Quote:That part I get!

 

And I'm with you. It's not that I've lost my patience per se, but it seems as if a guy is going to be a really good player, it'll show up early on. The Jimmy Smith's of the football world don't seem to happen that often anymore.

 

I wonder if it's because the coaching ability in college and even lower have been upgraded so much in the past few years.

The game has definitely gotten more studied by the younger players. In HS, we have a tool called Hudl now. We can watch all our practices less than 30 minutes after we get off the field. We can watch games almost instantly (not just ours, but others as well).

 

Film is where you can really elevate yourself and team. It's the best teacher. It's one thing for a coach to say "No, you do this, you do that, etc.". It's another to see yourself and what your doing and see why it's wrong and what technique you should of been doing.

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