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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I_am_smoked_cheddar" data-source="post: 559884">I learned a long time ago not to count on money until it is in the bank account.  Therefor I don't count on Football Players until the prove themselves against league competition.  Dreams are nice , but they are not reality.  ILB has become more than it used to be. They have to stop the run, drop back into coverage, and be able to blitz when called upon.  Next to the QB, the LB may be the most challenging position in the game today.  The position has evolved over the decades, the player must be lightning quick, massively strong, and possess a very quick mind.  He may only have a few hundredths of a second to correctly analyze a play and correctly react to counter it.  IMO the great Linebackers may be harder to discover than QB's.They try to hire good players to play Linebacker, and train them, and coach them.  With all that, if he lacks the heart, the drive, the mental ability, then he is just ordinary.  Examples would include: **** Butkus, Mike Singletary, Ray Nitschke,  J.J.Watt, Jack Ham, etc... to name just a few. They lacked nothing, they had the total package.  It is like walking on a beach and discovering a diamond.  [ATTACH=full]2821[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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