The Student of the GameGoing Beyond the Stats

The atmosphere was one of the most paradoxical one could imagine with stories intensifying the match-up of the first 2009 sell-out of Jacksonville’s All-Tell Stadium between the Indianapolis Colts and the hosting Jaguars. The Jags fighting against the ‘Collapse of the Cats’ as conjectured by critics killing them in the media by constantly clamoring over close calls against crappy competitors combined with the concept of clashing against the cunning Colts who are competing to cultivate their calamity-free season.

Imagine this: You are an NFL QB. As the leader of your team’s offense, you are asked to score more than 20 points a game, week in and week out, in order for your team to have a good chance to win the game. That may sound tough enough, but then someone says, “WAIT! -- you can only have the ball for 14:53 throughout the game . . . oh and JUST to make it interesting, you are without Anthony Gonzalez, your second-best WR”.