#ICYMI: Football: Crushing the Combine
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🗓️ 18 May 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Gary Aureli. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Gary Aureli. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Chuck Knows. |
| 0:13.9 | This is playing with science. |
| 0:15.5 | Today we take a long hard look at what it takes to turn a hard-up college student into |
| 0:20.9 | a multi-millionaire in the space of a few hours. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, maybe a little longer than a few hours, but they do get to keep the money. |
| 0:28.8 | And all I have to do is be really, really, really good at football. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, yeah, that's all. |
| 0:34.6 | And they'll also have to be superhuman, strong, ridiculously fast, super smart, and be able |
| 0:38.7 | to cope with anything while beating the past rush and ripping holes in an offensive line. |
| 0:43.5 | And if they want to get the bitbucks, which means that they're going to be drafted in the |
| 0:46.5 | first couple of rounds, and they're rich, their family is rich, and they have more friends |
| 0:52.3 | they could ever remember. |
| 0:54.3 | Well, to get Combine Ready, these college athletes are going to have to learn a whole new way |
| 1:00.8 | of fit. |
| 1:01.8 | And that means bringing in the science, from biomechanics to nutrition, from physiology to psychology, |
| 1:08.1 | and from explosive power to calmness under pressure. |
| 1:11.6 | Yes, to be a would-be NFL pro-bola, it takes a whole lot of know-how, and some serious, |
| 1:17.8 | serious science. |
| 1:19.6 | And to data us through what it takes to crush the Combine, we'll be bringing on the trainer |
| 1:23.6 | extraordinaire Pete Bomerito, a man with triple-aid clientless, and the first round draft |
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