The Essential Smart Football

The Essential Smart Football
Chris B. Brown (Author)
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Football (American)

The Essential Smart Football is an examination of football's most important strategies and ideas, through the lens of the game's best coaches, players, and schemes. Brilliantly written and eschewing unnecessary jargon and technicality, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of football to help all of us -- coaches, players, and fans -- appreciate the game we love all the more.

The Essential Smart Football features analysis of football's top strategists and their schemes, including:

- Urban Meyer's spread offense
- Tom Brady's no-huddle attack
- Bill Belichick's hybrid defense
- Mike Leach's pass-happy "Air Raid" offense
- The most popular scheme for running the ball in the NFL
- Nick Saban's school of defense

The book also includes explorations of modern approaches to the West Coast Offense, evolutions in defensive fronts and coverages, the changing role of the running game in spread and pro-style offenses, and much more.

"Buy this book if you love football."
-- Gregg Rosenthal

"[Chris Brown] has put together a book that you need to buy if you're a football fan with a pulse."
-- Bill Barnwell, Staff Writer, Grantland

"Accessibly erudite".
-- New York Magazine

"If you're a football geek, this is a mandatory purchase."
-- Doug Farrar, Yahoo! Sports

"Advanced stats are great, but they mean a lot more when you understand where the players are moving on the field and why. Nobody has taught me more about where the players are moving on the field and why than Chris Brown."
-- Aaron Schatz, founder of FootballOutsiders.com, columnist for ESPN.com/ESPN the Magazine

"I'm a better coach after reading this book. A must have in every coach's library!"
-- Dub Maddox, Offensive Coordinator, Jenks High School, Jenks, Oklahoma (12x Oklahoma State champions)

"Must-have new book for any football fan."
-- Dan Shanoff, Quickish.com

• Rank: #9262 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-05-23
• Released on: 2012-05-23
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Description #1 by Barnes & Noble:

Categories: Football. Contributors: Chris Brown - Author. Format: Paperback

Description #2 by Rakuten.com Shopping - Alibris Books-Movies-Music 1:

For the over 14 million people who play fantasy football every year for the hardcore fan who wants information beyond sports page recaps for everyone who bets on the NFL and for the smart, casual enthusiast looking for entertainment and insight comes the essential preseason annual. With numerous statistical measures that go far beyond standard NFL stats, Pro Football Prospectus assesses the DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) of every single skill player and determines how many points better a starting player is over the average bench player measures special teams offers advanced offensive line statistics analyzes teams abilities to convert draft picks into quality players and much more. And like its sister publication, Baseball Prospectus, it s written with a knowing dry wit that gets under the skin of America s most popular spectator sport. Compared by The New York Times Magazine to Bill James, the baseball statistics guru, Aaron Schatz is revolutionizing the world of football

Description #3 by Sports Nation Video:

with Jason Vittrup, US Soccer, A License, Graduate of the Brazilian Football Academy Being smart on the ball is one of the most basic skills needed in any fundamentally sound program. So being able to improve these skills is essential to being successful on the field. By being able to receive the ball and quickly deciding what to do with it provides teams with an asset that will pay dividends in the win column. This insightful instructional DVD focuses on this important subject by teaching and demonstrating over a dozen advanced turns that skilled players must have in their repertoire, including knowing where the defender is on field and how to make quick effective decisions with the ball. It provides coaches with a detailed description of how to organize a training session, as well as plenty of detailed diagrams and thorough on-field demonstrations. This unique guide will provide you with countless hours of practice material as well as effective drills that will keep your players looking forward to game day. 49 minutes. 2006. DVD.