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Accuracy has different meaning in the NFL

By By Ryan Early
NFL Insider

Monday, December 29, 2003

At one point in Peyton Manning's rookie season, he called his father Archie and complained that his receivers were never open. The best young quarterback to enter the NFL in a decade was having trouble adjusting to the pro game. The difference in the accuracy needed in the NFL as compared to college is dramatic. NFL QBs must be able to thread the ball into a square no bigger than a cereal box or risk having it intercepted. Even the definition of "open receiver" changes in the NFL. If a rec ...

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