Lebron Warns NFL LBs/DBs/Safetys They Better Be Glad He Chose Hoops Instead Of Staying With Football

[Yogi]

I actually thought you said "be a star in football" so I'll digress a bit. But to your comparison just because Gates and others played basketball too doesn't mean that being a star basketball player makes you a good football player. You have to have the skills and playing b-ball doesn't give you that no matter how good you are. Some people possess both at varying degrees. Gates was a better football player than basketball player. It's just that simple.

What skills are you talking about? Gates did not have even one catch in college. Graham didn’t play high school football and played one year at Miami and dropped a ton of passes. They both basically stepped off the basketball court and became all pros in football. Darren Fells isn’t a star, but he only played basketball in college and also played basketball overseas before trying football and becoming a starter in the NFL.

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

 

[JNew]

He might have been ust as good in football but in football only the qb gets the recognition.

 

[Sterling Archer]

What skills are you talking about? Gates did not have even one catch in college. Graham didn’t play high school football and played one year at Miami and dropped a ton of passes. They both basically stepped off the basketball court and became all pros in football. Darren Fells isn’t a star, but he only played basketball in college and also played basketball overseas before trying football and becoming a starter in the NFL.

So your notion seems to be based on thinking football requires no skill.

 

[Ohene]

“Taller slower version of Randy Moss”

I don’t think he’d be able to create separation with Richard Sherman or Revis. Let alone Josh Norman

he'd have been linke gronk was at TE if you ask me
would have to be a TE or else he coulda ended up like a devin funchess or dorial green beckham

 

[CHICAGO]

Not for skill positions, no. You absolutely have to have extreme talent to be a skills player. The rest you can compensate with athleticism.

MAN, ANTONIO GATES DIDNT EVEN
PLAY FOOTBALL IN COLLEGE.





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[Sterling Archer]

MAN ANTONIO GATES DIDNT PLAY FOOTBALL IN COLLEGE.





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I didn't say he did.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

At least he's a attention whore that accomplished real shyt

The go to smart-dumb nikka quote..
On a message forum
How do you know what people do..
Outside of this forum..
Or..
People’s accomplishments
Some of y’all nikkas take all the joy out of threads..
Especially in a time like this..
Were people just want to laugh and shoot the shyt..
You basically low key trying to call people losers for posting..
But what does that make you..
And the goofies dapping this dumbshyt
Reflection meet mirror

 

[Doobie Doo]

I doubt Bron would be competing on this level at year 17 in the NFL.

 

[Actually6Foot3]

With a 4.6 40, you ain't Mossing nobody. But he could eat if he made it.

you do know getting Moss'd means catching balls over nikkas. Not out running them right? And Bron had the hops as a damn highschool freshman

Yeah Randy had speed but that ain't why that term came to be. nikka was a jump ball savage.

 

[tuckgod]

The go to smart-dumb nikka quote..
On a message forum
How do you know what people do..
Outside of this forum..
Or..
People’s accomplishments
Some of y’all nikkas take all the joy out of threads..
Especially in a time like this..
Were people just want to laugh and shoot the shyt..
You basically low key trying to call people losers for posting..
But what does that make you..
And the goofies dapping this dumbshyt
Reflection meet mirror

Nah the nikka he’s responding to is taking the fun out of the thread

 

[Sterling Archer]

you do know getting Moss'd means catching balls over nikkas. Not out running them right?

Yeah Randy had speed but that ain't why that term came to be. nikka was a jump ball savage.

Yeah I do know but to me it ain't a real Moss if you ain't get burned too and jumped over from behind.

 

[Yogi]

So your notion seems to be based on thinking football requires no skill.

It requires a certain level of skill, but not the level needed for the NBA or even golf, baseball, or hockey. You can get a dude with the necessary level of athleticism, discipline, and aggression and find a place for him on the football field.

 

[Sterling Archer]

It requires a certain level of skill, but not the level needed for the NBA or even golf, baseball, or hockey. You can get a dude with the necessary level of athleticism, discipline, and aggression and find a place for him on the football field.

I agree with that.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Football is probably easy as hell for top level NBA athletes.

There are very, very few NBA athletes who have WR/DB/RB-level athleticism. The average NFL player at those positions is far faster, far stronger, and far more explosive than nearly every NBA player. Look at shyt like verticals in the combine and it ain't even close - NBA players need to do the running start vertical to match what NFL players get standing still.

QBs obviously have deep skill that no NBA player is going to be able to match unless they were already playing the sport.

OL/DL are much much stronger than virtually every NBA player (including rush DE, which is the closest to an NBA body type but requires enormous explosiveness).

TE is literally the only position that fits an average NBA player well (specifically a well-built forward), because height is so important while speed and strength are only secondarily so. You can't take a couple NBA players who switched to TE and then talk like that extends to the rest of the field.