The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Julian Edelman is The Navigator because his career is a study in orientation under duress. He converted from quarterback to receiver, endured special teams obscurity, came back from ACL surgery, and then reinvented himself again as a broadcaster.
“I was always having to like prove myself and I was always a guy that had to like worry about what was on my plate at that time in my life. It was like that until like five, six, seven years into my career.”
On proving himself throughout careerundated
“When you're green and you want to grow on something, that's when you learn. When you think you're done and you know everything, that's when bad shit happens.”
On mindset and growth philosophyundated
“It got me back to that rookie year mode when you're trying to make a team. You got to like get back into that rookie mode where you just got to work hard, work on your shit and go from there.”
On transitioning to broadcast mediaundated
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