ESPN: NFL Playbooks Are Sacred

Case in point:

ESPN - Video games: Hasselbeck looks for an edge - NFL (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/preview07/news/story?id=2977735)

Speaking of Matt Hasselback and playbook complexity:

Matt Hasselback | New York Times Video (http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f93f0fa0acc42bb59073dae3ef0613cac11638d6 )


The second one with his daughters is pretty funny.

*Be careful, if you leave the videos running to long you're forced to be subjected to hippies (drug smokers) protesting at the RNC. Just a heads up.

Some players grasp the complexities much faster than others. Redskins backup quarterback Todd Collins, an honors student at Michigan, was called "Rain Man" by his teammates in Kansas City because he almost effortlessly knew the book forward and backward.

ESPN - Packed with info, NFL playbooks are sacred - NFL (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/preview07/news/story?id=2973338&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1)

We finally have a nickname for Collins!

Yea Jerry's Kid because he sure in the hell can't throw the damn ball.

You never played high school ball Beems?

Nope. I would have had to maintain at least a "C" average in order to participate in after-school activities -- which meant I was hopelessly out of contention.