Throughout the football offseason, there are certain themes we learn to ignore because they’ve lost all meaning. A player being in the best shape of his life, for example. Or another player being excited by a new scheme (which he will end up complaining about at the end of the season).
There was one trope in particular that was especially irksome: the idea of players’ getting together to play catch in the offseason. I remember being a Jets beat writer and pining for information about a Mark Sanchez pass to Braylon Edwards somewhere on a distant high school football field in Mission Viejo, Calif., as if it were going to have any tangible impact on the lives of the Jets’ players, coaches or fans moving forward.
Until, one time, it did.
