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Pro Day Malarkey?
Pro Day Malarkey?
Watching Wednesday's NFL Pro Day at USC reminded me that not everybody agrees with how these elite athletes are measured (including Pete Carroll, but we'll get to that in a moment). In the day's glamor event -- the 40-yard dash...
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CARROLL UNHAPPY WITH USC PRO DAY?
ProFootballTalk.com — USC coach Pete Carroll was reportedly unhappy with one of the drills that NFL coaches and scouts observed his former players run through at USC’s pro day workouts this week. According to Adam Rose of the Los Angeles Times , the players engaged in “a hand-to-hand combat drill,” and Carroll wasn’t happy to see it. Carroll reportedly said, “ That won’t happen again here .” USC defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis said of the drill, “That was a sleeper. I didn’t know that one was coming. You see it on film but you’re never quite ready for that until it happens. That drill’s a doozy, ...

Pete Carroll, Unlike Fletch, Does Not Like to Be Manhandled
FanHouse — ... In yesterday's LA Times' USC blog, Adam Rosen wrote that "The other Pro Day eye-opener was a hand-to-hand combat drill in which players engaged a former-NFL-player-turned-coach (pictured above). Carroll apparently wasn't happy with it and reportedly told the media, 'That won't happen again here.'" ...

Reporters' Notebooks
The Wiz of Odds — ... Adam Rose, All Things Trojan: About those phony 40-yard dash times. Chauncey Washington just ran 4.35 seconds at USC's pro day. If that's true, Washington shouldn't be entering the NFL draft — he should be entering the Beijing Olympics. The fastest time ever clocked on a track is 4.38. ...

Watch Out USC Pro Day, Chiefs Krumrie is Coming to Town
Arrowhead Pride — ... Pro Day tomorrow and it figures to be another big event. It may not receive as much attention as last year's, which USA Today dubbed the top workout in the country, but maybe they're fine with less attention this year. Mainly because the attention last year was on Pete Carroll's outrage at a hand-to-hand combat drill Kansas City Chiefs coach Tim Krumrie conducted with defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis. The drill, pictured above, didn't sit well with Carroll: The other Pro Day eye-opener was a hand-to-hand ...

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