{"id":665,"date":"2010-03-07T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports_psychology_blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:02:37","slug":"mental-game-of-football-with-cortez-hankton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/mental-game-of-football-with-cortez-hankton\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Game of Football: Cortez Hankton &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sports Psychology expert Dr. Patrick Cohn at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\"><strong>Peaksports Network<\/strong> <\/a>interviews 7-year NFL veteran Cortez Hankton on the psychology of football. 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