Better Than A Touchdown Analysis

Writing Performance Task
Unit 2

In the articles “What could be better than a touchdown,” and “Why we run,” it talks about the importance of mental strength and physical prowess. The question is, “Is mental strength and physical prowess equal? or Is one more important than the other?” Mental strength is more important than physical prowess. Mental strength is more important than physical prowess because a person needs to be able to strategize or fight for something rather than to actually be fit and physically able to do something.

To begin with, the article, “What Could Be Better than A Touchdown,” shows how mental power is more important than physical agility Sanneh shows why we need mental strength and why it is important. He describes

Instead of thinking of strategies to use they were paying attention on the touchdown. To illustrate my point, The author shows how one of the players, Dwight Lowery, got a touchdown for his team. “. . . Dwight Lowery, has been watching the play unfold. He breaks towards the ball, intercepts it, and dashes twenty-six yards into the end zone. Touchdown!” (Sanneh 57). Dwight Lowery was mentally prepared to get the ball. Instead of just doing what the coach said he stood watching thinking of what he was going to do. In fact, Sanneh explains how in football it isn’t always correct to score a touchdown. “There are a few situations in football where scoring an easy touchdown is the wrong thing to do. Might this have been one of them?” (Sanneh 57). If the Vikings had been thinking about what to do and knew strategies, this would not have happened, but they were so busy thinking about making the actual touchdown than thinking if it was the right thing to do or not. They were physically able to do this, but not mentally prepared.

The excerpt, “Why We Run,” shows how mental strength and physical prowess ably in human and animal life, doesn’t a person or animal need to be able to know what they are going to do and

Are both equally important or is one more important than the other? After reading this article you learned that mental strength is more important than physical prowess. The reason why mental strength is more important than physical prowess is because it is more important to think or know what is going to happen than be able to do what is going to