Kliff Kingsbury installing phone breaks at Cardinals meetings 'to get that social media fix'
Kliff Kingsbury installing phone breaks at Cardinals
meetings 'to get that social media fix'
Jason OwensYahoo Sports Mar 26, 2019, 8:29 PM
Most Americans can relate to concerns over cellphone and
social media addiction.
For many, their phones are the last thing they see before
going to sleep and the first thing they look at when they wake up.
In between, they’re faced with the constant urge to check
the computers in their pockets for Twitter updates, scores, news or whatever it
is that feeds their need.
The tendency has prompted concerns over the impact
devices have on users’ mental well-being and led to apps and tactics intended
to dissuade that urge to stare at a screen.
This does not appear to be a concern for Arizona
Cardinals rookie head coach Kliff Kingsbury.
Kingsbury told reporters at Tuesday’s owners meetings in
Phoenix that he plans to implement “cellphone breaks” at team meetings to feed
his players’ addictions.
"They're itching to get to those things,"
Kingsbury said via ESPN.
It’s a practice Kingsbury is bringing from his coaching
tenure at Texas Tech. According to ESPN, he plans to let players break to check
their phones every 20 or 30 minutes during meetings.
"You start to see kind of hands twitching and legs
shaking, and you know they need to get that social media fix, so we'll let them
hop over there and then get back in the meeting and refocus," Kingsbury
said.
It’s probably not the best tactic for addressing the
rewired brains of a generation that’s grown up with social media and the
constant glare of screens.
But Kingsbury’s job isn’t to solve society’s ills. His is
to coach a football team. And to that end, maybe feeding players’ technological
urges is the best way to keep their attention when poring over Xs and Os.
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