I was the opposite, I sucked at all the individual drills or whatever, but when it came to games, I was able to step up and play well. It's not that I wasn't trying in practice, because I was, and I never felt like I was trying harder in games. I guess I liked the more realistic and team oriented environment of a real game better than practice.You hear coaches talk about how great some of these players are practicing, but that's practice. You have two type players one is a great practice player but disappears during games. You have players who don't practice that great but show up in games.
I admit when I played I was a great practice player and below average game player and I guess I fooled the coaches who only saw what a great practice player I was. I'm not advocating playing all the poor practice players but I'm all for playing kids who show up during games even when it's a small sample size.
All we heard prior to the season was how great Robinson had progressed and how Feist was worthy of a blackshirt and he would surprise everyone, still waiting. I haven't seen too many on our defense who are worthy of blackshirts unless the coaches are going by practice standards, which they probably are. I'm hoping for a heavy dose of Wynn and Drew and let the others spell them, I think a change is needed.
But yeah, there's a difference between practice players and gameday players, and it's easy to tell the difference on Saturdays with this team.