xs-and-os Stories - I Am The 12th Man
Todd Grantham's 3-4 Variations: Overloads, Gaps, and Numbers
Willie Martinez's windblown plastic bag defense is no more. In its place is Todd Grantham, freshly departed from the land of milk, honey, and growth supplements - well, strictly speaking Cleveland doesn't really have much in the way of milk or honey, but they do have an NFL franchise. So hey, good...
ESPN Has Apparently Declared This "Spread Week"
ESPN.com is dedicating this week to exploring football's spread offense, what it is, how it started, how to stop it, etc. Jeff Miller starts out with tracing the spread offense to Depression-era Texas. He references Fort Worth's Masonic Home, while I believe TCU's Dutch Meyer was more instrumental...
A Real Throwback Game Would Be Nice
It has become popular for college teams to wear "throwback" uniforms in one game a year, often to commemorate an anniversary of some type. It may be an anniversary of a certain game, a certain season, or a certain event. There even rumors that Nebraska will don "throwback" uniforms this season to...
X's and O's - Jacob Hester
Stats are a funny thing. I love stats, so much so that as a high schooler trying to decide what I wanted to be in life I strongly considered the idea of becoming a statistician. Then I realized that I wasn't very good at math. With that being said, I eat up stats as much as any fan of any sport....
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