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Analysis and strategy by Chris
About Smart Football
Smart Football analyzes football's strategies, Xs and Os, and tactics, along with the theory and history supporting them. Chris Brown writes Smart Football, and he has been writing about football, in one form or another, since 2002.
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Posts
Blog Archive
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2009
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August
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- Smart Football has moved to smartfootball.com
- Deconstructing the Illinois run game
- How to beat press man coverage
- Smart Notes and Links 8/13/2009
- Are tight-ends an endangered species?
- Past is prologue: Alabama running the flexbone?
- Drew Brees is scary accurate
- Assorted Links - 8/10/2009
- Run & Shoot Series Part 4 - The "Streak"
- How Mike Leach keeps producing prolific passers
- More on evaluating the run game
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August
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Required Reading (Previous Articles)
- Airraid info and reading material
- Auburn's offense might be bad, but don't call it the spread, the Airraid, or the Tony Franklin System
- Bill Walsh passing game notes
- Breakdown of Nick Saban's Defense
- Conservative and risky football strategies (and kurtosis)
- Constraint theory of offense
- Deep cross - pass concept
- Fire zone-blitzes
- Florida Gator/Urban Meyer Offense
- Four verticals - pass concept
- Has the Spread Offense Reached its Apex?
- How Many Concepts Do You Need in Your Offense?
- Importance of Clock Offense, and Why Spiking the Ball is Almost Always a Bad Idea
- Indianapolis Colts Stretch Play
- Linemen Splits
- Notes on Practicing and Developing the Quick Passing Game
- Organizing Pass Plays as Concepts
- Packaging Concepts: Putting "Beaters" to Each Side
- Packaging Concepts: Using Route Adjustments
- Pass Protection, the Super Bowl, Tom Brady, and the Blind Side
- Peyton's favorite: the "levels" pass concept
- Playing Pitch and Catch: Steve Spurrier's Favorite Pass Play
- Probabilities, pragmatism, and football
- Rock-Paper-Scissors, Edgar Allan Poe, and Play Selection
- Run/Pass Balance and a Little Game Theory
- Run/Pass Balance and a Little Game Theory: Response to Comments I
- Run/Pass Balance and a Little Game Theory: Response to Comments II
- Sharpe Ratio Part 1
- Sharpe Ratio Part 2
- Sharpe Ratio Part 3
- St. Louis Rams/Martz Shallow Cross Concepts
- Substituting, Personnel, and Formations
- Switch-it: Put a Little Hawaii in Your Offense
- Texas Tech's 31 Point Comeback and the Hot Hand Theory
- The A-11 Offense: A Pragmatic Approach
- The All-Curl Route
- The Divide Route in the Multiple Smash Concept
- The Importance of Clock Offense, and Why Spiking the Ball is Almost Always a Bad Idea
- The Shallow Cross and the Holy Trinity from the Bunch Formation
- The Shotgun, the 'Gun, and the Shotgun Spread Offense
- Three Verticals and Converting Pass Patterns
- Urban Meyer's "Shovel option"
- What Killed the Run and Shoot?
