Smart, well written and researched. The author covers a lot of material offensively and defensively. This is a book for someone who wants to know how and why things work in football. May 02, Todd Davidson rated it really liked it. For those of us too wimpy to play in high school this book is a great introduction to football strategy.
It tells a great story of the evolution and increasing complexity of the game. The business lesson is that agility requires careful planning, focus, and repetition. Feb 22, Jake Gaiser rated it it was amazing. Very insightful schematic and philosophical overview of football's most innovative coaches. Apr 02, Ashley Kanavy rated it it was amazing. Great Reag Loved this book. Loved how in-depth it was and how it provided a different perspective on the game I love!
Jan 13, Will Osgood rated it it was amazing. An easy but very joyful read Goes in-depth but remains easy to understand. It is concise, but also detailed so both novices and "experts" could glean something from it. Nov 12, Sabina rated it really liked it.
I learned a lot but had to repeatedly ask my husband for several explanations. Definitely fascinating to understand the inticracies of football. Jan 23, Jarrod Loudermilk rated it it was amazing.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, it moved beyond the tv analysis and really explained the theories involved with modern football. I consider it must read for a football fan. Lots of interesting chapters going over the whole life span of the NFL. Last chapter especially was interesting and led me to buy a separate book that further elaborates on the subject.
Dec 26, Oliver Bateman rated it it was amazing. The second book of Brown's essays is quite short, and most of these pieces are available online for free, but it's worth reading in book form and buying, simply to keep this dude in business.
Brown was one of the new "how the game is played" experts who worked with the Grantland team, and outside of Zach Lowe, likely the best of them. Brown's production seems to have tapered off in recent years, but I'd like to see him back with the Ringer or some similar publication.
Feb 20, Chris Kamykowski rated it it was amazing. Have recommended to my fellow football coaches and to superfans of the game. Aug 23, Bill Shannon rated it really liked it. It's sort of an analogy of offensive and defensive concepts, with anecdotal examples. It not only explains what modern football concepts are and how they work, but it even shows actual diagrams from playbooks. So I learned about the Erhardt-Perkins offenses of the s, the West Coast concepts of the '80s and early '90s, and the modern spread and read-option stuff.
What's great about the book is that it assumes you know a little about football -- so there is no tiresome rudimentary explanation of weak vs strong sides or s and Tampa 2 defenses. It takes very heady ideas and boils them down into why they work which is usually mathematics and trickery. I am looking forward to reading it again at the end of the season.
Jan 28, Tim rated it really liked it. Smart Football for casual fans Chris Brown is a great writer who manages to make football strategy accessible to the more casual fan. While Brown's knowledge of various strategies are as strong as anyone else's his work strives to bring the masses in. If you are somewhat interested in different strategies and their history you should read this. If you're looking for something more comprehensive this probably isn't the book for you. Regardless it's still a very good read.
Sep 15, Hans rated it really liked it. This is a great book to get an inside look on the NFL. It reads quick and Chris has a written voice that is easy to digest. This book has changed the way I watch the game. I am far more engrossed into each play.
The downside is I need the ALL view to really enjoy the game. And, announcers really bother me with their pre-packaged statements. Oct 09, John A. Thornton rated it it was amazing.
A must read for any serious football fan I have been a football fan for over thirty years and I learned more about football strategy and implementation of ideas and concepts then I have from any other source. I was amazed I could learn this from a book that can be read in one day. Aug 07, Addison Roberts rated it it was amazing. Really great stuff I read this to get a better feel for what I am watching on Sunday.
Learning the stories and the ideas was a lot of fun and I hope to try and get a feel for what it looks like practically. He sets out to explain how football, which often looks to be a street fight, is actually more of a chess match. Email address:. Home About Books Resources Store. The Art of Smart Football. The Essential Smart Football. Sign up for Smart Football articles and updates! The writing itself was the mnemonic device.
While The Perfect Pass was the best football book I read this year, Sapiens was far and away the best overall book I read. I looked it up after I heard Nobel laureate Dan Kahneman another Smart Football favorite mention it on a podcast, and I read a sample chapter with little expectation.
But while I was immediately hooked, the book kept evolving as I read it, as what began with a fascinating recantation of the lives and activities of the earliest proto-humans — Neaderthals, homo erectus and early homo sapiens — soon turned to an examination of why it was that homo sapiens, after hundreds of thousands of years of surviving but pretty much existing in the middle of the food chain, suddenly rocketed to the top of it and in the process driving many ancient beasts to extinction, like giant sloths and mammoths , conquered multiple climates, and eventually began domesticating the world around them, from farm animals and livestock to crops.
And Harari includes a fascinating albeit depressing argument about the true nature of our relationship to our most necessary crop, wheat:. Think for a moment about the Agricultural Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat. Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East.
Suddenly, within just a few short millennia, it was growing all over the world. According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth. In areas such as the Great Plains of North America, where not a single wheat stalk grew 10, years ago, you can today walk for hundreds upon hundreds of miles without encountering any other plant. How did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous?
Wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10, years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants.
Wheat demanded a lot of them. Wheat got sick, so Sapiens had to keep a watch out for worms and blight. Wheat was attacked by rabbits and locust swarms, so the farmers built fences and stood guard over the fields. Wheat was thirsty, so humans dug irrigation canals or lugged heavy buckets from the well to water it.
Sapiens even collected animal faeces to nourish the ground in which wheat grew. How did that happen? Read the whole thing. D allas Cowboys rookie Dak Prescott had about as good of a preseason debut as any rookie could ask for: Prescott finished the game 10 of 12 for yards and two touchdowns, including a perfect strike to receiver Terrance Williams down the sideline. In recent years a few teams — most notably Baylor, although there are others — began using packaged plays where the quarterback read a safety to determine whether to hand off or throw.
This had two primary effects: 1 it is an excellent response to Quarters coverage , in which the safeties read the offense to determine whether to play the pass or the run, often outnumbering offenses in the run game as they are so difficult to account for; and 2 it transforms a read concept that was originally designed to move the chains by having the QB either hand off or throw a screen into a handoff or a touchdown. A savvier safety might have aligned inside and then hurried back outside; Prescott did stare down Bryant a bit.
That makes sense to me. C linic season. Springtime is when coaches get together and — to some extent against their own interests though not entirely — share information on the ins and outs of their schemes, personnel strategies and general program management.
Sometimes this involves one staff visiting another, but the backbone are the clinics, where typically college and sometimes NFL coaches give presentations to typically high school and small school coaches.
Experts in their field. High character people that represent Michigan. Great motivators. Positive energy. John Harbaugh — John went through a few of the staples of his coaching philosophy. Bad body language… fosters resent and divineness.
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