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Tampa Bay Bucs: In the Zone?

As athletes, we’re all familiar with the feeling of being in “the Zone” – totally unstoppable, everything’s going right and flowing perfectly. Time even slows for us – our target imagery freezes in our vision and the opponents are a half-step behind.
Is it possible for an entire team to collectively enter the zone? Bucs QB Bruce Gradkowski asserts that “It’s just little things in a drive that get you going. It might not even be me that starts the drive. I might hand off a couple times, we get a couple nice runs, then the next ball I throw I’m feeling it. We get that completion and we feel the momentum as a group. In that second quarter against the Saints, we started moving very well and we just felt like we were in the zone, as a group. I know I did.”
Keep checking with SPINw as ongoing research on the Zone emerges from sport psychologists in the field.

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