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Fantasy Football Articles - October 2003
Enclosed in this archive is every bit of the action and updates that occurred in October 2003 within the world of fantasy football. You may want to read these articles for research on players in the coming year, or just check to see if we were way off base with our reporting. Whatever the reason, it's all here for your enjoyment.
Fantasy Football Challenge - October 2003 Fantasy Football Articles
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mechanics are so critical to their execution, (is that) in training camp you have a part of practice devoted to fundamentals," head coach Bill Belichick said. "You''re concentrating on little things like footwork, ball-handling, shoulder position.
"Then you get into the regular season and you start getting into game plans and scouting reports (and the number of reads). When you get into a million different things, sometimes the fundamentals start to backslide again.
"The third, fourth, fifth week of the season, if you''re not careful they start to backslide a little bit from where they were in training camp because of all other things going on. You have to keep a balance there with every position.
"It''s like a golf swing," Belichick concluded. "There''s 100 things you have to do, and if you don''t do them all right you have a bad shot."
The next exit past technique is decision-making. Amid the maelstrom of flying bodies and changing coverages, Brady has two things to decide in the split-second before he throws. Who to throw the ball to. And what type of pass to throw.
Compared to last season, Brady generally now has more viable options on the field. Troy Brown, Branch, Daniel Graham, Christian Fauria, Kevin Faulk and David Givens.
And with more options comes the necessity of throwing different types of balls. Bullets, touch-passes, lobs, fades. As that decision is made, he then has to weigh where on the receiver to throw it -- low and away, in the middle of the receiver, which shoulder, to the sideline or the numbers.
"It''s all instinctive," said Brady. "It''s not like you have time to go, ''Well, maybe he is kind of open so I will throw it.'' It''s really quick, that decision-making progress from the time you decide to throw it to the time you let it go.
"Sometimes what you have to train yourself to be is incredibly decisive. Your physical skills, the accuracy, those all take over. The decision-making is something where you really need to train
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