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In 1967, the NCAA outlawed dunking the basketball, primarily to try to offset the dominance of UCLA's Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.)

So, with a major part of his game taken away, how did Alcindor/Jabbar react to his style being cramped by this new rule ??? He added a now legendary shot to his arsenal, known as "The Sky Hook." If the NCAA had not banned dunking the ball in the first place, Alcindor/Jabbar may never have developed the now fabled sky-hook shot in the 2nd place.


And then along came Jones ...... almost 60 years later, a mobile quarterback by the name of Daniel Jones was signed as a free agent by our beloved Indianapolis Colts. In the first 10 games of the season, Jones and his Colts stormed out to an 8-2 start with Jones having what is by far the best season of his 7-year NFL career. But then, the mobile Jones had his mobility taken away with a broken fibula.

So in their last 2 games, the Colts lost heartbreaking nail-biters to the Chiefs and the Texans. And while Jones' lack of mobility certainly was a factor in those losses, another part of his game actually improved ...... his turnovers. In particular, his fumbling. In the first 10 games of the season, Jones' one glaring weakness in an otherwise excellent season was his tendency to fumble. Jones fumbled the ball 8 times in the first 10 games of the season, with 6 of those 8 fumbles resulting in turnovers. In his last 2 games, the hobbled Jones had 0 turnovers, and he recovered his own lone fumble.

So ...... is there a correlation between Jones' hampered mobility and his ability to secure the ball better ??? As was the case when Alcindor/Jabbar developed his famous sky-hook shot after having another part of his game taken away by a rule change, will Daniel Jones' broken leg wind up actually helping him in the long run with the one glaring weakness that he has had for his entire career, dating back to his rookie season with the Giants when he led the NFL with 19 fumbles in only 13 games ??? Time will tell.

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