Robert--With the incentive of don't-learn-it-then-no-playing-time, I think teacher and student would be motivated (with teacher being motivated by wanting to put potentially best players on field).

L.C.--The guys who play in the NFL, for the most part, make it on physical skill. You or I could be taught the intellectual side of it for forever and never come withing a zillion miles of it.


Sorry. But I find the assertion that it takes one who's physically capable of 'running lower' 2.5 or more years to learn it or to receive adequate coaching/education re how to do it to be seriously dumbdown.

I'll start a list of things that could be so complex that 2.5 years are not enough...but people get 'em done.

Learn to drive a car.
Win a MACC (at least---at least--12 years needed)
Take snap directly from center instead of in pistol.
Switch from QB to TE (Roback at OHIO, T Pryor for the Browns).
Coordinator to head coach.
POTUS (which, of course, no one could become since never had experience at it until won the office).
Care for a dog.
Learn a software program.
Learn to paint a house.
Millions and millions and millions and millions of other things.

2.5 years? Do I hear 5.7? 7.4?


That anyone thinks it's okay to need 2.5 years to learn, or be taught, to run lower is impressively unthoughtful.

So, business owners across the nation should allow employees years to be able to get up to speed on doing the very basics of the job?