Will Fuller on Jaylen Waddle and Dolphins' wide receiver group: 'You can't teach speed'

[TheRevoltingBlob]

Yup. And Waddle is in the low 4.3s, definitely not just a 4.37. Waddle runs circles around Bowden lol.

That 4.37 is from high school.

 

[The Ghost]

These kids aren’t just fast. They are football fast. They can all make plays anywhere.

 

[Rev Kev]

If grant makes the team they’ll be the fastest unit in the NFL.

Yes

Al Davis is stirring in his grave

 

[Mach2]

Yes

Al Davis is stirring in his grave

Al's problem was his track stars usually couldn't play football worth a damn. Tim Brown became a great player, but it took several years.

Even when he got good players, his ego held him back (Marcus Allen).

 

[Feverdream]

Al's problem was his track stars usually couldn't play football worth a damn. Tim Brown became a great player, but it took several years.

Even when he got good players, his ego held him back (Marcus Allen).

He was a vengeful narcissist and a rotten person, but he did put some really good teams on the field for a long time; he KNEW football.

 

[marino2duper73]

I love this part of his quote:

"I love the culture here"

Great to have this back in the facility.

Well, let's be transparent here... When you come from Houston and its trainwreck, the culture at a meth lab is appealing.

 

[normaldude]

I was gonna say, there 0% chance a Rb didn't get drafted after running a 4.32.

You'd draft a grocery bagger if he ran that and was in his early twenties

Matt Breida ran a 4.38, had a 42" vertical, had 3,740 rushing yards in college (7 yd rushing avg), and he went undrafted.

Matt Breida - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mach2]

Matt Breida ran a 4.38, had a 42" vertical, had 3,740 rushing yards in college (7 yd rushing avg), and he went undrafted.

Matt Breida - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Why wasn't he drafted, in your opinion?

 

[claytonduper]

No one has a defensive backfield that can keep up with this group. If you use it right it should result in a lot of big plays

Perhaps we have that defensive backfield. Preseason and off-season practice will be fun to see who wins more: our WR or our DB's?

 

[rafael]

Matt Breida ran a 4.38, had a 42" vertical, had 3,740 rushing yards in college (7 yd rushing avg), and he went undrafted.

Matt Breida - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Fast backs and WRs go undrafted all the time. Most of the experiments where a team brings in a track star fail b/c there's a difference between track speed and football speed. I tend to bristle when posters advocate for a player based on nothing more than measurables. I see it as evidence of somebody having very little understanding of football. What I want to see is if a player can play fast. Fortunately, I see Fuller, Waddle and Wilson as three players who are very fast people and very fast football players.

I see Grant as a fast person, but he becomes inconsistent trying to catch while moving fast. Bowden is a good player, but that 40 time seems fictional to me. He's incredibly quick and shifty, but I don't see him run away from defenders or erase angles like Fuller, Waddle and Wilson do.

 

[MDFINFAN]

 

[normaldude]

Why wasn't he drafted, in your opinion?

Matt Breida was a bit small for a RB (195 lbs), went to a small school (Georgia Southern), and he had a bad senior year.

 

[Blake the great]

that Lynn Bowden 40 time is definitely "unofficial"

 

[39wildman]

Spd is important but most of best wr ain't fast.

 

[Mach2]

Spd is important but most of best wr ain't fast.

For example?