This passing “expert” never played a down at the quarterback position on any regular football team at any level, unless one counts informal pick-up games and touch football. Yet there was one interesting factor surrounding his efforts to improve passing efficiency of players who did play the quarterback position. The advice often worked. Here’s his gems of colloquial passing folklore: 1. Are passes sailing over receivers’ heads or dying at the last second? If you customarily place tips of the four fingers on the laces, and thumb under the ball, try reversing this procedure, placing thumb on the laces and fingers under the ball. 2. If, despite having an above-average size hand, your passes still wobble, try placing the index finger on the rear tip of the ball. 3. Generally good arm strength notwithstanding, are you coming up
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