 First thing I want to see if I want to see if we can find that hang clean because that's going to be ridiculous. Tristan Wirth's on his Iowa weightlifting record and NFL draft process. Okay, bro. Six foot six, 145 kg. Look at the look at it. Look at that shit. Look at everyone in the background. This guy's fucking a foot off the air mate. Hey, what's up everyone? What is going on? And welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name is Jacob and I am a rugby player giving my reaction to American football. Now, for any of you American football fans out there that haven't watched rugby before, well, you should probably see some similarities and look, if you do want a bit of a rundown on some of the skills, some of the, I guess, the nuances of the game, definitely go back into my video library titled Rugby Related Videos. And if you can't find what you're looking for there, hit me up on Instagram, underscore jacob mcdonald. Now, I've been doing this series called Rugby Player Reacts for two years now. And, well, I'm not stopping anytime soon. I had the pleasure of following my second ever combine and then the draft. And there was definitely certain players that stood out to me for different reasons, certain players in different positions for different reasons. And that's exactly what happened the year before. There was one player, one player only, that really stood out to me the year before and got pushed down to the second round, unbelievably to me. And that guy was DK Metcalf. Now, there's another player in that category, although I haven't actually seen their highlights yet, but we're going to do that eventually in this video series. And that's Jonathan Taylor. He got put down, I mean, he was probably, shit, I think he was the third running back off the block and was down at pick number 42. The first running back of the draft went the 32nd pick to Super Bowl Champions Kansas City Chiefs. Now, if Jonathan Taylor was the top running back in the class, surely they would have picked him and he would have been landing on a Super Bowl team. Lo and behold, he went to the Colts. One exciting thing is that the Colts are playing the Jaguars in the first game of the season and the Jaguars are my favorite team, but we're not talking about either of those teams today. Today, we're talking about Tristan Werffs. Tristan Werffs came across my screen at the combine for the very first time and I think my mouth hit the floor. In fact, right now, I'm going to show you exactly what my reaction was when I first saw him. Wow. Oh, my God. Tristan Werffs, 36 and a half. No. 20, 190, sorry, 145 kilograms. Six foot five. 145 kgs just jumped 36 and a half inches. Let's watch that again. You think about a bar in the gym, okay? You put one plate aside. You put two plates aside. You put three plates aside and then you put a quarter on each side as well and then you put the lockers on, okay? That is how heavy this man is. Wow. So to me, you know, I wouldn't call myself uneducated but I'd probably say half educated. Tristan Werffs definitely stood out to me. His size for a start but also his ability to move. If I'm remembering correctly, at 320 pounds and six foot five, he had a 36 inch vertical and to actually see that in person is absolutely ridiculous. Now, let's have a look. Tristan Werffs was born January 24th, 1999. He's six foot five or 196 centimeters, 320 pounds or 145 kg, which is basically a fridge. Werffs played high school football at Mount Vernon High School where he also excelled in wrestling and track and field. He won the state discus throw as a sophomore and Iowa State and Iowa Hawkeyes both offered Werffs scholarships within the next month. He committed to Iowa in winter of his junior year in December 2015 and was a four-star recruit. During his senior year of high school, Werffs helped Mount Vernon to a state semi-final appearance in football, was named an Army All-American Football, won a state wrestling title in winter and won the discus for the third straight year in shot put for the second straight year. He was honored by Des Moines Register as the best boys prep athlete in the state. So this guy, this guy was destined to do something physical. As a true freshman, Werffs started seven games at right tackle, becoming the first true freshman to start at offensive tackle in the Kirk-Ferrents era. So that must be the coach of Iowa and he's held it since the 1999 season. Through the season he worked on being more aggressive against defenders. Before his sophomore season, Werffs was suspended for the season opening game against North Illinois for an OWI arrest. What's that? Driving under the influence. Oh no! After his sophomore season, Werffs broke the Hawkeyes hang clean record by Brandon Scherf setting a new market 450 pounds. He also said a focus of his junior season would be to translate his weight room exploits to the field. Now that's fucking exciting. An injury during spring practice caused him to miss a few weeks of practice following his junior season where he was selected to the first team all big 10 and named the conference lineman of the year. Once again, as expected, he announced that he would forgo his final season and end the draft. So at the combine, he's measured at 6 foot 4 and 7 eighths of an inch, 320 pounds, a 34 inch arm length, 10 and a quarter inches hand size, which is I think that's probably the biggest one I've seen so far. 40 yard dash of 485. That is faster. Look, I think I, I think I did see something. It rings a bell. I believe, actually, no, this is, this is absolutely true. He's playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tom Brady's left tackle is going to be able to run faster than Tom Brady. Does that make sense? I don't know, but it's pretty exciting. So we've got a 485 dash, a 468 20 yard shuttle, a 765 three cone drill, vertical jump, like I said, of 36.5 inches, 10 foot one inch broad jump and 24 reps on the bench. That is just, that is just ridiculous. Absolutely. I cannot wait to see this go play. Holy shit. Well, you know what? There's one other left tackle that, that is of this size even bigger and has just as impressive movement. And he's actually from Australia. His name is Jordan Milata. And I'm just hoping that after two years in the league that he can actually start, you know, playing games for the Jets. And we can really get behind him back here in New Zealand and Australia. But with that being said, let's continue. But the first thing I want to see, I want to see if we can find that hang clean, because that's going to be ridiculous. Oh, Tristan Wirth's on his Iowa weightlifting record and NFL draft process. Okay, bro, six foot six, 145 kg. Look at the, look at it. Look at that shit. Look at everyone in the background. This guy's fucking a foot off the air, mate. That is the kind of, that's the kind of energy that's that's in a room like that. You know, when someone is shifting, when someone of that stature is shifting that amount of weight, it is like, I mean, you know what? I've never seen it. So I don't know what it'd be like, but incredible. Wow. First time I've heard him speak, or is it? I think I may have heard him at the combine, but one thing I do like to definitely do is not only see them play, not only read their story, but definitely hear them speak. So that's cool. Fuck. 450. Can hardly even deadlift that. Going totally nuts. And that must have been a heck of a feeling. Tristan Wirth's here on the rich eyes and show. What's your, what has your process been like? No pro day. And obviously there will be no face to face visits. How often are you, I guess, zooming teleconferencing with teens right now? Yeah, I have three or four phone calls. See, this is pretty interesting because I mean, the combine happened before all the shit went down, right? Before everyone went into isolation and lockdown. So for these guys to actually have the combine properly was really good and lucky. But then probably, you know, one of the most important, most stressful times for these players and also the coaches is from the time of the combine to draft day. And everything was completely locked down for the entire period. So I don't know how they did it, but they've done a great job. They're close to, you know, I can, just their tech, so we can, you know, keep knowing what we're doing. Which teams have you spoken to, Tristan? The Buccaneers, I had the Zoom call with. I had a FaceTime with the Patriots, a call with the Chargers and Daltons, and then I got the Cardinals and the Falcons coming up next week. Okay. Well, I wanted to hear the story behind that, that lift. It seems like there's a photo of it, but no video. So anyway, he talked to so many teams. He actually mentioned the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was the first team that he mentioned. So that was probably the one that was the most serious and lo and behold was the one that drafted him. So if we go back and we look at, I want to see a film study because he's an offensive tech. We're not going to see a huge amount of, you know, crazy highlight, but I do want to see what he's good at and why, you know what I mean? So with that in mind, we're going to have a look at Vok Lombardi. Now I have no affiliation with Vok Lombardi. I found him in the previous video. He seems to know what he's talking about when it comes to offensive linemen. So I'm going to give him another shot. This is going to be my reaction to Tristan Wirth's college football film study. Now we're going to see this guy move. He ran a 486, 40 yard dash. Ridiculous. We got some film on Tristan Wirth's. What's up, y'all? Oh, shit, y'all. We're watching Tristan. Shit, baby. You would know that if you were listening or you had your thinking cap on. He is my tackle number four guard number one. Okay. Some people think that guards are less inferior players than tackles and that's not necessarily true. They're both different. They do two totally different things, kind of sort. Guards are more responsible for inside, and inside things happen faster than outside things. Outside things are, you know, we're responsible for, you know, our left foot to the sideline. That's the entire C gap, unless the tight end, you know, comes in there and make a D gap. But at this point, we have a lot more room to read and react, and there's a lot more room to make mistakes when we're talking about tackles here. Look at how close 68 is to 54. They look at the distance from 77 to, you know, y'all see your gross models right here, right? So it's just, you know, can you operate in different scenarios? Probably need to be just as big, just as heavy, just a slight bit more mobile. I think Tristan Wirth's operates better when he gets to be reactionary, big, strong, kind of quick dude, right? I don't want him outside in some footwork match with a super twitchy, you know, past rushy gangster guy. I don't want that. I would rather him being inside marling people. Now, can he develop and be a good outside player? Can, you know, can he get some coaching? And can he be the future of tackle one day? Possibly. He actually has some eye with film of him playing love tackle, but we're not going to watch that today because I encourage y'all to watch film on your own damn self, right? But I think Tristan Wirth can come in and help you day one as a guard. And he could be a day one tackle two, but he'll be a better guard. Let's run for the cardio. Now, let's talk about him as a, as a run blocker, right? Big power for dude. I think he's good with his feet in the run game in terms of he can get to his landmarks. Whether it's run game or passing game, Tristan Wirth can always get to his landmarks. Okay, we just got to talk about some of the things that he do when he gets to those landmarks. You know what I mean? I want him to sustain blocks a little better, right? To not just kind of let guys go after you block them. Say, look at this play, for example, Tristan Wirth's right here, he's going to come out the ball and get a pretty good start on this guy. He, you know, pretty good movement, pretty good engagement. He's lined up at a two. So Tristan Wirth's big as in it, but he didn't do everything to continue this block here. He didn't necessarily get his head all the way on the other side of the shoulder there. He didn't fight to reestablish those hands inside of the chest plate. He kind of got his back right here, right? Tristan Wirth's got his right hand on the back of the tackle here. Let me rewind it. And you see his, his right hand just ends up on his, on the back of the tackle here. We want you to get more playside of that guy. So you can fully cut him off, Tristan Wirth's, but he didn't do that. Right. You want two hands on the front rather than one at the front, one at the back. Oh my God, this is synchronized swimming. Look how they move. That is, why am I doing the film study? He's a pretty good initial blocker, but if you can teach him to finish, you can teach him to, you know, get his head on the right side. Man, he'll be just fine. Talking about his movement, take a look at Tristan Wirth's right here. I love this. We're on the goal line. We zone-stepping to the left, covered old boy up. I love this. He's going to cover number 18. Good step. Get to the outside. He's going to dip and rip that arm. He's just going to cut 18 all the way off. Fantastic. Oh yeah, he ain't getting through this. However, I kind of would have liked you to finish. You know what I mean? Like we just kind of got in front of him, cut him off and let him go. We don't know what that cut back lane was like because to be fair, Gross Matos tore it up in front. Now honestly, he tore it up and he forced the running back to kind of cut back a little bit. What if the running back cuts back and runs into your guy? Tristan Wirth, you see what I mean? I don't mind this because this is actually an old line technique. You know what I mean? Just kind of rip your arm just to keep in front of him. I don't mind the actual technique that you use. I just want you to after you rip in front of him, square it back up and finish him. And another. Well, let's say that Gross Matos didn't make it through. I don't mind this because this is right. Let's say he didn't. Let's say he's blocked here. Okay, so this line is still solid. Right? The running back gets it. The running back gets it and runs to the left. Tristan Wirth is running to the left. Everyone's running to the left. He thinks, I guess he thinks. He definitely doesn't think that, you know, the line is going to be split by a blitzer. But how easily did he actually get through there? Way too easily. He took one step to the left. Yeah, well, shit. They just let him through, didn't they? You know, Tristan Wirth's being a lineman, right? Being close to the line there, knowing that his running back is going to be behind the line somewhere. He really should have continued, you know, I guess continued with the contact on that guy and probably tried to at least hold him up or drive him into the ground because, or, you know, try and push him back behind the, the, the end zone line. Because at the end of the day, that running back is going to be up the lineman's ass. And if you're over that line and the running backs right behind you, well, it's going to be a touchdown. But if you don't actually make it over that line, you don't push your guy over that line, you're not doing your job, you know, as well as, as, as, I guess what you could have, maybe these guys would squash me like a fucking pancake. Huge. I just want you to after you rip in front of them, square it back up and finish it. And another example, Tristan Wirth's here. Boom. Good movement. We're going to start good, but 42 never got a chance to come off because Tristan Wirth never overtook this, this block properly, right? What we want to happen in this combo scenario, we're comboing, I think, yeah, okay, cool. We're comboing, yeah, 74 and 42 are comboing this defensive end to 38, right? So we're taking them, taking them. What 42 means is for Tristan Wirth to imagine that, imagine that, just being literally taken back, being like, fuck and hell, these two guys, one on each side, they've got control of me. I can't do shit. What a feeling, what a humbling feeling that would be. Cover him up. He needs to run those feet a little bit more to get on the shoulder that 42 is on. That's to Tristan's right, that's to the defender's left, right? We need Tristan Wirth to get on the outside shoulder. So 42 can be free to move on to his next block. But 42 can't leave this block because Tristan Wirth's never really fully overtook him. You see what I mean? If 42 leaves and Tristan Wirth don't overtake them, then the end just comes off and make a tackle on number 10 right here. We don't want that. You know what I mean? Just small little stuff like that. So Tristan Wirth is a solid pass blocker. He has the ability to travel really well and get where he is. See, now that's for a run play, right? Where you're meeting the defense. Whereas for a pass protection, he's going to be coming back like that. And that's probably where he would be better. That's going to help him a lot in the national football league. They're being able to have arm length to get hands on guys before they get hands on you. You know what I mean? I don't have a problem with this block. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. What about here? Right? Same thing. I think if he can get his hands on you first, he can kind of have a good gauge of where you at. Like I said, the technique here ain't perfect, right? Kind of get the shoulders over the toes a little bit. I hate it. I kind of want that head back a little bit more. I'm watching the running back. Watch him enough to do his job. Let's see what happens here. Sorry guys, I'm fucking watching the wrong guy. Watch him enough to do his job. Let's see what happens here. It's all right. Hey, the length kind of saved him again. Every now and then, this happens though. And when I say every now and then, this happens a lot. Take a look at Tristan Words and what happens to him right here. Oh boy. Penn State notice. What the hell the referee doing? Get out the way. See that's what you get. That's what you get. Trying to be a linebacker again. Trying to live by carries through these young Penn State gangs. See what I mean? Get out the way. Anyway, Tristan Words, right? Now what? What happens when something that his feet got sick? What happens when I have to react? What happens when things kind of go off script and I'm not just in a wrestling match anymore. I have to pick the correct technique, the right steps, the right track cards. What happens when I have to do that? Bad things kind of happen for Tristan Words in that way. Which is kind of why I wish he was on the inside. See, this don't happen on the inside, right? If this was inside, it's a lot less space between Tristan and where his right tackle would be, right? You see what I mean? If it's in the inside, you want to do a whole bunch of movement things just kind of get washed down. Bro, that's right, man. People just don't get in. People just don't get in through the guard and the tackle. They're more so likely to either go round the tackle or try and make a move on the tackle, but, you know, further away from the guard so you've got that room to try and move around them. No, no way. Not at all. But he does shut it down. I mean, at the end of the day, he doesn't want that quarterback to get hit. So he does, he does all right. He at least, you know, uses his weight to his advantage, but could have been a lot more solid. And that's 129 fucking patrons. After a while, Penn State just understood that Tristan Words had a problem with, you know, gap exchanges and movements and slants. And at the end of the game, they did nothing but that towards the end. And what happens here, right? I'm going to get a little bit of a lean. Our hands are going to be late. There's some big boys. Look at the whole line, the whole fucking line for Iowa. It seems to be just as big as Tristan Words. I want Tristan Words to do. And you know, maybe, uh, you know, because you got to see things for your brain to register for your body to do it. It starts with your eyes. So if Tristan is going to kick, kick, kick, we want for him to do is when Gross Matos goes back inside, we want him to pound his post foot. That's his left foot, his up foot or whatever. Right? We want him to pound that thing back inside. That'll keep him square. It'll keep him balanced. And you know, it'll, it'll keep him honest to his, to his technique. What I mean by honest to his technique. If you, um, if he drops this right foot and he misses, then he's off balance. He's off balance anyway. See how he dropped his right foot right there and he missed and then he gets off balance. But if he keeps his post foot up, that's his power foot. His left foot is his power side. So if Gross Matos crosses his face and ends up on the worst power side, he's cool because I got power there. My post foot is up. My post foot is stuck in the ground. So it's yeah, it's cool. But you drop your post foot and you lean and you guess it. Bad things happen to Tristan worst here. Like I said, man, Penn State realized Tristan worst did bad with, with movement in front of them. And oh boy, before you know it, they just started doing all kinds of stuff to get Tristan worse about the pain. And it kept working. They, Penn State won this game because they Fuck, he still went number 11 in the draft. Hey boy, Tristan worst. And you know what? That probably it comes from, um, you know, Tristan not trusting his, his hands and his feet. Right. We'll see what the, um, we'll see what the Jets coaches can, can develop in this guy's game. I mean, at the end of the day, there's certain things that God gifts you that, that certain other people just don't have. And, and you know, we can see what those God given gifts are. They just need to be developed a little bit. Offensive lineman, you don't trust the hands and your feet. You say, okay, cool. I'm just going to use power with hands on you, grab you, and I ain't got to read or react. But Tristan worst, sometimes you got to read and react. This is a situation where you got to read and react. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, kick. When you see 49 cross and face, don't attack 49 cross and face because if you do, your shoulders get turned. See Tristan worst shoulders get turned. 11 get to run free. 11 get to run free now because you turn your shows because you overreacted to 49. What you do is you kick, kick. Wait, he didn't see. He's not seeing 11 come across though, is he? He thinks, yeah, he thinks 49 is the only guy he needs to worry about. He had a good power step. He had a good sideways power step for that. Tristan worst, you pass him along, stay square, but you keep your right hand free now. Now that your right hand is free, you're able to react past 49 along and then engage with 11, but that didn't happen because you turned your shoulders. See what I mean? Hey, just kept doing it. Just kept doing it. Same thing. Take a look at Tristan's left foot right here, right? We talked about left foot. We talked about post foot. You want to keep that foot up. That's your power foot. You travel with the other one. Tristan is going to travel, travel. 18 is going to cross face. He's going to drop his post foot. Now we got to guess. Now we off balance. Now we're trying to strike. Now we lean it. And now 97 is coming back around again. Now we lean it. And now 97 get the run free and you're quarterback cussing somebody out. See what I mean? So it's a lot of technical stuff that you got to deal with, man. And I'll tell you what, chat box. I know y'all know this because y'all got all the answers, the infamous Google. Can somebody tell me how long Tristan worst been starting at tackle? Because reps can fix this. The more he plays right tackle, the more he'll relax and the more he'll see things quicker and he'll slow things down a little bit. But if he's outside and he's reacting, and that happens. Tristan will be cool though. Tristan will be cool. Got another play? Got another play? What happened? Let's see what happens on this play. Oh, no. Same thing, man. Same thing. Moving on. Hang on. I mean, what could you do? What could you do? They're running a screen. Hang on. Okay, so it's one on one at this point. 18 is cutting on the inside. What, I mean, what could he have done? He could have, oh, he had to completely let him go. What's happening? Same thing, man. Same thing. Moving on. It comes with time. And the more Tristan worst plays, the better he'll be. Now, what makes him better than the next tier of guys is I think Tristan can do it. I think Tristan can do it. And he does have the tools to do it. You know, you look at the next few guys in my opinion. I said Tristan is my offensive tackle for it. So the next two guys would be Austin Jackson and Josh Jones. Austin from USC, Josh Jones from Houston or whatever. Interesting. What makes Tristan different? I'm gonna stop that there because both of those names I did not recognize. He's not really rating the other two offensive tackles drafted above Tristan wirfs. But I do. But I guess that's based on their god-given gifts, you know, their god-given talents, which is the size, the speed, the strength. And, you know, with without that, you know, there is no hope. But with that, there certainly is enough to going 13th pick of the 2020 draft to the team that the goat Tom Brady is going to be playing at. I don't actually know any of the offensive linemen from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but I'm sure I will. I feel like Tristan, where if he's just going to lap it all up, he's, like I said, he's got the gifts. Now it's time to coach them. And with that being said, I'll see you guys in the next video. If you have enjoyed, please hit that like button. If you want to subscribe, do that too. And I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.