(02-10-2019, 04:59 PM)DragonFury Wrote:

(02-10-2019, 03:18 PM)p_rushing Wrote: There is zero chance of this happening today. Kids are put into 1 sport way too much. They focus year round from high school and sometimes even earlier. Most of them play 1 position. They focus solely on that.

It hurts them because they can't adapt. They don't know how to play anything else. They have skilled athletic abilities, but too many are too focused and hurt their overall ceiling. If a DB understands how to play WR, they will understand how to better play CB. If they know how to play S, they will know where the holes in the defense are and what routes beat it.

Some players aren't capable mentally of it and others never do it.

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Most levels of play restricts the amount of practice time a team can have and each minute spent practicing as a WR is a minute spent not practicing as a DB. So coaches put them in single sports or positions because they'll fall behind if they don't focus their efforts. 

Even then there's plenty of kids in high school playing both ways or playing multiple sports because they're that far ahead physically. Ramsey himself played football and track & field  in high school and college.

Agreed there is not enough time to practice for players to play both offense and defense in college.

For high schoolers the top athletes can play both sports, but it's only because they are just better than the rest of the players. When you start comparing them across the draft pool for baseball, the single sport players move ahead. If you don't make a choice by college, you will already be behind.

Those players would probably be better than the others that couldn't play multiple sports if they focused their time. The time just allows the lesser talent to pass them by.

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