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Article: Coaching the inexperienced QB. (football quarterback)
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- Coach and Athletic Director
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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Ever go into your preseason with a quarterback who took only two or three snaps the year before? It happened to me (Pravata) in 1992. Returning to Kings Point for my second year as head coach, I had some very good players, but also a huge question mark at quarterback - a player who had completed only three of his 16 passes in 1991.
We actually began preparing for 1992 the winter before, starting with a breakdown of our team strengths and weaknesses:
Strengths: offensive line, running back, good receivers, punting game, solid defense.
Weaknesses: QB, place-kicking. Obviously, the quarterback position gave us small cause for comfort. Our decision was to ...