Great post Ken, even by your usual high standards. Responding to 3), I’ve complained before about posters who claim to be instant experts on everything instead of listening to actual experts with training and expertise, I am the type that goes to a surgeon for surgery insight, a dentist for dental advice, Palm Beach Pats Fan for Chemisty/Biochemistry insight, and PWP for Engineering/Tech insight
I figure to be consistent and get some insight on a theory of mine from the only Board member with actual extensive football coaching experience (you of course). I’m not discounting what other board members have learned on their own, but I’ll go to the expert FIRST.
Thus I would like to zero in on 3, something that you have alluded to several times before. It goes contrary to how I think of things, but since you actually have football expertise I am beginning to think I have been wrong (…Note: for those posters who have -evidently- never been taught the meaning of “I am/have been wrong”, PM me and I’ll explain the meaning of this old phrase which has recently fallen out fashion).
I figured (previously at least) that whether or not they could run fast, guys like Russell Wilson, and Brady and Brees, we’re simply superb natural athletes who could have been professional Hall of Famers in OTHER sports (Wilson and Brady in baseball, Brees in tennis). And despite how much like LOVE Mac, I simply haven’t thought he was the same level of natural athlete (Mac was an excellent tennis player in high school but not regularly beating future Tennis Hall of Famers like Brees did).
But, you have posted many times that because of Mac’s speed and short area quickness, he can LEARN the type of elusiveness as Wilson. Is that your experience from your long football and coaching experience, that scrambling ability and elusiveness can be taught if the natural speed and short area quickness is there? I am not challenging your assertion (you are the one that would know as a former coach), but I would love to hear you elaborate and talk on this subject some time, whether in this thread or sometime in the future, I would find it to be fascinating. Certainly if Mac could become a great scrambler in addition to all his other strengths that would be exciting