From his home in Atlanta, he hardly watches football at all. Torell Troup isn’t ready. Not yet.
If a game’s on, he mentally transports back to the film room, studying who shimmied out of a gap, who’s engulfing a double team, the X’s and O’s. What should be leisure, fun, starts to feel like a job and, man, Troup misses his job.
No, he’s not parked on the recliner each Sunday. But, yes, the former Buffalo Bills defensive tackle always knows when Rob Gronkowski scores a touchdown.
Gronk scores. Gronk spikes. Troup’s cellphone lights up.
“If Gronkowski scores more than one touchdown,” Troup said, “I’m probably going to get 10-15 tweets.