Watching a ton of film is sort of a prerequisite to playing the quarterback position in the NFL.
It’s no different for Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, but he learned early on in his career that he had to watch film a little differently than most quarterbacks in the NFL because he played with Calvin Johnson.
“There were only a handful of teams I would really watch tape on last year,” Stafford told WJR before the Taste of the Lions event earlier this month. “It was the Falcons with Julio Jones or the Cowboys with Dez Bryant.