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Tuesday, 8 August 2017

What a Journey, Man: Josh McCown's Wild Ride Through the NFL Rolodex

Source: bleacherreport.com --- Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Josh McCown's teams have lost 65 percent of the games they've played with him on the roster. He has stood on the sidelines for the playoffs once in 14 seasons as an NFL quarterback. He's been cut four times and traded twice. He's played for a different offensive coordinator every year in the NFL and 23 different coordinators stretching back to his high school days.  He has lived in a dozen places across the United States since his career began. For 10 consecutive years, McCown, his wife, Natalie, and their four children found themselves in a different city on Christmas morning. His daughter, Bridget, has had to go to two schools for kindergarten, two schools for first grade, two schools for second, two schools for third and two for fourth.  Yet, here Josh McCown stands as the quarterback of the New York Jets , and by the time the 2017 season ends, he will have earned more than $38 million from playing football. How has he lasted? Why did he experience all of this? Along the way, McCown figured out it's a people business. Relationships matter. His story is one about those relationships and the gifts that come from them.     ON APRIL 20 , 2002, McCown was waiting all day in his childhood home in Jacksonville, Texas, for the phone call. Friends and family had come by. Lunch and dinner had been served. Finally, around nightfall, his phone rang. "Are you ready to be an Arizona Cardinal?" the voice on the other end said to the 22-year ...



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