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Post by brophy on Jan 15, 2016 12:00:39 GMT -6
tl;dr
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Post by brophy on Jan 15, 2016 11:39:31 GMT -6
As soon as I saw Spielman, I turned the channel. I can't put my finger on it. I don't know what it is about him that I can't sit and listen to. it was worse last year. Griese was fine, but Spielman struggles to keep up with the dialogue and his attempts to be relevant only fail. It was nice to have guys like Muschamp and McElwain providing insight throughout the game.
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Post by brophy on Jan 15, 2016 11:16:30 GMT -6
because these normally don't stay up long on ESPN, here is a capture of the Coaches Room
No Matt Millen this year, but still bonehead Spielman
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Post by brophy on Jan 7, 2016 19:39:48 GMT -6
Don't worry, boys...everyone's favorite representation of football will be on the air again real soon
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Post by brophy on Jan 7, 2016 15:26:52 GMT -6
think its great...just need to know what their 'missed tackle' stats are and I'm sold
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Post by brophy on Jan 5, 2016 13:26:01 GMT -6
don't confuse getting along with being a team.
Being a team means you respect those around you enough to not let them down (because they are counting on you). To be a member of a team, you have to prove yourself worthy of respect, normally by passing through some crucible. We don't have to be buddies or like the same things, but I sure as hell better have paid my dues for you to trust my effort, hustle, performance.
How do you do that? I think it requires you to engage the kids to overcome hardship (weight room) together, so that all can clearly see the investment each person is making. If I know it took the group 2 hours to clean the weight room, I will be less inclined to put weights where they don't belong.
Push them (hard weight room program)
Engage them to have fun together (end of month team rec activity)
Push them (monthly physical team competition)
Reward them (winning team gets t-shirts/dinner)
rinse, repeat
Have a team activity early in the morning (not an easy thing). Did everyone show up? Reward them. Did someone miss? Punish them. Keep reinforcing that 1 inharmonious action affects us all. Eventually, the kids take over accountability. Those pieces of {censored} just won't survive the environment the kids that endured have established.
If I bust my ass for the team and I don't feel that is being reciprocated, I will lose any incentive to make myself (or the team) better
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Post by brophy on Dec 31, 2015 7:39:34 GMT -6
great effort by #56.....horrible effort by #32
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Post by brophy on Dec 25, 2015 14:20:26 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Dec 24, 2015 12:21:33 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Dec 24, 2015 10:28:23 GMT -6
to a certain degree it is about control of the unknown. The best way to combat the unknown is with information/data.
The challenge with any data is irrelevant elements.
Sure, we need to hard stick the outside foot after a 2-step stride to catch the slant with the extended arms between our index fingers and thumbs....but the goal is to get 100 yards accumulated on offense. Once we get that we can feel good that we're being productive
Clear, definable metrics to quantify success give folks the roadmap/milestone to shoot for....with the assumption that this path leads to wins. Yes, you can get lost on this road (chasing stats) while losing sight of why it is important (execution)
Lets say your team is coming off of a 4-6 season. If all you came up with was, "man, we've just got to DO BETTER next year". While that is true, what specifically are you going to do better at?
You could acknowledge, "we just have to coach up the double-team technique so that we can consistently get 3 yards on ____ runs". How would you know if you are indeed coaching that technique well enough? I suppose you would reach for a yardage goal or conversion goal, when in actuality it would be player performance grades.
Are stats (or stat chasing) inherently wrong? I don't think so.
How do you lose/gain weight? .....expend energy and get proper nutrition
Easy enough. But how do you know you're doing it right? How do you know you're not screwing this up if you don't immediately see results? You examine the macronutrient composition and measure against the resistance routine. Are these numbers comparable to what is required to get the desired result? You can't expect a greater return than what you've invested.
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Post by brophy on Dec 23, 2015 11:02:04 GMT -6
the manilla folders in a binder is great. I would add that when you run scout team O or D, YOU SHOULD REALLY use your team's terminology for everything. Coaching scout should just be your non-starters getting extra reps in your offense/defense. Even if you're wing-t and are facing a 5-wide offense...you need to use whatever your system would (or could) call it.
When you run scout, you'd better be scripting the situation, play AND PERSONNEL. Pay close attention to which players are playing which spot to ensure a good look (reading off a particular player) and reps are distributed correctly. You want to make scout team (at least appear) that a lot of attention is being paid to it and that it isn't an after-thought of bag holders.
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Post by brophy on Dec 23, 2015 10:30:32 GMT -6
well, then.....I'll start a band
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Post by brophy on Dec 23, 2015 9:44:19 GMT -6
5 Samoan transfer students
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Post by brophy on Dec 21, 2015 21:54:55 GMT -6
Meet with the to-be seniors and juniors. This is who you will mentor for off-season leadership. Have a get together where you pool EVERY possible football player in your program in 2016. Have these kids draft players starting with the incoming freshmen, with the remaining seniors as the last round to draft. The teams they draft are the people they are responsible for keeping tabs on every week....those leaders are responsible for weight room attendance of the players they drafted. Best teams get rewards by the end of the school year.
Football isn't about football, its about building a team
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Post by brophy on Dec 21, 2015 21:32:22 GMT -6
why not just distribute it to parents via email?
no need for passive aggressive snarky public shaming
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Post by brophy on Dec 21, 2015 13:15:39 GMT -6
Chip Kelly tried the High Tempo offense...; so did Jim Kelly turns out its hard to tell people who are under contract to do anything they dont want to do.... this is the problem with the NFL....it isn't a game, it's an entertainment profession. Using the NFL as any barometer for the game is wholly misguided
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Post by brophy on Dec 21, 2015 13:04:19 GMT -6
I keep hearing that, about how conservative the NFL is. What are the innovations that the NFL won't use? 10 years ago all we heard was how the zone read was a gimmick offense, won't work in the NFL...yada yada. 3 years ago we were told how high-tempo offenses just can't work in the NFL, like the "NFL" is some grand apex of the game
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Post by brophy on Dec 21, 2015 12:57:43 GMT -6
I'd like to watch the movie myself before completely soiling my pants over it
I'm still curious how other sports are looking at this because it is so much bigger than just a "football thing".
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Post by brophy on Dec 21, 2015 12:45:23 GMT -6
it wasn't 10 years ago that if you knew anything about computers or video editing, you were beyond the realm of most every coach out there. Now it is such an integral part of coaching, I don't know if a single coach could function on a staff without these skills.
To project what the game will look like in 10, 20 or 30 seasons from now, it would help to just lay out what has happened the last 10, 20 and 30 years for coaches. Particularly with the age of the Internet, information is so widely available and readily shared. At least we have smartfootball.com as a record of fact to what the game has gone through (http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2006/01/has-spread-offense-reached-its-apex.html)
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Post by brophy on Dec 20, 2015 16:21:57 GMT -6
it is an interesting question because in 30 - 50 seasons from now scheme still won't matter a whole lot.
The player aspect is the most intriguing because the science of human performance is always evolving. I would imagine the quality of athletes will improve (creating a new standard of the 'average athlete'). Nutrition and recovery are where things will get insane. How players cool down, stimulate muscle cells, reach peak output from their cardiovascular systems should be at such a fine tuned level at that stage that the game rules will have to adjust.
The VR systems of immersing players into game-like experiences has a long way to go and its unfortunate that many of the tech companies supplying NFL programs with these are so far behind in what they can offer. Shoot, in 50 years maybe the players will be performing through avatars on the field, who knows. I'd be curious how you can get more output/performance through the use of biometric devices. Whether it be to quantify the effort required to throw a certain trajectoried throw or how much explosion is required to make a good tackle. We can capture metrics now, but its all post-performance that you'd evaluate. I think what we're after are like HR monitors that instantly tell you if you're performing in your target range.
For the game's safety, I really believe the field size has to change, but I can't ever see that happening. I could see a 5 yard neutral zone being implemented in some feel good effort to limit constant collisions.
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Post by brophy on Dec 16, 2015 10:23:37 GMT -6
rec league flag football is fun enough and lets people use their athleticism and skill. If all you do is pass rush with a neutral zone, you can mitigate a lot of the problems with the head.
When I was 30, I played "tackle football" with some friends (19 - 26 year olds) and that was NOT fun. Lot s of guys got injured and most of them were because their heads were getting smashed in. It wasn't like that when I was doing it at 18
Open field tackling isn't that much of a problem, its the inside run game that will be the biggest problem. How fast was Red Grange, anyway?
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Post by brophy on Dec 15, 2015 21:09:09 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Dec 14, 2015 17:19:30 GMT -6
I would be happy to help and bring your program back to National prominence. I will, of course, require a non-refundable $750k retainer for services. Chump change for your program. I'll await your call.
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Post by brophy on Dec 14, 2015 13:15:20 GMT -6
Who brought up the being picked on by the evil______cabal? If they get football, they hockey, they get mma, they get the nba, and whatever else they want. Football would be a huge get. Large chunk of culture goes away. they get football on concussions, MMA is finished.
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Post by brophy on Dec 14, 2015 11:59:43 GMT -6
^^ that is a pretty piss-poor argument you would be presenting to parents. The victim attitude of "we're being picked on by the evil ____ cabal" is pretty pathetic, as well.
Concussions are a serious issue. There isn't a coach in America that doesn't feel that way. We have, albeit recently, got a pretty good understanding of (ambulatory) concussions. What we don't, and neither does anyone else, have a handle on is the amount of exposure that causes CTE. We need to find out and it likely won't come for another generation. Wrestling, Soccer, hockey and rugby are just as at-risk. Football includes a much larger demographic in America than all those combined, so naturally when you talk CTE in America, you're talking football.
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Post by brophy on Dec 11, 2015 15:38:13 GMT -6
Or the use of performance enhancing drugs (HGH in Seau's case which he tested positive for), alcohol, narcotics etc. eh....wut are you talking about? www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/seau,%20junior_report.pdf
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Post by brophy on Dec 11, 2015 11:38:07 GMT -6
I would like to be see a study that shows the effects of CTE on people who played up through high school (no college or pro) to see the correlation and the frequency of CTE. I understand the problem in the NFL with the size and speed of all the athletes involved. I just can't imagine CTE being a huge issue (high %) for athletes who compete until the end of high school only. This is the answer right here. We didnt have the technology until very recently to accurately study evidence of brain trauma unless it was an autopsy. The brain trauma (onset disease) is a precursor to CTE. Of a representative sample of HS players, how pervasive is the evidence of the disease? That would determine the scope of risk to give everyone an actionable decision. This is akin to saying McDonalds french fries give you butthole cancer. Okay, I believe you, but how many french fries do I have to eat to increase my butthole cancer risk?
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Post by brophy on Dec 11, 2015 8:47:04 GMT -6
for what its worth, we've dealt with all this before in the last 40 years....it was serious ligament damage (coming back from an ACL tear was unheard of 40 years ago), then it was spinal injuries, then it was dehyrdation, then it was heat stroke, then it was concussions, now it is long-term degenerative brain condition. I'm not saying this equal (because brain science is very young), but its not like this is anything the sport cannot overcome.
Also, to throw the 18 year old adult argument out there sounds more like absolving an organization of financial liability, rather than a rational plan to address issues in the sport.
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Post by brophy on Dec 11, 2015 6:08:06 GMT -6
Where would you play football if you didnt start until 18?
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Post by brophy on Dec 10, 2015 20:51:56 GMT -6
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