Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
Smart Links — Strategery Round-Up: GPS tracking, bootleg passes, defending 3×1 — 7/15/2014
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Smart Links — Strategery Round-Up: GPS tracking, bootleg passes, defending 3×1 — 7/15/2014
GPS tracking to measure exertion, speed and to prevent injuries (see also here): Four years ago, Erik Korem and Joe Danos, who were FSU assistants at the time, brought the idea to [Jimbo] Fisher after seeing the devices used by an Australian rules football team. The Australian company that makes them, Catapult Sports, had never…
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In 2013, Charlie Weis Has It Right
Charlie Weis, in 2005: Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage. Charlie Weis, in 2013: As I sat there and watched the last four or five games of that Austin guy at West Virginia just tearing it up as both a wide receiver and a running back, I think that football sometimes doesn’t…
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Paragraph of the day, red zone playcalling edition
Red Zone Play-Calling On a first down Red Zone play, teams are more likely to score if it’s a run than a pass if they are at the 8 yard line or closer. Anything between the 9 and the 20 favors a pass on first down. That doesn’t mean that 100% pass is the optimal…
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Smart Links – Strategery Round-Up: two-tight ends, the 3-4 defense, rocket toss and “Iso” – 12/8/2011
Old school Green Bay Packers’ use of two-tight ends: – Two good links from Ron Jenkins: Base combination concepts for any passing offense The multiple West Coast passing offense – Wisdom from Woody Hayes: [W]hen I first starting coaching listening to Woody Hayes talk about designing an offense. He talked about you start with your…
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Smart Links – Strategery round-up – 10/1/2010
Great analysis of the Indy Colts offense from Mile High Report. – Brophy’s blog (which has really become a group blog) with all kinds of good stuff. Brophy talks defensive trends, while Hemlock discusses “Match Zone or Match Man.” Hemlock: I would rather face a match zone team as a Run-N-Shoot coach than a pattern…
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Shameless self-promotion – Maple Street Guides
Like last year, I have written a variety of pieces for the wonderful Maple Street Press, which specializes in team-centric preview guides — i.e. preview guides wherein all 128 pages are about your team, rather than having to share your single-page half-and-half with Akron (sorry Akron) or Michigan State (sorry Michigan State). This season, I…
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Strategery round-up – 6/21/2010
Good links all related to football strategy, though we begin with a video of Gus Malzahn’s Auburn O, via Offensive Musings: – Defending the bunch. If a defense plays a lot of man coverage, you can bet that the offense (if they have any sense, anyway) will quickly start using “bunch” or “compressed” formations. Anyone…
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Me on Mike Leach and TTech; on the Solid Verbal Podcast
Blogging will be slow today, but in the meantime enjoy two sumptuous offerings: Deconstructing, in which Will Muschamp takes Mike Leach head on – Y! Sports/Dr Saturday Solid Verbal Podcast 9/18/09 “Xs and Os” (yes you can hear me…I think) – Solid Verbal hosted by Dan Rubenstein and Ty Hildenbrandt
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