Book Club

Really awesome book. Journalist Nicholas Dawidoff spent a season embedded with Rex Ryan's staff coaching the NY Jets. Really easy fun read and fascinating. The look from inside an NFL coaching staff is worth the read. 

What is Open?

Newest entry into the book club. Just finished with Dub Maddox's book What is Open?.  

The book covers a bunch of topics about game planning run, pass, and play action.

For example the section on Structural Strain (chapter 5) dives into using personnel and formation in game plans.

The book has many big picture and fine detail insights. Definitely one I will have to go back and review to digest it all. Highly recommend it.

Book Club

Non-football book this time. Wild look at the dark corners of the internet. Fascinating all the activities that happen on websites not found on Google. It was a look at a world I never even knew existed. Shout out to my brother for the great recommendation. It was a quick easy read and each chapter covers different aspects of the dark web: crypto currency, the origin of online trolling, illegal drug sales, and a bunch more.   

Book Club

Non-football book this month. This book is fascinating. An economic reporter wrote about the drug trade by looking at it as if it wasn't an illegal enterprise. How would the business model be evaluated from a purely economic perspective? How could that economic information inform the approach to drug regulation and law enforcement? This book is an easy, interesting read and simply provides a view of the drug trade from an entirely new perspective. 

Book Club

This month is a pair of of books from an excellent coach with a career of experience coaching high school and college football. Coach Gordon's first book "Coaching the Under Front Defense" outlines how the front aligns and functions.



His 2nd book is a all about "Split Field Coverages". The book covers a fully developed coverage package. 



Both books are great reads. If you are a new coach looking to learn about under front or split field coverages these books are a great place to learn. If you're already experienced coaching these concepts this is a great chance to see a successful defensive coach's explination, progression, and coaching points. I took a bunch notes on details from Coach Gordon that I've added/I'm adding to our progression. 

Not convinced? Listen to Coach Gordon on the Deep Dive on Defense pod cast. Listen for the split field coverage info and killer Boston accent.

Book Club

Really interesting and easy read. The book is all about how and why attempts to make changes end up succeeding or failing. Change is hard individually and even harder in organizations. The book offers insights into how effective change happens. Definitely worth reading if you are trying to get changes made in your organization (team, school, family, etc). 

Blitzology Book Club

It's almost summer and I know lots of coaches ramp up their reading with school break beginning. So I thought I'd start a book club. Just some books I like about football and other topics. I'm planning to add new books the 15th of every month.

Question: Time remaining in the game is :03. Your offense just scored a touchdown to take a 19-17 lead. What do you do on the PAT?

Question: You are trying to bleed the clock to win the game. Its 1st down with the clock temporarily stopped. The opponent has 2 TO's remaining. The time on the clock is :58. Run the ball or kneel? Do you need a 1st down to drain the clock?

Question: It's 1st and Goal :15 seconds remain in the first half. You have all 3 TO's. What can you (or the opponent's offense) call run/pass with those plays with the time available. Run the ball and immediately call TO, throw the ball to the end zone, and how many times in the :15 seconds?

These situation and many others are covered in this book.

It is the best book on football clock management out there. Really well done, easy to understand, and well organized.