Suspended in Time
 

I had a high school coach over at my house yesterday wanting me to know about the potential applications of miniature football to the game of high school football. We began to discuss the techniques of read and react. He asked me how does that relate to miniature football. His premise was based on nickel and dime coverage schemes and it freaked him out about what I was saying.

He asked me the question, "Reginald, why don't you just let the players run after the catch or after breaking the first level?" I told him that the similarities to what he do and what I do are similar. When the players catch the ball or break the first wave, there is a momentary suspension of time. If you play back any tape of games, when a player catches the ball, there is this reaction to the ball. I told him, this is where in miniature football, this is our suspension of time and we react on the ball.

We fooled around with various coverage schemes and blitz packages as he was looking for any edge over his opponent for this weekend's Texas high school playoffs. I found it very interesting having a coach at my house trying to get a leg up on his opponents this Saturday. By night's end, he had spent about 2 hours talking football.

But the suspension in time and zone packages were the highlight of the strategy session.

Reg

great stuff...... nice to share with someone who can relate to the football concepts even at this level.....

Are you talking about adjusting the DBs and the WR after the catch or if there is simultaneous indirect/glancing (?) contact the WR, he the WR is allowed to continue running?$cch$

We use to talk about this in Quatuum Physics
 

at the University of Tennessee and Texas.

My prof's use to lecture about suspension of time. It is that point in time/space where everything is halted just for a fraction of a millionth of a second. I even had to right a paper on this very subject.

For what we do in the DFW, it is the Read and React time. That 20 seconds to turn your players to make a play on the ball. That is when the training of the player comes in to play because you are under the pressure of the clock to get as many players turned and at the precise angle. That is where the training camps come in to play. For instance, on the safeties playing a nickel coverage or just basic zones, you want to know that after the catch, the safety can come up and make the play.

Or if the runningback breaks the first wave, the crowd stands up and at that moment in time, the safeties may be covering a receiver or tight end. But because they hear the roar of the crowd and see the crowd stand, they know something big has happened. That's when they react on the play. They stop. They turn. They go after the ball carrier. At that instance in time, they are suspended in time.

They then pursue the play. This is what I mean by suspended in time.