The Evolution of the Wide Receiver
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As play on the field evolves, so do the standards placed on each position. In this episode of the NFL explained. podcast, Mike Yam and Michael Robinson talk about the wide receiver position and how it has changed as defensive position players get faster and more powerful, and as quarterbacks become more and more nimble.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | NFL Explained is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio. |
| 0:14.8 | All right, you know, on this podcast, we try to teach people about the NFL. |
| 0:19.6 | Mike Am, Michael Robinson, with you. There's something else that I've been learning working with you, Am Rossa, that you are, and I've said this on another podcast, one of the more positive people that I know. But if you ever throw shade at someone, it's because of the attire that they potentially are, I shouldn't say potentially. Kyler Murray. You, we did a segment on TA the other day. You threw some shade his way and I was surprised. Well, again, you call it shade yams, but it's more of my expectations for that player are so high and I don't see him reaching those expectations. So I'm a little disappointed, right? I'm a little disappointed. So it comes from |
| 0:54.5 | a place of positivity. I'll say it that way. You still figure out a way to bring it. Bring it full |
| 1:00.8 | circle. Today we're going to have some fun. We're going to actually talk about one of the more |
| 1:04.3 | explosive positions on the football field. That is the wide receiver spot. But I want to take |
| 1:09.6 | you back November 23rd, 2014. |
| 1:13.3 | Let that one sink in for just a second. Did you have any idea like why that is a significant date from a |
| 1:18.7 | wide receiver's perspective? From a wide receiver. Okay. Now that you say it that way, I'm assuming there was some type of catch on that day. |
| 1:26.1 | There's the running back. |
| 1:29.1 | Play action. |
| 1:33.0 | And Manning's going to heed one. |
| 1:34.8 | Oh, there's a flag. |
| 1:36.7 | Back on the one-handed catch. |
| 1:38.1 | How in the world? Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:39.7 | You have to be kidding me. |
| 1:41.5 | That is impossible. |
| 1:43.4 | That is absolutely impossible what he just did. |
| 1:47.2 | That may be the greatest catch I've ever seen in my life. |
| 1:50.6 | It's in the conversation. |
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