How Jimmy G learned his position

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...learned-to-play-quarterback-by-imitating-him/

When Jimmy G was 16, he was a LB, baseball pitcher and point guard, but never had been a QB. His high school coach thought he should learn QB, and sent him to an outside "academy". The guy running the academy had good taste.

... Christiansen made Brady the template his quarterbacks studied. He showed Garappolo “tens of thousands” of images of Brady, he said. When he needed an example of how to read defenses, he showed video of Brady. When he taught how to use the angle of your shoulders to dupe a defensive back, he showed still photographs of Brady. The proper head placement on a play-action fake? Brady. Throwing motion? Brady. Every photo, every detail, was Brady. Always Brady.

Garoppolo digested everything. By the time Garappolo became the starting quarterback at Eastern Illinois, where he continued to work with Christiansen in the offseason, his form mirrored Brady.

“If you put the film side by side, there are some throws that are just eerie,” Christiansen said. “Like, frame for frame, everything is identical.”