I always thought they should have had weight limits in football. No more than 250 pounds.
“I always thought they should have had weight limits in football. No more than 250 pounds.”
Don’t misunderstand that size is not always a marker of the violence of the game. A three hundered pound lineman can run, if he gets room to, is about 5.2 to 5.5 seconds in a forty. In that forty he has time and distance to build up the speed to do just that. But linemen generally don’t cover more than about 15 yards around the line of scrimage.
The big hitters are the free and strong safties at around 200 to 225 that have 15 yards to build up speed and many times go untouched into the ball carrier. And remember, these are the same people that are covering wide recievers with world class speed in the NFL and college. So they have superior speed over linemen. They collide at much harder poundage and can cause a variety of damage. Ron Lott of the 49ers used to hit people so hard snot would fly out of his nose and he was dazed for a few seconds. And he did this a few times a game. People like Ed Reed fom the Ravens, Rodney Harrison from the Chargers, Troy Polamahu from the Steelers, John Lynch for the Bucs in Tampa, Steve Atwater at Washington, and Jack Tatum at Oakland are a few of the defensive backs that scared the he++ out of recievers and running backs. You find some of these guys played for other teams, but they were monsters anywhere they went.
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