If you’re not an NFL player and have ever wondered how an Oklahoma Drill might go against one, Friday’s episode of The Dan Patrick Show probably answered that question. Paul Pabst, a producer on the show, went one-one-one against Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs.
Admittedly, there wasn’t much doubt about how Pabst would fare against Jacobs, who’s listed at 5-foot-10, 223 pounds. But when Patrick chose the Oklahoma Drill, meaning both men started on their backs, any lingering doubt was gone. This wasn’t just a battle of strength but also agility.
Both men went to the ground. Patrick then got things going with a “Ready, set, hut,” and they were off. If you blinked, you might have missed it.
Jacobs quickly rose to his feet. By the time Pabst got up, Jacobs was in his face. The running back lifted Pabst, pushing him away from the desk on set. Once he got Jacobs got Pabst into a relatively open space, he dropped him to the ground. Fortunately, both men were wearing shoulder pads, helping ease the impact of the collisions.
“My shoulders are fine,” Pabst joked. “The rest of me is wrecked up. What do you know about a hip replacement surgery?”
“I was about the get the ball out,” Jacobs said. “Then I was like, ‘Nah, I’d rather hit you.'”
Patrick then asked Jacobs how many tackles he’d made. The running back remembered a time when he made a tackle after fumbling against the Seattle Seahawks.
“I like speared, dude — I speared him,” he said. “The whole week in practice, they was like, ‘Man, you sure you don’t want to take a couple of reps?”
This wasn’t Pabst’s first rodeo. As Patrick noted before the drill, Pabst previously had similar experiences with the likes of Michael Strahan and Clay Matthews.
Pabst later shared a picture of his elbow on social media.
“Just a flesh wound,” he said.
Fortunately, he had a good attitude about it.
“This was fun,” Pabst said. “But, man what a hit.”
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