Size is what helped Bryant McKinnie (notes) in an offensive lineman in the Pro Bowl for the Minnesota Vikings and the recipient of a contract extension in 2006 was about $ 50 million. The size is what led him to cut on Tuesday by the team.
McKinna was up to the Vikings training camp weighing about 400 pounds, 65 pounds above the official game of last season's weight. Judd Zugland and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that the circumference McKinna was the "last drop", with the team. Monday, 31, a lineman placed in a non-football injury list. The next day it was gone.
Vikings McKinnie avoid the maximum $ 5.4 million in 2011, after the liberation.
It 's always a fine line between the NFL approved a heavy and too heavy. Line of boys, as McKinna, is large enough to increase open and running back to avoid the pass rush, but athletic enough to stay in camp and do three hours of play across the field. Teams as a lineman ever larger, until at some point. When this turning point is reached, they have done for you.
McKinnie talent uniformly maintained, even through a myriad of the Vikings off the field problems. He was suspended for four games in 2008 after his involvement in a brawl in Miami and helped the team to embarrass the Love Boat incident. Last year, McKinnie has been initialized by the Pro Bowl team.
He stressed that the release of TMZ was his own act, an interesting statement in a number of levels, most importantly, Bryant McKinnie TMZ talking about his football contract.
McKinnie said he will be ready for next year with a different computer. During your break, it would be useful to recall that the Vikings have just proved the old adage true: size does matter.
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