The Las Vegas heat couldn’t keep away some of the top defensive linemen in the NFL from showing up at the Fertitta Football Complex on the UNLV campus. Las Vegas Raiders star defensive end Maxx Crosby led the 8th sack summit. Von Miller is the creator of the event and defensive end Cam Jordan helped out as one of the three leads for the event.
The day-long event begins with breakfast at a swanky hotel, followed by two hours of field drills and more than three hours of film study. The day culminates with a table reservation at a posh nightclub. It’s an event where, at least for a day, players do not consider themselves opponents but teammates.
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“We can compete 364 days out of the year, but the one day that we have this, it’s all about cooperation,” said Miller, who leads the NFL with 123.5 sacks since 2011. “And it’s all to make us all better. I’m making them better and they’re making me better. So it’s not about our quarterbacks or their quarterbacks. We’re all getting better.”
“It’s never gonna be perfect,” an impassioned Maxx Crosby said after demonstrating a move resembling a basketball crossover. “That’s rush. That’s what makes it so beautiful.”
“We talk about chess and checkers,” Crosby hollered to the group before demonstrating another crossover. “We wanna be playing chess. O-linemen think they’re smart, but at the end of the day, all they wanna do is just get comfortable and get to their spot.”
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