Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
Smart Notes – zone runs, slot coverage, goal-line defense – 8/8/2011
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Smart Notes – zone runs, slot coverage, goal-line defense – 8/8/2011
Zone runs, from Coach Roth: The basic tenants of zone blocking are these: 1) Each offensive lineman is responsible for the playside zone 2) The defense moves, so how do counter act that? 3) We have five offensive lineman, it is therefore our job to block five defenders. Each player will step to the left…
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Smart Notes – Tressel, Triple Inside Fire Zones – 3/15/2011
I’m generally not a fan of sentencing guidelines, but the Jim Tressel, Cam Newton, and other stories indicate to me that some kind of guidelines would be helpful, even if they were entirely advisory. The upshot of what I mean is that it’d be nice if we, as the football populace, knew that if you…
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Smart Notes – Trick passes, Rich Rodriguez, Emory Bellard- 2/12/2011
This has already gone everywhere: There are two lessons to this: (1) this kind of trickery doesn’t always translate well to actual playing time, and obviously playing quarterback requires a lot of skills beyond this sort of thing and (2) this is still great stuff, but, related to (1), the football being an extension of…
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Smart Notes – Learning defensive coverages, Bear Bryant’s 1958 D playbook – 8/8/2010
Via Ron Jenkins, learning defensive coverages: – Because I can. Check out Bear Bryant’s 1958 Alabama playbook. Note that playbook designing technology did not advance beyond this pen and typewriter method until apparently around 2006. – Good morning, Dave. Buckeye Football Analysis breaks down Tressel’s favorite play — the “Dave” play, which is what he…
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Smart Links – Nick Saban breaking down film – 8/4/2010
The modern maestro of defense, Nick Saban, lectures crane-necking coaches on how he prepared for the BCS Title game against Texas (h/t to reader Alex Bruchac): – Shocking commentary on how to be an offensive genius, by Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo: A year of Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno followed by a season without…
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Smart Links and Notes 5/24/2010
Apologies to all for not posting much recently — the usual confluence of other commitments intervened, as did several commitments to write for Maple Street Press publications. Those are (mostly) done, and I have a variety of ideas for the site, and I hope to write those up and get them on the site. But…
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Smart Notes 3/9/2010
The Tao of Christian Okoye: (H/t Clay Travis). 2. Talking 3-4. It seems the big trend this year is for teams to move to a 3-4 style defense, and Texas A&M is no different. New defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter, most recently of Air Force, talked some shop: Q: What’s going to be difficult about the…
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Smart Links 3/8/2010
Is home court advantage really about the ball? This article is about basketball, but I think it is an underrated element in football games, though many times the team on offense gets to use their own ball. 2. Brian Burke is not impressed by Bill Polian. 3. What components of a QB’s passer rating are…
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This irritates me
Most of you know of Myron Rolle, the former FSU safety turned Rhodes Scholar who is now waiting to see where he will be drafted. As I’ve discussed previously, I’m a big fan of Rolle’s and I think he’s an incredible model for younger players, and, while it’s difficult to judge someone’s athletic ability to…
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Give that man a scholarship (just not a football one)
One of the top incoming recruits this fall for Nebraska: And by “incoming recruit” I mean he’s the video coordinator.
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