Do you work on plays or players???

[MplsTom]

Anything taken to the extreme becomes a charicature (insert name of favorite political party here).

No one said that "no" tweaking had to be done or that guys will show up with unopened bases and can whip everyone.

My point here is just to challenge the mindset of how you spend your time preparing. Are you spending time on the thing that will get you the W?

In my experience, an observation I've made over the years is that a lot of guys in this hobby spend a lot of time and money looking for that base that will make it "easy" on them by being the strongest or fastest. I've certainly paid $ for bases over the years and some would say "too much". I've also been tweaking a great deal in the past 6 months as it is an area I'm working to improve.

When I get on the board, though, I seldom see coaches looking at "what is the defense giving them?" I seldom see coaches have play #3 or play #4 in their repitoire after you've shut down 1&2 (their bread and butter).

At the Beltsville Bash, I strongly doubt Adrian had the fastest team or strongest team. It was a new team to him and they didn't look to overpower anyone.

Having spend 1.5 hours on the board with him scrimmaging Friday night, though, it was fun because he was trying different plays and formations as was I. Adrian is one of the best passers in the game today and you sure don't need the strongest or fastest when you can get open like him.

This past year, I took inventory of my weaknesses in EF and worked like crazy on my passing. It paid off as the perfect score in the skills challenge showed and also helped bring me the Columbus Day title.

I'm not knocking tweaking or tweakers...just challenging guys to think of the proportion of time spent and will ask you if it is, "diminshing returns" when you have guys that are good enough. Should you be spending the time working on your passing, working on having a kicker that doesn't miss...working on having 10 plays in your playbook.

I think that moving some of the time toward those activities will make a huge difference to a lot of guys in this hobby.