095 Return to calm
On April 30, the draft officially ended, which also means that the preliminary preparations for the new season are on track.
On the one hand, team managers continue to pick and choose in the free agent market, and continue to strengthen the loopholes or vacancies left after the draft. On the other hand, the team's coaching staff began to work out tactics, discuss staffing, and intensively prepare for the start of the new season.
At the same time, the voluntary training camp has also officially begun. Rookies who have just entered the league and newly signed free agents will join training camp to start grinding with the team and learning the team's playbook. Soon, the official training camp will kick off, and they still have a lot to work on to keep up with the team's veterans.
August's pre-season may seem far away, with three months to go, but in the blink of an eye, the pre-season is just around the corner, and the rookies don't seem to have had time to celebrate the 2011 season.
So, after the draft, the whole league went into high gear, as if it had never really rested.
This is especially true for the unsuccessful rookies, where time is getting more and more hurried, and the chances are getting slimmer and slimmer; With each passing day, they are further away from the professional leagues. Everyone wants to be Kurt-Warner, but Kurt Warner has only one.
Kurt Warner, the greatest "Cinderella" story in NFL history, is one of none.
During his four years at the university, Kurt was a backup quarterback at the University of Northern Iowa, a university whose football game is almost deserted, but even so, Coulter remained the school's backup quarterback until his fifth year, where he was named the best player in the University of Northern Iowa's division.
However, due to the mediocre strength of this district, and the school has no reputation. As a result, Kurt didn't receive an invitation to the 1994 rookie camp and didn't see his name appear in the draft. It wasn't until just before the start of the 1994 season that the Green Bay Packers, who were looking for a third backup quarterback, sent out an invitation for a tryout, but unfortunately, the tryout didn't pass.
Kurt, who had no team inquiries, had to work at a local grocery store to help support his family in order to make ends meet, while also playing for an indoor football league team, and returning to his alma mater, the University of Northern Iowa, as a team assistant to inquire about the trial camp in the hope of getting the NFL's favor again.
During his three-year career in indoor football, Kurt excelled and was offered a tryout with the Chicago Bears, only to miss out on an accidental spider bite during his honeymoon. Kurt then went to play for the NFL's European expansion team, which was the NFL's perimeter team to develop the European market. Through his excellent performance, Kurt was recommended to the training group of the St. Louis Rams.
In 1998, Kurt sat on the bench all season as the Rams' third backup quarterback, playing only once in the final game. In 1999, Kurt was twenty-eight years old.
That year, Kurt was appreciated by his coach through his training and was promoted to second quarterback, but in the preseason, the main quarterback suffered a torn cruciate ligament and lost the season. The Rams were forced to push Warner to the forefront. As a result, the 28-year-old Kurt appeared on the NFL stage as a starter for the first time in his life after five years of exile.
After that, he began his legendary career. In the season of 1999, Kurt led the Rams to a magical record of 13 wins and 3 losses, successfully broke into the playoffs, and went all the way to win the Super Bowl that year.
After that, Kurt led two different teams to the Super Bowl, but both hated; He was also voted the regular season MVP for one more time before announcing his retirement in January 2010.
Kurt is the best non-draft player in NFL history and the greatest Cinderella in history!
Everyone aspires to be Kurt and replicate his miracles, but this is the only example of such a legendary experience.
If you want to join the league, it is even more difficult, you must be in the right place at the right time, just met the opportunity, and just happened to meet Bole, and at the same time just fit the needs of the team, and more importantly, just have the corresponding strength, which can be done. Otherwise, after losing the draft, why should the team choose again?
After the draft, the coaching staff of each team began to weigh and discuss, repeatedly review the player list, repeatedly review each position, the strength of the main players, and the depth of the bench players. According to the NFL, each team ends up with a roster of 53 players, and they must streamline, expand, or add to the roster.
After the discussion, the team may open a trial camp according to their needs, continue to select the right players, and improve their 53-man squad.
The so-called trial camp, the team will take the initiative to send out some invitations according to their own needs and according to the scout's report, inviting those players with potential to come for a trial, review again, fill the vacancies, and survive the fittest; In addition, any free agent or undrafted rookie can go to participate after learning the news, show their skills, and look forward to the team being able to see their strength.
After missing the draft, the training camp is Lu Ke's last chance. Otherwise, even if he becomes a miracle like Kurt Warner, Lu Ke will need to polish it for at least a few years in the Canadian league or European league and prove himself before he can create a miracle.
However, the competition in the training camp is more intense, not only because the range of options is larger, but also because the rookies will have to compete with the league veterans, and the shortcomings of experience will be further magnified, which will also make the difficulty further increase and the competition more intense. Obviously, there is also more hope.
At the end of the day, improving your competitiveness and doing your best to stand out in the auditions is the answer. Therefore, after the draft was over, Lu Ke left San Francisco, returned to Los Angeles again, and returned to daily training again. Be persistent in improving your strength through daily training.
Before you know it, life seems to be calm again; Moreover, it is still calmer than before.
The NCAA season is over, the league is entering the offseason, and the training ground is entering a break. After losing the draft, the player who continued to prepare for the trial was the only one in the entire UCLA Lu Ke, so the entire court was empty and became a training ground for Lu Ke alone.
Not only that, but the school has also entered the graduation season and final season, and the students' schedules have begun to be reversed, with students staying up all night in the library, students studying hard in the dormitory, and students catching up all night in the café.
Everyone devoted themselves to their studies, and Lu Ke, who was tirelessly engaged in training, also precipitated the noise and noise around him.
In the morning, along the familiar route, jogging all the way to school, this route has been repeated for more than half a year, and it has long been mastered, Lu Ke even clearly knows the time when every traffic light appears - there is no way, during the running, it is really too boring, and divergent thinking needs to find something to divert attention.
After the last traffic light, go straight along the road, and after a right turn, you will enter the main lane of the school, the wide lane that allows six cars to run in parallel seems extremely empty, and occasionally you can see students on bicycles whizzing by, the sound of wheeling and rolling rings in your ears for a while, and then fade away.
"Papapa", there was a running sound behind him, which seemed to be accelerating, Lu Ke did not look back, but moved a little inside and got out of the way; I guessed that some student was running wildly, maybe sprinting to the library.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, and finally echoed in Lu Ke's ears, but they never went beyond it, and they kept moving side by side.
Lu Ke turned his head and cast a gesture look, "Why don't you overtake?" But the next second, when he saw the person next to him, his eyes were slightly stunned, and then he laughed dumbly.
In front of her is a young girl full of youthful vitality, a white T-shirt top, a pair of light blue sports shorts, and a pair of black Nike running shoes on her feet. The flat lower abdomen and slender waist, between the grip of Yingying, outline the proud body curve and perfect body proportions, slender and well-proportioned legs, glowing with a healthy wheat luster, even if it is just an ordinary sports outfit, still reveals a charming temperament.
Her long blonde hair was tied up in a high ponytail, beating briskly to the rhythm of her footsteps; The white teeth gently bit the pink lip, and the blue eyes like the vast sea were filled with a little light like stars, shining in the thin and bright sunlight of the early morning, and a sly and bright smile flashed in the eyes.
As if to capture Lu Ke's stunned and surprised gaze and helpless smile, the girl's eyebrows raised slightly, the provocative eyes flashed, and then, suddenly began to accelerate, and the whole person sprinted out like an arrow from the string, and did not look back, completely increasing the speed to the extreme.
Even if there are no words, the meaning of the challenge is very clear.
Lu Ke smiled dumbly, without words or communication, maintained his original speed, continued to jog for about three seconds, and after watching the girl's figure fade away, he began to accelerate and sprint with all his might.