Spread offense

[Michigan Joe]

FFF- I totally understand what you are saying about the uniqueness of EF and I agree to many of those points. However, I feel that there are strategic coaching decisons in EF that have many similarities to real football. I don't mean to imply the strategies are the EXACT same, however, the rule set has a lot to do with it the closeness of the strategy to real life football.

Even your so called 9 and 10 men lines are simply man-man corners and safety blitzes which is not to say that those aren't similar to "real" football formations. EF has many similar type of strategic desicions as real football such as whether to play two deep safety, blitz OLBs from outside or play more balanced (stacked 4-3) to stop the run. You just make it sound like there is no correlations betwen X's and O's strategy in EF and real football and I simply think there is correlation. Even with the stacked recievers, the execution of the stacked recievers mimics criss crossing patterns etc.

No big deal, I think we would just be arguing semantics to take this any further. I'm just trying to express that there are key strategic moves involved in EF (as there are in real football), its not just about lining up and pressing go and hoping the best man wins.

Joe