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Defensive Backs Are The Best Players On The Field. But When You Get An Exceptional Player Like A Deion Sanders Or A Darrell Green - These Guys Are Fast And They Have Very Good Technique. You Have To Work A Little Harder.

I Played The Game For 20 Years, And I Think That Kept Me On The Football Field, Being Adjusted. Getting Hit So Many Times, Being All Out Of Whack, And Going In To See My Chiropractor Kept Me Back On The Football Field.

Like I Said, Repetition In Practice And Hard Work.

Coming From The South, I Just Felt You Had To Work Just A Little Bit Harder. It Was Not Going To Be Handed To You. I’d Get The Letters From All The Major Schools But No One Came Out To Talk To Me Face To Face Until This Small, Dominant Black School, Mississippi State Valley University Sent A Coach Out To Me. I Had A Chance To Talk To Him And He Said, ‘hey Jerry, We’re Going To Be Doing Some Great Things At Mississippi Valley State University And We Would Love To Have You There.’

I Went Out There To Play My Game For The Fun Of It And Never Based My Career Around Records.