Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
New Grantland — The Future of Playcalling: “Packaged plays,” Tecmo Bowl and a revolution in how we define “football play”
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New Grantland — The Future of Playcalling: “Packaged plays,” Tecmo Bowl and a revolution in how we define “football play”
It’s now up on Grantland: Admittedly or not, most fans think of real-world play calling as a slightly more complicated version of this “Tecmo Bowl model.” The offense’s job is to “keep the defense guessing,” and the defense must “guess right” to make a stop. On some level, even with their lengthy play sheets and reams…
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Game planning (and game theory) wisdom from . . . Lane Kiffin
From the 2011 Nike Coach of the Year Clinic: Each year we do a self-scout at the end of the year…. After the review, we could see where we made mistakes of adding plays that we did not have time to perfect. We have decided to stop running plays we add late in the week,…
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Playcalling doesn’t have to be difficult
Okay, so here’s a story for you. Kilff Kingsbury was our starter, and he was sort of conservative, you know? B.J. (Symons) knew what I wanted to audible to before I even said it, but Kilff was just careful like that. It was third and long against someone, and their corner was cheating way up.…
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You be the offensive coordinator/quarterback: Dealing with the blitz
In my most recent post for Dr Saturday I discussed some of Florida’s struggles on offense. The particular topic was some of Florida’s struggles in pass protection in all phases: accounting for potential rushers, sustaining the blocks, the receivers getting open on time, and the quarterback delivering the ball on time. In the post I…
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Wild Bill: double coverage and drawing up plays in the dirt
Some interesting tidbits from the post-game pressers regarding Bill Belichick. First, his defensive tactics against the Falcons and how worried he was about Falcons tight-end Anthony Gonzalez: Q: Can you talk about the job the defense did on Tony Gonzalez? He was a big topic of conversation this week. Belichick: Well, he’s good. We devoted…
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Spurrier wants balance: Is he asking the right questions? Are his critics?
Steve Spurrier watched the game film of his offense’s horrible performance against NC State and concluded: we weren’t aggressive enough. And people are ridiculing him for it. Steve Spurrier has watched the entire N.C. State game twice and part of it a third time. The South Carolina coach reached two conclusions: The Gamecocks were too…
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