An NFL "Speed" Lesson From Ato Boldon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Is DK Metcalf truly fast? Ato Boldon talks about what speed means in the NFL with track compared to football speed.
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Talk to em 🗣 People really don’t understand athletics smh 🤦🏾♂️
This video is so old. FLOTRACK makes it look like Ato made this video right after the DK Metcalf run
Flotrack did or the algorithm did?
I ran a 4.5 40y in high-school, but had a 10.46 100m. So when the guys that had faster 40y times than me wanted to race me in even a 50m or 60m race, I would beat them easily.
Track speed is definitely different than football speed.
Track speed is in it’s own universe i don’t even know why people even try to compare it to football speed.
Well most "legit" 40 tracksters are very good 60 meter guys but the 40 is usually handtimed but at the combine 90% of the fast times come from guys with track background Prep and College.
Try explaining this to soccer fans...that is far worse. At least people like Tyreek Hill, Trindon Halliday, etc. had LEGIT track speed.
Listening to soccer fans (and I am a huge soccer fan for 45 years) tell me that Kylian M'Bappe could walk on to a track tomorrow and run close to a 10 flat, is hilarious.
Ato Bolden is the "Tony Romo" of track and field announcers. If you have never heard him call a race do yourself a favor and listen to him.
Agreed.
No he isn't, he's terrible. Of course if you mean that Romo is also bad, I don't know, but Boldon is one of the worst commentators ever.
@@rooh5825 Well, you are DEFINITELY in the minority with that comment. I agree with the other 2 guys on this thread, Boldon is awesome. Very knowledgeable and capable of explaining finer points with clarity. What is it about Ato that you don't like?
Say it louder for the people in the back.
I was a 200/400 runner. Guys from other sports used to always challenge me in races and get destroyed; I wouldn't even try and always best them. Their punishment is our sport.
:correct totally! We had fast football players join the track team. And very few even won a decent race. They also realized the training is brutal in track
It’s kinda funny when the football players think they can beat us 😂 I run the 400 and 800 and I’ve beaten wide receivers and running backs at school.
Now this is interesting coming from both I mean 200 meter guy yes but especially 400/800 guys wouldn't even be able to hang in a 100 with a legit fast football guy....I guess if it's DII or lower who knows but a 400/800 guy at D1 going against the fastest players on the team id say Top 3 don't stand a chance at 60 and most not at 10, now after with more distance is a different story.
@@GuapoSantana But you're talking about exceptionally fast football players vs average DII college runners 400/800 guys. Exceptional football players running a 60 meters dash might have an edge over the average DII runner, sure, but now we're comparing apples and oranges.
Interesting but a little sneaky to put the Metcalf picture on a couple year old video
RAW PURE TRACK STARS RULE! HE'S SO RIGHT HERE
The gestures and facial expressions are PRICEless!😂 Tell ‘em about it Bolden!
Ato Boldon u r great, thank you man.
Ato is spot on!
HE'S CORRECT! USAIN BOLT RAN A 4.3, JUST FOR FUN ONCE! IN HIS PJ'S AND SLIPPERS! END OF FOOTBALL B.S. HERE😤😤😧😧😧
What nobody understands is that there are skills that are needed to run a fast 100. The start is one of the most critical aspects of a sprint. The next aspect is deceleration. All sprinters decelerate in the last 50 yards. The world's best sprinters decelerate LESS. Matthew Boling is one of the world's best sprinters because he has less deceleration. Usain Bolt's deceleration is one of his strengths. He will win close races in the last 40 meters.
Bolt is a perfect example. He appears to accelerate 40m in due to his ability to hold his top end speed so well.
@@Reggie2kj I would LOVE to see him do the 400m. You are right. It appears that he is accelerating at the end of each race, when, in reality, he is simply decelerating LESS than others.
Carl Lewis interestingly accelerated towards the end of the 1984 100m olympic final
@@seansantos2219 No. He decelerated less than his competitors so stfu
Exactly
Great word Ato. Im from San jose. I saw you in the day at San Jose city college
You just saw him run, I actually ran against him when he was at San Jose City College and I was at San Francisco City College 1992. Facts!
The principle is true in reverse. Track speed or trackmen who head to the NFL often cannot catch, take a hit or read plays. Point sport talents are not always transferable to other sports and we should not be surprised.
Good point. How many track guys excelled as wide receivers? Bob Hayes. (And I believe he played FB in college.)
DK was right there at the 40 mark.
The diffference in a track athletes speed and say a professional footballs player speed is going to be huge. But in football speed is just one part of the athletic puzzle unlike track where it is everything obviously.
You take a track athlete at the top of his profession and have him do the change of the direction drills, bench pressing, vertical and eye hand coordination skills like catching the football and not one would rank in the top 100 when you added their score up (think sparq). And that goes for any other sport you can think of, football is about explosiveness, speed, power, quickness, and toughness.
Why anyone would think a football player who has extra muscle to take the pounding of 10-20 games a year would be able to compete against a sprinter whose only job requirement is to be fast in a straight line is something I will never understand.
I have no doubt that some NFL players, (having the best genetics of any sport in the world), could compete with world class sprinters if that's the only thing they focused on 24/7. No doubt. Now can you tell me of a sprinter that could take the pounding and have the other prerequisite skills mentioned before be an NFL player? I could think of only one, Bullet Bob Hayes. That's it. I just don't see Carl Lewis or Bolt running a post ,catching the ball consistently and then taking hits from NFL players over the course of a season. They're not built for it.
It's an unfair comparison, just like the one made in this video. Comparing NFL players speed to a sprinter is at best, asinine.
Look at harry aikines clown
I haven't seen any pro track athletes saying they have the speed or skill for football, it is always the other way around. Football players (or others) saying they could compete with the tracksters speed. Just no chance.
emmanueljohnny7 the goat true, that dude is JACKED! But then again, most sprinters are nowhere near that big
No.NFL players could not compete with world class sprinters, even if they focused on it 24/7. DK ran a 10.3. If he focuses on track 24/7, he might get that down to 10.1 at best…that’s not competing with the world class sprinters of today. You need to run sub-10 just to make a World championship or Olympic final. The NFL guys would nobodies in World Athletics.
“I just don’t see Carl Lewis running a post” Dude, you literally just said “if they focus on it 24/7,”when making this ridiculous assertion that NFL players could compete with the best sprinters in the world.
But If the best sprinters in the world focused 100% on football 24/7, they couldn’t return kicks & run deep routes?
That’s because sprinters and football players use different energy systems. NFL is closer to Rugby 🏉
Talk yo shit 🗣🗣
This video is a few years old.. but its truth.
Conversely, and with exception to Willie Gault, none of the top track athletes have ever successfully transitioned to the NFL because football speed is much different than track and field speed.
Bob Hayes is in the Hall of Fame !
There's quite a few who've transitioned pretty well after dominating CollegeTrack to NFL. Just google it.
Tyreek hill
Darrel Green
Bob hayes
Trindon Holliday
Mostert
Marquis goodwin
A lot of DB s wide receivers and running backs ran track and were good at track they just decided to go into football
College track isn't pro running speed either. Both have their place but definitely are not interchangeable.
You’re just typing because you’ve got fingers, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Out here using the word conversely without understanding the concept of the word.
"Tyreek Hill destroyed that argument. At the same time, that is like when MMA guys (football) come to fight boxers in boxing (track).".
Bolden a very good commentator and presenter in public.....
I always thought that, nfl fans went nuts for Metcalff and got smoked
He is sooo right.I ran track for 4 years.Played football since Pee Wee football.Including highschool.I could not run as fast as I did on a football field.I did not have the understanding.Its about muscle memory.I did 3 @t muscles from boxing are waaay different than @t one can do a 'Sprint' over and over like I @t football athletes.Not all if u know your @t side to side and vertical.Ato didnt mention the 3 cone.I ran track and football for 4yrs in highschool.For sure the people who ran track all year including summer were miles ahead of me.Not in talent though.For sure,I was catching up them in spiring.Once I got the wind of track.Then I was flying with the best.
What?
I've long been skeptical of the VJs in the combine. So many are in the 30s, even high 30s. Some very good NBA players have VJs under 30. Something isn't right.
More explosion workout for Football the big men jump alot higher and the DBs and receivers are easily in the higher 30s and low 40s
Y’all 10.3 isn’t fast . Dk did great but 10.3 really isn’t fast compared to a track athlete
For olympians yes but overall speed ,that’s insane
@@donedeald8882 no it’s not . High school boys run that time
@@chillregular2101 HS kids with insane genetics and a great track program
Like the average HS kid not running a 10.3 😂
@@donedeald8882 dude you really don’t know track lmao
DK is legit fast though and he proved it running 100 meters against Olympic athletes
please name the Olympic athletes that were in that race.I'll wait.
@@SomebodysGottaDye I’m no expert but I believe Mike Rodgers was in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Regardless, those are all world class sprinters.
@@jaisonlee007 one person out of 9 lanes. Mr.Rodgers is not in any shape or speed comparable to his 2016 season. At all. The runners in his heat would normally be in the “B” race which is not the world class elite. I give DK credit for the time he put in to get to 10.37. Is he fast? Yes, for football. Does he have World Class speed? No. He did not prove he was fast running against “B” racers. The time he ran proved he could run 10.37.
@todd covington lol it doesn’t matter if they are “B” track athletes. They are still professional sprinters.
He held his own. Everyone though he was going to get blown away. He came last yes, but he didn’t get smoked.
He’s 234 pounds keeping up with dudes that are 150. If he trained for track and lowered his weight he would smoke all those dudes...plus...he doesn’t even run track lol
@@ctrezzy11 but they aren’t Olympic sprinters as you stated.
EXPERT analysis. People always lie about Bo Jackson's speed and today it's Kyler Murray. Bo and Kyler have never sniffed a 4.3. Bo Jackson and Kyler are both high 4.4 guys. Ato should have played football, would've been all pro corner. Bo wouldn't have gotten HURT if he was 4.3 . Bo NEVER won at SEC indoor meets or outdoor. NEVER.
CLEARLY YOU are NUTS 🥜. What’s your reference to Bo Jackson’s speed???
Bo Jackson did have track speed! You're nuts to think Bo ran in the mid 4.4's!
You can be a slow WR or Running back and be successful in the NFL but you cannot be slow sprinter and be successful in track.
TRACK STARS ARE, PURE SPEED SPECIALISTS. ,FOOTBALL PLAYERS GET LEFT IN THE DUST WHEN THEY RACE PURE SPEED TRACK STARS. 🐯🐯🐯🔱🔱🔱
Its about muscle memory.I did 3 sports.My muscles from boxing are waaay different than everybody.No one can do a 'Sprint' over and over like I can.So football athletes.Not all if u know your history.Run side to side and vertical.Ato didnt mention the 3 cone.I ran track and football for 4yrs in highschool.
@@tigerpause2470 CBS, SPORTS HELD COMPETITIONS ON T.V, BETWEEN PURE TRACK STARS AND FOOTBALL PLAYERS..D. METCALF, PHILLY, EAGLES COMPETED. HE FINISHED LAST. WITH OTHER FOOTBALL STARS, ALL THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS LOST TO THE TRACK SPECIALISTS.
DK went 10.3.....