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Draft preparation is a numbers game, and Willis posted some solid ones at the NFL Combine in late February. At 6-1 and 242 pounds, he bench-pressed 225 pounds 22 times. He recorded a 39-inch vertical leap. He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.51 seconds. But that last number irritated Willis. He said he knew he could have done better.

So he returned to the Athletes' Performance Institute in Tempe, Ariz., where he had spent much of the winter, and continued to train. Then he appeared at Ole Miss' Indoor Practice Facility on March 20 to toe the line before a cluster of scouts on Pro Day. He blistered the 40-yard dash in 4.37 seconds.

"Staggering," said Rob Rang, senior analyst for NFLDraftScout.com. "It's unheard of for a player that size, for a player at that position."

Willis easily could have stopped the workout right then, and everyone would have gone home impressed. Instead, he decided run the dash once more, as if to prove his first time was no fluke.

"Everybody's sitting there saying, 'There's no way he's going to run it again, he's just going to pack his bags up,'" Orgeron recalled. "And he ran it again."

Willis nearly replicated his first effort, finishing in 4.38 seconds. (By comparison, Southern California wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett ran his 40-yard dash in 4.62 seconds at the NFL Combine.) Willis was asked last week why he risked it.

"Because I like to compete," Willis said in a telephone interview. "I'm never satisfied with my performance."
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http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/football/article/0,1426,MCA_478_5486535,00.html
 
Dude! Can you please get off this guy's meat sack? WE AREN'T DRAFTING WILLIS!!! Sheesh! LMAO!!! We are drafting OFFENSE!

"IF" we happened to go defense? It would be Landry or Okoye.

But it "will" be either Ginn Jr, Brown, or Quinn.

Now if we traded down? It would be an OFFENSIVE player as well.

So please...listen to others and not just your feelings.

MIA is "NOT" drafting Pat Willis. Ok? Good.
 
Dude! Can you please get off this guy's meat sack? WE AREN'T DRAFTING WILLIS!!! Sheesh! LMAO!!! We are drafting OFFENSE!

"IF" we happened to go defense? It would be Landry or Okoye.

But it "will" be either Ginn Jr, Brown, or Quinn.

Now if we traded down? It would be an OFFENSIVE player as well.

So please...listen to others and not just your feelings.

MIA is "NOT" drafting Pat Willis. Ok? Good.
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I happen to agree with the poster and so do many others that he could be the pick at 9. When you consider the fact that mueller loves to go bpa then its quite possible that he is best player availible at 9......so stop with your meat sack comments and rethink your post
 
phinsfan84 said:
I happen to agree with the poster and so do many others that he could be the pick at 9. When you consider the fact that mueller loves to go bpa then its quite possible that he is best player availible at 9......so stop with your meat sack comments and rethink your post
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Dont worry you will see him twice a year in the middle for Buffalo
 
MrEd said:
Dude! Can you please get off this guy's meat sack? WE AREN'T DRAFTING WILLIS!!! Sheesh! LMAO!!! We are drafting OFFENSE!

"IF" we happened to go defense? It would be Landry or Okoye.

But it "will" be either Ginn Jr, Brown, or Quinn.

Now if we traded down? It would be an OFFENSIVE player as well.

So please...listen to others and not just your feelings.

MIA is "NOT" drafting Pat Willis. Ok? Good.
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Dude, why don't you get off of mine? OK? Good......
 
Dont worry you will see him twice a year in the middle for Buffalo
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I dont know hes the type of player I can see going before people think hes a sure thing come draft day i see him going top 10
 
colmax said:
That's what I'm afraid of.....
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You might be but I do not see MIA drafting him Why?

Well I do not see how a GM would spend the 9th overall on the deepest and most talented position on your team. With so many other holes. So with that being said IF Willis is there at 9 dont worry 3 picks later you will hear his named called and Welcome to Buffalo P-Willie
 
phinsfan84 said:
I dont know hes the type of player I can see going before people think hes a sure thing come draft day i see him going top 10
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Well if he does it may just push a slipping Adrian Peterson to us.

Not to mention we Still would have Lynch there

nice to be the Bills the value at 12 is perfect to fill their holes
 
BillsFanInPeace said:
You might be but I do not see MIA drafting him Why?

Well I do not see how a GM would spend the 9th overall on the deepest and most talented position on your team. With so many other holes. So with that being said IF Willis is there at 9 dont worry 3 picks later you will hear his named called and Welcome to Buffalo P-Willie
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While LB might be the most talented on Miami's D, I do not think it is the deepest as far as "quality depth". Plus, these guys aren't necessarily spring chickens with the exception of Crowder.

I just think that, barring Quinn being there at 9, Willis is the BPA and probably the best for Miami. Drafting him just insures Miami's quality LB play 3 years down the road. JMO....
 
colmax said:
While LB might be the most talented on Miami's D, I do not think it is the deepest as far as "quality depth". Plus, these guys aren't necessarily spring chickens with the exception of Crowder.

I just think that, barring Quinn being there at 9, Willis is the BPA and probably the best for Miami. Drafting him just insures Miami's quality LB play 3 years down the road. JMO....
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Ok agreed and then you miss out on your LT. Not to mention I think you need a starting LG as well.

I mean looking at it you are spending the 9th overall to draft a player that in the 3/4 will play where?

porter/thomas/crowder/porter

I think you get better value waiting for your depth at LB til later
 
BillsFanInPeace said:
Ok agreed and then you miss out on your LT. Not to mention I think you need a starting LG as well.

I mean looking at it you are spending the 9th overall to draft a player that in the 3/4 will play where?

porter/thomas/crowder/porter

I think you get better value waiting for your depth at LB til later
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Yeah, probably. But Miami could luck up and have Alabi do a solid job for them this year. Carey and Shelton could be there, also. Although, Carey has done a really good job on the right side.

As far as where he'd play this year if drafted? He is athletic enough to play anywhere in the 3/4 and played OLB in his Fr./So. years, though he rocks the house in the middle. I understand the reservations of most here, but I just think that by 9, he is absolutely BPA. I'm just a rabid P-Willie fan because we both went to Ole Miss. I would hate to have to follow him in a Buffalo uni, though. :lol:
 
phinsfan84 said:
I happen to agree with the poster and so do many others that he could be the pick at 9. When you consider the fact that mueller loves to go bpa then its quite possible that he is best player availible at 9......so stop with your meat sack comments and rethink your post
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Yeah...what he said.

I thought there was no way last years draft would be topped for a while with BIG prospects but this draft is FULL of them...just not at the standout positions QB/WR...Omobi Okoye is an ABSOLUTE FREAK, and the phins could very well take him if hes the BPA...same with Willis..this guy is a perfectionist and will be unbelievable in the NFL...both those guys are probowlers for years. I WANT OFFENSE just as much as the other guy but when you have a chance to select a guy at the TOP of his position and it makes sense you DO IT. If you DONT do it...and you take a reach because of a need (like Levi Brown at 9) you risk not only being let down by the guys performance cuz he was such a high pick...but you also more importantly miss out on the guys who will be the face of your franchise. Wills/Okoye/Landry are ALL worth considering at our pick. I would love Quinn/Ginn Jr./etc. but if it means picking up a guy who would make our LB's UNDOUBTEDLY the best in the NFL and shoot our D to the top3 then hell yeah...we have CAM!!!!! HE will ALONE improve our O drastically!!!
 
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