Packers RB Eddie Lacy consulted with P90X creator to reshape body
Packers coach Mike McCarthy denied a report that RB Eddie Lacy wants to lose 30 pounds this offseason.
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Ryan Wilson
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Packers coach Mike McCarthy left little room for interpretation last month when he said of Eddie Lacy, "He's got a lot of work to do ... he cannot play at the weight he played at this year."
A few weeks later, there was a report that Lacy wanted to drop 30 pounds but on Thursday, from the NFL combine in Indianapolis, McCarthy denied that the running back was trying to drop that much weight.
"The numbers that have been out there about his weight are inaccurate," the Packers coach said, via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "The Green Bay Packers have never, ever asked him to lose 30 pounds. That's totally out of the realm of what we're talking about. That's the facts there.
"Everybody's genetics are different. Eddie is a guy that he might gain weight but it's muscle. He's a thick muscle density guy. ... He's a lot bigger and stronger man than he was as a rookie. It's clear in the weight room and everything that he does."
McCarthy also confirmed that Lacy had consulted with Tony Horton, creator of P90X, to help get in shape ahead of offseason workouts.
"Eddie will take care of business," McCarthy said. "I have great confidence that he will. I think we'll see definitely a different guy in April, and more importantly in July."
So should we expect Lacy to look like Adrian Peterson the next time we see him? Probably not -- and Lacy said as much last October."
"I'm not the smallest person," he explained at the time. "Brandon Jacobs wasn't the smallest person. Jerome Bettis wasn't the smallest person. Some people can just play like that, not that I'm Jerome Bettis' weight or nothing like that. I'm just saying, not everybody's meant to look like Adrian Peterson or somebody like that."
