McCullers needs to drill this until his Pro Day

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VOLorNuttin

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The one glaring weakness I noticed in Big Dan's game is he is really slow to come off the ball. I hope he's working out somewhere like D1 and all they do is drill, drill and drill some more...all day, every day to improve his off-the-line quickness.

If he can show some major improvement in that area, keeping low and fast, at his Pro Day, he can vault himself into the 2nd Rd, rather than a 3rd or 4th Rd selection.
 
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GAVol said:
At his size, I don't know how quick and explosive he's going to ever be.
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He's strong, though. Had a pretty competitive bench number compared to other DL (27). Wonder if he even bothers trying to run the 40.
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
The one glaring weakness I noticed in Big Dan's game is he is really slow to come off the ball. I hope he's working out somewhere like D1 and all they do is drill, drill and drill some more...all day, every day to improve his off-the-line quickness.

If he can show some major improvement in that area, keeping low and fast, at his Pro Day, he can vault himself into the 2nd Rd, rather than a 3rd or 4th Rd selection.
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Do they sell meanness at D1, cause he is a whole lot of soft in a big ole body.
 
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He's gonna get paid millions to not move backwards versus trying to move forward. There are only a few rare NT that can push forward and pressure the ball. The rest of them just settle for a few million a year to play on all downs except 3rd and long.
 
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UneducatedGuess said:
He's gonna get paid millions to not move backwards versus trying to move forward. There are only a few rare NT that can push forward and pressure the ball. The rest of them just settle for a few million a year to play on all downs except 3rd and long.
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Pot Roast!
 
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GLDunlap said:
Honestly had no idea where this thread was going. I was almost afraid to click on it.
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Didn't know how else to word it. I've noticed a lot of plays where it seemed like Dan was almost a full second slow getting out of his stance and tends to get upright straightaway, and that gives undersized OL the split second they need to get into his chest and get leverage on him.

To us it looks like he's not trying hard, but it's all technique. If you watch the highlight reel of Cory Thomas (the DL who was committed to us until right before signing day)...quickness off the line and low pad leverage were the things he did best.

I guess it doesn't help McCullers having 2 different DL coaches and 2 different schemes in 2yrs. I'm sure Coach Strip preached these things, but didn't have him long enough to break those habits.
 
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LaagerVol said:
I don't understand what some of these college athletes are doing in the weight room. 27 reps isn't very impressive for a 352lb man.
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I think it all begins with video games. In my time, fun meant hauling over to the playground. You had monkey bars and other things you had to hang from, climb, swing on and such. Merry-go-rounds that had a bit of resistance in them when being pushed and so on. You sort of built up muscles for doing certain things. Tuned the body for using those muscles when called upon. Kids today are in general just soft due to azzing the sofa, chair, or stool playing video games. So putting serious or even fun work into weight rooms just isn't their thing. When they are older, they're just plain soft in both head and body. Recovery from years of indoor inactivity is hard to overcome.
 
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utvolpj said:
does anyone truly care what a DT runs the 40 in? Probably the most useless number they could put on his eval
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I don't, for one. I just thought it was funny. I was plenty impressed by 400lb NT McCullers taking a good angle and running Jeff Driskel down from behind in 2012.
 
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GLDunlap said:
Honestly had no idea where this thread was going. I was almost afraid to click on it.
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