This video talks about Ted Ginn Jr. growing up as a little kid and having to overcome a learning disability and then becoming a track star which gave him the confidence of becoming an football player. It's a short video, about 2 minutes long. http://youtube.com/watch?v=U-k0UHtfPX8
Reasons I like Ted Ginn Jr. 1. He is a Dolphin 2. He is a Buckeye 3. He grew up with Chris Chambers 4. He faster than most of the people in the world 5. He has class He is the only person that has ever existed, that has met all of those criteria.
Having a son with Asbergers; I know what Ted and his Dad have had to go thru. I want him to make it BAD and believe he will.
Ted Ginn will really blossom and make plays for us with the QB (whomever it may be) having more time to find him in the pocket.
Reasons i like Ted Ginn Jr. 1. he's a dolphin 2. he's fast and has good hands 3. he could be a huge playmaker for us 4. he's humble and appears like a good guy. Reasons I hate Ted Ginn Jr. 1. He was a Buckeye... i can overlook the buckeye thing simply because he's a dolphin though Nice find on the video Alen.
I love the Dolphins jacket he was rocking all the way back in elementary school! A true dolphin for life
Ted Ginn is so fast. Nice adversity he overcame. Beatiful find Alen. I think he's gonna once and for all show people who said we should ahve taken brady at 9 they were sadly mistaken.
Thanks Jordan. I don't think people understand just how fast he is. The guy ran a (unofficial) 4.06 forty as a freshmen at Ohio State.
Reasons I like Ted Ginn: 1. Hes a Fin. 2. He's a fin. 3. He is a fin. Even though I hate the Buckeyes (and their JV schedule) I won't hold that against him. I hope when he and Chris Chambers were playing catch, that he only learned from Chris to make the great catch, and not drop the easy one. I hope he uses his speed to score some TDs this year, ala Devin Hester. I know he comes from a great family. Cam Cameron told us as much. Not really sure why that matters. 4. He is a Miami Dolphin. At the end of the day, that is really all I care about.
"but there is a flag" Doh! I hate hearing that on our kicks. They're like a godsend when it's the other team returning but ... we never hear that ...
Here comes the obligatory discussion on 40 times. No human being has ever run anything close to a 4.06, not even the fastest track starts of all time. There's plenty of documentation that goes into detail as to why that is the case. As far as the NFL goes, the fastest 40 times are in the 4.2 range, and that's for 21-23 year olds, not freshman at Ohio State. Ted Ginn has close to world-class speed, but he never has and never will run 4.06 forty-yard-dash.
I did not know he grew up with Chris Chamber. I like him to for those reasons except the Buckeye one sorry bro Woldpack
40 times mean -0.00000000000000000000-, they are merely enhancements of on the field skill, Ted Ginn could no doubt blow past even Tim Brown in his prime. but can he play football in the NFL? There is much more to being a great NFL wideout then a top 40 yd dash time. Now for me, I love having Ted Ginn on the roster because he is such a luxury for us, he can take a 4 yd pass 76 yrds to the endzone, and he can do the same with Kick Offs and Punts. For us, Ted Ginn jr is the "X" factor, explosive as a hand grenade, he can take almost any play to the house...hopefully...
Really? Aren't you the same person who told me to get my facts straight before I post and then you were incorrect in the comment that you did make about my post? Link
sigh... I guess you've never been privy to the oodles of posts over the years that explain why those types of claims (i.e. 4.06 forty) are false. I suppose that you're one of those people that thinks something is true just because it was published online or in a newspaper somewhere. In any case, as Padre mentioned, 40 times little or nothing in the NFL.
No sir, I am not one of those people who believes that. I provided a link to my comment. I have yet to see a link posted to disprove that information. I know that forty times don't mean much in this league. A poster stated that he was fast and I agreed by posting that. I'm not saying you or anyone else is incorrect in these posts.
Come on guys, lets keep the conversation civil and focused on the topic of the thread and not on each other.
You want a link to disprove the information (aka a 4.06 forty). Here you go: http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20050418-9999-1s18forty.html (frames discussion of 40 times by analyzing splits of the world's fastest sprinters of all time) There have been many players that have supposedly run 40's in the 4.0 and 4.1 range, but none of them have every been timed electronically (i.e. not subject to human error). So if you want to believe that Ginn ran a 4.06, go for it. I'm just doing my part to help illuminate the myth surrounding these kinds of times, something I've been doing for going on six years now.