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Back Over 200lbs?

JustInTime
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Oh my

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”

Shakespeare 

#1 · Feb 25, 9:56 AM
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Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger! 

#2 · Feb 25, 10:47 AM
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JustInTime wrote:
https://x.com/alec_lewis/status/1894496297865920711?s=46&t=TjjB9Q4BmOwmN74RrrMjoQ

Oh my

I have no doubt he'll be back up to 220 by summer. But the amount of weight he lost is just weird. Makes you wonder how low his weight got if he's just now cresting 200. Seems logical that it was prescribed. I guess? I figure you'd want a 300 lb tackle to lose weight while recovering from knee surgery, but a 200 lb kid?

edited Feb 26, 2025 12:44 AM
#3 · Feb 25, 11:07 AM
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MaroonBells wrote:

I have no doubt he'll be back up to 220 by summer. But the amount of weight he lost is just weird. Makes you wonder how low his weight got if he's just now cresting 200. Seems logical that it was prescribed. I guess? I figure you'd want a 300 lb tackle to lose weight while recovering from knee surgery, but a 200 lb kid?

that 220# kids isnt anymore likely to be naturally 220# than that 300# lineman.

Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?

#4 · Feb 26, 3:19 AM
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JimmyinSD wrote:

that 220# kids isnt anymore likely to be naturally 220# than that 300# lineman.

Not sure what that means, but I do emphatically believe that a 300 lb human weighs more than a 200 lb human.

#5 · Feb 26, 3:52 AM
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When he showed up on the sidelines looking like Calista Flockhart I was told it's all totally normal, nothing to see here. Hopefully that is the case.

#6 · Feb 26, 4:44 AM
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Me too JJ, me too.

Actually it has been a while since I crossed the 200 line either direction.

#7 · Feb 26, 5:12 AM
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MaroonBells wrote:

Not sure what that means, but I do emphatically believe that a 300 lb human weighs more than a 200 lb human.

Most all pro athletes carry more weight than they likely would otherwise.  They take supplements, extra calories,  etc.  Their weight isnt natural even for a QB as well as the 300# lineman.

Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?

#8 · Feb 26, 7:28 AM
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JimmyinSD wrote:

Most all pro athletes carry more weight than they likely would otherwise.  They take supplements, extra calories,  etc.  Their weight isnt natural even for a QB as well as the 300# lineman.

I will never forget seeing Matt Birk maybe a year or so after he retired. It was shocking how much smaller he looked. He played at about 300lbs and looked like he'd dropped to around 220.

NFL players are on a training regimen that makes them abnormal and the return to normal is striking sometimes.

#9 · Feb 26, 8:57 PM
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This is only half the quote, after the back over 200lbs, was and approaching his 218lb playing weight.   :cool: :angel:

edited Feb 27, 2025 9:44 AM
#10 · Feb 27, 9:39 AM
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What I want to know is did he actually grow 2”

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”

Shakespeare 

#11 · Feb 27, 9:47 AM
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comet52 wrote:

I will never forget seeing Matt Birk maybe a year or so after he retired.  It was shocking how much smaller he looked.  He played at about 300lbs and looked like he'd dropped to around 220. 

NFL players are on a training regimen that makes them abnormal and the return to normal is striking sometimes.

I thought the exact same thing re: Birk

Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger! 

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