“Once you start saying like, ‘Hey, throw this versus cover-two,’ they’re going to come out and they’re going to look at it like it’s cover-two and it’s not going to be cover-two,” Shanahan said. “So most times I’ve learned that messes guys up.”
“The tales are separate but linked in that they were the biggest obstacles in Purdy’s early football career. He contracted mononucleosis entering his junior year of high school in 2016 and was on the losing end of a hand fight with a cactus playing paintball with his teammates and coaches the following year.”
“Or, as [Shaun] King put it, “Are you mature enough to just throw it in the flat on third-and-long?