Mike Holmgren has coached three teams to the Super Bowl, and is broadly viewed as one of the foremost experts on the quarterback position. And as the above quote makes plain, quarterbacking on the NFL level requires remarkable intelligence.
Quarterbacks must not only memorize playbooks that are the size of phone books, they must also do so in split second fashion. There’s no time for deliberation on an extraordinarily dangerous NFL field. The latter is the path toward injured reserve.
Readers might keep this in mind amid all the ink being spilled about Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in relation to his recent positive Covid-19 diagnosis. Rodgers is so much more than a great athlete, as are his NFL contemporaries. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
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