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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Dear Diary: Omar Jacobs
February 27, 2006 | Football
Feb. 27, 2006
courtesy Miami Herald - Bowling Green quarterback and Delray Beach Atlantic High School grad Omar Jacobs finished his experience at the NFL scouting combine by running and throwing for NFL coaches and scouts Sunday. He then hit the road to Ohio to return to his college campus for another workout for the NFL on Thursday:
"It's over. It was like graduation day. It was exciting, and I worked so hard to get here, and now I can kind of relax -- just not too long. I'll probably take [Monday] off and then throw Tuesday and Wednesday to get ready for my workout. It's just nice to have a couple of hours to just clear my mind and not worry about the next thing.
"Today was one of those hurry-up-and-wait days when I went through the workout. You sit there and run, and then you wait for like 11 guys to go before you run again. You're sitting there trying to stay loose, but I felt like my back was tightening up a little. The throwing was really hard. I felt like I did really good, but it's hard when you make one throw and then have to wait so long. You're ready to do your thing, you do it, then you watch 11 guys throw and then you have to refocus and throw a good ball.
"Nobody did bad from what I could see. I was watching them, but I wasn't really paying close attention. You have to stay focused on what you can do. You're not really competing with the other guys; you have to just show what you do. If [Vanderbilt quarterback] Jay Cutler throws it really hard, you can't try to throw it harder than him. That's where you overcompensate and make mistakes.
"I did a couple of more interviews before I threw. It was pretty much the same stuff, except when I was with the Colts. Right in the middle of the interview, [coach] Tony Dungy's [teenage] son [Eric] asked me a question. It kind of caught me by surprise that he would ask a question. But it was a good question, like, 'What can you do for the Colts?' So I answered it.
"After that, we did the workouts. I ran a 4.77 [in the 40-yard dash]. I didn't know what I ran until the end when they told me. I thought I ran pretty well, but it wasn't as good as I thought. I'm glad I didn't know that I ran that because I might have been down."
-- JASON COLE
