Kuharsky thinks about which AFC South players would make a good goalie
Kinnear said the biggest challenge for the sort of high-level NFL players we discuss would be bringing their feet into play. When a teammate passes the ball back to the keeper, he has to operate as a field player, controlling it and distributing it with his feet, sometimes with a pesky forward closing in. That could be more difficult to master than angles and defending the goal with the full use of hands.
When I told Clark that Kinnear designated him as the Colts’ selection for this exercise, he was pleased.
“Nice, I’ll play, I’m in,” Clark said. “I’m not going to take anything away from what goalies do and how athletic they are and say I could do it. It’s like when people look at basketball players and say, ‘He has a good frame, he could be a tight end.’ It’s like, ‘Whoa, maybe so, but it’s not just the body. There are a lot of people out there that look the part, but a lot of things go into it.’ So I’m not going to say just give me a year and I’d be great. I might be OK, but I might stink, too.”
Small-town Iowa didn’t offer Clark a big soccer setting growing up, he said.
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