ID vs IQ: Proper Application of the Game

The more football you watch the better you are at watching football

Run the Bubble up top, it's 6!!! ;D

speed up the logic algorithm to diagnose what is going to happen on a given down by what you are presented.



As we process through the image, we kind of already are piecing the rest of the picture together.....eliminating alignments that would be incongruent, giving us a defaulted picture (alignment ) which defines the likely assignments of those players.



Which would probably explain why so many more defenses (NFL in particular) are living in some variation of 1/4,1/4, 1/2. This process goes beyond just defenses, though, and can be as easily used to recognize offense (alignment leverage, etc) probability/advantage.

Dubber I was joking when I wrote that but I read what you said, I thought what?!? and took another good look.

At first glance it looks to me like a sloppy C4 (4 shell, Corner DEL looking like zone). Thinking about it a little longer got me thinking... Are you saying they're setting up for a concept/pattern read ala Nick Saban? That guy in the 40 closest to the LOS is tilted to the outside, he's got a bigger guy stacked over him so he can just take off at the snap outside to chase the bubble, the quick shot to the slot or act as the force player on an outside run, the guy over the top of him (who is probably the true ILB given his apparent size) can just hammer it downhill and fill inside. If it is C4 and I'm the DC I've got my flat player on the fly, my middle player in position to step up to fill on the inside run before zoning it under and I'm solid. Putting the OC hat back on, if I decipher that, now what do I run?

Don't know if that's what the D had in mind (it'd help to know the D&D) but it gets the mind a hummin'; admittedly I'm probably over thinking it now. if you set up a shell like that to bait the offense into what you want that could be a huge advantage. That ain't right, we (meaning the offense) are supposed to dictate to them as to where they should line up! With a week for the D to study film and the ability to read the concept/pattern you could really play some chess with the O. Is that what you meant or where you on a different thought?

Brophy I'm sure you've got plenty of other things to do but these kind of examples would make a fascinating study - show a piece of the alignment, maybe give some D&D info and we have to hash it out. Fascinating stuff....

we typically talk a lot about how to game plan or organize the off-season schemes in terms of thinking like an economist.....gather a large body of data and review it with meticulous analysis, then come to some conclusion.

We're talking about developing thought-in-action, an immediacy of perception, a heuristic approach at handling the course of a game.

This is not a linear, step-by-step combining of cues - we are allowing the mind to act as a magnet, pulling in cues from all directions.

coach4life makes a good point. If you want to train your brain to do what brophy is talking about, you have to really think when you watch, not just mindlessly absorb. Difference between hitting the weights hard in the weightroom or just prancing around -- just time spent doing whatever in the gym isn't good enough.

This 'subject' may be confusing and may be phrased incorrectly. Be careful not to get lost on minutiae or semantics.

It doesn't take a superior intellect to be a physician, just focus and the ability to reference a diagnosis (based on symptoms) to the underlying problem. The ability to recall trends and apply a solution. That isn't dismissing the intellect (strawman), simply illustrating that the superior intellect isn't what quantifies a superior physician.

Again, all we're discussing is nuturing the pattern recognition that allows us to use the knowledge that we may have. That being said, that pattern recognition is what actually frames our quest for knowledge --- learning with a purpose, if you understand the totality, you will seek answers that address the global answers and not just seek out micro/macro applications.
In the perfect environment, they feed one another. Whereas, just picking one position or one side of the ball and finding a fixation point, drives us to stagnant growth, and fighting battles against 'symptoms'. Whereas, seeing the relationship of perimeter route running impacting the inside run game, the relationship of receiver splits on coverage shell, that impacts the alignment of the DT....we look for answers against the entire picture

Being able to assess the situation and apply a "thinking-on-your-feet" response (that actually addresses the problem, and not just the symptom), to avoid us from shooting from the hip or the dial-a-blitz approach.

Broph

Great Topic
Excellent responses, fellas...

I'd like to chime in by saying that I agree that pattern recognition/identification trumps IQ when it comes to success in our game, but-

research has shown that there is a direct correlation to a person's ability to recognize/organize/recall chunks of information [including words, patterns and algorithms] and their IQ-
the greater the IQ, the more info the can retain and process...

SO therefore, a coach is limited in the amount of information that they can learn/use based on their IQ.

IMO to truly become proficient in this game one must have the capabilities upstairs as well as immerse themselves in the norms of the game until recognition becomes second nature and they can focus on the intracasies.