Tyler Maples

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#26
JagerVol01 said:
Have any of Maryville's players really panned out though? I remember Carl Stewart at Auburn, Nick Black at Clemson and we had a LB a few years back and South Carolina has Cade Thompson.....Those guys were just okay - Maryville is such a good program (no public school anywhere takes football more seriously) that their players maximize their full potential while in HS....It makes for a lot of overrated busts at the next level...Maples will never see the field here unless it is on special teams.
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Off the top of my head Danny Spradlin turned out to be a pretty good LB, but that has been awhile.
 
#27
#27
I have to say that if I'm a marketer at any level I am loving the name "Tyler Maples." Reminds me of "Major Applewhite." If Maples makes it to the NFL, he's got a bright future for some advertising agency.
 
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#32
Keep in mind that the NFL combine uses electronically timed 40 numbers, and the fastest EVER has Fabian Washington in 2005 with a 4.25.

The Deangelo Hall 4.15 was handtimed on a fast track. He does not run a 4.15 electronically timed 40.
 
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VolinArizona said:
Keep in mind that the NFL combine uses electronically timed 40 numbers, and the fastest EVER has Fabian Washington in 2005 with a 4.25.

The Deangelo Hall 4.15 was handtimed on a fast track. He does not run a 4.15 electronically timed 40.
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It's worse than that. As I stated earlier there is an INCREDIBLE amount of disinformation on this subject. The Fabian Washington time is so widely distributed that even I fell for it. The confusion is that the NFL combine does use electronic timing now but, and damned if I know why, apparently also still hand-time. Scroll down towards the bottom under "defensive backs"

NFL Draft Blitz

For those not wanting to bother Washington's 40's were hand-timed at 4.25 and 4.28 while electronically timed at 4.33 and 4.37. Now, there's NOTHING wrong with a good hand-time, which I'm sure the NFL combine has. (too much money riding on it) Having said that, NEVER mix hand and electronic times.

And D'Angelo Hall couldn't run a 4.15 40 downhill in a hurricane, even hand-timed by anyone that knew what they were doing.
 
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#34
It's no wonder prospects turn down the chance to run at the combine. They can boast about a 4.2, and never have to prove it legitimately.
 
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#35
VolinArizona said:
It's no wonder prospects turn down the chance to run at the combine. They can boast about a 4.2, and never have to prove it legitimately.
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Bullseye.

At the risk of being overly analytic they do still have to run, which gives us the "pro-day" workout. A nice home case would be our own Donte Stallworth. He had the scouts show up and laid down some sub-4.3's (the guy is fast) on his fast home track. If he'd run the electronic combine at Indy he'd have put up times similar to Washington's if not even a few 100ths slower due to the differences in running surfaces. It just sounds soooo cool to have "sub-4.3 40" on your resume. And as long as people are comparing it to times run electronically at the combine, it's quite deceptive.
 
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#36
lawgator1 said:
I have to say that if I'm a marketer at any level I am loving the name "Tyler Maples." Reminds me of "Major Applewhite." If Maples makes it to the NFL, he's got a bright future for some advertising agency.
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Not clever and you are no scout.
 
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