Hold on to the ball.
Why is that so hard? All right, I get it - if five 300-pound guys were hitting me, I might get a little flustered too . . . but I didn't get to training camp this season; I didn't play on a winning team for the last five months; and I've always been a little clumsy anyway.
These guys are getting the big bucks to hold on to a ball. Granted, it's an oddly shaped ball that isn't all that easy to deal with. But it seems to me that the crook of the arm is designed perfectly for a football - why aren't more players taking advantage of that?
To generalize, winners are winning by holding on to the ball; losers are losing by turning it over to winners. Teams who hope to continue winning need to continue holding on to the ball and taking it away from their opponents.
In the meantime, I'm becoming reconciled to the fact that none of the teams I'm rooting for are going to win. Oh, well - and here coms a cliche - there's always next year.
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