A Wanted Man by Cruise Jason;

Author:Cruise, Jason; [Cruise, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4709445
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Every man fails.

Right now, in preparation for scholastic-level football, my sons are playing flag football for the YMCA. I’m the coach. It’s absolutely the coolest thing ever, because I have an opportunity to inject so many formative life lessons into their young souls. It’s equally sobering for the same reason. I know I’ll be accountable for these kids someday; therefore I do not take my responsibility lightly.

My older son, Cole, is more risk averse than my younger son, Tucker. Cole is a planner. He’s like his mama. He is what she and I often refer to as a “sizer-upper.” He doesn’t just jump into the pool because all the other kids are swimming. No, he’s going to take a few minutes, look at the water, evaluate the risk level, and then make a decision.

Tucker is a different story altogether. He’s liable to jump in the water without taking the time to put on his swim trunks. With Tucker, there are no questions and no measurements—just possibilities. Endless possibilities and adventures to be had.

Though he’s young now, Cole is a super-skilled quarterback. Who knows if he’ll carry that through to junior high or high school, but for now he’s really excelling at that position.

I felt weird putting him at QB in the early years (we started playing when he was six years old). You know, because I’m the coach and my kid is playing QB…all that jazz. The problem, however, was simple: when you have a bunch of knot-headed six-year-olds, somebody has to know what’s going on at the line of scrimmage.

I asked an older coach who had coached his sons until they moved up to a junior high team, “What were your biggest challenges when they were age six?”

Without hesitation he said, “You must, without question, get the snap off, which means that if you don’t have two kids—a quarterback and a center—who can make the exchange, know their roles, know the playbook well, and have good hand-eye coordination…” I can still hear him saying, “If you don’t get that part right, it’s all going to fall apart before the play even develops.”

Cole, since he could barely walk, has had amazing hand-eye coordination. So, not knowing any of the other kids, I began to run him at center and also QB, because Cole is dependable. Crazy dependable. He’s coachable, and with that age group I needed “coachable” in a bad, bad way.

Cole is not a racehorse. At least not yet. He’s a pack mule. Steady. Reliable. Strategic.

However, Cole has a great arm to go along with his strategic self. He’s crazy accurate. So he’s coming along great as a quarterback.

The problem is, like most people who are strategic planners, Cole tends to be risk averse. He is easily devastated by failures of the smallest kind. His greatest nightmare is that he has let you down.

No, he doesn’t shed tears at a poorly thrown ball, nor does he freak out if he misses a shot at a gobbler on a turkey hunt; but you can bet the farm on the fact that his mistakes do not exit his mind easily.

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