When the golfing gods gave Nathaniel Hackett a wicked slice, Hackett gave it right back.
“So he’ll line up to the left. Like he’s going to hit it right into the houses on the left,” Eric Price recalled with a chuckle. “And he’ll swing as hard as he can, and it’ll go right down the middle of the fairway. It’s incredible.”
Price worked as an offensive research assistant under Hackett, the Broncos’ new coach, in Jacksonville, and under Nate’s father, Paul, when the elder Hackett was with the New York Jets. He’s rarely seen anybody in the coaching fraternity adjust — to game situations, to personnel, to the weather, to crummy swings, whatever — the way that Nathaniel Hackett adjusts.