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Learning about football in all of this down time
Franco_92 replied to Franco_92's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Again I'm so grateful for these responses! My birthday is quite soon and I've made clear which books I'd prefer -
Learning about football in all of this down time
Franco_92 replied to Franco_92's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I really appreciate all of the responses! -
Hi folks, Like most of you here, I am rather obsessed with the Bills and the sport in general. The more I watch and the longer I am a fan, the more I realize just how complex football is from a strategy standpoint. And I barely grasp any of this - different blocking schemes, offensive personnel packages, defensive coverages and disguises, general strategy, the history of its development and all that. I can barely recognize when a defense is in zone or in man coverage, and that's about it. The rest of my time watching football is just cataloging the obvious things - That was a first down! what a bad drop! what a nice run! And so on. I don't know how to think through a play I see, and find where it failed, when something is Daboll's fault versus Josh etc. What I'm asking is if anyone has recommendations for resources to begin to learn all of this stuff. Something that can teach me how cover 2 and cover 4 differ, and all of the other coverages, with diagrams/film examples. If possible, if there are any books or internet sites out there that are quite thorough and don't leave much out. I don't care if it's 1000 pages long, I'm ready to commit to a long term studying project, especially sitting at home in quarantine. For example, I found this long reddit post that is impressive: https://www.reddit.com/r/footballstrategy/wiki/index but I don't see a lot of photos or video and I worry that it'd be hard to connect to what I see on the screen. If anyone has suggestions, and stories of how they learned, it would be much appreciated!
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Franco_92 replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Twitter is garbage. And I struggle to comprehend how someone can read the tweet in the post I quoted and think it's worthy of being posted anywhere. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Franco_92 replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
That CDC warning was literally just to practice "usual travel precautions" when travelling to the area of the virus outbreak. Lol. " Reports indicate that some of the patients were vendors at the Wuhan South China Seafood City (South China Seafood Wholesale Market) where, in addition to seafood, chickens, bats, marmots, and other wild animals are sold, suggesting a possible zoonotic origin to the outbreak. The market has been closed for cleaning and disinfection. Local authorities have reported negative laboratory test results for seasonal influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) among patients associated with this cluster. Additional laboratory testing is ongoing to determine the source of the outbreak. Health authorities are monitoring more than 150 contacts of patients for illness. CDC has issued a level 1 travel notice (“practice usual precautions”) for this destination." Talk about a misleading tweet. -
14 teams in the Playoffs confirmed. Are we a lock?
Franco_92 replied to Chandler#81's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I can follow your baseball reasoning, but the Bills/Bengals in 2017 is nowhere close to the same thing. The Bills were objectively in the top 6 AFC teams by the established rules, and no matter how they got in there, any team below them was infinitely less deserving of the spot. Was Baltimore supposed to get in after failing to beat a weak Bengals team when that was all they needed to do to get in? -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Franco_92 replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I do have to ask, what has the EU done for its constituent nations and people? I see Russian military vehicles on the streets of Italy bringing supplies. What has Brussels done? Maybe it's something - I don't know what. -
Micah Hyde On-side Kick Return vs. Dolphins
Franco_92 replied to JoeF's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I was absolutely screaming at him to go down that whole jog. same thing on Brady's last pass as a pat. Don't go in the end zone!! but in each case we were treated to a pretty sweet moment. -
100% agree. He was always looking to run up field, and taking his eyes off the ball for his drops. his hands are not the issue, like you say. which is good as far as coachability is concerned.
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I don't think you're being an optimist. I think people sitting in quarantine and watching numbers climb lose sight of how far away we are from needing to make these decisions, and how much time it has taken other places' cases to peak. It's certainly true that a spanish flu when we were barely into the "germ theory" era lasted a long time in waves, but that doesn't mean that this one will play out exactly the same a hundred years later There will probably be unique circumstances to this season in one way or another, but I'd bet on it happening.
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Denzel Mims film room, should we work to get him.
Franco_92 replied to ScorpionZero's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I believe Brett Kollmann also made a very nice Mims video. -
Will COVID19 Impact the 2020 Season?
Franco_92 replied to Mikie2times's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I generally agree with your belief that things are going to go in the right direction sooner than people are worrrying about in the throes of this thing. Reading through Texas's estimates for the city of Dallas under various levels of quarantine, and those general "flatten the curve" graphs, often the time scale of the rush on hospitals we are trying to avoid is 7-10 weeks. As more of the country implements quarantine measures, my guess is that this soon-to-be overwhelming wave of coronavirus won't last longer than that, and I don't think that it, in a vacuum, would threaten the NFL season (though it could push things back a bit). This is assuming that our scientists keep busting their balls the way they have been - modern technology WILL eventually solve this thing, and we will get promising developments sooner as well as later. It is open-ended whether or not we will see second/third waves of overwhelming hospitals, which is the kind of thing that would lead to the many months/couple year long issues that people worry about. These things aren't a given, as from my understanding it is possible to go back to normal while still keeping the curve flat by being vigilant in the face of new cases (ie, anyone who has a fever or feels crappy MUST stay home and isolate and receive testing as soon as possible) I am no expert, this is just the way I see it from the things I've read and could be wildly wrong -
Will COVID19 Impact the 2020 Season?
Franco_92 replied to Mikie2times's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Chinese numbers are complete fabrications. I read that a Japanese media member interviewed a Chinese doctor who said that they reported no new cases a couple days ago simply because they are no longer testing those with symptoms -
Will COVID19 Impact the 2020 Season?
Franco_92 replied to Mikie2times's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Dude. In the post I responded to, literally inches above this one, you claim trump called coronavirus ITSELF a hoax. I am aware that he called their response to his initial response (which I agree was bad) a hoax. That is, literally, what I said in my response to you. -
Will COVID19 Impact the 2020 Season?
Franco_92 replied to Mikie2times's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If you watched that press conference and honestly let yourself believe he was calling the virus a hoax versus calling the left's criticism of him r.e. the virus a hoax, you cannot be helped. -
Will COVID19 Impact the 2020 Season?
Franco_92 replied to Mikie2times's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I think that looking at this from day [single digit] of an unknown in length quarantine is going to seem very different than looking at the same question in early July. Nobody really knows, but I think we will have a fairly normal football season.