Kentucky Jet Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Slikmojet, How are you, Sir? As for Dwight's speed, ...I'm not sure what else to write or say. I saw on the JI board that someone mentioned the time he got at the Pro Day. I was there at the Pro Day, as was Aaron Thigpenn, as was Dwight's Agent, Frank Bower. I had Dwight clocked at 4.42 and Aaron had him clocked at 4.43. Are you aware of how it works at the Pro Day? It was quite comical. A joke, really. There were about 13 or 15 "official" people from the various teams who were there, all with stopwatches and timing the athletes in the forty times. Of the times that were taken, the lowest I heard was 4.36 for Dwight and the highest I heard was 5.86 (both from timers there on behalf of NFL teams). The times were all over the place. There was no consistency. I'm not trying to make excuses or anything, but seriously, they need to have some standards. When the times are spread that far apart between all the "official" people timing, it tells me that either a), there are no clearly defined standards as to when to start the clock or when to stop the clock, or , the so called "official" people running the stopwatches have no business doing so. It's as if they just tell whoever is in the office that day, "Hey, after you bring me some coffee, why don't you go out and time the pro-day." I'll come back to the standards in a moment. As for how they decided what the official pro-day times for all the athletes were, after the event, all the timers got together and compared times and they just averaged out all their times to get the median time, the average of all the times taken. That's just ridiculous to me. Seriously though, Slikmojet, (what's your first name if you don't mind me asking?), does that sound like a carefully structured, standardized way to decide official times? Times that could well determine a young athletes future? Aaron said that in all his years of running track events (he still competes) that he had never seen anything like it. I really don't know what to say about it, Slikmojet. Back to the standards thing, ...I think the NFL really needs to hire an independent source that has *clearly-defined* standards for when you start and stop the clock, and literally have people certified or something to show competency in being able to effectively and accurately time athletes. Whether or not that will ever happen, we'll have to wait and see. ...Like how we now will have to wait untill 2012 before the BCS again revisits and puts to vote whether or not to have a playoff for NCAA Football. Anyway, as I said, I don't really know what else to say about Dwight's speed. I know the kid can play football and he has plenty of football speed. He's a football player through and through. He never ran track in high school or college. Not once. Just Football and basketball. He was MVP of the league as a starting point-guard back in high school and ran the offense well. He's faster when he needs to be fast such as in games. Remember that Jerry Rice was fast when he needed to be in the NFL, yet he too had a "slow" 40 time. I know he wasn't the fastest receiver to ever play the game, but he clearly had enough speed when he needed it, despite what his "40 time" said. I saw one of the members on JI said he found it hard to believe that Dwight would go out and buy Jets memorabilia right before the draft. He is coming to his own conclusions there as that is not at all what I said. I clearly stated that Dwight already had Jets stuff. And that is the truth. The very day he was drafted, later that afternoon he had his Jets sweatshirt on. It had cut off sleeves and the lower half cut off, like the old school players used to wear back in the day. He didn't go buy it right before the draft. He's had it since high school and used to wear it under his football pads. He is definitely excited about being drafted by the Jets. I think, ...I know, that is is in part due to the fact that the Coaching staff seems as though they really believe in his ability and in what he can do on the field. They told him the day of the draft during a later conversation that they have very, very high hopes for him and that he will be competing for a starting position. Granted, they did not say what that starting position would be. I suspect it will be determinant on how he does during practices and where they feel would be the best fit for their system. I know the Jets run a rather complicated defense, yet Dwight has the intelligence and understanding of the game to where I don't think it will be a problem for him. He has been studying the playbook and studying dvr'd games that he recorded from last season, paying close attention to the defensive plays the Jets run and then cross-referencing the plays with his play-book. As I said, he takes the game very seriously and treats it as any serious professional should, regardless of their profession. I think it's pretty pathetic the gay jokes on JI saying that I have a little too much "man love" for Dwight. Obviously they are not Coaches of any kind. I take my job seriously and I love what I do. Some have better work ethics that others, yet this is true of any sport or profession. I work with athletes from all sports and I have several who have the same type of discipline and drive and work ethic that Dwight does, yet they are in different sports, I have a high school softball player who just turned 17 and is in her Junior year. She is developing the same type of work ethic that Dwight has, yet it wasn't until Dwight was in Junior college that he started to take everything more seriously and develop a better work ethic. Each year his work ethic got better and better and it continues to improve because he absolutely wants to be the best. He has a chip on his shoulder, as they say. He wants to be the best and he actually has the work ethic to make it happen. Part of what drives him is all the people who talk so much **** about him and say he's this or he's that. So it's actually good that so many people are popping off at the mouth like parrots repeating everything they hear from analysts like Mel Kiper. It really is "fuel to the fire". He views every team other than the Jets, as his enemy now. Period. And he is going to make every one of them pay. I'll say this much, ...it's much better to Have Dwight playing for you than against you. He really is happy though Slikmojet. He genuinely is excited to be playing for the Jets. I'm just happy that he was drafted by a team that really believes in him the way I do and is actually going to give him a chance to compete for a starting position, rather than simply being a practice body that's future is already decided by coaches as being a backup. You have no idea just how many new Jets fans there are out here in the Bay Area now. Granted, many of them haven't always been Jets fans their whole life, but they sure as hell are now. I was laughing at myself yesterday because it sunk in, the realization that I am a total Jets fan now. It's almost funny to me. But I really am. I always loved the sport of football, but as a strength and conditioning Coach, I've always liked certain players with how they play or how serious they are about the sport. Now I have a specific team to root for. A team that saw the potential in my friend and gave him a chance. As for why I posted my original message on the other board in the first place, it was because people were saying things about Dwight that just weren't true. I will be the first to defend my friends and athletes. If an athlete I am training just doesn't have a good work-ethic (there have been a few in the past 11 years), I will be the first to say it. I have a client on the Cleveland Indian's, a starting pitcher, who just wasn't working hard enough or taking either the training or nutrition aspect serious enough. I flat out called him out on it. This past off-season he took everything much more seriously and developed a much better work-ethic. I wouldn't have publicly come out and defended Dwight and said what I did had I not felt that what people were saying were not true. I used to go on the MMA message boards all the time and the boards of various fitness sites defending our CrossFit program from those who were spreading falsehoods about our program. I always tried to be respectful and engage in intelligent discourse, but there are those out there who prefer the low-brow means for which to attack our program. It's hard to debate with those types because even when you entirely pick apart their arguments and bring to light their lack of knowledge, or even make them look stupid when needed, they just get plain obscene as it's the best they can do. But whatever. Someone on JI said that if Dwight is successful then I am successful, so of course I "want to talk up my athlete". I understand where he is coming from with that comment, but my success is not predicated on whether or not Dwight is successful. ...Sorry man, I'll shouldn't be responding to all the comments made on the board by people to me or about Dwight by answering them in this e-mail. I'll be posting on the JI board soon. I have definitely talked to Dwight about posting on the boards and he said he likely will. I'm sure it won't be until after he gets back from mini-camp though. He flys out there tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 6:30 am and gets back Sunday night. I don't know if this will give you any more insight as to Dwight's issue of speed, but he does work on his sprinting mechanics often, now that he has finally been taught. Even though most players work the mechanics to get a good 40 time and then don't really follow up with the drills, he works the drills often. He also went and ordered some of the same tools that his Sprinting Coach used while working with him, such as the rope-&-pulley resistance running unit, various over speed tools, foot-flexors that maintain proper alignment of the foot during a sprint, etc. He even bought the jump-soles and has been working with them. More importantly though is that he maintains doing all the drills he learned from Aaron. We also work extensively on the Olympic Lifts as a core part of our training and those movements definitely increase speed and explosiveness. (...If you'd like examples as to the efficacy of the Olympic-Lifts, I will gladly provide them.) We also do explosive back-squats (as opposed to slow moving like the power lifters do) and weighted jump-squats. Both movements also improve explosiveness and fast twitch muscle fibers. I will be posting on the board soon, but I have to write a few responses to the comments made by various members on the board. ...One more quick note, (this was brought up by someone on Jetsinsider.com) ...I never said that he scored 7 touchdowns in a college game. I had just stated right before I gave that stat that in his last 60 games he's had 49 interceptions. Who has 60 games in 2 years in college??? The game he scored 7 touchdowns was against Sacred Heart of San Francisco in 2003. If your interested, ...he also set the school record of 25 touchdowns in his Senior season, 23 of them rushing scores, and was a two-time first-team all-league defensive back, as well as a first-team running back as a senior, all while in high school. In Junior College he intercepted 13 passes in the 15 games he played over two seasons and tied for first in the state with his eight interceptions as a freshman. ...There's one more stat I can share with you that gets no publicity and few people know. Feel free to research it and determine its validity. You already know that he transferred from a Junior College to D1 University where he only had 2 years of eligibility at the D1 level, during which he was awarded First-Team All-American both years. ...The only other athlete in the history of the sport who played at a Junior College and then transferred to a University and earned Two-Time First-Team All American, was O.J. Simpson, where he played one year at San Francisco City College and then transferred to USC where he played a full three years. O.J. had Three full years of eligibility at the D1 level for which he attaind Two-Time First-Team All-American. That means that Dwight is the *first* player, ever, to transfer from a Junior College where he played a full two years, and thus only having *two* years for which to earn Two-Time First-Team All American status. Dwight did it with just 2 years eligibility. The first player to do so. That stat was given to us by both, his Agent (who has been involved with the NFL for over 30 years) and by another source in the NFL. I've tried researching it and haven't found any others who have accomplished this. That's a pretty cool stat, I think, yet one that doesn't get talked about. Anyway, sorry for the length of the e-mail, Slikmojet. I'll post probably tomorrow on the Jetsinsider.com board. If there is any other questions you have, feel free to ask me. If they are not personal in nature to the point where I feel like I would be betraying Dwight's trust in any way, then I will answer as well as I can. ...And if it sounded like I was just trying to "hype up" Dwight as a player, I'm sorry. That was not my intention. I just know how hard this kid works and how much he loves the game and I wanted to let you, the long time Jets Fans, know from an insiders perspective. Dwight doesn't get national press coverage like the athletes from the powerhouse schools. ...Even though Jordan was a naturally gifted and great athlete, ...he wouldn't have had the success he did if he hadn't developed his exceptional *work-ethic*. Him getting cut from his Varsity Basketball Team was a good thing. It fueled his drive. I agree with people from a general standpoint, though, when they suggest everyone not start "counting the chickens before they hatch". Let's just see what Dwight does. As I said, *He* will be the one to prove his worth and convince the Jets Fans as to what he can do. I can definitely say though, it's much better to have Dwight playing *for* you than *against* you. I gotta call it a night. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DMaynard Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Slikmojet, How are you, Sir? As for Dwight's speed, ...I'm not sure what else to write or say. I saw on the JI board that someone mentioned the time he got at the Pro Day. I was there at the Pro Day, as was Aaron Thigpenn, as was Dwight's Agent, Frank Bower. I had Dwight clocked at 4.42 and Aaron had him clocked at 4.43. Are you aware of how it works at the Pro Day? It was quite comical. A joke, really. There were about 13 or 15 "official" people from the various teams who were there, all with stopwatches and timing the athletes in the forty times. Of the times that were taken, the lowest I heard was 4.36 for Dwight and the highest I heard was 5.86 (both from timers there on behalf of NFL teams). The times were all over the place. There was no consistency. I'm not trying to make excuses or anything, but seriously, they need to have some standards. When the times are spread that far apart between all the "official" people timing, it tells me that either a), there are no clearly defined standards as to when to start the clock or when to stop the clock, or , the so called "official" people running the stopwatches have no business doing so. It's as if they just tell whoever is in the office that day, "Hey, after you bring me some coffee, why don't you go out and time the pro-day." I'll come back to the standards in a moment. As for how they decided what the official pro-day times for all the athletes were, after the event, all the timers got together and compared times and they just averaged out all their times to get the median time, the average of all the times taken. That's just ridiculous to me. Seriously though, Slikmojet, (what's your first name if you don't mind me asking?), does that sound like a carefully structured, standardized way to decide official times? Times that could well determine a young athletes future? Aaron said that in all his years of running track events (he still competes) that he had never seen anything like it. I really don't know what to say about it, Slikmojet. Back to the standards thing, ...I think the NFL really needs to hire an independent source that has *clearly-defined* standards for when you start and stop the clock, and literally have people certified or something to show competency in being able to effectively and accurately time athletes. Whether or not that will ever happen, we'll have to wait and see. ...Like how we now will have to wait untill 2012 before the BCS again revisits and puts to vote whether or not to have a playoff for NCAA Football. Anyway, as I said, I don't really know what else to say about Dwight's speed. I know the kid can play football and he has plenty of football speed. He's a football player through and through. He never ran track in high school or college. Not once. Just Football and basketball. He was MVP of the league as a starting point-guard back in high school and ran the offense well. He's faster when he needs to be fast such as in games. Remember that Jerry Rice was fast when he needed to be in the NFL, yet he too had a "slow" 40 time. I know he wasn't the fastest receiver to ever play the game, but he clearly had enough speed when he needed it, despite what his "40 time" said. I saw one of the members on JI said he found it hard to believe that Dwight would go out and buy Jets memorabilia right before the draft. He is coming to his own conclusions there as that is not at all what I said. I clearly stated that Dwight already had Jets stuff. And that is the truth. The very day he was drafted, later that afternoon he had his Jets sweatshirt on. It had cut off sleeves and the lower half cut off, like the old school players used to wear back in the day. He didn't go buy it right before the draft. He's had it since high school and used to wear it under his football pads. He is definitely excited about being drafted by the Jets. I think, ...I know, that is is in part due to the fact that the Coaching staff seems as though they really believe in his ability and in what he can do on the field. They told him the day of the draft during a later conversation that they have very, very high hopes for him and that he will be competing for a starting position. Granted, they did not say what that starting position would be. I suspect it will be determinant on how he does during practices and where they feel would be the best fit for their system. I know the Jets run a rather complicated defense, yet Dwight has the intelligence and understanding of the game to where I don't think it will be a problem for him. He has been studying the playbook and studying dvr'd games that he recorded from last season, paying close attention to the defensive plays the Jets run and then cross-referencing the plays with his play-book. As I said, he takes the game very seriously and treats it as any serious professional should, regardless of their profession. I think it's pretty pathetic the gay jokes on JI saying that I have a little too much "man love" for Dwight. Obviously they are not Coaches of any kind. I take my job seriously and I love what I do. Some have better work ethics that others, yet this is true of any sport or profession. I work with athletes from all sports and I have several who have the same type of discipline and drive and work ethic that Dwight does, yet they are in different sports, I have a high school softball player who just turned 17 and is in her Junior year. She is developing the same type of work ethic that Dwight has, yet it wasn't until Dwight was in Junior college that he started to take everything more seriously and develop a better work ethic. Each year his work ethic got better and better and it continues to improve because he absolutely wants to be the best. He has a chip on his shoulder, as they say. He wants to be the best and he actually has the work ethic to make it happen. Part of what drives him is all the people who talk so much **** about him and say he's this or he's that. So it's actually good that so many people are popping off at the mouth like parrots repeating everything they hear from analysts like Mel Kiper. It really is "fuel to the fire". He views every team other than the Jets, as his enemy now. Period. And he is going to make every one of them pay. I'll say this much, ...it's much better to Have Dwight playing for you than against you. He really is happy though Slikmojet. He genuinely is excited to be playing for the Jets. I'm just happy that he was drafted by a team that really believes in him the way I do and is actually going to give him a chance to compete for a starting position, rather than simply being a practice body that's future is already decided by coaches as being a backup. You have no idea just how many new Jets fans there are out here in the Bay Area now. Granted, many of them haven't always been Jets fans their whole life, but they sure as hell are now. I was laughing at myself yesterday because it sunk in, the realization that I am a total Jets fan now. It's almost funny to me. But I really am. I always loved the sport of football, but as a strength and conditioning Coach, I've always liked certain players with how they play or how serious they are about the sport. Now I have a specific team to root for. A team that saw the potential in my friend and gave him a chance. As for why I posted my original message on the other board in the first place, it was because people were saying things about Dwight that just weren't true. I will be the first to defend my friends and athletes. If an athlete I am training just doesn't have a good work-ethic (there have been a few in the past 11 years), I will be the first to say it. I have a client on the Cleveland Indian's, a starting pitcher, who just wasn't working hard enough or taking either the training or nutrition aspect serious enough. I flat out called him out on it. This past off-season he took everything much more seriously and developed a much better work-ethic. I wouldn't have publicly come out and defended Dwight and said what I did had I not felt that what people were saying were not true. I used to go on the MMA message boards all the time and the boards of various fitness sites defending our CrossFit program from those who were spreading falsehoods about our program. I always tried to be respectful and engage in intelligent discourse, but there are those out there who prefer the low-brow means for which to attack our program. It's hard to debate with those types because even when you entirely pick apart their arguments and bring to light their lack of knowledge, or even make them look stupid when needed, they just get plain obscene as it's the best they can do. But whatever. Someone on JI said that if Dwight is successful then I am successful, so of course I "want to talk up my athlete". I understand where he is coming from with that comment, but my success is not predicated on whether or not Dwight is successful. ...Sorry man, I'll shouldn't be responding to all the comments made on the board by people to me or about Dwight by answering them in this e-mail. I'll be posting on the JI board soon. I have definitely talked to Dwight about posting on the boards and he said he likely will. I'm sure it won't be until after he gets back from mini-camp though. He flys out there tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 6:30 am and gets back Sunday night. I don't know if this will give you any more insight as to Dwight's issue of speed, but he does work on his sprinting mechanics often, now that he has finally been taught. Even though most players work the mechanics to get a good 40 time and then don't really follow up with the drills, he works the drills often. He also went and ordered some of the same tools that his Sprinting Coach used while working with him, such as the rope-&-pulley resistance running unit, various over speed tools, foot-flexors that maintain proper alignment of the foot during a sprint, etc. He even bought the jump-soles and has been working with them. More importantly though is that he maintains doing all the drills he learned from Aaron. We also work extensively on the Olympic Lifts as a core part of our training and those movements definitely increase speed and explosiveness. (...If you'd like examples as to the efficacy of the Olympic-Lifts, I will gladly provide them.) We also do explosive back-squats (as opposed to slow moving like the power lifters do) and weighted jump-squats. Both movements also improve explosiveness and fast twitch muscle fibers. I will be posting on the board soon, but I have to write a few responses to the comments made by various members on the board. ...One more quick note, (this was brought up by someone on Jetsinsider.com) ...I never said that he scored 7 touchdowns in a college game. I had just stated right before I gave that stat that in his last 60 games he's had 49 interceptions. Who has 60 games in 2 years in college??? The game he scored 7 touchdowns was against Sacred Heart of San Francisco in 2003. If your interested, ...he also set the school record of 25 touchdowns in his Senior season, 23 of them rushing scores, and was a two-time first-team all-league defensive back, as well as a first-team running back as a senior, all while in high school. In Junior College he intercepted 13 passes in the 15 games he played over two seasons and tied for first in the state with his eight interceptions as a freshman. ...There's one more stat I can share with you that gets no publicity and few people know. Feel free to research it and determine its validity. You already know that he transferred from a Junior College to D1 University where he only had 2 years of eligibility at the D1 level, during which he was awarded First-Team All-American both years. ...The only other athlete in the history of the sport who played at a Junior College and then transferred to a University and earned Two-Time First-Team All American, was O.J. Simpson, where he played one year at San Francisco City College and then transferred to USC where he played a full three years. O.J. had Three full years of eligibility at the D1 level for which he attaind Two-Time First-Team All-American. That means that Dwight is the *first* player, ever, to transfer from a Junior College where he played a full two years, and thus only having *two* years for which to earn Two-Time First-Team All American status. Dwight did it with just 2 years eligibility. The first player to do so. That stat was given to us by both, his Agent (who has been involved with the NFL for over 30 years) and by another source in the NFL. I've tried researching it and haven't found any others who have accomplished this. That's a pretty cool stat, I think, yet one that doesn't get talked about. Anyway, sorry for the length of the e-mail, Slikmojet. I'll post probably tomorrow on the Jetsinsider.com board. If there is any other questions you have, feel free to ask me. If they are not personal in nature to the point where I feel like I would be betraying Dwight's trust in any way, then I will answer as well as I can. ...And if it sounded like I was just trying to "hype up" Dwight as a player, I'm sorry. That was not my intention. I just know how hard this kid works and how much he loves the game and I wanted to let you, the long time Jets Fans, know from an insiders perspective. Dwight doesn't get national press coverage like the athletes from the powerhouse schools. ...Even though Jordan was a naturally gifted and great athlete, ...he wouldn't have had the success he did if he hadn't developed his exceptional *work-ethic*. Him getting cut from his Varsity Basketball Team was a good thing. It fueled his drive. I agree with people from a general standpoint, though, when they suggest everyone not start "counting the chickens before they hatch". Let's just see what Dwight does. As I said, *He* will be the one to prove his worth and convince the Jets Fans as to what he can do. I can definitely say though, it's much better to have Dwight playing *for* you than *against* you. I gotta call it a night. Jason Times varied from 4.36 to 5.86??? Holy Christ. Didn't they have stopwatches? 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hoping4ASuperBowl Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Slikmojet, How are you, Sir? As for Dwight's speed, ...I'm not sure what else to write or say. I saw on the JI board that someone mentioned the time he got at the Pro Day. I was there at the Pro Day, as was Aaron Thigpenn, as was Dwight's Agent, Frank Bower. I had Dwight clocked at 4.42 and Aaron had him clocked at 4.43. Are you aware of how it works at the Pro Day? It was quite comical. A joke, really. There were about 13 or 15 "official" people from the various teams who were there, all with stopwatches and timing the athletes in the forty times. Of the times that were taken, the lowest I heard was 4.36 for Dwight and the highest I heard was 5.86 (both from timers there on behalf of NFL teams). The times were all over the place. There was no consistency. I'm not trying to make excuses or anything, but seriously, they need to have some standards. When the times are spread that far apart between all the "official" people timing, it tells me that either a), there are no clearly defined standards as to when to start the clock or when to stop the clock, or , the so called "official" people running the stopwatches have no business doing so. It's as if they just tell whoever is in the office that day, "Hey, after you bring me some coffee, why don't you go out and time the pro-day." I'll come back to the standards in a moment. As for how they decided what the official pro-day times for all the athletes were, after the event, all the timers got together and compared times and they just averaged out all their times to get the median time, the average of all the times taken. That's just ridiculous to me. Seriously though, Slikmojet, (what's your first name if you don't mind me asking?), does that sound like a carefully structured, standardized way to decide official times? Times that could well determine a young athletes future? Aaron said that in all his years of running track events (he still competes) that he had never seen anything like it. I really don't know what to say about it, Slikmojet. Back to the standards thing, ...I think the NFL really needs to hire an independent source that has *clearly-defined* standards for when you start and stop the clock, and literally have people certified or something to show competency in being able to effectively and accurately time athletes. Whether or not that will ever happen, we'll have to wait and see. ...Like how we now will have to wait untill 2012 before the BCS again revisits and puts to vote whether or not to have a playoff for NCAA Football. Anyway, as I said, I don't really know what else to say about Dwight's speed. I know the kid can play football and he has plenty of football speed. He's a football player through and through. He never ran track in high school or college. Not once. Just Football and basketball. He was MVP of the league as a starting point-guard back in high school and ran the offense well. He's faster when he needs to be fast such as in games. Remember that Jerry Rice was fast when he needed to be in the NFL, yet he too had a "slow" 40 time. I know he wasn't the fastest receiver to ever play the game, but he clearly had enough speed when he needed it, despite what his "40 time" said. I saw one of the members on JI said he found it hard to believe that Dwight would go out and buy Jets memorabilia right before the draft. He is coming to his own conclusions there as that is not at all what I said. I clearly stated that Dwight already had Jets stuff. And that is the truth. The very day he was drafted, later that afternoon he had his Jets sweatshirt on. It had cut off sleeves and the lower half cut off, like the old school players used to wear back in the day. He didn't go buy it right before the draft. He's had it since high school and used to wear it under his football pads. He is definitely excited about being drafted by the Jets. I think, ...I know, that is is in part due to the fact that the Coaching staff seems as though they really believe in his ability and in what he can do on the field. They told him the day of the draft during a later conversation that they have very, very high hopes for him and that he will be competing for a starting position. Granted, they did not say what that starting position would be. I suspect it will be determinant on how he does during practices and where they feel would be the best fit for their system. I know the Jets run a rather complicated defense, yet Dwight has the intelligence and understanding of the game to where I don't think it will be a problem for him. He has been studying the playbook and studying dvr'd games that he recorded from last season, paying close attention to the defensive plays the Jets run and then cross-referencing the plays with his play-book. As I said, he takes the game very seriously and treats it as any serious professional should, regardless of their profession. I think it's pretty pathetic the gay jokes on JI saying that I have a little too much "man love" for Dwight. Obviously they are not Coaches of any kind. I take my job seriously and I love what I do. Some have better work ethics that others, yet this is true of any sport or profession. I work with athletes from all sports and I have several who have the same type of discipline and drive and work ethic that Dwight does, yet they are in different sports, I have a high school softball player who just turned 17 and is in her Junior year. She is developing the same type of work ethic that Dwight has, yet it wasn't until Dwight was in Junior college that he started to take everything more seriously and develop a better work ethic. Each year his work ethic got better and better and it continues to improve because he absolutely wants to be the best. He has a chip on his shoulder, as they say. He wants to be the best and he actually has the work ethic to make it happen. Part of what drives him is all the people who talk so much **** about him and say he's this or he's that. So it's actually good that so many people are popping off at the mouth like parrots repeating everything they hear from analysts like Mel Kiper. It really is "fuel to the fire". He views every team other than the Jets, as his enemy now. Period. And he is going to make every one of them pay. I'll say this much, ...it's much better to Have Dwight playing for you than against you. He really is happy though Slikmojet. He genuinely is excited to be playing for the Jets. I'm just happy that he was drafted by a team that really believes in him the way I do and is actually going to give him a chance to compete for a starting position, rather than simply being a practice body that's future is already decided by coaches as being a backup. You have no idea just how many new Jets fans there are out here in the Bay Area now. Granted, many of them haven't always been Jets fans their whole life, but they sure as hell are now. I was laughing at myself yesterday because it sunk in, the realization that I am a total Jets fan now. It's almost funny to me. But I really am. I always loved the sport of football, but as a strength and conditioning Coach, I've always liked certain players with how they play or how serious they are about the sport. Now I have a specific team to root for. A team that saw the potential in my friend and gave him a chance. As for why I posted my original message on the other board in the first place, it was because people were saying things about Dwight that just weren't true. I will be the first to defend my friends and athletes. If an athlete I am training just doesn't have a good work-ethic (there have been a few in the past 11 years), I will be the first to say it. I have a client on the Cleveland Indian's, a starting pitcher, who just wasn't working hard enough or taking either the training or nutrition aspect serious enough. I flat out called him out on it. This past off-season he took everything much more seriously and developed a much better work-ethic. I wouldn't have publicly come out and defended Dwight and said what I did had I not felt that what people were saying were not true. I used to go on the MMA message boards all the time and the boards of various fitness sites defending our CrossFit program from those who were spreading falsehoods about our program. I always tried to be respectful and engage in intelligent discourse, but there are those out there who prefer the low-brow means for which to attack our program. It's hard to debate with those types because even when you entirely pick apart their arguments and bring to light their lack of knowledge, or even make them look stupid when needed, they just get plain obscene as it's the best they can do. But whatever. Someone on JI said that if Dwight is successful then I am successful, so of course I "want to talk up my athlete". I understand where he is coming from with that comment, but my success is not predicated on whether or not Dwight is successful. ...Sorry man, I'll shouldn't be responding to all the comments made on the board by people to me or about Dwight by answering them in this e-mail. I'll be posting on the JI board soon. I have definitely talked to Dwight about posting on the boards and he said he likely will. I'm sure it won't be until after he gets back from mini-camp though. He flys out there tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 6:30 am and gets back Sunday night. I don't know if this will give you any more insight as to Dwight's issue of speed, but he does work on his sprinting mechanics often, now that he has finally been taught. Even though most players work the mechanics to get a good 40 time and then don't really follow up with the drills, he works the drills often. He also went and ordered some of the same tools that his Sprinting Coach used while working with him, such as the rope-&-pulley resistance running unit, various over speed tools, foot-flexors that maintain proper alignment of the foot during a sprint, etc. He even bought the jump-soles and has been working with them. More importantly though is that he maintains doing all the drills he learned from Aaron. We also work extensively on the Olympic Lifts as a core part of our training and those movements definitely increase speed and explosiveness. (...If you'd like examples as to the efficacy of the Olympic-Lifts, I will gladly provide them.) We also do explosive back-squats (as opposed to slow moving like the power lifters do) and weighted jump-squats. Both movements also improve explosiveness and fast twitch muscle fibers. I will be posting on the board soon, but I have to write a few responses to the comments made by various members on the board. ...One more quick note, (this was brought up by someone on Jetsinsider.com) ...I never said that he scored 7 touchdowns in a college game. I had just stated right before I gave that stat that in his last 60 games he's had 49 interceptions. Who has 60 games in 2 years in college??? The game he scored 7 touchdowns was against Sacred Heart of San Francisco in 2003. If your interested, ...he also set the school record of 25 touchdowns in his Senior season, 23 of them rushing scores, and was a two-time first-team all-league defensive back, as well as a first-team running back as a senior, all while in high school. In Junior College he intercepted 13 passes in the 15 games he played over two seasons and tied for first in the state with his eight interceptions as a freshman. ...There's one more stat I can share with you that gets no publicity and few people know. Feel free to research it and determine its validity. You already know that he transferred from a Junior College to D1 University where he only had 2 years of eligibility at the D1 level, during which he was awarded First-Team All-American both years. ...The only other athlete in the history of the sport who played at a Junior College and then transferred to a University and earned Two-Time First-Team All American, was O.J. Simpson, where he played one year at San Francisco City College and then transferred to USC where he played a full three years. O.J. had Three full years of eligibility at the D1 level for which he attaind Two-Time First-Team All-American. That means that Dwight is the *first* player, ever, to transfer from a Junior College where he played a full two years, and thus only having *two* years for which to earn Two-Time First-Team All American status. Dwight did it with just 2 years eligibility. The first player to do so. That stat was given to us by both, his Agent (who has been involved with the NFL for over 30 years) and by another source in the NFL. I've tried researching it and haven't found any others who have accomplished this. That's a pretty cool stat, I think, yet one that doesn't get talked about. Anyway, sorry for the length of the e-mail, Slikmojet. I'll post probably tomorrow on the Jetsinsider.com board. If there is any other questions you have, feel free to ask me. If they are not personal in nature to the point where I feel like I would be betraying Dwight's trust in any way, then I will answer as well as I can. ...And if it sounded like I was just trying to "hype up" Dwight as a player, I'm sorry. That was not my intention. I just know how hard this kid works and how much he loves the game and I wanted to let you, the long time Jets Fans, know from an insiders perspective. Dwight doesn't get national press coverage like the athletes from the powerhouse schools. ...Even though Jordan was a naturally gifted and great athlete, ...he wouldn't have had the success he did if he hadn't developed his exceptional *work-ethic*. Him getting cut from his Varsity Basketball Team was a good thing. It fueled his drive. I agree with people from a general standpoint, though, when they suggest everyone not start "counting the chickens before they hatch". Let's just see what Dwight does. As I said, *He* will be the one to prove his worth and convince the Jets Fans as to what he can do. I can definitely say though, it's much better to have Dwight playing *for* you than *against* you. I gotta call it a night. Jason this is long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick34125 Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 this is long. This guy has more than a little man crush on our boy dwight. yo hoping.... with an avatar like that you need to do more posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Moses Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Slikmojet, KJ, I need a link to the new Jets Addicts site. I think I'm still linked to the old server because I can't log in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJ667 Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 wall of TEXT'D anyway from the part i read, i'm not concerned, i think the scouts know what they are doing for the Jets and i think the coaches will get him to play well. besides the corners should play well because the pass rush should be leaps and bounds better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancemehl Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Slikmojet, How are you, Sir? As for Dwight's speed, ...I'm not sure what else to write or say. I saw on the JI board that someone mentioned the time he got at the Pro Day. I was there at the Pro Day, as was Aaron Thigpenn, as was Dwight's Agent, Frank Bower. I had Dwight clocked at 4.42 and Aaron had him clocked at 4.43. Are you aware of how it works at the Pro Day? It was quite comical. A joke, really. There were about 13 or 15 "official" people from the various teams who were there, all with stopwatches and timing the athletes in the forty times. Of the times that were taken, the lowest I heard was 4.36 for Dwight and the highest I heard was 5.86 (both from timers there on behalf of NFL teams). The times were all over the place. There was no consistency. I'm not trying to make excuses or anything, but seriously, they need to have some standards. When the times are spread that far apart between all the "official" people timing, it tells me that either a), there are no clearly defined standards as to when to start the clock or when to stop the clock, or , the so called "official" people running the stopwatches have no business doing so. It's as if they just tell whoever is in the office that day, "Hey, after you bring me some coffee, why don't you go out and time the pro-day." I'll come back to the standards in a moment. As for how they decided what the official pro-day times for all the athletes were, after the event, all the timers got together and compared times and they just averaged out all their times to get the median time, the average of all the times taken. That's just ridiculous to me. Seriously though, Slikmojet, (what's your first name if you don't mind me asking?), does that sound like a carefully structured, standardized way to decide official times? Times that could well determine a young athletes future? Aaron said that in all his years of running track events (he still competes) that he had never seen anything like it. I really don't know what to say about it, Slikmojet. Back to the standards thing, ...I think the NFL really needs to hire an independent source that has *clearly-defined* standards for when you start and stop the clock, and literally have people certified or something to show competency in being able to effectively and accurately time athletes. Whether or not that will ever happen, we'll have to wait and see. ...Like how we now will have to wait untill 2012 before the BCS again revisits and puts to vote whether or not to have a playoff for NCAA Football. Anyway, as I said, I don't really know what else to say about Dwight's speed. I know the kid can play football and he has plenty of football speed. He's a football player through and through. He never ran track in high school or college. Not once. Just Football and basketball. He was MVP of the league as a starting point-guard back in high school and ran the offense well. He's faster when he needs to be fast such as in games. Remember that Jerry Rice was fast when he needed to be in the NFL, yet he too had a "slow" 40 time. I know he wasn't the fastest receiver to ever play the game, but he clearly had enough speed when he needed it, despite what his "40 time" said. I saw one of the members on JI said he found it hard to believe that Dwight would go out and buy Jets memorabilia right before the draft. He is coming to his own conclusions there as that is not at all what I said. I clearly stated that Dwight already had Jets stuff. And that is the truth. The very day he was drafted, later that afternoon he had his Jets sweatshirt on. It had cut off sleeves and the lower half cut off, like the old school players used to wear back in the day. He didn't go buy it right before the draft. He's had it since high school and used to wear it under his football pads. He is definitely excited about being drafted by the Jets. I think, ...I know, that is is in part due to the fact that the Coaching staff seems as though they really believe in his ability and in what he can do on the field. They told him the day of the draft during a later conversation that they have very, very high hopes for him and that he will be competing for a starting position. Granted, they did not say what that starting position would be. I suspect it will be determinant on how he does during practices and where they feel would be the best fit for their system. I know the Jets run a rather complicated defense, yet Dwight has the intelligence and understanding of the game to where I don't think it will be a problem for him. He has been studying the playbook and studying dvr'd games that he recorded from last season, paying close attention to the defensive plays the Jets run and then cross-referencing the plays with his play-book. As I said, he takes the game very seriously and treats it as any serious professional should, regardless of their profession. I think it's pretty pathetic the gay jokes on JI saying that I have a little too much "man love" for Dwight. Obviously they are not Coaches of any kind. I take my job seriously and I love what I do. Some have better work ethics that others, yet this is true of any sport or profession. I work with athletes from all sports and I have several who have the same type of discipline and drive and work ethic that Dwight does, yet they are in different sports, I have a high school softball player who just turned 17 and is in her Junior year. She is developing the same type of work ethic that Dwight has, yet it wasn't until Dwight was in Junior college that he started to take everything more seriously and develop a better work ethic. Each year his work ethic got better and better and it continues to improve because he absolutely wants to be the best. He has a chip on his shoulder, as they say. He wants to be the best and he actually has the work ethic to make it happen. Part of what drives him is all the people who talk so much **** about him and say he's this or he's that. So it's actually good that so many people are popping off at the mouth like parrots repeating everything they hear from analysts like Mel Kiper. It really is "fuel to the fire". He views every team other than the Jets, as his enemy now. Period. And he is going to make every one of them pay. I'll say this much, ...it's much better to Have Dwight playing for you than against you. He really is happy though Slikmojet. He genuinely is excited to be playing for the Jets. I'm just happy that he was drafted by a team that really believes in him the way I do and is actually going to give him a chance to compete for a starting position, rather than simply being a practice body that's future is already decided by coaches as being a backup. You have no idea just how many new Jets fans there are out here in the Bay Area now. Granted, many of them haven't always been Jets fans their whole life, but they sure as hell are now. I was laughing at myself yesterday because it sunk in, the realization that I am a total Jets fan now. It's almost funny to me. But I really am. I always loved the sport of football, but as a strength and conditioning Coach, I've always liked certain players with how they play or how serious they are about the sport. Now I have a specific team to root for. A team that saw the potential in my friend and gave him a chance. As for why I posted my original message on the other board in the first place, it was because people were saying things about Dwight that just weren't true. I will be the first to defend my friends and athletes. If an athlete I am training just doesn't have a good work-ethic (there have been a few in the past 11 years), I will be the first to say it. I have a client on the Cleveland Indian's, a starting pitcher, who just wasn't working hard enough or taking either the training or nutrition aspect serious enough. I flat out called him out on it. This past off-season he took everything much more seriously and developed a much better work-ethic. I wouldn't have publicly come out and defended Dwight and said what I did had I not felt that what people were saying were not true. I used to go on the MMA message boards all the time and the boards of various fitness sites defending our CrossFit program from those who were spreading falsehoods about our program. I always tried to be respectful and engage in intelligent discourse, but there are those out there who prefer the low-brow means for which to attack our program. It's hard to debate with those types because even when you entirely pick apart their arguments and bring to light their lack of knowledge, or even make them look stupid when needed, they just get plain obscene as it's the best they can do. But whatever. Someone on JI said that if Dwight is successful then I am successful, so of course I "want to talk up my athlete". I understand where he is coming from with that comment, but my success is not predicated on whether or not Dwight is successful. ...Sorry man, I'll shouldn't be responding to all the comments made on the board by people to me or about Dwight by answering them in this e-mail. I'll be posting on the JI board soon. I have definitely talked to Dwight about posting on the boards and he said he likely will. I'm sure it won't be until after he gets back from mini-camp though. He flys out there tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 6:30 am and gets back Sunday night. I don't know if this will give you any more insight as to Dwight's issue of speed, but he does work on his sprinting mechanics often, now that he has finally been taught. Even though most players work the mechanics to get a good 40 time and then don't really follow up with the drills, he works the drills often. He also went and ordered some of the same tools that his Sprinting Coach used while working with him, such as the rope-&-pulley resistance running unit, various over speed tools, foot-flexors that maintain proper alignment of the foot during a sprint, etc. He even bought the jump-soles and has been working with them. More importantly though is that he maintains doing all the drills he learned from Aaron. We also work extensively on the Olympic Lifts as a core part of our training and those movements definitely increase speed and explosiveness. (...If you'd like examples as to the efficacy of the Olympic-Lifts, I will gladly provide them.) We also do explosive back-squats (as opposed to slow moving like the power lifters do) and weighted jump-squats. Both movements also improve explosiveness and fast twitch muscle fibers. I will be posting on the board soon, but I have to write a few responses to the comments made by various members on the board. ...One more quick note, (this was brought up by someone on Jetsinsider.com) ...I never said that he scored 7 touchdowns in a college game. I had just stated right before I gave that stat that in his last 60 games he's had 49 interceptions. Who has 60 games in 2 years in college??? The game he scored 7 touchdowns was against Sacred Heart of San Francisco in 2003. If your interested, ...he also set the school record of 25 touchdowns in his Senior season, 23 of them rushing scores, and was a two-time first-team all-league defensive back, as well as a first-team running back as a senior, all while in high school. In Junior College he intercepted 13 passes in the 15 games he played over two seasons and tied for first in the state with his eight interceptions as a freshman. ...There's one more stat I can share with you that gets no publicity and few people know. Feel free to research it and determine its validity. You already know that he transferred from a Junior College to D1 University where he only had 2 years of eligibility at the D1 level, during which he was awarded First-Team All-American both years. ...The only other athlete in the history of the sport who played at a Junior College and then transferred to a University and earned Two-Time First-Team All American, was O.J. Simpson, where he played one year at San Francisco City College and then transferred to USC where he played a full three years. O.J. had Three full years of eligibility at the D1 level for which he attaind Two-Time First-Team All-American. That means that Dwight is the *first* player, ever, to transfer from a Junior College where he played a full two years, and thus only having *two* years for which to earn Two-Time First-Team All American status. Dwight did it with just 2 years eligibility. The first player to do so. That stat was given to us by both, his Agent (who has been involved with the NFL for over 30 years) and by another source in the NFL. I've tried researching it and haven't found any others who have accomplished this. That's a pretty cool stat, I think, yet one that doesn't get talked about. Anyway, sorry for the length of the e-mail, Slikmojet. I'll post probably tomorrow on the Jetsinsider.com board. If there is any other questions you have, feel free to ask me. If they are not personal in nature to the point where I feel like I would be betraying Dwight's trust in any way, then I will answer as well as I can. ...And if it sounded like I was just trying to "hype up" Dwight as a player, I'm sorry. That was not my intention. I just know how hard this kid works and how much he loves the game and I wanted to let you, the long time Jets Fans, know from an insiders perspective. Dwight doesn't get national press coverage like the athletes from the powerhouse schools. ...Even though Jordan was a naturally gifted and great athlete, ...he wouldn't have had the success he did if he hadn't developed his exceptional *work-ethic*. Him getting cut from his Varsity Basketball Team was a good thing. It fueled his drive. I agree with people from a general standpoint, though, when they suggest everyone not start "counting the chickens before they hatch". Let's just see what Dwight does. As I said, *He* will be the one to prove his worth and convince the Jets Fans as to what he can do. I can definitely say though, it's much better to have Dwight playing *for* you than *against* you. I gotta call it a night. Jason I can't believe I just read that whole f---ing thing. 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lancemehl Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Slikmojet, How are you, Sir? As for Dwight's speed, ...I'm not sure what else to write or say. I saw on the JI board that someone mentioned the time he got at the Pro Day. I was there at the Pro Day, as was Aaron Thigpenn, as was Dwight's Agent, Frank Bower. I had Dwight clocked at 4.42 and Aaron had him clocked at 4.43. Are you aware of how it works at the Pro Day? It was quite comical. A joke, really. There were about 13 or 15 "official" people from the various teams who were there, all with stopwatches and timing the athletes in the forty times. Of the times that were taken, the lowest I heard was 4.36 for Dwight and the highest I heard was 5.86 (both from timers there on behalf of NFL teams). The times were all over the place. There was no consistency. I'm not trying to make excuses or anything, but seriously, they need to have some standards. When the times are spread that far apart between all the "official" people timing, it tells me that either a), there are no clearly defined standards as to when to start the clock or when to stop the clock, or , the so called "official" people running the stopwatches have no business doing so. It's as if they just tell whoever is in the office that day, "Hey, after you bring me some coffee, why don't you go out and time the pro-day." I'll come back to the standards in a moment. As for how they decided what the official pro-day times for all the athletes were, after the event, all the timers got together and compared times and they just averaged out all their times to get the median time, the average of all the times taken. That's just ridiculous to me. Seriously though, Slikmojet, (what's your first name if you don't mind me asking?), does that sound like a carefully structured, standardized way to decide official times? Times that could well determine a young athletes future? Aaron said that in all his years of running track events (he still competes) that he had never seen anything like it. I really don't know what to say about it, Slikmojet. Back to the standards thing, ...I think the NFL really needs to hire an independent source that has *clearly-defined* standards for when you start and stop the clock, and literally have people certified or something to show competency in being able to effectively and accurately time athletes. Whether or not that will ever happen, we'll have to wait and see. ...Like how we now will have to wait untill 2012 before the BCS again revisits and puts to vote whether or not to have a playoff for NCAA Football. Anyway, as I said, I don't really know what else to say about Dwight's speed. I know the kid can play football and he has plenty of football speed. He's a football player through and through. He never ran track in high school or college. Not once. Just Football and basketball. He was MVP of the league as a starting point-guard back in high school and ran the offense well. He's faster when he needs to be fast such as in games. Remember that Jerry Rice was fast when he needed to be in the NFL, yet he too had a "slow" 40 time. I know he wasn't the fastest receiver to ever play the game, but he clearly had enough speed when he needed it, despite what his "40 time" said. I saw one of the members on JI said he found it hard to believe that Dwight would go out and buy Jets memorabilia right before the draft. He is coming to his own conclusions there as that is not at all what I said. I clearly stated that Dwight already had Jets stuff. And that is the truth. The very day he was drafted, later that afternoon he had his Jets sweatshirt on. It had cut off sleeves and the lower half cut off, like the old school players used to wear back in the day. He didn't go buy it right before the draft. He's had it since high school and used to wear it under his football pads. He is definitely excited about being drafted by the Jets. I think, ...I know, that is is in part due to the fact that the Coaching staff seems as though they really believe in his ability and in what he can do on the field. They told him the day of the draft during a later conversation that they have very, very high hopes for him and that he will be competing for a starting position. Granted, they did not say what that starting position would be. I suspect it will be determinant on how he does during practices and where they feel would be the best fit for their system. I know the Jets run a rather complicated defense, yet Dwight has the intelligence and understanding of the game to where I don't think it will be a problem for him. He has been studying the playbook and studying dvr'd games that he recorded from last season, paying close attention to the defensive plays the Jets run and then cross-referencing the plays with his play-book. As I said, he takes the game very seriously and treats it as any serious professional should, regardless of their profession. I think it's pretty pathetic the gay jokes on JI saying that I have a little too much "man love" for Dwight. Obviously they are not Coaches of any kind. I take my job seriously and I love what I do. Some have better work ethics that others, yet this is true of any sport or profession. I work with athletes from all sports and I have several who have the same type of discipline and drive and work ethic that Dwight does, yet they are in different sports, I have a high school softball player who just turned 17 and is in her Junior year. She is developing the same type of work ethic that Dwight has, yet it wasn't until Dwight was in Junior college that he started to take everything more seriously and develop a better work ethic. Each year his work ethic got better and better and it continues to improve because he absolutely wants to be the best. He has a chip on his shoulder, as they say. He wants to be the best and he actually has the work ethic to make it happen. Part of what drives him is all the people who talk so much **** about him and say he's this or he's that. So it's actually good that so many people are popping off at the mouth like parrots repeating everything they hear from analysts like Mel Kiper. It really is "fuel to the fire". He views every team other than the Jets, as his enemy now. Period. And he is going to make every one of them pay. I'll say this much, ...it's much better to Have Dwight playing for you than against you. He really is happy though Slikmojet. He genuinely is excited to be playing for the Jets. I'm just happy that he was drafted by a team that really believes in him the way I do and is actually going to give him a chance to compete for a starting position, rather than simply being a practice body that's future is already decided by coaches as being a backup. You have no idea just how many new Jets fans there are out here in the Bay Area now. Granted, many of them haven't always been Jets fans their whole life, but they sure as hell are now. I was laughing at myself yesterday because it sunk in, the realization that I am a total Jets fan now. It's almost funny to me. But I really am. I always loved the sport of football, but as a strength and conditioning Coach, I've always liked certain players with how they play or how serious they are about the sport. Now I have a specific team to root for. A team that saw the potential in my friend and gave him a chance. As for why I posted my original message on the other board in the first place, it was because people were saying things about Dwight that just weren't true. I will be the first to defend my friends and athletes. If an athlete I am training just doesn't have a good work-ethic (there have been a few in the past 11 years), I will be the first to say it. I have a client on the Cleveland Indian's, a starting pitcher, who just wasn't working hard enough or taking either the training or nutrition aspect serious enough. I flat out called him out on it. This past off-season he took everything much more seriously and developed a much better work-ethic. I wouldn't have publicly come out and defended Dwight and said what I did had I not felt that what people were saying were not true. I used to go on the MMA message boards all the time and the boards of various fitness sites defending our CrossFit program from those who were spreading falsehoods about our program. I always tried to be respectful and engage in intelligent discourse, but there are those out there who prefer the low-brow means for which to attack our program. It's hard to debate with those types because even when you entirely pick apart their arguments and bring to light their lack of knowledge, or even make them look stupid when needed, they just get plain obscene as it's the best they can do. But whatever. Someone on JI said that if Dwight is successful then I am successful, so of course I "want to talk up my athlete". I understand where he is coming from with that comment, but my success is not predicated on whether or not Dwight is successful. ...Sorry man, I'll shouldn't be responding to all the comments made on the board by people to me or about Dwight by answering them in this e-mail. I'll be posting on the JI board soon. I have definitely talked to Dwight about posting on the boards and he said he likely will. I'm sure it won't be until after he gets back from mini-camp though. He flys out there tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 6:30 am and gets back Sunday night. I don't know if this will give you any more insight as to Dwight's issue of speed, but he does work on his sprinting mechanics often, now that he has finally been taught. Even though most players work the mechanics to get a good 40 time and then don't really follow up with the drills, he works the drills often. He also went and ordered some of the same tools that his Sprinting Coach used while working with him, such as the rope-&-pulley resistance running unit, various over speed tools, foot-flexors that maintain proper alignment of the foot during a sprint, etc. He even bought the jump-soles and has been working with them. More importantly though is that he maintains doing all the drills he learned from Aaron. We also work extensively on the Olympic Lifts as a core part of our training and those movements definitely increase speed and explosiveness. (...If you'd like examples as to the efficacy of the Olympic-Lifts, I will gladly provide them.) We also do explosive back-squats (as opposed to slow moving like the power lifters do) and weighted jump-squats. Both movements also improve explosiveness and fast twitch muscle fibers. I will be posting on the board soon, but I have to write a few responses to the comments made by various members on the board. ...One more quick note, (this was brought up by someone on Jetsinsider.com) ...I never said that he scored 7 touchdowns in a college game. I had just stated right before I gave that stat that in his last 60 games he's had 49 interceptions. Who has 60 games in 2 years in college??? The game he scored 7 touchdowns was against Sacred Heart of San Francisco in 2003. If your interested, ...he also set the school record of 25 touchdowns in his Senior season, 23 of them rushing scores, and was a two-time first-team all-league defensive back, as well as a first-team running back as a senior, all while in high school. In Junior College he intercepted 13 passes in the 15 games he played over two seasons and tied for first in the state with his eight interceptions as a freshman. ...There's one more stat I can share with you that gets no publicity and few people know. Feel free to research it and determine its validity. You already know that he transferred from a Junior College to D1 University where he only had 2 years of eligibility at the D1 level, during which he was awarded First-Team All-American both years. ...The only other athlete in the history of the sport who played at a Junior College and then transferred to a University and earned Two-Time First-Team All American, was O.J. Simpson, where he played one year at San Francisco City College and then transferred to USC where he played a full three years. O.J. had Three full years of eligibility at the D1 level for which he attaind Two-Time First-Team All-American. That means that Dwight is the *first* player, ever, to transfer from a Junior College where he played a full two years, and thus only having *two* years for which to earn Two-Time First-Team All American status. Dwight did it with just 2 years eligibility. The first player to do so. That stat was given to us by both, his Agent (who has been involved with the NFL for over 30 years) and by another source in the NFL. I've tried researching it and haven't found any others who have accomplished this. That's a pretty cool stat, I think, yet one that doesn't get talked about. Anyway, sorry for the length of the e-mail, Slikmojet. I'll post probably tomorrow on the Jetsinsider.com board. If there is any other questions you have, feel free to ask me. If they are not personal in nature to the point where I feel like I would be betraying Dwight's trust in any way, then I will answer as well as I can. ...And if it sounded like I was just trying to "hype up" Dwight as a player, I'm sorry. That was not my intention. I just know how hard this kid works and how much he loves the game and I wanted to let you, the long time Jets Fans, know from an insiders perspective. Dwight doesn't get national press coverage like the athletes from the powerhouse schools. ...Even though Jordan was a naturally gifted and great athlete, ...he wouldn't have had the success he did if he hadn't developed his exceptional *work-ethic*. Him getting cut from his Varsity Basketball Team was a good thing. It fueled his drive. I agree with people from a general standpoint, though, when they suggest everyone not start "counting the chickens before they hatch". Let's just see what Dwight does. As I said, *He* will be the one to prove his worth and convince the Jets Fans as to what he can do. I can definitely say though, it's much better to have Dwight playing *for* you than *against* you. I gotta call it a night. Jason I can't believe I just read that whole f---ing thing.I love his first sentence, good thing he wasn't sure what to write or he'd still be typing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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