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A&M Alum Jamaar Taylor Rebuilds McAllen Rowe from the Ground Up
Former Texas A&M Aggies WR and 2004 NFL Draft pick Jamaar Taylor is creating a different urgency in his first offseason as McAllen Rowe Warriors head coach.
Elijah Garza was only away from McAllen Rowe for one season, having moved to Roma for his junior year. But the program he returned to this offseason might as well have been a different world than the one he first left.
The players are up at 6 a.m. every morning for practice, but there are no tired eyes in sight. The mental conditioning is just as important as the physical. Garza, a quarterback, didn’t know how to read defensive coverages like Cover 2 and Cover 3 before this spring. Now, he’s making pre-snap audibles while the defense yells at each other to watch a screen pass because it’s second-and-long.
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