JUPITER, Fla. • The man is a rectangle.
He stands 5-11 — the spike in his hair gets him to 6 feet — but from neck down, he’s an upright cinder block, with shoulders on which you could shelve a set of encyclopedias. Below them, Tyler O’Neill has these preposterously protruding pectorals and a body built for a defensive line or a Marvel movie.
Yes, yes, a lot of athletes have strong bodies. But just how different is O’Neill’s body type? In the Cardinals’ clubhouse, the muscle-bound professional athletes talk quietly about this particular muscle-bound professional athlete.