The auctioneer is in the house

Did anyone besides me get the feeling that the old fast talking auctioneer Lane Kiffin sold out Tennessee in record time.

Has there ever been a faster talking SEC coach? The fast talking old balls coach at South Carolina couldn’t come close to matching Kiffen’s speed with his mouth and Spurrier at least is willing to give a school his best. Kiffin on the other hand is willing to give a school his dads best shot. If it wasn’t for his dads defensive coaching what would Tennessee have done this season.

Has anyone seen a reason he should be described as a good head coach? I thought not.

He spends not even a year with the Raiders, has a losing record and is fired and called a liar by Al Davis. And you betcha he is a liar as Tennessee fans and players will tell you. All you have to do is watch his lips move to know that.

He wins barely half of his games and hes considered a good coach at Tennessee but his lips were moving there all the time too.

Hes an embarrassment to not only Tennessee fans but all of us SEC fans as well and USC fans will find that out quickly. Thanks Lane and your dad would be ashamed of you but hes watched your lips move your whole life and knows not to get involved watching them and forget whats hes doing.

About the only thing left for Tennessee to do is put the head coaching job up for auction and let the fastest auctioneer get the school a new coach in record time.

Is Hartline the Next Woodson?

Most everyone, including me, has been looking at Hartline this year with starry eyes and optimism.  Can he be the next Woodson?  Some say the comparison is skewed and it might well be.  Maybe not for the reasons they think it, but it still might be skewed.  Some say that Woodson’s Sophomore year was tougher than Hartline’s.  I am gonna go out on a limb and disagree.  On any given Saturday, any team can play well above their normal ability just like they can play well below their normal ability.  Just ask LSU on the night that UK (Woodson) stopped them in overtime. 

And even if he does well and UK wins games they are not “suppose to”, it still doesn’t mean Hartline has become the next Woodson.  Hartline will have some advantages Woodson did not.  Let’s face it, the defense was a major weakness in Woodson’s final two years.  Hartline’s offensive line will be much improved over either of Woodson’s.  Woodson did have two future pros at receiver but who is to say that UK doesn’t have the same thing this year?  On paper this year’s Cats, over all is simply a better team.  But the games are not played on paper. 

Woodson had his faults just like Hartline.  He was, and probably still is, notorious for going to one too many reads.  He was always good for at least a few big loses of yardage a game.  But he did have some things Hartline has not shown that will flat out win you games.  Time and time again in the crunch, you knew Woodson would make a play and he rarely let us down.  He also had one of the best touches down field I have seen at UK, and that includes Couch.  For me, a comparison to Woodson would be justified if he can continue doing the things he did well last year, was able to instill that confidence in the clutch, and was able to throw down field half as good as Woodson. 

I’m at a point where I’m with coach Brooks.  I’m tired of talking about it, let’s just play the games and see!

Lets play Flu-ball

Most of us are thinking this might be a good year for our football Cats. The season for every team in the nation might just depend on who and when players gets the swine flu this fall.

The CDC’s web site states “If you have flu-like symptoms, you should stay home and avoid travel for seven days after you get sick or for at least 24 hours after you stop having symptoms, whichever is longer”.

There could conceivably be enough players sick at one time where even Florida might have a hard time winning a game or games are canceled.

How does a coach minimize contact in football. Do they need to require mandatory testing to try and head off the flu.

How can a coach plan for having 6 or 7 starters off the field on a given Saturday. If your a passing team and have 4 receivers sick do you go to the run. If you have three starting linebackers and 3 defensive linemen out how do you plan for that and what do you change.

What does a conference do when teams have so many players sick they can’t field a competitive team. Do they consider the games a forfeit or extend the season.

There is no telling how the season will play out but at a minimum mild problems will occur and both coaches and the conference need to be prepared.

The Tomato Man

In a time when UK coaches and ex coaches seem to be making the National news on a daily basis, there is one set of coaches we hardly hear about.  And trust me; making the National news is usually not a good thing.  We hear about the vacated final fours, the wild women, the fruity golf outings at 2 am, but we just don’t hear anything at all about the tomato man.

If you get Coach Brooks’ tweets, and I don’t but I have seen a few, you know that his off season was spent raising some tomatoes.  I have no clue what Joker, and the rest of the staff has been up to, and in this day and age, no news is great news.  Of all the coaches in modern day UK history, no coach has been hated from the start for no good reason any more than Brooks.  And the really sad part is he heard every word of it.  And the saddest part is he deserved none of it.  At this point I must confess that I was either close to the front of the pack or leading the way, which is a mistake I will not make again.

So what does a man do when he has the moral fiber of a Coach Brooks in this situation?  Something much bigger than me; this I know for sure.  He puts his head down and plows.  He plants his tomatoes as seeds and he brings them up as best as he can.  The ground isn’t the best, but he adds as much nutrients as he can and he protects his young plants.  He gets the help he needs from a solid group of assistants and finds a way to make them feel like his tomato field is their own.  Pretty soon, his tomato field is a family of stronger and stronger plants.  He doesn’t cut corners and he doesn’t cheat.  And if things do not go well, he doesn’t twist them or turn them into something they are not.  He takes a few plants that no one wanted and turns them into some of the best there is. And because of this, the new plants he brings in each year are better than the year before. Every year his little tomato field gets a little bigger and better. 

Pretty soon Coach Brooks will be able to work in his little home garden all he wants.  And when he does, he will be able to look back at an incredible job well done, all at a place that didn’t want him and frankly didn’t deserve him.

We will only have coach Brooks around for a very short time.  In that time, we should all make sure to pass along how much we love him and the job he has done.  After all, his garden is our garden.

ESPN Fantasy World

Once again ESPN goes off the deep end into their fantasy world when Jemele Hill and Skip Bayless debate if John Calipari should be held accountable for the Memphis mess. Lets blame the coach not the clearing house or Rose who knew he was cheating.

Jemele Hill actually goes so far as to say its easy to understand how a kid can do something to bank roll his family. I agree its easy to understand but come on Jemele he knew he could hurt his team mates, Memphis and Calipari and you both put the blame on Calipari. Continue living in your fantasy world instead of putting the blame where it really belongs on the NCAA and Rose.

After listening to Pat Forde I still stand by my statement that ESPN is living in a fantasy world because the picture I used on the front page proves it. Funny how Forde conveniently ignores that Calipari is the one who found out that Camby had hired an agent and reported it to the NCAA.

The beauty of a sport

This is a good piece about soccer and a very good read. Why is it here in the basketball section. Because of something said below that I disagree with.

On the way back to our hotel, driving in our bulletproof car, we passed under a bridge on the highway and noticed one lone Mexican man happily swinging a flag back and forth. He had to have been 45 minutes from the stadium. There was nobody around him. He just kept swinging that flag with a joyous grin on his face. I remember thinking to myself, “Nobody in America will ever care about a sport that much.” And we won’t.

Obviously he has never been to Kentucky to know how much our fans care about the sport. Of course we Kentucky fans would never throw bags of urine at Indiana or Tennessee fans or Coach Calipari would walk off the court hiding a smile hopefully.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090817

And just as obviously we American love the beauty of the sport of soccer as much as anyone in the world. So much in fact that our passions boil at the thought of the game.

A SEASON ON THE BRINK FROM INSIDE THE HUDDLE Part 3

Part 3 in a series with a first hand view from inside the huddle on the1955 football team that played under head coach Blanton Collier in his second year at Ky.

Getting ready for LSU now opening away from home is always tough but to open at tiger stadium in Baton Rouge is especially tough. 75,000 screaming cajuns, mostly well oiled with liquor for the last 10 days[or longer]makes for an unfriendly setting. The seniors and juniors had been there before. The sophomores never had and it would be a shock for the sophomores.

We had scouted the tigers spring game but little new was shown. This is what we expected the crowd noise would be deafening. We would probably have to go off the center’s snap since the tackles and ends would not hear the qb signals. The tigers defense would be very aggressive especially when “the Chinese Bandits” were in. Linebackers shooting the gaps, later called “red dogging” and today called “blitzing”. Tackles and ends pressuring, we would have to run some draws, screens, maybe the “shovel pass” and a few quick slants to freeze the linebackers.

The offense was pretty unknown, a lot of sophomores. A quarterback with play action passing who would run and throw. They would run inside and outside with a lot of speed in the backfield and at the receivers. Alot of speed on kick returns.

We feel that we can move the ball on this team consistently. We feel that our defense will match up well against the tigers.

Key points of interest.
Crowd noise and play calling.
Tigers defensive aggressiveness.
Tigers speed at receivers, backfield and kick returning.

Defensive coverage in the backfield don’t get suckered on the play action pass and let the receiver get by you.

Our game plan was to take care of the ball, no fumbles or interceptions. Don’t beat ourselves make the tigers drive 70+ yards to score. Don’t give them a short field to score on with a turnover. Give our defense a chance to stop them with that 70+ yard drive to the goal line. No foolish penalty’s.

We expect a low scoring game, with good defense on both sides. A hard played game.

Our prediction Ky 14-LSU 10.

The 44 man travel squad flew out of Bluegrass field with the coaches and some sportscasters, sportswriters on board. A new sportscaster named Cawood Ledford was on board for his first trip with a Ky team. We arrived in Baton Rouge in late afternoon then went to tiger stadium and had a very lite work out under the lights. Mostly just loosening up and getting familiar with the field and lighting. We then had a team dinner, went to a movie and returned to our rooms. Curfew 10:00pm no exceptions.

The next morning team breakfast then around 10:00am a meeting with all players and asst. coaches was called, it went like this.

Coach Ermal Allen called all plays and signals from sideline.

Listen up pay attention this is very important. When you are on the sidelines pay attention at all times, watch whats happening on the field and on the sidelines in front of you, forget whats behind you, stay together with your group. Ends together tackles and guards together backs together quarterback’s on the phone table. Things get wild down there so if you stay with your group we can find you if we need you or your whole group if we need to make an adjustment during the game. Be ready to go in all the time, keep your shoes on and laced up and your helmet handy. Don’t go wandering around, if we need to send you in and we can’t find you, you just cost us a delay of game or caused us to waste a timeout to keep from getting a delay of game penalty. That’s just like getting a penalty on the field or much worse.

If the noise gets bad and you can’t hear the snap signal by the quarterback give him the signal and start going off the snap. We have practiced all this.

Don’t make a bunch of mistakes, run the plays right, don’t give the opponent any short fields to score on. Make them march 70+ yards and we win.

The best way to quiet the crowd is to get in front early and stay in front.

We have 44 players here. We selected each of you to come because we felt you could and would help us win this football game. That’s what we’re here for. Stay alert and have a good game.

The players then went to a short meeting with their position coaches.

In the afternoon around 4:00 pm the pre game meal was held and then off to tiger stadium for dressing, warm ups and the kickoff.

No More White For Rick

The sporting news is full of the Pitino-Sypher encounter. Encounter meaning he nailed her in a frigging restaurant probably next to the meat grinder in the kitchen. Heres a few of the things being said.

http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2009/08/12/the-pitino-affair-sex-in-a-restaurant-a-job-in-jeopardy/
Think of it this way: The enthusiasm for and scrutiny of basketball in Kentucky can be likened to the fervor for football in Alabama. And wasn’t Mike Price dumped as head coach by the Crimson Tide before coaching a game after reports surfaced that he’d had sex with a stripper in Pensacola, Fla.?

Price denies to this day such an encounter took place. (He settled a lawsuit with Sports Illustrated, which had reported the alleged assignation, out of court.) Pitino has admitted to having sex with Sypher and giving her $3,000. (Though his lawyer claims the money was for her to buy health insurance, not to have an abortion.)

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/whats-next-for-rick-pitino/
There aren’t a lot of historical touchstones here, especially for college. The Patriots never considered firing Bill Belichick when his name popped up in as the “other man” in a bitter New Jersey divorce case.

http://www.aseaofblue.com/2009/8/12/986230/where-have-you-gone-joe-dimaggio
Instead of looking for heroes on television or in arenas, we should be looking for heroes in our everyday lives. Because our everyday lives are filled with people we love, and who love us. Our everyday lives are filled with people who love us in spite of our quirks and short-comings; who love us even when we are unlovable. The father who plays catch with his son, the mother who teaches her daughter the art of cooking, the grandfather who takes his grandchildren fishing, the grandmother who reads tales of dogs and cats to her grandkids. These are the true heroes. Not some ballplayer who can hit better than most, or a coach who wins more often than not.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2108-Love-and-Marriage-Examiner~y2009m8d12-Joanne-Pitino-the-sad-case-of-adultery-and-abortion
We are hearing words of sympathy for Coach Pitino, his wife, Joanne, and his family. And we should. But our hearts must ache for Joanne Pitino who joins the ranks of wives and mothers tarnished by adultery.

The story of adultery is becoming all too common — an indiscreet move on the part of their husbands’ leaves the families vulnerable. In the world of politics it was Elizabeth Edwards and more recently Jenny Sanford. Love and marriage gone awry.

http://www.east-coast-bias.com/2009/08/extortion-is-easier-than-being-groupie.html
This is getting ridiculous. What ever happened to the good old days when a groupie would carry Shawn Kemp’s Travis Henry’s the father’s child to term and THEN extort child support from him? Rape is a serious crime and I try not to base any judgments based on pieces of news reports, but between Pitino and Roethlisberger, this is getting ridiculous.

http://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/hawk-umentary/2009/aug/12/gimme-shelter/
In case no one noticed. Rick Pitino is Slick, not Bill Clinton smooth, but incredibly slippery nonetheless.

Married man + High Stress Job + Temptation = No moral Backbone.

The comments that are being posted on blogs put all this mainstream reporting to shame. Some of them deserve a Nobel Prize for creative writing.

“Kentucky’s a part of the country where this is a BIG deal to many people”
Easy, chief, the dude coaches in Louisville, not Pulaski County.
I do suppose this means that Pitino can’t wear white anymore.

Papal agenda, Wednesday, April 12, 2009:
1. Excommunicate Richard Pitino (multiple infractions of conduct clause)
2. Place Karen Sypher on 15-year penance list (whore)
3. Clarify papal decree on restaurant floor sex
4. Tune in to the Dan Patrick Show

Can anyone say “….and providing the commentary for tonight’s matchup here on TNT between the Warriors and the Heat, Coach Rick Pitino!”

So, Marvin Stone transfered before this? Man, the evil this man did during the 2003 era is off the charts…who knows what else this man has done?!

I know that Fr. Bradley pays for hotel rooms for players…I wonder what else is hidden under Rick’s rocks???

Rupp Arena should take the seats behind the other goal and call it the “Erection Zone” and have Karen Sypher present in that area during the UK/Loserville game.

An ode to Pitiner

When he was coach at Kentucky
He was king of the world
His adultery much more secretive
With much hotter girls
His teams were set for Glory
As coach rebuilt the team
Destined to be on top forever
At least that’s how it seemed
Then he left for Boston
He had something else to prove
Once he got to beantown
Pitino lost his grove
The girls were not quite as hot
His teams just could not play
He traded in Ashley Judd
For his ho of the day
So as the controversy thickens
And Vinnie is still on the floor
Will U of L be strong
Or will Pitino get the door
Once a king of the bluegrass
Know known as Richard Pitiner
The bluegrass waits for an answer
From the man who plays too much with his Weiner.

Regarding Pitino, he once again didn’t cover the one inbounding the ball…so to speak.

Two lessons to be learned in Rick Pitino situation: Wrap it up and Take it to go.

Quick — the restaurant table ricky had sex is now up for auction on ebay —— Word is out that the U of L alumni association is pooling their funds in an attempt to purchase the table and have it mounted under the speakers at freedom hall.

Sypher or a stripper I got to think about this for a while. I thought about this for a while and said self can I have both. Self answered nope so I take the stripper. Coaching in El Paso can’t be that bad can it.

A SEASON ON THE BRINK FROM INSIDE THE HUDDLE PT 2

Part 2 in a series with a first hand view from inside the huddle on the1955 football team that played under head coach Blanton Collier in his second year at Ky.

The 55 team did not have a “special teams coach” as such, several coaches coached the various special teams. We had kick off and punt teams usually the same team unless some one was injured. We had return teams for both kick offs and punts the same team. We had a team that ran the field goal and extra points the same team.

This team is vital. I just saw where UK was ranked #8 in special teams last year. I remember when Guy Morris had a very good special teams coach. Very good and “special teams”go together don’t they???

Successful play calling by the quarterback and successful defensive signal calling by the MLB is a very complicated process and goes far beyond just one player getting out in front of 10 of his teammates on the field and through the use of numbers, letters and signs in an effort to get his team mates to join him in a common effort against the day’s opponent on the next play don’t guarantee success. It’s complicated, it involves hours an hours of work by the coaching staff scouting teams, watching game film and preparing a game plan. It involves meetings, practice, game input from the sideline coaches and the coaching box upstairs. It involves the situation at hand, line of scrimmage, first down marker, and down marker as well as present score especially if it’s late in the game. And yes it demands confidence. Confidence that the next play//signal you call will be the right one for the play coming up. All this churns around the play clock and if it’s late in the game the time clock. Tough task and not a lot of players can handle this job.

When Bob Hardy was in at quarterback he called about 60% of the plays on the field, no cheat sheets. The other 40% of the calls came from the sideline by substitutes, timeouts, or signals. With back up qb’s in more calls were made from the sideline.

When Dave Kuhn was in at mlb he called about 60% of the defensive signals from the field I don’t recall any cheat sheets.About 40% came from the sideline by subs, timeouts, and signals–with backups in that number called from the sidelines went up.

The 54 team struggled with the play calling process, a new staff, a new offense and defense and everything was slow which resulted in.

#1–Delay of game penalty’s which killed a lot of drives and ended up losing possession of the ball.
#2–Wasted timeouts to prevent delay of game penalty’s.
#3–Poor selection by the signal caller due to being rushed
#4—More play//signal calling

After the problems in 54 with play and signal calling asst. coach Ermal Allen created a process, a strategy, a system that gave the person on the field and the coaches up stairs a 12 second earlier notice over what they had received in the past. This cut back on

#1–Delay of game penalty’s
#2–wasted use of valuable timeouts to prevent delay of game penalty’s
#3–rushing of the signal callers and coaches upstairs to make calls in order to beat the play clock–
#4—In 55 i don’t know if 2 way radios were around I couldn’t afford one anyway. I don’t exact know when cell phones came in or text messaging and now twitter.

I don’t know what is being used out there today to transmit information quicker and more reliable and after all that’s part of the play and signal calling process to find out what the line of scrimmage is and how much more to go for a first down or td isn’t it??? There has to be a way to give me and my team that 5 second edge on play calling every down.

Take a stop watch when the guy with the ball goes down start the clock, when the ball is marked and the down marker/line of scrimmage stick is moved stop the clock. How much time did you get??? That’s what you’re working with–saving 5 seconds off that dead time is money in the bank–

It worked for us but wasn’t widely known or discussed. Ii don’t think anyone ever picked it up after coach Allen left for the Cowboys. I am not sure what system was used though coach Bradshaw did talk to me once about it but i wasn’t around much in those days.

Play calling today is even far more complicated than it was in 55. The expanded use of the “spread offense” and use of changing defenses to defend them makes it a new crap shoot entirely. Coach Collier brought the Cleveland browns offense to Ky in 54. It was on the edges of the “spread offense” with wide outs and slot backs and splitting the ends out.

Sid Gilman, head coach at Cincinnati had created a offense that later became known as the “west coast offense” and many people have been credited with it’s invention including the Forty Niner’s coach who won a couple of super bowls with Joe Montana using it, but it was Sid Gilman who created it and it was a beginning strain of “the spread offense”.

A SEASON ON THE BRINK FROM INSIDE THE HUDDLE

The first in a series with a first hand view from inside the huddle on the1955 football team that played under head coach Blanton Collier in his second year at Ky.

In the summer of 55 I was asked by the majority owner, publisher, and editor of what was probably Kentucky’s largest weekly newspaper, to write a weekly article on the 55 Ky. football team as they went through the season. The publisher wanted something that the Courier Journal did not have, a inside view–sort of a one up situation.

I was concerned about my writing skills since my English 1a and 1b grades were less than superior but the publisher said you get the info together and I will edit it if that’s ok”??? I agreed–and away we went–

The predictions listed in the upcoming series are those made in that column every week. So stay tuned it should be fun. If it isn’t blame it on bill he asked me 6 times.

Those weekly predictions were not just mine but the team’s predictions.

Each week the seniors and about 10 juniors would get together and write the article. I would do that by asking “how do you see this game”??? The answers were very good, deep thinking on everyone’s part. Then I would say “so you are saying this is going to be a hell of a ball game”??? This will be a “take no prisoners game???” An all out brawl??? Score predictions?? Opponents strengths, never list weaknesses.

Then I would write the comments with the prediction and have it picked up at a store in Chevy Chase on Wednesday for publication on Friday.

Background
The team was lead by 13 seniors and a large talented junior class. The senior class came in 52 except one player who came in 51. That senior class had played a lot of minutes along the way. The junior class came in 53 during coach Bryant’s last season at Ky and had played a lot of minutes also. The sophomore class was large but untested in any way. Freshmen were not legible for varsity play in 54, the last year for that was 53. Lou Michael’s looked good in spring practice and would play several minutes. Several other players had possibilities. Some would have to step up and play. so freshmen were not legible in 55.

About 60% of the players would go both ways. Obviously qb’s would not play on defense due to injury risk. A number of soph lineman would play on defense but few would play on offense due to complicated blocking schemes and play learning. A number of sophmore backs would play on offense but few on defense due to pass coverage and play reading problems.

Leadership we had 13 seniors and a talented junior class. Senior bob hardy at quarterback was a 5 year man who had spent 3 years under coach Bryant and 54 under coach Collier, seldom got rattled, seldom made mistakes was in command, called “paddle foot” but now and then picked up a few on the run when other things were shut down. Co-captain and leader.

Senior end Howard Schnellenberger played both ways. Started the third game as a freshman and every game since. Lead the team in minutes played in all 3 years to date and was expected to do so again in 55. Co-captain and a great leader.

The team was organized and confident not cocky the seniors and juniors were experienced and had been through the wars. There were no superstars on this team but instead a group of hard practicing and hard playing group of “blue collar players” who wanted to win and played hard.

The 55 coaching staff had settled in and adjusted-,the full offense and defense had been installed in spring practice.

The 54 season had been “helter skelter” for the team and staff thru no fault of their.

Coach Bryant had suddenly departed in early April 54 for Texas A&M. Coach Collier came on board around April 20th or so and started assembling a staff, but spring practice had not been held and it had to start and quickly coaches or no coaches. So spring practice started and coach Collier continued to hire coaches but there was no other choice than to revert back to the 53 season for offense and defense.

The summer came and then fall practice started. Coach Collier had a full staff of good coaches but several didn’t know the players they would be coaching. 2 a days started with the introduction of a new offense and new defense was attempted but it didn’t mix well with 2 a days and hot weather. So back to the old system with a plan to slowly introduce new plays as we went along. This cost the team a lot of problems and probably at least 1 loss in early season but by mid season everything was pretty much in and the team started cooking. The record in the second half of 54 proves it and the players liked the new offense.

If we are going to play the “blame game” here we probably must blame coach Bryant for not departing in Dec 53 after the season ended or in early 54 after the bowl games. Seldom does a major college football coach depart after late January of any given year.

But 54 was now in the rear view mirror and it’s 55 and looking forward.

Every year all college teams have a few holes to plug due to losing starters and backups so departing starters must be replaced as well as back-ups. I remember a couple of years ago when Locke was #5 on the depth chart at the start of the season but by the 7th or 8th game he was starting you have to be ready.

Incoming classes have to be inducted. They have a hard time adjusting to the speed and agility of the seasoned players.

So the sophomore class of 55 was untested, untried and some of them would have to step up.

Known soft spots.

#1–Back ups at quarterback, some talent but untested and unproven.

#2–Defensive backs, ome sophomores would have to step up. Scary

#3–Back ups at end. We had 3 solid both way ends. We lost one solid 2 way end due to an off campus incident. There was 4-5 sophomores there who were not impressive in spring practice. A couple had to step up.

It is very hard to get “rookie” sophomore players to step up at the following positions.

#1–Defensive secondary–pass coverage and run support.

#2–Offensive line–blocking schemes and various calls.

#3–Kick coverage of any kind “rookies” get over anxious, get out of their lane,lose their spacing instead of staying home. That’s how they run the big one back on you. Unless you have a kicker who kicks the ball a mile high and a cover guy that is a track man who arrives the same time as the ball and creates a fumble,.Stay at home, keep your spacing andstay under control. You’ll get your shot and you won’t have egg on your face and the opponent points on the scoreboard.

The hardest positions to fill.

#1–Defensive backs–most people want to be a quarterback.

#2–Quarterbacks–a mouth full to swallow.

#3–MLB//signal caller–another mouthfull

Toughest position to play.

#1–Quarterback–key to the offense–hours and hours and hours of study and practice.

#2–MLB//defensive signals–key to defense–about 80% of quarterback hardness

#3–Defensive backs–you either get it or you don’t–must have great reaction and agility–you gotta want to play it baby.

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