I've heard they are Walker arms, one left and one right. Sort of a matching pair.Originally Posted by pbmax
Sorry, pb; this one always gets me as writers obsess over differences of 1/2" or so.
I've heard they are Walker arms, one left and one right. Sort of a matching pair.
Sorry, pb; this one always gets me as writers obsess over differences of 1/2" or so.
It matters...but only if the guy is a decent tackle as well. Otherwise there would be a lot of NBA players lining up at LT. It matters for the punch. It matters for locking a guy out from you so he can't get his hands on you. Cameron Wake has that awesome karate move to knock hands off of his chest. Without it the mammoth tackles lock you out there and control you. See Ogden, Jonathon.
I don't hold Grudges. It's counterproductive.
Sorry, I can't buy that a half inch makes a darn bit of difference.
What makes you think they are worried about a half inch?
And why would arm length be different than a height floor for a CB?
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
We had a good example of it a year ago or so when one of the writers was discussing draft picks , and described one as having arms too short to be a tackle, and another being a good tackle prospect because of the length of his arms, and the difference was something like 5/8". Before I mostly ignored those comments, but when a writer obsesses over it so much that one prospect was a zero and the other a good prospect at tackle just because of his arm length, I decided to pick up the fight. Some writers are obsessed with arm length. They talk about it all the time and more than other things. If they measured how far forward a player can reach, rather than just the length of his arms, I might think it a more worthy factor, but not determinative, either.
While I think the difference between a 6' CB and one 5'9" is wroth considering, I don't think 5'11 vs 5'11/2" is worth worrying about at all.
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