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Waldman’s Receivers to Defend the Planet: Jerry Rice, the Perfectionist
He’s the best receiver in the history of the game and arguably the greatest football player of all time, but was Jerry Rice a good teammate? Depends on your team. Watch A Football Life episode on the 49ers great and it’s clear that Rice was an emotionally distant, obsessive perfectionist, whose pursuit of individual greatness was a…
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Discerning Errors From Deficiencies: A WR’s Hands
No prospect is perfect. Although I can hear some of you thinking Andrew Luck’s name (or maybe that’s the voice in my head and I just don’t want to admit it), this isn’t a post about the Stanford quarterback. It’s about learning to project a player’s potential by his errors. Failures often reveal more about…