[Anthony D Burgess]

In my league it's the same as real life, there are coaches who tend to not understand the reasons for running a type of formation. Some call plays and set up like they are making it up as they go along, not aware of who has what assignment.

Some rely on speed and other on power as they run the same formation all game. Some rely on there TTQB skills but under the pressure of the game miss passes, or are sacked because they cant stop the board to avoid it.

SS's to deep or too close to the line, one on one on the outside, no out side containment by the LB. Lack ot footballball knowledge is evident, but as the season goes on you can see that they are learning more about the actual game.

I see the coaches thinking more on how to out smart the other and not totaly depend on speed and power along with the TTQB skills.

The true chess match begins, they begin to play an area of the field and to not just the man, they understand the discipline for each position in the formation they are running, thou some EF/MF influences tend to bleed through resulting in a negative play they quickly learn from that.

However most of them make themself one dimensional ( Passing ) they live by it and have not learned that you need to pick up first down. They run the QB and not the RB, they are prone to 3rd and long.

A few are beginning to see that you are actualy coaching a football team and not just watching a simple game. It is a beautiful thing to see the light come on in there minds

You can see that there philosoph of the game has changed from hoping and wishing and relying on none relayted football elements to thinking and understanding the game of football and knowing what is required to develop a successful play.

It is truly move and counter move as John Facenda has said, coaches are watching more of the NFL PLay Book on the NFLNetwork.

Seeing the coaches film they understand that each player has a responsibility on a given play and how there movement or lack of it effect the total concept of the play.

Hey Reg, nice post