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The tight university has captured the world of football this week and for a good reason.
After all, no group of positions in sport offers a three -day summit filled with fun activities such as enjoying a concert with some of the country’s best acts, including Taylor Swift, Luke Combs and Kane Brown.
However, it’s not the whole game and no work for the 80 tight ends that went to Nashville. All the reason why Teu was assembled by George Kittle, Travis Kelce and Greg Olsen was to raise the game of all those who attend.
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San Francisco 49ers End, George Kittle (85) looks during San Francisco 49ers Minicamp on June 10, 2025, at SAP Performance Facility in Santa Clara, California. (Matthew Huang / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Yes, activities improve connections and friendship out of the field. But improvements in the field are what this group strives each year.
An excellent example was located in the meeting room of the University of Vanderbilt on Tuesday morning where, just like during the season with coaches, all the tight ends experienced meetings with some of the elites, past and present of the game.
After Kelce and the most recent Denver Bronco Evan Engram passed through their part of the meeting, and before Olsen and Jeremy Shockey went through a question-answer session, PK Press Club Digital had the privilege of sitting on the time of Kitle in front of the room.
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The message? “Things had to be a big te.”
If Kittle wants something soaked by each tight end of the room before heading to their respective training camps, it is to know what the gold stallion is to play the tight final position.
Jon Embree, the former tranquitable coach of San Francisco 49ers of Kitle, of which he still gets advice today, used to leave note cards in the lockers of his players with information on how to “maintain the standard of your tight room”.
Kittle asked Embee to make one for the group in Nashville, and everyone was watching the screen screen directly while the tight end paid the NFL read the first line.
George Kittle, # 85, and the ends tight / assistant coach Jon Embree of the 49ers of San Francisco on the field before the match against the Jacksonville jaguars at Tiaa Bank Field on November 21, 2021, in Jacksonville, Florida. The 49ers beat the Jaguars 30-10. (Michael Zagaris / San Francisco 49ers / Getty Images)
“Be physical in everything you do,” said Kittle going down the list of Embee. “With the ball, make the first man miss. … He would always say to me:” Don’t get tackled by the first guy. You are not allowed to attack you by a guy. If you are tackled by a guy, you are sentenced to a fine. “”
Two other main points were “do not miss the limits” and “run game, finish between your man and the ball”, which simply translates to make sure that your man you have to block better not to be the one that tackles the bunge carrier.
Physicality, of course, is necessary, whatever the position you play in the NFL. The tight ends are used in a plethora of ways, so they must be imposing while being extremely athletic to make captures, and as Embee says, which makes the platers miss.
But Kittle moved to the Notcard to one of the most important information: “We must know more than anyone except QB.” He previously gave a good anecdote to explain why it is so important, because he entered the changing rooms of the 49ers after his first half of his very first pre-season match in the NFL.
Kittle thought he had done well, but Embee saw things differently.
“I have never had my A – torn off more of my life,” said Kittle. “It was the only time the Embree coach ever torn my A -in all my life. Just a little a bulb takes place in my head on the reality of this s —, especially for you recruits. How is your work and it is a chance to have an impact for the rest of your life.
Kittle struck the game manual and realized that the tight end must “know the whole concept” of the pieces, which allows them to communicate with its teammates whatever the situation.
After all, the next Embee note note explained why it is important to know what everyone does with each game.
“Our job description is to block, take passes, pass [protect]And playing special teams, “Kittle read in the room.
The tight bits must really do everything, and the greats of the NFL separate by being that the coaches can trust to do the work, whether it is to block an elite defensive end in Pass Pro, or follow the perfect path to recover a big gain.
It’s one thing to read it in class, but Kittle loved the last part of his speech: showing everyone’s highlights in the room.
Of course, he must have dropped his own large pieces, but he started with a fundamental room for Kelce, the superstar of the Kansas City chiefs, against the Falcons of Atlanta.
Kansas City Chiefs End Lout Travis Kelce (Photo / ed zurga, file)
“Become a vertical”, or take a catch and move quickly in the field, is what each sleight of hand is loaded in the NFL. Kittle highlighted the use by Kelce of a quick first step which transformed a “pass of four yards into a gain of 10 yards”.
There was also the Super Bowl-Champion Dallas Godert of the Eagles of Philadelphia presenting the note “Do not take out limits” of Embee, while he pushed a corner of Green Bay Packers on him three times while running for a touch.
Blocking of the race of more than 50 yards of Sam Laporta, to Mark Andrews, Isaiah Probge and Trey McBride being reliable targets for their quarters in real time, Kittle has crossed a glove of parts that showed all that the tight university is: how to reach the ordeal to play the post.
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“You are going to the classroom and you hear George and Travis talk about things, they look at everything a little different,” said Goedder. “You can find what you are in correlation with them, so it’s just a great way to learn little things, and I hope to improve your game a bit every time you come here.”
Engram added: “There are 80 guys something here, and it is to help improve everyone. We are ultimately supposed to be contributed against each other, but it is simply not the nature of these guys. Everyone is here to improve, to share information information, spare knowledge, and that is the coolest part for me.”
Each player in the room shares the same passion and the same goals in the football game, and they all want to be the best possible to help their team.
To do this, Kittle’s message to the group is really to which aspire, no matter how many years these players have in the league.
The tight winger George Kittle, n ° 85 of the 49ers of San Francisco, warms before an NFL football match against the Rams of Los Angeles, in Levi’s Stadium on December 12, 2024, in Santa Clara, California. (Images Brooke Sutton / Getty)
“I just think it should be played in a certain way,” Kittle told PK Press Club Digital. “I think guys should want to play in a certain way, should want to do everything correctly. The final position tight, you run, you pass [protect]You catch the ball, you run, you mark touch. You do everything, so why not be great in everything? This is what I want to show.
“This also means a lot when we have a platform to stand there in front of all the tight ends of the league and the media threshing guys who are sitting there playing very well. A little positive strengthening goes very far and say:” Hey, that is noticed by guys all around the league. These are big games and that’s what you need to do if you want to reach this level of play. “”
