Marcus Mariota

[briarduck]

A pet peeve of mine is 40 time arguments/discussions because the variables involved (temperature, wind, grass, track and who taking the times and if they are electronic or hand-timed ect). At the end of the day, all you can do is see who timed them, if it was electronic or hand-timed and how official the event was because unless you have everyone at the same event, run at the same time the times are not consistent because of the variables involved.

So arguing who faster, or not in this case, is ridiculous because we will never know who would be faster on a given day BUT what can know is how fast a player CAN be on a given day. So what am I getting at? MM is fast, is he 4.3 or 4.5 fast YES! At the events he was timed, he was always one of the FASTEST at the events among ALL players...so to me thats all the matters

The times we should really be concerned about are shuttle times and maybe a 20 time because QBs need quickness and the ability to be elusive ala DD. So is he faster than DD? Who knows but it sure looks like he may be...and we will find out soon enough. So stop arguing that he not faster than who ever because unless you line them up together we will never know...but even that doesn't give you the same result every time!

[Duck07]

If you want to cream your shorts over testing numbers, look at the shuttle, broad jump and vertical. These will tell you a lot more about the athlete and his 'explosive' speed than anything a 40 can. also, any 40 timed in the Mo is going to be close to 0.2 seconds slower than if it was run on a track, because Mo is really soft/spongy.

[Robstu]

6'5"/190... Wonder how much beef Coach Rad can put on this kid in a year... That's like Dennis Dixon/Justin Roper skinny.

If Mariota can perform as well as Dixon, Duck fans will be very happy to have him around.

Oh god the Justin Roper days. God he was so awkward to watch as quarterback.

[buckmarkduck]

Dixon was 6'4 170lbs coming out of HS.