Thanks Manx. I used to be just a pretty interested football fan. In the past two years, I have become friends with the defensive coordinator of a small liberal arts DIII college in Maine and then my son and daughter started playing football.
Since then, he has invited me to go to some smaller football coaches camps so I could work with my kids: as sadly many youth coaches are more focused on winning than good fundamentals. My football knowledge has increased incredibly. He goes to national ones. I have DVD's of the Alabama offensive drills and the rationale.
At the same time, I have learned that it hard to really look at tape without knowing team responsibilities. There were times looking at the UMaine practice film where it looked like the wr had run a sloppy route. However, based on coverage (often Tampa 2) and route combination scheme, he might have had a mandatory outside release, to screen off corner, or a mandatory inside release, to screen off a safety on an out- and the position of his release was more important than the route on a quick read. So to the coach, it was a good route.
On the flip side, I have seen some great hand fighting and fluid route running which looked great, but the wr did not get to the required depth based on coverage. Even though he looked great the in play, the wr received a negative grade for the play. I think this is why BB gets tight with certain coaches- because they have similar concept based reads/responsibilities.
