I believe it.My dad used to work with an ex-NFL quarterback, and he said many of the players didn’t know the playbook at all. Especially the receivers. They had no interest in learning it. He would call plays all the time and they had no clue what route to run.
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"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell