Tony Dungy tried to recruit this guy into football after he got done with college, before he became a pro wrestler. Its a case by case basis here I'm not saying pro wrestlers make good football players, what I'm saying is in this particular case this was a guy some football coaches liked coming out of college just because of his raw ability and his being an NCAA wrestling champ. The pro wrestling thing happened after all that and its the pro wrestling I think that is making us all jaded about the whole possibility.
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:drool: Holy cow I'm tired after reading that! I need a nap! :sleep:
 
jesusfreak26 said:
WWE star Lesnar shows raw ability, but can he make the Vikings

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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Brock Lesnar is an imposing young man. He has a body you often see chiseled from marble, not flesh and bone. His arms are thicker than most people's thighs, his back so wide you could hang a Picasso from it. He is 6 feet 3, 286 pounds of thick, rippled muscle. Just standing there in a shirt and pants, he looks like a football player after all the pads have been put on.


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Hey wait a minute....that sounds like me. Muck/InFins, you playing with my head again???
 
He'll get owned by NFL linemen. It's two totally different things, (fake)wrestling and (real)football. These linemen won't fall down just because he fakes a hit on them.
 
When comparing football to wrestling and saying there's not much difference consider the case of Dwayne Johnson (The Rock). He played at the University of Miami as a defensive linemen and went undrafted after his senior year. When he didn't get his chance in the NFL he headed North to the CFL. After riding the pine there for a year he drove back to Florida and began a wrestling career. The point: He couldn't cut it in pro football so he wrestled (not the real type). :D :lol:
 
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