How important is arm length for LT?
#Patriots HoF, 3X Champ Matt Light joins! Does he believe NE should take Campbell at 4? Light wants a running tally!
#Patriots HoF, 3X Champ Matt Light joins! Does he believe NE should take Campbell at 4? Light wants a running tally!
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00:00Matthew Light, on to the draft.
00:03So we go back and forth.
00:04How important, when it comes to your position, is the arm length?
00:09Please.
00:10If somebody has been born with an unfortunate set of arms
00:15that are not as lengthy as one would like them to be,
00:19does that affect you when it comes to playing your position?
00:22Well, I know this is a hot topic,
00:24and I literally just had Mrs. Light measure my arms, okay?
00:28And I want you to know that I don't think my arms have gotten any longer
00:32since retirement, so I'm going to guess that these are about the same arms
00:35I had when I played.
00:37I looked up Will Campbell's arm length, and it says online 32 and 5 8ths, okay?
00:43I measured mine at – well, I didn't, but Mrs. Light says 35
00:48is what my arm length taped out at.
00:50Oh, that's pretty long.
00:51That's a great length.
00:52That's a great length.
00:53Yeah, I don't know.
00:59Hey, listen, here's what I want to see, though.
01:00After all this talk, when we get into the meat of the season next year,
01:05there better be somebody at Fox or ESPN who's keeping a running tally
01:11on the arm length of these tackles and their overall effectiveness as blockers.
01:17So I want to see a graph, some kind of chart, and I want updates weekly
01:21so that we can really understand how this impacts the game.
01:26Yeah.
01:26I mean, you have watched, with the rest of us, this offensive line
01:31and have, I think I would assume, identified it as an issue the last few seasons here.
01:38Is it enough of an issue that you would – Wiggy said yesterday
01:42you're wasting the number four pick on Will Campbell.
01:47Would you put that much importance on it when it comes to that pick
01:50and be okay with that?
01:53You know, I mean, I think it's – I mean, obviously,
01:55you have an opportunity to pick at that position in the draft.
02:01I mean, you really want to get the best possible talent.
02:04And then there's obvious, you know, the need, right?
02:08And I think they do need, you know, somebody who's really gifted,
02:13somebody who's going to give some energy to that position group,
02:16somebody that they can really lean on.