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Old 02-24-2011, 01:22 PM   #11
Slingin Sammy 33
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Re: Tricks to Memorizing an NFL Playbook

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Originally Posted by firstdown View Post
There are some very dumb but very good football players. Do you think any of them are trained like Forest Gump? Run Forest Run!!!!!
Pretty much, the coach will put them in positions where they just do a job and don't have to read/react. Case in point, not to say L. Landry is dumb, but he functions much better in attack mode instead of as a FS or as a C2 safety where there's a lot more information to process very quickly.
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