Game Played Above the Shoulder Pads

Football is no only physically difficult, but mentally. Every week during that season you have to prepare yourself for your opponent that week. In the novel Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow, he talks about meeting up with his coach's and players before the SEC Championship watching Arkansas's film discerning their defense. "The next day in our meeting Coach Meyer had a video of the Arkansas's defense clips... the whole team was sitting there, stunned, thinking, Wow, that is crazy." (Tebow 118). I did the same and watched my own film against KW and went through a check list to identify our offensive and the defense that was ran by our opponent. As I watched film I took notes on what defense was being ran and what we could have done better on offensive to better read the defense.

Ball Security

Ball security is very important in a game. A fumble could change and determine a team's chance of winning the ball game. In the book Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow a great former NFL quarterback and is now a free agent in the NFL. " A quarterback run up the middle. I was stood straight up on a tackle by a defender, and then I got stripped of the ball by another player. My fumble was recovered by Georgia on our own ten yard line... The whole next week I worked on ball-security by myself after practice trying to make sure what happened in the Georgia game didn't happened again."(Tebow 113)


All my years of playing football I have been on the offensive and defensive line, my junior year I'm going to try out for the tight end position. At this position I have the responsibility to block on run plays and every now and then be apart of the pass play. Trying out for this position means that sometime the ball will be in my hands. I have been train this off-season to make the transition from catching to tucking and run with the ball with great hold of it.

Do you think ball security is important and how costly one is for a team?

Football Training

The off season might be the most difficult time in an athletes career, trying to keep their body the same or even better shape then it was during the season. I'm reading Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow, as of now I'm reading the part where he just finished his sophomore year at Nease High School. Going into his off season he gave a lot of advice on what he did over the course of 9 months to take his one step closer to the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.




"It was my second football season football season at Nease, and we continued to make great strides to improve during my junior. Throughout the off-season, the guys and I had spend much more time with each other weight lifting, working out, working together on drills, looking to get better, to develop that edge we needed."(Tebow 66). What I took from Tim's actions in his off-season is whatever you do to get better, its best to do it with your teammate to develop a relationship and stay competitive.


Tebow also stated that he scrimmaged every week in the off season to keep the playbook fresh in back of their mind. (Tebow 70)  I need to be better at this since I usually forget the plays but I tried hard to get all the starts offensive to KR on the weekends and run through the our playbook.

To all athletes how do you stay in shape in your off season?