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QB Guru George Whitfield
Jun 11, 2014 at 1:22 PM
- Niners816
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It funny if you look at his twitter page, every tweet has a Seahawks fan talking s**t. He posted a pic of the trophy case and of course a hawk fan had to make a comment about "dust" collecting. He is just not used to actually seeing a full trophy case. They really are an insecure class of fans, with little to no redeeming qualities.
Jun 11, 2014 at 4:06 PM
- pwillis52beasty
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Who has he worked with other than Cam Newton and Andrew Luck?
Jun 11, 2014 at 4:24 PM
- Giedi
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Originally posted by Niners816:It funny if you look at his twitter page, every tweet has a Seahawks fan talking s**t. He posted a pic of the trophy case and of course a hawk fan had to make a comment about "dust" collecting. He is just not used to actually seeing a full trophy case. They really are an insecure class of fans, with little to no redeeming qualities.
Wow. That's pretty sad.
Jun 11, 2014 at 6:21 PM
- kray28
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Originally posted by AmpLee:
Step 1
Popeye Arms
- Spinach
Yup - Vegetables. What most of your diet should be.
Jun 11, 2014 at 9:14 PM
- Jcool
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Originally posted by pwillis52beasty:
Who has he worked with other than Cam Newton and Andrew Luck?
http://whitfieldqb.com/?p=372
Jun 11, 2014 at 9:50 PM
- xcfan
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Originally posted by Phil:
Whats step one dammit? Must know.
obviously fruits and veges
Jun 11, 2014 at 10:57 PM
- Dr_Bill_Walsh
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He's obviously here for Blaine Gabbert...
/thread
Jun 11, 2014 at 11:26 PM
- Garce
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i thought qbguru was banned
Jun 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM
- buck
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Dueling QB gurus? No, Whitfield hire fits Harbaugh mantra
Whitfield's title of "intern" implies that he'll be doing more watching and learning than giving instructions. But he arrives with quite a reputation having worked with NFL starters like Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton and Andrew Luck in the past and having been the Yoda to Johnny Manziel's Luke Skywalker in the run-up to the most recent draft.
Whitfield's forte, meanwhile, is in honing a player's technique and mechanics, especially when it comes to operating in the pocket. The last time he was in the Bay Area, he was chasing Luck around with a broom as Luck-a month from being drafted-worked out for scouts at Stanford. Whitfield was trying to simulate the chaos a quarterback experiences in an NFL pocket.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/11/6476774/dueling-qb-gurus-no-whitfield.html#storylink=cpy
Whitfield's title of "intern" implies that he'll be doing more watching and learning than giving instructions. But he arrives with quite a reputation having worked with NFL starters like Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton and Andrew Luck in the past and having been the Yoda to Johnny Manziel's Luke Skywalker in the run-up to the most recent draft.
Whitfield's forte, meanwhile, is in honing a player's technique and mechanics, especially when it comes to operating in the pocket. The last time he was in the Bay Area, he was chasing Luck around with a broom as Luck-a month from being drafted-worked out for scouts at Stanford. Whitfield was trying to simulate the chaos a quarterback experiences in an NFL pocket.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/11/6476774/dueling-qb-gurus-no-whitfield.html#storylink=cpy
Jun 12, 2014 at 7:26 AM
- NCommand
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My first thought on this was, "Isn't this Harbaugh's job...his specialty?" And then the next thought was, "Well this is great. Harbaugh should be even more freed up now to focus on the coaching staff, Roman, game planning, offensive philosophy, etc."
Jun 12, 2014 at 8:03 AM
- 49AllTheTime
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Originally posted by NCommand:
My first thought on this was, "Isn't this Harbaugh's job...his specialty?" And then the next thought was, "Well this is great. Harbaugh should be even more freed up now to focus on the coaching staff, Roman, game planning, offensive philosophy, etc."
there it is
JH following his motto...damn i totally forgot it...something about getting better each..
Jun 12, 2014 at 8:19 AM
- NCommand
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If you're not getting better, you're getting worse! You never stay the same.
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by NCommand:
My first thought on this was, "Isn't this Harbaugh's job...his specialty?" And then the next thought was, "Well this is great. Harbaugh should be even more freed up now to focus on the coaching staff, Roman, game planning, offensive philosophy, etc."
there it is
JH following his motto...damn i totally forgot it...something about getting better each..
Jun 12, 2014 at 8:26 AM
- Giedi
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Originally posted by NCommand:If you're not getting better, you're getting worse! You never stay the same.
I'm sure some folks here would like George to intern at OC.
Jun 12, 2014 at 8:29 AM
- 49AllTheTime
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Originally posted by NCommand:
If you're not getting better, you're getting worse! You never stay the same.
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by NCommand:
My first thought on this was, "Isn't this Harbaugh's job...his specialty?" And then the next thought was, "Well this is great. Harbaugh should be even more freed up now to focus on the coaching staff, Roman, game planning, offensive philosophy, etc."
there it is
JH following his motto...damn i totally forgot it...something about getting better each..
Jun 12, 2014 at 10:32 AM
- pd24
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ON A FOGGY California morning in March, at a near-empty practice field tucked away on Stanford's campus, Andrew Luck is running from a broom.
Flanked by college teammates and watched by friends and family, the most hyped quarterback prospect of the century drops back and evades a broom-swinging man before delivering passes downfield. Every swipe is dodged, every throw is on point. In less than 48 hours, NFL scouts and reporters will arrive from around the country for Stanford's pro day. They will laugh as the broom makes its debut and smile as Luck continually outruns it, completing 46 of 50 passes (three are drops) and cementing his status as this year's consensus overall No. 1 prospect.
The broom wielder is George Whitfield Jr., a thick-armed, granite-chested 34-year-old who plays the part of both coach and choreographer, calling out routes to receivers in between sweeps. For more than a month, he's been re-creating this scene with Luck in preparation for the draft on April 26. The broom is Whitfield's idea, born from one of the countless coaching camps he's attended. So are the beanbags he tosses to various spots on the field to make Luck move and readjust while keeping his eyes on his target. Whitfield also likes to take quarterbacks to the beach, where he instructs them to drop back into the water, set their feet in the sand and launch spirals as waves crash into their backs.
No matter how unorthodox his methods might seem, Whitfield is a man whose life has been dedicated to producing perfect throws -- the front foot stepping forward just so, the shoulders swiveling on time and the arm moving with machinelike efficiency. He refers to himself as a "quarterback builder." And depending on the experience level of his 70-plus pupils, who range from unproven middle schoolers to several of the game's best passers, that moniker rings true. But with Luck, he's more of a QB tweaker, simply fine-tuning an already impeccable set of fundamentals.
According to Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, who likely will be sending in play calls to Luck next season, that relentless focus on fundamentals is what separates Whitfield from other private tutors. He has no problem deferring to coaches who can teach his clients more about schemes and coverages -- Whitfield just wants to teach them how to throw. "A lot of young guys only think about schemes and never teach fundamentals," Arians says. "If you're seen as a schematic genius, that's how you move up in this profession. George is different."
That's not to say Whitfield is revolutionizing the way quarterbacks are taught. But he is content to spend hours on practice fields, overseeing five-step drops until the sun goes down. Those long days led to results for last year's overall No. 1 draft pick, Cam Newton. And now Luck is the beneficiary.
"He sees every motion, every movement," Luck says. "He makes sure that everything is perfectly organized, exactly in the right place."
When Ben Roethlisberger was suspended amid rape allegations in 2010, Whitfield flew to Pittsburgh. "In just those four weeks, there was a measurable difference," says Arians, the Steelers offensive coordinator at the time. "His footwork was cleaner, and his delivery was quicker."
Then the ultimate opportunity arrived. Following a successful albeit turbulent junior season at Auburn, Cam Newton declared early for the 2011 NFL draft. The Newtons turned to Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon to be Cam's private tutor, but Moon couldn't commit full time. He did, however, offer to find the right man for the job. "I knew about the work George had done with Roethlisberger," Moon says, "and I'd seen tapes of him working with younger kids. I liked the way he communicated with them, and you could tell he enjoys being with them." So Moon called Whitfield to discuss coaching philosophies. Afterward, Moon was sold. The Newtons had their man.
Cam flew to San Diego in January and set up camp, but first he had to work his way onto the field. Whitfield's plan was to strip the dual-threat quarterback of his athletic gifts, and the two spent hours watching film of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Matt Hasselbeck, all successful passers whose physical limitations force them to stay in the pocket. "Coming from a shotgun spread offense," explains Whitfield, "he had to actually learn the footwork involved in dropping back from under center." And when Newton finally was allowed to use his legs, Whitfield took him to the ocean, where the waves neutralized his agility. Moon would watch tape of their workouts and offer advice; Whitfield followed it up with positive reinforcement. "I would tell Cam, 'That's it, you've got that left elbow in tight,' when he really didn't," Whitfield says. "Then he registers it in his mind and envisions himself doing it. On the next throw, he does it perfectly."
Newton re-emerged nearly two months later at his pro day as a brand-new quarterback and went on to set eight rookie records for the Panthers, including most passing yards in a season (4,051).
http://espn.go.com/nfl/draft2012/story/_/id/7821231/nfl-andrew-luck-cam-newton-swear-qb-guru-george-whitfield-jr-espn-magazine