How fast was Brian Urlacher really?

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Quick thoughts on the race:

- Urlacher got off to a horrible start. Also looked extremely nervous leading up to the race.
- Owens always had insane speed. Not sure if it was this or last offseason but he raced Tyreek Hill and it was a tie.
- Tomba? That was weird. Was there a cancellation the day of and they grabbed him from the crowd?
- Jessie Armstead was sloooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Found the clip. It was Owens racing the 100 yard with getting a 10 yard lead over Hill. It was from July in 2020 when Owens was 46 years old:

 

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I remember Urlacher's rookie year.

I'd see him close on the qb coming from the bottom left of my tv... Only for the qb to side step and Urlacher to whiff, disappearing off the top right of my screen.

And then right when I was pissed off that the Bears drafted another bust who couldn't tackle, Urlacher shows up AGAIN from the upper LEFT corner of the screen and sack the qb, who also was NOT expecting him. Damndest thing I had seen, because it happened so damn fast.

Lach may not have had "race track" speed, but his football speed was off the charts.
 
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For reference...heres is his speed ratings in madden...

Yr - Age - Spd
2000 - 22 - 83
2001 - 23 - 85
2002 - 24 - 85
2003 - 25 - 89 (93 Acc) best in league*
2004 - 26 - 87
2005 - 27 - 87
2006 - 27 - 88
2007 - 29 - 88
2008 - 30 - 88
2009 - 31 - 85
2010 - 32 - 84 (89 Acc)
2011 - 33 - 84
2012 - 34 - 84 (88 Acc)

Dbs, Rb, and Wr's typically have spd from 88-92
 
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Still don’t know how slow ass TB12 was able to juke Url out his jockstrap

Because Tom pulled a bitch move and acted like he was intentionally going down, Urlacher gave up and then Brady dived forward. QB's shouldn't be allowed to do that. Mahommes pulls that shit too. Defenders can't touch QB's so of course they lay off
 

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Put them all in pads and then have them run again. Some guys drop off a lot in speed, some don't.
 

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The word is he ran sub-4.6 in the 40-yard-dash at the combine, despite weighting 258 pounds at the time, but that's hard to believe when you watch him in this race at the Superstars competition.


I know this is the 100, but he's not even close to the Barber brothers (who weren't very fast) or T.O.

You know i was going to write out a nice response but you are a moron
 

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Put them all in pads and then have them run again. Some guys drop off a lot in speed, some don't.

This is a myth.

I coached youth football and the fastest kids in pads were always the fastest kids in street clothes, in the exact same orders. We would have the kids race and it was always the same story.
 

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Put them all in pads and then have them run again. Some guys drop off a lot in speed, some don't.

that is true. on our varsity high school team the 2 fastest guys raced. One guy beat the other in shorts but it was reversed in pads.
 

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