These guys have to be bigger than big and quicker than quick, and, let’s face it, the bigger-than-big usually aren’t quicker-than-quick.Īnd all of this leads to the story of Michael Oher-the story we came to see.
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Great offensive left tackles are highly paid because they require a set of physical characteristics that almost contradict each other. You pay second-most for insurance for the most-important position. You pay most for the most-important position.
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And since free agency came to the NFL in the early 1990s, the second-highest-paid position in the NFL, after quarterback, is not running back nor wide receiver nor even middle linebacker (Lawrence Taylor’s position), but offensive left tackle. He’s the guy who protects the quarterback’s blind side. The player who blocks the Lawrence Taylors of the world, by the way, is the offensive left tackle. It’s the most famous injury in football history because the reverse-angle instant replay shows the bottom half of Theismann’s leg, between his knee and ankle, bending and snapping beneath Taylor’s weight, exposing the bone. He’s certain he still has a few good years left in him. He’s led his team to two Super Bowls, and won one. Theismann has played in 163 straight games, a record for the Washington Redskins.
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“From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five,” Lewis writes in his opening sentence and in those five-closer-to-four seconds Lewis sets the scene, pulls back, writes about fear as a factor in the NFL, writes about the fear that Lawrence Taylor created and the fearlessness with which Joe Theismann played, and then circles back to the incident: I was pleased because that’s how Michael Lewis’ book begins. Nothing about “The Blind Side” pleased me more than its opening shot: grainy footage from a 1985 “Monday Night Football” game in which Lawrence Taylor sacked Joe Theismann, fractured his leg and ended his 11-year career.