Wrestling and NFL Football Players (McDermott 76-1 as a Wrestler)

[Iiiiiiiiive Got a Feeeelin]

Confused why a former wrestler head coach's team has consistently been bad at tackling.  Not just ripping on McD here, genuine thought that's easily provable

[machine gun kelly]

1 hour ago, Gregg said:

That’s not wrestling.  That’s entertainment and has nothing to do with real wrestling.  I wrestled for years and was excellent at it, but not relevant now.

[MJS]

1 hour ago, boyst said:

i will never understand why wrestling is not more popular in this country.

 

it was some of the best experiences of my life and some of the hardest accomplishments i've ever done. from training in biddy programs as kid to training at univ of iowa as a teenager - learned A LOT.

Because it isn't very fun to watch compared to other spectator friendly sports. I think that is probably the primary reason. Also, guys might not like the idea of being locked together with other sweaty guys.

Edited February 6 by MJS

[Billschinatown]

What's his record in NFL playoff championship games? =(

[msw2112]

I wrestled for a few years in high school.  During that time, I was BY FAR in the best shape of my life.  The amount of discipline it took to participate at a serious level was pretty extreme.  I also played football and hockey and I have to admit that those sports were a lot more fun than wrestling, but they didn't produce the same level of fitness.

[HomeskillitMoorman]

1 hour ago, phypon said:

I think he should start coaching wrastling, maybe on the olympic level.  That would be great!  Do it McD, please go coach wrestling!

Yeah I mean even if he wanted to just leave today and go pursue that dream instead, I would totally be supportive! 

[Billschinatown]

2 minutes ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:

Yeah I mean even if he wanted to just leave today and go pursue that dream instead, I would totally be supportive! 

Wishing him a happy spend more time with his family!

[gtw3]

I played High School basketball and we would practice at the same time that wrestling practice was going on.  I used to be amazed at the amount of cardio that they would do. All of the running and jump roping, etc. It seemed endless.   We did have a phenomenal wrestling program though.  Basketball?  Not so much... lol   ~Niagara Wheatfield 

[LeGOATski]

36 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:

That’s not wrestling.  That’s entertainment and has nothing to do with real wrestling.

[AmishRifle]

My son and daughter wrestle.  Best thing that ever happened to them.  Life long lessons.  How to win, how to lose, how to work…just to name a few.  

[SoonerBillsFan]

4 hours ago, Iiiiiiiiive Got a Feeeelin said:

Confused why a former wrestler head coach's team has consistently been bad at tackling.  Not just ripping on McD here, genuine thought that's easily provable

Blame the CBA and NFLPA.

[machine gun kelly]

Wrestlers are good in hand combat.  They use their hands to get a grip on people.  The most important thing about wrestling is not power, it’s balance.  You have to know your body, where they are and where you are so you use their body weight against them.  I wrestled successfully for years.  It was fun and so much harder than football, baseball, and soccer.  I played all.

[TAinLack.]

16 hours ago, CaliBills said:

Found this video made by NFL films a few days ago and enjoyed it.

 

 

 

Found it interesting that our HC isn't the only coach that values a wrestling background.

Wrestlers are tough S.O.B.s!

[boyst]

1 minute ago, TAinLack. said:

Wrestlers are tough S.O.B.s!

no one is tougher than Loudon.

[colin]

wrestling has a very high number of participants in the USA, even on a per capita basis compared to most countries.  it's analogues to weightlifting (the stuff the do in the olympics) in that it's super hard, has weight classes, requires insane work and requires/develops very very high level athletic skills/traits.  they both also have weight classes, drug/doping history, and big asian and eastern euro dominance. 

 

They are both also close to but not quite much much more popular sports/activities.  hundreds of millions around the world lift weights, do strength training, and most people see doing that as a good thing, but almost no one weightlifts.  lots of people enjoy watching MMA, but no one really cares about wrestling (it's constantly at risk of being taken out of the olympics and such).  mma is way more popular and relies on wrestling in a big way, BJJ has a much broader base of participants outside of organized school activity and is essentially a different version of wrestling/grappling.  cross fit has people actually competing in weightlifting lifts, and has orders of magnitude more competitors and way way more growth.

 

the down side of wrestling (similar to weightlifting) is that it is hard and brutal, unforgiving, involves weight cuts for young people, just destroys people's bodies, no one really cares about it unless they are involved in it somehow themselves, and in large part the culture turns off lots of kids.  for a lot of kids involved in it, it's learning to swim through drowning,  and it's really not fun if you can't win or are just getting trucked constantly.  in eastern europe, they systematize it a lot more and teach young people skills so you don't end up having the slightly faster matured kids just over powering the slower to mature kids all the time and forcing them to quit. 

 

Judo has way more participants than wrestling, its another brutal sport, but lots of people are involved in programs and it seems like every man woman and child practices it in Japan.

 

It's also a lonely individual sport that very few people care about if they don't do it, and most people don't even know who looks like a good wrestler unless they are suplexing and tossing someone making it obvious.

 

it's also kinda diluted w folkstyle, free style, greco, and things like mma, sambo, bjj, and judo sort of divide the grappling world up too.

 

i've always wondered if a sort of grappling decathlon type thing where people all compete in the different sports/rule sets wouldn't make it more interesting, but everyone who does one of the above tends to really want to specialize, so maybe not. 

[BillsPride12]

I have a ton of respect for Wrestlers but it never appealed to me in the same way playing team sports did...Also might be because I was such a WWF fanatic as a kid that was my idea of Wrestling and traditional wrestling looked boring 

[Jauronimo]

19 hours ago, boyst said:

i will never understand why wrestling is not more popular in this country.

 

it was some of the best experiences of my life and some of the hardest accomplishments i've ever done. from training in biddy programs as kid to training at univ of iowa as a teenager - learned A LOT.

Its a sport where points are awarded based on how far you can jam your thumb into your opponents butthole and you're wondering why it hasn't gained mainstream popularity?!?

[boyst]

5 minutes ago, Jauronimo said:

Its a sport where points are awarded based on how far you can jam your thumb into your opponents butthole and you're wondering why it hasn't gained mainstream popularity?!?

are you kinkshaming me?

[BillsShredder83]

17 hours ago, gtw3 said:

I played High School basketball and we would practice at the same time that wrestling practice was going on.  I used to be amazed at the amount of cardio that they would do. All of the running and jump roping, etc. It seemed endless.   We did have a phenomenal wrestling program though.  Basketball?  Not so much... lol   ~Niagara Wheatfield 

Niagara Wheatfield was a beast program in early to mid 2000s.  Guessing it still is, but not sure. 

 

It's the sport that rewards hard work more than others, talent Def involved but it's a diff playing field than other sports IMO

 

Cool how a hard working room can pass down through generations, obviously coaching matters, but it was always the juniors seniors picking up and really carrying the torch, and passing it down. Feels like a 20-30year+ old flame at the best places

[Dat]

McDermott likes to use this to show what you can accomplish when you have the hunger of Jeffrey Dahmer, the will to dominate of Putin, the desire to conquer of Hitler, the belief that your team is family of Charles Manson, the.................