Smart Football

Football is the most strategic of all sports. A big part of this is the unique feature that each game is 100-150 or so unique trials—the pla...

As I said in my last post , some excellent comments and I want to thank all contributors. Most of the critiques dealt with either how my ana...

Lots of very good comments, insightful and thought-provoking. Thanks to all who responded to the blog, by email, or otherwise. Before direct...

In the previous post I discussed how to deal with uncertainty with what your QB will face by putting different "beaters" to each s...

No, not a reference to those ubiquitous white undershirts, I'm referring to "coverage beaters." Uncertainty is a permanent pa...

First, I apologize about posting infrequently. I promise to do better; I even have some good material saved up and in the planning phase. On...

ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli wrote: "Fooling opposing passers is a strong suit for [Steeler's Defensive coordinator Dick] LeBeau,...

I will discuss a bit of facts about the rise of the spread offense including its various pass and run elements (heavily abridged, each indiv...

While not as prolific as they were just a few years ago, the Rams under offensive coordinator and head coach Mike Martz were maybe the best ...

Just wanted to mention that I watched the bowl game between Arizona St and Rutgers, and Arizona St used the 3-vertical play at least 10 if n...

Grabbed this from this article here. But this was too good so it got its own article. We all like to discuss coverages, etc but this is ext...

I'm pretty swamped the next couple of weeks, so I'll do the "lazy blogger" technique and post some links and info, this ti...