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NFL Week 13

Weeks like this where 8 out of 10 wideouts scored is what I love to see. The wideout of the week award goes to Davante Adams of the Oakland Raiders. Adams looked and played fast. He ran great routes all game and I love his stop-n-go route up the left side for one of his two touchdowns. The Raiders are on a 3-game winning streak and if Adams production stays at this level…he’ll be challenging Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, and Stefon Diggs for the receiving crown.

With a monstrous performance from a name I didn’t know till this weekend, Garret Wilson of the New York Jets played exceptional. He caught 8 balls for 162 yards. Wilson did not score but after watching his tape and the Jets upgrading at quarterback I think this kid will finish the season with one or two more 100 yard performances.

Tyreek “the Cheetah” Hill did what he does best and that’s ball. Hill caught 9 passes for 146 yards and scored on a 45-yard post pattern for his lone touchdown. Hill did this against a really physical and tough San Francisco defense. With 5 games left in the regular season, Hill is 621 yards from 2,000. If the mercurial wideout averages 124 yards during those 5 games…we will have witnessed the greatest season ever by a wideout.

Tyler Lockett had himself quite the game. Lockett caught 9 balls for 128 yards and scored on a beautiful over-route where he turned on the jets outracing defenders to the end zone. On the other side of the formation was his counter-part DK Metcalf. He himself caught all 8 passes thrown his way for 127 yards and 1 score. Metcalf finished the game with a tough slant catch while taking a hit and Jalen Ramsey draped on his back while scoring. I love watching good shit.

A.J. Brown is so good that he got his former GM of the Tennessee Titans fired because he traded the phenomenal wideout who returned to humiliate them. Brown put on a performance that led to an 8 catch day for 119 yards and 2 touchdowns. Brown scored on an out-n-up and a fade that basically fell into his lap.

Amon-Ra St. Brown had a nice game. It appears that Jared Goff has found his go to wideout. Amon scored on an out route during the first half. He runs some really good slants and I like the explosiveness he displays on the screens and bubbles.

Terry Mclaurin got his day going early. His first catch was a 1-handed, broken tackle, shallow cross for 15 yards. Mclaurin caught a few slants and hitches and I like how he broke a few tackles on screens.

Christian Kirk eclipsed the 100 yard mark with 104 yards on 6 catches. He was the second wideout on the list who didn’t score. Kirk only needs a 177 yards to reach 1,000 proving the money spent on him this off-season was well worth it.

And Lastly Devonta Smith showed out opposite of his boy A.J. Brown. Smith caught 5 balls for 102 yards and 1 touchdown. His third catch was a beautiful post pattern for a 40 yard TD. I look forward to him and Brown eclipsing 1000 yards receiving in their first year together.

We have five more weeks left in the season and I expect the wideouts to finish strong, set new records, and have fun along the way. Let’s Go!

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wideouts4life · 2 years

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NFL Week 5

This weekend had me screaming like crazy at the amount of fantastic plays made by wideouts. Because I’m into sports investing (betting) and have created a system where I don’t lose (writing a book about that now) I do watch some college football. At times It does fill me with nostalgia. I remember what it was like sleeping at the nice hotels and flying to different states and having police escorts to the hotels and stadiums. Believe it or not but I miss the 16-miles worth of running in 20lbs of football gear 3 times a week excluding game days. I try to only watch the games of the kids I once coached. I sit on my couch with loose sheets of paper scattered around me smoking whatever bomb ass weed I happen to have stored in my mason jars. This past weekend I picked up an ounce of Lemon Cherry Gelato which did me right considered I just finished my last Gary Payton joint Friday night. If I didn’t blaze I couldn’t watch a full game. The commentators are f**king awful. Plus when you become a Master or Guru at something it’s like death watching bad shit.

I’m a perfectionist to a certain extent. What makes me excel at teaching and coaching wideouts is that I built a progressive system that efficiently and effectively builds their games to elite status in the shortest or fastest amount of time. If an athlete follows my program he could achieve lower levels of mastery in 5-7 years. And what I mean by lower levels is that the wideout would operate on pure animal instinct. Now depending on the age of when I start with that kid and if I actually coach them in season will affect their game proportionately. An example of this is the Detroit Lions 2nd-year pro Amon-Ra St. Brown. I first worked with his eldest brother Equanimeous when Amon-Ra was in 8th grade. He began working on footwork and cone drills that I previously used when I began training NFL prospects back in 2008. Along with that was his ability to soak up instruction I gave his brother and the other wideouts who played for the 7on7 team that I coached.

His dad would ask me for drills and the reason behind some of the drills. Having an athletic father who’s into performance really helped his maturation as well. So while the other kids may have trained/practice one or twice over the weekend. The St. Browns would lift 3 days during the week and if I remember correctly have two days of cones and ladders. For two years before I accepted the coaching job at Mater Dei High School; The wideouts I trained (I’ll make a list one day) worked with me twice a weekend from middle of December until the end of June.

In Robert Greene’s book Mastery the author explains that in order to achieve mastery one must complete at least 10,000 hours of a certain thing. And the 10,000 hours have to be the right practice or the person will not master the skill. Not only did Ra have two older brothers to mimic and learn from. He and middle brother Osiris (played at Stanford) didn’t make our top traveling 7on7 team. And as heated as his dad was at all the coaches, I’m sure this was additive fuel to prove the coaches wrong. Mind you the other two coaches Matthew Hatchette and Edell Sheppard played in the NFL. Coaching matters. Having the right coach changes an athletes everything. Just Imagine if Michael Jordan didn’t play for Dean Smith in college, who retried as the winningest coach in NCAA history in 1997. He wouldn’t be the best because he wouldn’t have learned from a Master teacher. This is in part why I think Lebron James could never be greater than Jordan. No matter how great Lebron’s IQ he never was taught by a great or Legend which some would argue is the reason for him being the greatest because of that glaring factor.

In the summer of 2016 Osiris and Amon-Ra told their dad they wanted me to be their wideout coach after the wide-receiver coach at Mater Dei quit. What the kids or any of my friends didn’t know is that I was driven to be the best wideout coach/trainer the world had ever saw. I was fortunate to have a good teacher in Keith Williams who I hear is coaching with the Baltimore Ravens and a great coach in Brent Brennan (HC San Jose State). For the life of me I could never figure out how Keith came up with the drills that we practiced in college. At first when I began training and like all novices we start with the pallet of someone we first learned from mimicking their every word of instruction. When John Brown reached out to me with the proposition I nonchalantly told him no because I was about to start my Master’s program and I honestly didn’t think I could possibly coach (which is a huge commitment) and obtain my master’s degree in a one-year accelerated program where each week was equivalent to four weeks. After some persuading I agreed to meet the head coach because I’m the type of person who’s always open for opportunity.

I was known and respected by all the trainer and coaches but none of them would say I was the best. Everyone knew I was the best but starting my coaching career at Sylmar High School where the population is 99% black and hispanic and is considered a hood school out of San Fernando Valley didn’t attract big schools. Plus I didn’t have a big named kid who played for me. Yes, I trained Trent Irwin (Stanford), Joseph Lewis (USC), Jalen Hall (Oregon) EQ. St Brown (Notre Dame) Iman ‘Biggie’ Marshall(USC) and so many other kids but none of them played for me so the credit went to their coach as it should. Here’s the crazy thing about greats, they usually start somewhere small before they get that big opportunity. In 3-years at Sylmar, we finished 7-4, 8-4, and 11-3 losing in the championship game to Hamilton High. I was paid $300, $0, and $1500 over 3 seasons driving from South Central and Inglewood 50 minutes to the Valley 6 days a week. Who know’s what the fuck was I thinking but I guess in order to be the best you have to do what others are not willing to do.

At the time I still considered Keith as the best. I would tell the other coaches that I was coached by the best and even showed deference to Keith. But what kept driving me was how arrogant Keith became because of the college jobs he began obtaining. There were two questions I began asking myself as I would hear Keith tell me he was better than me. The first question was if you are the best how come you never coached a number 1 wideout? The best always attract the best. Number two question was if you were the best how come you haven’t had a wideout drafted in the first round in the year you coached them? And number 3 how could you be the best without having any championship rings. This would be the detriment to Keith’s so called self-given guru moniker in my opinion. Today he still has no rings. I have this theory that wherever he coaches the team ends up sorry (Ravens 8-9 last season). And I knew once I coached a number 1 and won a championship Keith couldn’t f**k with me. And to this day he still can’t f**k with me

After meeting Bruce Rollinson at USC during a 7on7 tournament the Monarchs were playing in he offered me the job because he saw how many of his players came up to me giving me hugs. Initially I declined the offer because he was disrespectful with his offer. I countered, he accepted, we shook hands and the rest is history. The reason I took the job was because I knew this would solidify my greatness. I had just came off an 11-2 season coaching at Cathedral High School losing in the 3rd-round of playoffs. I coached Renard Bell who’s in his senior season with the Washington State Cougars. But I don’t take any credit besides his 1st-team and offensive player of the year awards because he had the offer and was committed there before I coached him. Champ Flemmings who currently plays for Arkansas State and Jamire Calvin who’s at Mississippi State both went to Oregon State and Washington State had zero offers prior to me coaching them. And as good of the job I did with that group my peers still could not find it in their hearts to say I was the best.

Accepting the job was a no brainer and for me because it was bigger than the chance to win a championship. I was about to coach some of the best wideouts from our 7on7 teams. Osiris St. Brown (Stanford) was a top-20 wideout. Amon-Ra St Brown was ranked #4 or #6 at wideout in his class. Nikko Remegio (Cal/Fresno State) was coming into his own. He had a crazy summer and had begun receiving offers. Everyone in the football world except the parents know that a kids ranking and scholarship offers are null avoid because no kid can receive an official offer until July 15 after they have completed their junior year. Bru Mccoy (Texas, USC,Tennessee) was another Animal heading into his sophomore season. We lost in the finals that year to St John Bosco after going undefeated in the first 13 games. But for me it was a win. I was the first coach and I believe still the only coach to have 4 wideouts make 1st-team all Trinity-League in what’s considered the best league in California if not the country.

Now all I had left to achieve was becoming a champion. Amon-Ra received his #1 ranking, my kid Jamire Calvin had become an Army All-American and during the off-season is when I finally achieved Mastery. From spring 2008 until the spring of 2017 I dedicated my life to being the best. I chose wideouts over dating, partying, trips, you name it. I can’t explain the explosion that went off in my head. But I remember everything about the night I had figured out the keys to wideout play. It’s indescribable but what I can say is that your mind just never stops creating ways to enhance the play of your subject. Because I was tedious, meticulous, eager, persistent, enthusiastic, and chasing something to help others this helped propel me to being called the wideout guru, an adjective given to me not one made up like my former coach.

I tell part of this story because it needs to be said but more importantly it’s the reason I can’t watch college ball the way I once did. The kids are sorry. There’s a lot of bad wideout play. Don’t get me wrong some of this kids are making incredible plays and the athleticism of today’s players is nothing short of amazing. The NFL wideouts can get away with bad habits because the quarterbacks are really good and at the end of the day the only thing that matters is did the player make the play or not.

Gabe Davis gets my WOW award for his ability to make big time plays. His first catch and touchdown was 98-yards of pure beauty. His second touchdown of 62-yards came by way of an incredible one-hand catch giving him 3 catches for 171 yards and 2 TD’s. Davante Adams probably would have split the award (3 catches, 124 yards, 2 TD’s) with Davis but he bobbled an incomplete pass late in the 4th quarter that a player of his caliber must make. Then he got pressed on the final play of the game and ran into his player which enflamed him to the point of slamming his helmet and pushing a photographer on his way to the locker room. At Wideouts4Life we do not condone this type of behavior but we understand emotions get the best of us sometimes.

Justin “Mama here comes that man” Jefferson put on a show. The man had 12 catches on 13 targets for 154 yards. Jefferson didn’t score but he played one hell of a game and even completed a pass. It will tough on opposing defenses to stop the young lad. If I were a betting man which I am I might not to start wagering the prop bets on Cooper Kupp having over 90 yards. Kupp got damn near that total on a shallow cross route running away from Cowboys corner Trevon Diggs with a 1-hand catch then accelerating past the boys’ defense for 75 yards. Mike “Big Dogg” Williams had a dog performance against the Cleveland Browns. Williams finished the day with 10 catches for 134 yards on a variety of catches. His lone big play came on a 38-yard post pattern where he high pointed the ball over the defender. Stefon Diggs might be the best in the game right now. The game is really easy for him. I remember years ago I would watch his workout videos on youtube and admired not only how hard he worked but that he was doing the right work. It’s no surprise that he’s making db’s look foolish on a weekly basis. Diggs caught 8 balls for 102 yards with one score.

We only had 9 players who caught for 100 yards. Jakobi Myers of the New England Patriots reached the century mark on 7 catches and 1 touchdown. Marvin Jones of the Jacksonville Jaguars hauled in 7 catches for 104 yards with no scores. And Tyler Lockett of the Seattle Seahawks scored twice 5 of his catches for 102 yards. I expect us to have more 100 yard performances next week and can’t wait to watch. Wideouts Let’s Go!

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