re: Feleipe Franks transfers to Arkansas

This is good news. The kid has a canon. And I've heard that he has legit speed. Anyone know? Is he a 4.3 in the forty kind of fast? That would make him Matt Jones with a canon. Get some offensive linemen and establish the power run. Make him really efficient throwing the slant and a few quick outs. Sprinkle in a couple of deep routes. And this cat will do the rest with his legs.

If for no other reason than to bring in competition for KJ this is a good move. WPS

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Is he a 4.3 in the forty kind of fast?

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....................no................I would be amazed if any player in the history of our team, outside McFadden, was actually that fast. 5 kids ran under 4.4s at last year's combine......5.......do you even watch football?

In fairness he didn’t say laser timed forty. A lot of guys run sub 4.4 with thier high school coach on the stop watch.

Running a 4.3 as I type this. Youngest daughter on stopwatch

As a guy who played football basically all my life growing up it’s always funny to hear guys talk about their 40 times. You figure out pretty quick which guys played and which guys never played a down in their life or are just lying through their teeth. Same with high school velo when talking about pitching in baseball or somebody’s golf score. I’m a high school football coach now too and our fastest player hand held was 4.53 ( and this kid can really really run)and the next fastest was in the 4.7s. One of the absolute fastest human beings I’ve ever had the actual probe late of playing sports with ran a 4.6 went to southern Arkansas university and set a bunch of receiving records for them. If a guy on the street or Facebook says he ran anything less than a 4.6 I laugh because if he did he would’ve went and played somewhere. Same with all the guys who could hit 90 in high school. The Beasley kid from Horacio that was we gonna go to Arkansas but signed with the brewers instead was consistently mid80s and could touch 88 89 and had a pretty good curve. If your throwing above 86 in high school you are 100% getting an offer to at least play college ball if not professionally. But if you’ve never played either sport you hear certain numbers and just assume their normal so guys casually throw shite out there like “yeah I touched 88 a couple times” or “summer between junior and senior year I ran 4.43” im just nodding my Ahead “oh really that’s interesting” in reality I’m thinking no you didn’t

Sorry for the book just Facebook 40 times trigger me and I needed a place to vent

It's a number, that they use to bump up those stars.

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Same with all the guys who could hit 90 in high school.

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My favorite is the equation people try and use when I kid is throwing from 45 ft in little league...saying it's like throwing 90 from 60 ft, then assuming that will certainly happen when they get older.

Or those baseballs that had a built-in radar

I ran a 40 in 5.0 flat one time. That was my fastest time.

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I would be amazed if any player in the history of our team, outside McFadden, was actually that fast.

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Wasn't Joe Adams that fast fairly comfortably?

Joe Adams was super quick and very fast but I don’t think even joe ran in the 4.3s I think he was a 4.4 guy(which is still burning). The difference is if a guy is 4.4 and gets in the open field he’s gone if a guy is 4.3 like McFadden you can have the angle and he will outrun you to the spot.