This week on American Football in Finland, Perfect Pervis reaches around the globe to discuss different ways to develop players new to the sport of American Football. Guests on the show are Spencer Cutlan, Da’Ronte Smith, Evan Harrington, and Dwaine Wood.
0:40 – Perfect poses the question about practice or game experience to develop new players to American Football. Spencer explains that you must bring new players along slowly so they can gradually build their skillset. Cutlan continues to use a soccer anecdote to explain how player development can be the difference in players reaching their full potential. Spencer goes on to say that special teams is not how you develop inexperienced players. Perfect agrees, stating that being a backup doesn’t make you SPECIAL enough to be on special teams.
8:45 – New to the show, Da’Ronte Smith joins Perfect Pervis this week to talk about player development. Smith has been playing and living in Brazil for the last 5 years and gives his insight on developing players there. Perfect explains that foreigners learning football is a different situation because the players usually vary greatly in experience on the same playing field compared to in the states where most players have similar amount of experience. Da’Ronte states that repetition and correcting mistakes is the main tool used to develop players in Brazil. Perfect and Da’Ronte come to the conclusion that Brazil and Europe have different obstacles regarding player development because of cultural differences.
19:31 – Perfect explains that he prefers to develop players through practice more than game experience. Evan explains that he prefers to throw players in the fire to help them develop, after they get a heavy dose of classroom type instruction on the sport. Dwaine explains that hos team has a system of actually developing new players through the youth program, so as adults they are experienced with the sport already. This leads the conversation to youth players and the group discusses ideas for increasing youth participation in American Football
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