Hey guys, welcome back to the Road to World Football Podcast.

As always, I'm Josh Norris.

This week, the show is going to be a bit shorter,

but don't worry, we'll still shout up the iTunes reviewer.

And it also includes some football, but we're going to test out a bit of a new format.

That's what I look at when I watch film you know I look at the little tendencies

like if the corners press on me he likes to open his hips you know I can just run straight

through him and

set it, you know, trying to just give him a move at the line, so I look at those little

games. In the beginning I've agreed basketball. I'm just now and started playing football

at 10th grade, so you know I just, I'm just still learning the game.

People are saying that I'm doing so good at this, I'm still just learning.

You know, it's going to keep learning.

So I just want to, that's why I tell everybody every time, I just want to be folks because I want to be one of the best.

That was Illinois's jihad Ward, one of the prospects I spoke with at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama in January, an event that does require some preparation.

After talking with a few of these prospects, I started to wonder how much focus is actually put into preparation on a week to week basis during the season.

Do they even enjoy it? Maybe they see it as homework. Maybe tedious, a waste of time,

or even an investment in their future. For Kyler Facral, an edge-r usher from Utah State,

preparation was a way to stay connected to the game

and keep his NFL dream on track.

Facral missed the entire 2014 season with the torn-aciel, a season where he might have headed

to the NFL immediately after.

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