What Do You Think Most Sports Writers Get Wrong About Their Coverage?

Sports writers often ask athletes how they did what they did, and the athlete will give an explanation. They are poorly positioned, for most things, to explain how they did it because it has to be totally automated in their brain. Like in quarterback, sometimes you ask tem wht they're looking at, and they'll say this and tistess. If you put eye tracking glasses on them and see not what they say, they'll say like, i was looking at this guy, or whatever. It doesn't mea ths there's not good things to take from them, but if you want to understand the perceptual skills they are very poorly positioned to tell you e they often can

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