Recall and obsession are two totally unrelated things. You may have poor recall, yet obsess about things in your past that didn’t go well for you. Conversely, you may have a fantastic memory and not obsess about your failures.

doesn’t state whether or not he has a physiology degree, nor an other in any neural/behavioral/sports medicine type majors.

Color me unimpressed.

as a tendency to fixate on recent emotional traumas.

If anything a strong ability to remember a lot about football is going to put any recent failures into a much broader and longer context for you, and might make you LESS likely to get unduly upset.

This guy is just full of hot air.