Tag: playing wide receiver

  • Hands to the Sky, Feet on the Ground: A Lesson for WRs

    Hands to the Sky, Feet on the Ground: A Lesson for WRs

    Positional technique and film study became an interest of mine in the late 1990s and I can recall a magazine feature in ESPN where Sterling Sharpe critiqued an incoming class of wideouts. One of those players was Packers’ draft pick Derrick Mayes, a top prospect from Notre Dame. Sharpe criticized Mayes’ tendency to leave his…

  • Picking on Jarvis Landry

    Picking on Jarvis Landry

    I promise, I really do like a lot about Landry’s game, but when a player provides good teaching opportunities, you take it.  I’ve already heard from some LSU fans who feel it was unfair to criticize Landry’s effort in an area where I stated most college receivers aren’t playing at top intensity (run blocking). Forget…