The NFL Guru

From a bunch of reckless hooligans running into each other to questionably the most complex sport in the world. Over Decades of improving the game, the NFL timeline has not led the fans or players to a position where NFL football is at all simple to understand. In fact, the lack of simplicity involving rules and intelligent gameplay are leading some quarterbacks to confusion and utter frustration.

Each year, offences and defences find ways to remain one step above the competition using the psychological approach, confusion. Though there is always a way to counter it, playbooks are getting thicker, fans are inserting more pressure, and coaches have higher expectations leading for a bit too much to account for as a Quarterback. The Quarterback position isn’t just run and catch, which is why the some Quarterbacks are failing miserably.

Take Jamarcus Russell, one of the most athletic players in the game. He has the body of a linebackers, a cannon for an arm and a little bit of speed to top it off. Judging by his statistics at the NFL rookie combine, the Oakland Raiders chose him first overall in the 2006 Draft. To this day, JaMarcus Russell has been a major disappointment to the fans of Oakland, but he still remains the starting quarterback. With stats like this: Passer Rating- 48.3, PYPG- 125.0, TD-INT Ratio- 1:4.5, Completion%- 48.4., it is surprising that he is so magnificent physically. Well theres no surprise at all actually, it is because he lacks the understanding of the game, he lacks the ability to read defensive packages, he lack the confidence to lead his team to victory using his awareness of the game of Football, and few have those abilities, even fewer are able to manipulate those abilities.

These days, defences can apply so much pressure on a Quarterback that he does not have the talent measure up. That is why more and more Quarterbacks are failing in the NFL (e.g. Derek Anderson, Jake Delhomme, Josh Johnson, Marc Bulger, Trent Edwards, Kerry Collins).

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