{"id":5518,"date":"2023-01-21T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2023-01-19T21:10:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T04:10:48","slug":"when-no-one-is-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5518","title":{"rendered":"When no one is looking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did you see the 98-yard fumble return by Sam Hubbard<\/a>, a 265-pound defensive lineman with the Cincinnati Bengals? I wasn’t going to write about this play, mainly because I was hoping the Ravens would upset the Bengals, however, Jason Gay’s Wall Street Journal editorial<\/a> of January 19 captured something worth thinking about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defensive linemen aren’t supposed to be able to run the ball, and certainly not that far or that fast. He was reported doing 17.43mph or, in units that make more sense, I think, 25.5 feet\/second. Pretty fast. Not as fast as the guy chasing him: 30.3 feet\/second, but fast enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How? How does a guy that big run that fast? Jason tells us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Amazon \u201cNext Gen\u201d statistics people clock Hubbard running at 17.43 mph. That\u2019s not Hubbard\u2019s fastest; he says he hits 18 mph doing sprints in Bengals\u2019 practices. But it\u2019s definitely fourth quarter, defensive-end-recovering-a-fumble-fast.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes Hubbard thankful for hot summer workouts with local trainer Pat Coyne, running 110-yard sprints, 15 of them a week, when nobody\u2019s watching.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing those since high school,\u201d he says. \u201cEndurance is the thing in football\u2014you\u2019ve got to be able to play when you\u2019re tired, because everyone\u2019s always exhausted.\u201d<\/em> – Jason Gay, emphasis mine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 110-yard sprints per week…when nobody’s watching…and he’s been doing those since high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the behind-the-scenes work, work that no one sees, that makes the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t we drive it out?\u201d He replied, \u201cThis kind can come out only by prayer.\u201d (Mark 9.28, 29, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Luke 5.16, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you see the 98-yard fumble return by Sam Hubbard, a 265-pound defensive lineman with the Cincinnati Bengals? I wasn’t going to write about this play, mainly because I was hoping the Ravens would upset the Bengals, however, Jason Gay’s Wall Street Journal editorial of January 19 captured something worth thinking about. Defensive linemen aren’t … Continue reading When no one is looking<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1r0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5519,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}