NFL PLAYER WHO COMMITTED SERIOUSLY TO SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING JUST NAMED THE 2016 MOST IMPROVED CORNERBACK FROM PRO FOOTBALL FOCUS
Pro Football Focus recently named Cleveland Browns and former Miami Dolphins cornerback Jamar Taylor as the Most Improved Defensive Player at his postion for the 2016 season. They also rated him as the current #16 best cornerback in the NFL. This is an incredible accomplishment but this was far from the case last year at this time.
Taylor wanted to be the best. He picked up the phone and sought mental coaching prior to the 2016 season from sports psychologist Dr. John F Murray in South Florida. He would later be traded away by the Miami Dolphins to Cleveland. I knew intuitively that the Dolphins had blown it. Taylor had huge talent but he had never received proper or significant sports psychology services. He was actually just like most NFL players! His success story just waiting to happen, and I had not doubt. Now you know the rest of the story.
Athletes who seek mental coaching and sports psychology services will continue to prosper. NFL teams or players who ignore the mental game, or who don't treat it most professionally as a crucial component of regular training continue to be left behind compared with the Jamar Taylors of the world. There is a reason the Patriots are so great, and you just have to listen to Tom Brady's post Super Bowl comments about sports psychology and the mental game to fully grasp this. General managers and head coaches who go without a truly professional and regular sports psychology program are shooting themselves in the foot compared with the players and teams who do. I've been saying this for years, but I am just one professional. The Taylor turnaround is just one of hundreds I have seen in my office in the past 17 years but the NFL estabishment remains largely unenlightened.
Taylor yesterday sent the following photo and note to Dr. John F Murray and has endorsed the sports psychology work publicly.
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THANKS FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENTS JAMAR. YOU ARE A BRIGHT LIGHT FOR OTHERS AND I AM EXCITED ABOUT OUR CONTNUED MISSION TO MAKE YOU THE BEST CORNER IN THE NFL!
JOHN F MURRAY
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