Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
Thoughts About Drafting Quarterbacks
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Thoughts About Drafting Quarterbacks
So let’s say you’re [Chicago general manager] Pace, and you’ve determined that you really want Trubisky. You call the 49ers and trying to work out fair compensation if the Browns do not pick him at one. You think Trubisky’s going to be the long-term Bears quarterback, starting in 2018 or later…. The market for quarterbacks…
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New Grantland: June Jones’s Retirement, and the Lasting Influence (and Possible End) of the Run-and-Shoot
It’s now up over at Grantland: Yet Jones’s most important contribution to football will be his association with the run-and-shoot. It was an offense he first encountered as a record-breaking quarterback at Portland State while playing for Darell “Mouse” Davis. The run-and-shoot was developed by Glenn “Tiger” Ellison.2 Sometime in the mid-1950s, Ellison stopped to watch…
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Advanced Trends in Packaged Reads and Concepts
This article is by Patrick McCarthy. You can follow him on twitter at @patdmccarthy. Any and all questions are encouraged. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, he played and coached in France and Sweden while also coaching at St. Thomas Aquinas HS (KS) and Neenah HS (WI). Since then he has coached at the…
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New Grantland Blog: Analyzing Cleveland’s top two draft picks
It’s now up over at Grantland: The Cleveland Browns had an interesting first day of the 2012 NFL draft. On the one hand, Cleveland got two of the draft’s most productive players: Brandon Weeden, quarterback from Oklahoma State, who threw 71 touchdowns over the past two seasons, and Trent Richardson, an absolutely ferocious running back who rushed for more…
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New Grantland Blog: The 49ers and the Quarterback Crack/Pull Sweep
My newest Grantland Blog is now up: Indeed, as San Francisco 49ers legend Bill Walsh taught us, the best play callers do their play calling through preparation during the week, not so much on gameday as emotions soar. In other words, play calling is rarely the difference between a won and a loss. But sometimes…
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