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A lot of us, myself included, get caught up in the game of who is faster than who conversations. We all forget some simple facts about the game of football. Football is unlike any other sport in the fact that men are constantly asked to physically overpower, aggress, and repeatedly take down the other person during the course of a 3 hour game. Football is a war of attrition and a battle of one man’s will versus another’s. A football player has to be able to continually rise to the occasion in the face of adversity. Some men react differently when tested by aches, pains, intimidation, and the constant physical beating that comes from the sport of football. At the end of the day some men cower and some men conquer. The game of NFL Football puts men in the toughest of these situations that expose and set apart the hidden traits that often decide whether one player stands out amongst so many equally physically gifted athletes. What are the most important qualities in a football player? It is not simply physical gifts. The most important character traits are football intelligence, instincts, heart, determination, and the will to succeed. Essentially there must be a proper marriage between physical talent and hidden talent. The players that possess the right blend of these gifts often make up the “it” factor, or the intangibles that so many people reference during draft time. The tough part is that these qualities often times are only clear when watching the competitors during the context of an actual football game, and then comparing them from game to game, season to season, etc… The proven football men such as Bill Polian, Bill Parcels, and Ron Wolf (former GM of the Packers) know how to decipher the erroneous 40 times from the real football talent.
So I want to remind everyone on this board not to get caught up in the numbers game of 40 times, bench presses, and shuttle runs. These times only serve as a confirmation of on field performance. There will still be those players that are picked in rounds 2 through 7 that are in fact better football players at the end of the day than the round 1 eye popping number track guys. It’s just the way it works out every year. Hopefully the Saints can figure out who can best handle the JOB of being an NFL Football Player.
Thanks for your time,
Samdogg
So I want to remind everyone on this board not to get caught up in the numbers game of 40 times, bench presses, and shuttle runs. These times only serve as a confirmation of on field performance. There will still be those players that are picked in rounds 2 through 7 that are in fact better football players at the end of the day than the round 1 eye popping number track guys. It’s just the way it works out every year. Hopefully the Saints can figure out who can best handle the JOB of being an NFL Football Player.
Thanks for your time,
Samdogg
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