Where can I go to understand the Xs and Os of football more? Any educational sites out there I can go to?

[SoCal Deek]

Here’s a hint:

Watch what the Patriots do.

Then...switch over to the Bills game and scream at the TV...”This shouldn’t be this DARN COMPLICATED!”

Repeat for the next 20 years.

Thats all you need to know!

[NewEraBills]

All 22 is great, but if you want schemes and concepts here are a couple of sites I've followed for years.

 

 

http://smartfootball.com/

 

http://www.blitzology.com/

 

http://www.syedschemes.com/pass-concepts/

If you want to spend the money on books and DVD's from AFCA then that's fine too, I have an entire library of that stuff, but with the internet like it is now, you probably don't need too.  Although there are some wrinkles that they have on those videos that you don't hear too much about online.

[row_33]

3 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

Here’s a hint:

Watch what the Patriots do.

Then...switch over to the Bills game and scream at the TV...”This shouldn’t be this DARN COMPLICATED!”

Repeat for the next 20 years.

Thats all you need to know!

 

Back in the day i would watch the best AFC team, often the Bills, and then at 4 watch the Cowboys or Niners.

 

same effect and a crushing Suoer Bowl humiliation for the AFC on the horizon 

 

barely much to compare between the conferences for those 13 straight years 

[ghostwriter]

3 hours ago, NewEraBills said:

All 22 is great, but if you want schemes and concepts here are a couple of sites I've followed for years.

 

 

http://smartfootball.com/

 

http://www.blitzology.com/

 

http://www.syedschemes.com/pass-concepts/

If you want to spend the money on books and DVD's from AFCA then that's fine too, I have an entire library of that stuff, but with the internet like it is now, you probably don't need too.  Although there are some wrinkles that they have on those videos that you don't hear too much about online.

This was extremely helpful.

[PIZ]

On 12/27/2018 at 12:52 PM, teef said:

for the guys mentioning madden, i don't remember who it was, but a player mentioned that he truly didn't grasp the x's and o's until he began playing madden.  this is a player...so there has to be some learning benefit to it.

 

I think I saw one time that Christian Okoye learned from Madden.

 

Bjoern Werner apparently did:

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000165670/article/bjoern-werner-learned-about-nfl-by-playing-madden

 

 

 

Edited December 29, 2018 by PIZ

[GaryPinC]

11 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

Absolutely and I think it goes for any/all sports.  I am still a novice when it comes to football, but I know a lot more about it now than I did, say, 15 years ago.  Far more enjoyable.

 

I'm sure baseball can be boring to someone who doesn't understand how much strategy goes into it (especially in the NL) and how cerebral the game is.

 

Hockey bores me to DEATH, as does soccer.  I know next to nothing about the rules of either sport and I'm sure that's why they're so boring to me.

Baseball isn't boring because of the strategies, baseball is boring because you spend most of the 3+ hour game watching batters scratch their nuts, re-velcro their gloves and pitchers pick their asses and re-adjust their hats.  Foul ball, repeat ad nauseum.  Best thing they could do for the sport is impose time limits between pitches.

Speaking as a soccer/ hockey person, I appreciate and sometimes watch  baseball but there is almost zero creativity and on-the-fly strategy which also becomes boring for me. Baseball strategy also is easily learned and understood given the snail's pace of the game.