Jack Watson

🏈 Coach first. Player second. Football always. Defence • Linebackers • Player Development | Coaching • Playing • Operations

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

We're giving away this signed @AntoineWJr11 mini helmet after his big performance 👏

🚨 Repost, like & follow for a chance to win 🚨

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

@BpoolCouncil Gresham Road

[Ashlie @EMT_Ashlie]

Bucky Irving over 100 scrimmage yards and 2 M1K3 TDs in the first half

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of last phone calls made by 9/11 victims to their loved ones 🧵

1. Jim Gartenberg, 86th floor

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

My first video! Making Defence Simple : MEG vs MOD https://t.co/cLmSXvgy6A via @YouTube

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

Over £2,000 worth of equipment stolen out of my car. Any help to replace would be hugely appreciated! Much love!

Fundraiser by Jack Watson : Replace Jacks Stolen Equipment https://t.co/o6yS8Uhmi9

#football #nfl #linebacker #defence #NCAA

[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

“Get yo grown garfield looking ass on somewhere”😂😂😂

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

@FFChalupaBatman

[Footballism @FootbaIIism]

What I took away from this was the eye contact he gave his coach and ended his butt chewing with “yes sir”. Somebody raised him right

[Jon Finkel📚💪 @Jon_Finkel]

A Hard Knocks Manifesto: The Real Reason Dudes Love It

For 17 seasons HBO has picked a random team to follow during training camp.

The games don't matter. Your favorite team is rarely featured. The stars of the show are often not the stars on the team.

And you're watching practice, which most of us would never bother to do in person or otherwise. BUT...

Hard Knocks gives us ex-high school or college or pick-up dudes something we secretly crave:

To be back in a locker room every day with our buddies.

Yeah, the football on Hard Knocks is cool and maybe if you're a huge dork or fantasy guy you'll spot something... And yeah, Liev Schreiber's voice is legendary...

And yeah, we get a glimpse of a rookie who might be good or a QB on a new team (Aaron Rogers) or a coach who makes you want to head butt a cinder block (Dan Campbell) but what we REALLY love...

Are the dudes screwing around on the field and in the locker room. The shit talking. The jokes. The pranks. The stupid conversations... The great conversations... Time with our boys...

It's the oldest cliche in sports journalism, but ask a retired pro athlete what he misses most about playing and 99.9999% of the time he's going to say "the guys in the locker room".

Dudes who thrived in that environment and then get stuck in an HR-dominated corporate world feel like they're suffocating.

Entire hit shows (The Office) and movies (Office Space) hammer home how soul sucking and brain draining and deadening most offices can be - they're the total opposite of being on a sports team:

The weight room. The workouts. The motivation. The constant physical and mental competition to be better.

Hard Knocks gives a lot of cubicle dudes and desk guys and work-from-home zoom zombies a glimpse into the time of their lives when they may have had the most pure fun.

Family, fatherhood, friends, it's all awesome as you get older... But deep down we'd all like to recaptures those team times as well.

Some find it with BJJ, others CrossFit or Iron Mans or golf or whatever else fills that void...

But nothing beats that feeling of fighting for greatness with your squad. Of testing yourself daily against your peers. Of ball busting and ripping on dudes you'd go to battle for...

That's what Hard Knocks really delivers.

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[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

Legendary is the standard.

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

@MoncrieffMusic what an incredibly talented young man making great music!

[British American Football @BAFAOfficial]

Highlights of the match are available at https://t.co/IEDVGA7FMi

The Wolves go again this weekend with a trip to Merseyside as the Adult Contact league continues into Week 3.

Images courtesy of N50 Sports @N50Sports

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

What a pleasure this lad is to coach! You won’t find a hard worker! He has all the talent you could wish to find. Don’t sleep on him. If anyone needs to discuss Vinnie as part of recruitment please get in touch!

[Vinnie Maxfield 🇬🇧 @VinnieMaxfield]

Very proud to be named captain of the Great Britain U19s for our match vs Italy. I led Great Britain in tackles, TFLs and interceptions. Here are my highlights 🇬🇧.
@Coach_Hewitt @KrisDurham16 @CoachRenoYale @Coachjjanderson @ScottLarkee @coach_craw @Coach_TBell @CoachFucillo

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

@CoachVass @GreenGridiron are your guys! Get it done coach!

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Truly grateful on this day. Thank you 🙏🏻❤️

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

Very sad news coming from @thespecials as they announce the loss of Terry Hall. My thoughts are with the rest of the band and crew at this sad time! #TheSpecials #TooMuchTooYoung

[Jack Watson @jackdwatson55]

Not sure who’s more upset we didn’t get tickets to see @lukecombs in England, me or Annabelle! Never known a kid love an artist more 😂