Scott Young CSCS

Desean Jackson says Jerry Rice’s only advice for him was to slow down “Before I touched the NFL field, I trained with Jerry Rice in the Bay Area. “He said, ‘Run every route.’ I ran every route.” “He ain’t even critiquing me. He didn’t say nothing to me. He said, ‘I only want to tell you one thing on one route.’ He said, ‘You’re running too fast. Slow down.’” “I’m like, ‘What you mean, slow down?’ He said, ‘Look, you fast as hell. When you find out how to run these routes and not be full speed, you will kill that.’” “Once I figured out I could run a route and be under control and still be able to hit that gear when I needed to…” “I don’t even run my routes full speed. But when I got to go get it, I got to go get it.”