05-19-2023, 10:31 PM
(05-19-2023, 07:10 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote:Great joke! Most everyone who watched football when Jerry played, knew that he ran a famously slow 4.71 40 in his combine in 1985. Jerry did have a knack of taking short passes, slipping a tackle, and then building up speed. His top speed may have been much better than that 4.71 would indicate, but his play speed certainly appeared to make people believe that he was fast.
Rice was quite a bit faster than his 40 time will tell you, I agree. You can use Google Earth, frame counting on YouTube, and a little math to figure out how fast someone is running. I found a video of Jerry catching a short pass and taking it all the way. On that TD, he was running roughly 18 MPH. Comparing that to Chiefs long TD against the Chiefs, he was running roughly 19 MPH.
I would guess Rice was closer to a 4.5/4.44 kind of guy and just ran poorly there.
