From a LJS article with Marvin Sanders:
“Rickey knows a lot of football,” Sanders says. “Sometimes you look at Rickey and people think, ‘Well, he’s not getting it.’ That’s not it. Rickey’s so eager to make plays. He believes in the old philosophy: tackle the man with the football. But Rickey knows football. I don’t want to throttle Rickey’s excitement, but I just want to get him to understand that he doesn’t have to make every play.”
During practice on Friday, Thenarse put a hit on Niles Paul that knocked the helmet off the receiver.
Sanders smiles when recalling the scene. “That hit he made, he was totally out of position, but he made a heck of hit. That’s what Rickey wants to do. So like I told Rickey: ‘I want you to keep that aggressiveness, but you’re supposed to be over here.’
