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“And what did the linemen do?” The whole class was silent; even the Johnnie football players among us had been solely focused on the players with the ball.

“I have to watch each play about ten times, at least, to see what happened,” John explained. “Let’s go to the next play and see how I would watch it.” Before he showed that next play, he asked Kevin to stand. Kevin was a reserve quarterback and also a student of mine. John asked Kevin to call out the cadence to start the play, and Kevin got one final chance to call a play for John.

John paused the video of that next play about every half second and commented on what each of the eleven players was doing at the time, and how each player contributed to the play. As the quarterback prepared to throw, John decided to involve the audience again.

He pointed at a woman in the front row and asked the Johnnie next to her, “What is her name?”

“Elissa.”

“Elissa, come up here.” Pointing at the video screen, he asked, “Who should the quarterback throw to?”