All hail the college football playoff.  Instead of being subjected to an Alabama vs. Florida State BCS "championship" game (and do...

On Saturday, the Patriots were in trouble against the Ravens.  Trailing in the third quarter and struggling to move the ball against the Bal...

The youth team I most recently helped coach runs the wishbone.  I like the wishbone.  It has lots of lines of force , nice symmetry, and eas...

Football theory essay question: A  triangle read combines a vertical stretch to defeat Cover 2 with a horizontal stretch to defeat Cover ...

After seven chaotic weeks of football, the job of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee looks harder than ever.  Four undefeated ...

College football has a championship problem.  Fans are unhappy with the subjectivity of the poll system, but they still love the bowl game...

Chris Brown wrote a characteristically excellent little post about an additional wrinkle for the read option: using a downfield pass as the...

The Texans' Andre Johnson, tired of his team's perpetual rebuilding, has requested a trade .  Houston can hardly afford to trade him...

The article below is one I found on the internet years ago, saved on my computer, lost, and recently found again.  It doesn't appear to ...

I don't mind tie games. If two teams are evenly matched and play equally well, a tie is the logical way for a game to end (outside of el...

Holding the ball, the lead, and a first down late in the game, your team wants to run out the clock and end the game. How much time can they...

Football and chess both  involve the placement and movement of pieces with diverse capabilities in a limited playing space, so it's not ...

In his book  Coaching Run-And-Shoot Football , coach Al Black offers the shovel pass as one of the constraint plays the run-and-shoot offen...

In football as in chess, endgame tactics are distinct from the opening and the midgame.  In particular, there are times when it is better to...

The "BEAST" formation (yes, in all caps) is the name that coach Steve Calande  gave to the Yale formation when he rediscovered it ...

With the read option play exploding onto the scene during the 2012 NFL season, defending the play has become one of the hottest topics of th...

Simplicity is a virtue in offensive football.  If the appearance of complexity can be maintained for the defense, a simple offense leaves  m...

Don Faurot 's 1950 book on the Split-T formation 1  is a classic of offensive philosophy.  The offense  he invented ( "football...

The redundantly named "read option" play caught on in the NFL last season with breakthrough performances from the likes of the 49e...

This is my blog.  There are many like it, but this one is mine. I will post in this space my musings on American football strategy and tac...