The next play begins with your next decision.

A quarterback leads through preparation, communication, and the choices made when time is short. The Decision Maker: QB Leadership in the Huddle and Beyond is a concise, illustrated field guide for developing quarterbacks, team captains, and the coaches who help them improve.

Across nine practical chapters, Mai Telgence connects sports leadership with the everyday work of quarterback training. Learn how to earn trust, organize useful football training, understand your coach's decision rules, and keep the offense focused after a setback.

Inside, you will learn to:
• Build team management habits through clear responsibilities and dependable preparation.
• Communicate complete calls, confirm adjustments, and improve coordination across the offense.
• Study film by separating recognition, decisions, execution, and results.
• Connect athletic performance to realistic cues, timing, and coached responses.
• Practice football coaching strategies through communication drills, decision reps, and situation rehearsals.
• Approach football game strategy with greater awareness of the score, clock, field position, and team objective.
• Turn the lessons into a four-week quarterback leadership action plan.

Includes original illustrations, coaching diagrams, sample conversations, chapter assignments, and a reusable practice-notebook format. Examples are designed to be adapted with your coach to your offense and competition rules.

Written primarily for developing high-school quarterbacks, with practical uses for coaches and older players, this short guide focuses on habits you can bring to your next meeting, practice, and snap.

Prepare clearly. Communicate what matters. Make the next decision with discipline.