Every player who isn’t a clear, surefire first-round draft pick should have a college coach like Robert Spillane had. He had P.J. Fleck for his first three years with the Broncos before Tim Lester took over his final season. And they let him know in no uncertain terms how important special teams would be to his future.
“I was told in college that special teams isn’t the most glorious job, but it’s the best thing you can do to be a good teammate”, he recently told Teresa Varley for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ website. “Good teammates are consistently dominant on special teams because they want to go out there and they love what they do.