Landry Jones spent spring break with who?
Published: 3/26/2012 7:57 AM
Last Modified: 3/26/2012 7:57 AM
Some football players go home for spring break. Maybe Vegas. Or Padre.
Landry Jones went to work out with George Whitfield.
Right. George Whitfield.
Never heard of him? Really?
Well, neither had I. Then Google introduced me to him – after introducing me to George Whitfield of the Methodist Movement and George Whitfield the insurance agent in Media, Penn. – and I realized this might not be a bad thing for Jones or the Oklahoma Sooners.
Whitfield is a San Diego-based "quarterback guru" who prepared Andrew Luck for the recent NFL scouting combine. Last year, he did the same thing for Cam Newton. That worked out pretty well.
Remember when Ben Roethlisberger served a 4-game suspension at the start of the 2010 season? Whitfield worked with the Steelers star to keep him sharp during his time away.
Whitfield is from Ohio, automatically giving him the Stoops Stamp of Approval. He quarterbacked at storied Massillon High School. From there, it was on to Youngstown State, where he played for formerly-storied Jim Tressel.
According to a bio, Whitfield coached one season under Kirk Ferentz at Iowa – more juice for Stoops – before he barnstormed in the Arena League with four different teams from 2003-06.
Which probably doesn't mean anything to any of you, as long as he can add another layer to Jones' quarterbacking.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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