Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
What coach said this about facing what team and quarterback?
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What coach said this about facing what team and quarterback?
Quiz time: “Well. We have another big one ahead of us. This next one, I guess you’d say that every game is really really big, but I think this one will pose a real challenge to our defense because they’re like three offenses in one. They’re a power attack . . . . They go…
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Paragraph of the day
Unlike GERG [former Michigan defensive coordinator, Greg Robinson] he [new Michigan defensive coordinator Greg Mattison] has patience with questions, especially football questions. GERG wanted little to do with the press and had no patience with anything resembling a football question. (I asked whether he would be playing “one or two gap” a couple of years…
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Smart Notes – Brady Hoke, Belichick, Chip Kelly’s offense next year – 1/12/2011
Hoke-a-mania. Michigan has hired Brady Hoke, prodigal son most recently of San Diego State. I don’t know much about Hoke — seems like a solid guy and he obviously wanted the job. The rumor is he’s bringing Al Borges with him to be offensive coordinator; I’m already getting lots of questions about his so-called “Gulf…
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Coaching matchups: Charlie Weis vs. Michigan’s Greg Robinson
Over at Dr Saturday, check it out in full here. I discuss Michigan’s new-look D versus Charlie Weis’s big-play (at least he hopes it is) pass game. Also of note if mgoblog’s great anatomy of a zone-read. It’s a must read. And, after the jump, a couple of diagrams/vids that got left off the floor…
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Smart Notes 9/1/09
I just started a guest-bit at EDSBS, where I’ll be answering fan submitted questions (tweet them to Orson here). This week’s question was about blitzing, both man and zone. Read the full thing here, but here’s a preview: Zone-blitzing is awash in contradictions: vanilla and endlessly complex; aggressive but conservative. It is vanilla and conservative…
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Smart Football Podcast 8/31/09
I did a post-cast with the brilliant Bill Connelly of Rock M Nation (and Football Outsiders). Wherein we discuss (me incoherently, Bill with great precision) the following: 1. Missouri vs Illinois 2. The future of Missouri’s spread offense moving from Chase Daniel to Blaine Gabbert 3. The role (and limits) of college football analysis and…
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Smart Notes 8/30/09
In his discussion of the Michigan fracas, Dr Saturday steps back: But the broader implication isn’t about the changing culture at Michigan as much as it is the longstanding culture at all big football schools, where the notion of “voluntary” workouts and hourly limits have been met with winks for years. A survey of Division…
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If Michigan violated limits on practice time, what might the NCAA do?
The Detroit Free Press reported that Rich Rodriguez’s Michigan football program blatantly violated the NCAA’s limits on when and how long players may practice: The University of Michigan football team consistently has violated NCAA rules governing off-season workouts, in-season demands on players and mandatory summer activities under coach Rich Rodriguez, numerous players told the Free…
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Smart Notes 8/24/2009
How does fatigue affect memory? Based on tests of people who have just completed marathons: The end result? The group that had just finished the marathon showed a significant decline in explicit memory. They were less able to consciously recall a series of words that they had been shown only a few minutes earlier. However,…