The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks [VINTAGE 2014] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

As new condition black boards, black spine and yellow spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bruce Feldman; Author Dedication; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments and Index. "Bruce Feldman knows his way around football and locker rooms as well as anyone I know. His understanding of the intricacies of the sport and of reporting is why a book like this one is a wonderful read." - John Feinstein, bestselling author. "Bruce Feldman has an uncanny ability to show in rich detail the guts of the real world of football. When this game consumes you, it's easy to notice the rare insider who finds the angles others can hardly see. That's Bruce!" - Joe Tessitore, ESPN Commentator. "From Pop Warner all the way to the NFL, football has never been more 'quarterback-centric' than it is today, and the player under center has never had more responsibility - or scrutiny. Bruce Feldman's ingenious book delves deeper into all aspects of the position than has ever been explored before. It's enlightening, illuminating, and shows how some outside-the-box thinking can change the game." - Charles Davis, NFL Network Draft Analyst and Fox Sports College Football Commentator. "One of the most brilliant writers in the business, Bruce Feldman offers a remarkable look at the making of a quarterback in The QB and a fascinating glimpse into the human nature of some of the game's biggest names, and it will inform and entertain both the hard-core and casual football fan. It's Feldman's best book yet." - Brett McMurphy, ESPN College Footba.l Insider. "Whether it's your NFL team or your fantasy team, nothing will make or break the franchise like picking your quarterback. In The QB, Bruce Feldman offers unprecedented and, at times counterintuitive, insight into what to look for in the NFL QB of the future." - Matthew Berry, ESPN Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst. "Featuring unprecedented insight into Heisman Trophy-winning phenom Johnny Manziel, an all-access look at the making of the next superstars in football's most important position: The Quarterback. No position defines a modern NFL franchise like the quarterback, and in the past decade the boom of the specialized and high-stakes private quarterback-coach business, with its pageantry-for-boys vibe, has transformed the position and the game. In The QB, bestselling author Bruce Feldman explores this shift by chronicling a tumultuous year - the most significant in the history of the position's development - inside the secretive world of star recruits and gurus who are shaping football's future. Over the course of the year, Trent Dilfer, a quarterback who, despite winning the Super Bowl, never became a superstar, channels his passion for reverse-engineering the QB position into running the prestigious Elite 11 camp and starting his own training business; George Whitfield, whom Sports Illustrated calls the "Quarterback Whisperer," gets a regular spot on ESPN's College GameDay; Russell Wilson, at 5'11", wins the Super Bowl; and for the first time in more than sixty years a sub-six-foot QB, Whitfield's talented butantic-prone student, "Johnny Football" Manziel, gets drafted in the first round, forcing NFL power brokers to reexamine how they look at the position. Along the way, The QB examines how advanced analytics has taken root in football, revealing what few know about creating the perfect QB. From the computer/brain analysis company trying to quantify how playmakers think, to the biomechanics expert who says he has "fixed" Tim Tebow, to Dilfer probing for the "Dude Qualities" he believes predict NFL success, Feldman shares findings that often run in the face of decades of conventional wisdom. Never before has the game so relied on the development of the quarterback. The QB offers a compelling and highly entertaining first look at the future of football's marquee position." - from the jacket flaps.