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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!

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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.

How important is arm length for LT? Patriots HoF, 3X Champ Matt Light joins!

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