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[QUOTE="CIL, post: 549724, member: 22"]
Archeletta was suspected of major steroid use while at ASU and Washington first and foremost. His laser timed 40 was a 4.46 at the 2001 combine. Listen, I played D3 college ball like a lot of people here. That's still not a jump of 5.2 to 4.5 as you stated earlier. That's an improvement of .36. We also don't know what conditions Adam ran his first 40 under. Was it on grass, into the wind, was he poor off the blocks? It doesn't mean that Adam became much faster as a football player, rather he LEARNED how to run a 40 yard dash that much faster. He truly probably improved his speed by .1 to .2 tops.
 
I'm not arguing that 40 times do not get better with proper strength and conditioning. I was a mid 4.6 kid in high school and was a low 4.5 kid when I left school. These were also timed on tracks, not turf. To me, the 40 has become an event for fans to talk about but has little use in the NFL. I liken it to teachers preparing students to just take a test -- they may not really be getting smarter or learning anything, they just know what the answers are.
 
As a player coming out of school today -- you have to attend one of these speed schools. It is assumed that every player goes to one of these things, so now everyone knows how to shave .05 or so off their time.
 
And I hear you on getting old, I just tossed my back out deadlifting on Saturday.
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