What do you say?

Here's the situation: Game is tied, late in the 4th Qtr @ 2 minutes to go. THEY have the ball on like their 35 yard line, 65 yards away from paydirt.

What do you tell the secondary?

Did you see the game last night? All that tremendous effort by Reggie Bush wasted by the Saints secondary. These guys are pros, right? What I would tell out secondary is to "stay deep, keep your feet, KEEP EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF YOU!"

How in the world did that receiver get behind the secondary to draw the interference call? Even at that level, they go brain dead. Amazing! Guess it is things like that which will keep them out of true contention and others in, right?

Those guys must have been told, "Don't let them get behind you." What is the picture that is lest in your mind with that statement . . . . . . that's right, getting beat deep. One of the things we stress in the Be An 11 Class is to say what you want, not say what you don't want. The mind does not work on the reverse of an idea.

Think about it. Which coaches would be the worst at this? . . . . Yes, baseball coaches because they have all that time on the bench to think of things going wrong, "Don't let that ball go through your legs - Don't swing at those high pitches." It start at a very young age. And how many baseball coaches are coaching the secondary in schools across the land.

You have to be very careful about the pictures your words are conjuring up in their heads.