I can't sit here and guarantee that Marcus Williams will bounce back better than ever after suffering the type of season-defining setback that makes you a universally recognized name for all the wrong reasons. Promising players with just as much potential have had their careers turned into nothing more than punchlines by circumstances that were similarly unfortunate and unforgettable. He, himself, called it an actualized nightmare, so to pretend that it's an impossibility that the game-winning-tackle-that-wasn't won't haunt him going forward would be a disservice to the trials and tribulations that someone like Bill Buckner faced in distancing his name from a defeat that was pulled from the jaws of victory. Now, all that being said, there's no shortage of reasons to believe that he won't put what's been deemed a mistake-aided miracle in his past. Even if you think it's irrelevant that he had instantaneous support from the majority of a fanbase that largely triumphed over the troubles of technology to rally behind him instead of against him. If he's as ready for redemption as this video indicates then he's in the perfect head space with the proper work ethic and a soundtrack that could hype him into running straight through whatever mental blocks might still be trying to block him from perseverance. I've remained optimistic that Marcus Williams' most notorious moment on a NFL field is still yet to come from the second Stefon Diggs hit playoff pay dirt, but nothing reinforced my belief in his continued development quite like knowing that at any given moment he might be listening to the speech from Any Given Sunday. If we are being totally honest, he whiffed on that fairly routine tackle by a couple of feet, but if he's been in the gym channeling his inner-Al Pacino all offseason then the amount of inches he'll be adding up come September may be able to cover the ground he gave up in the fateful finale of what was an otherwise auspicious rookie campaign. The fact is, he'll never totally separate himself from a highlight that will easily outlast his stay in the NFL, so it's good that Marcus Williams hasn't run away from the most torturous of replays. It's even better that instead he's decided to carry it with him in the form of a chip on his shoulder.
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