This link has been bookmarked by 2 people . It was first bookmarked on 13 Sep 2008, by Richard Saad.
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26 Sep 08
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While there may be characteristics inherent to the position, the wide receiver has also been shaped by external forces. A brief history: The passing game arrived in the 1940s, shortly after the introduction of a smaller, more easily thrown ball and with the advent of free-substitution rules (which made way for offense-only whippets who would’ve been ground up beneath Jim Taylor’s cleats had they also been obliged to play defense). In the late 1970s, blocking rules were liberalized, and the N.F.L. introduced illegal-contact rules to protect receivers downfield. All of this had the effect of cracking the game wide open. Wide receivers soared to prominence in the 1980s, just in time for the rise of ESPN, the highlight package and the lucrative shoe endorsement. The wide receiver, held up as everything that’s wrong with the me-first world of sports, may actually be the purest product of the marketing juggernaut that is the N.F.L. as well as the culture that launched it skyward.
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let’s focus on a collision between a running back and a linebacker, and analyze it according to Newton’s Second Law of Motion. This basic law of physics tells us that the force of a hit is equal to a player’s mass times the acceleration he feels as a result of the hit.
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Wonderlic intelligence test, the theory being that quarterbacks who are better at algebra will make better decisions. Unfortunately, the theory is wrong.
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Corners are almost always smaller than the receivers they cover, so if the 6-foot Bailey is defending the 6-foot-4 Randy Moss, he has to bump the receiver at the line of scrimmage (not easy to do against the fastest guy on the offense), make sure the receiver doesn’t knock him over and then run — at full speed, on shorter legs — to cover him downfield.
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13 Sep 08
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solipsists
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Wonderlic intelligence test
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cornerback
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