The attitude should not be, “well, let’s go play around
and work on seven to nine different, unrelated skills until it gets dark or
until dinner, whatever comes first.” The
attitude should be, “we will spend exactly 35 minutes on wide receiver ‘stance
and start’ technique. We will not work
on release techniques against press-man coverage today. Next week we will build on stance and start
by isolating and focusing on release options vs. press coverage.”
Mashing
up skills and hoping some of it sticks is not purposeful practice. Mashing up skills lacks proper sequencing,
hurts retention, and leads to sloppy practice technique. And sloppy practice technique carries over
into game performance.
