08-08-2023, 02:37 AM
One of the greatest advantages an NFL team can have is being smarter than its opponent. Talent absolutely matters, especially at the quarterback position. But even teams at talent disadvantages can often even things out simply by utilizing better strategies that are more advantageous to winning.That's what Friday's episode of the Pick Six Podcast is all about. Host Will Brinson and John Breech are joined by the great Warren Sharp of the e sential websites SharpFootballStats.com and SharpFootballAnalysis.com, Jimmy Butler Jersey who came on the show to discu s what separates the smart football teams from the not-so-smart ones, and his answer was pretty fascinating."It's definitely in regard to how they're interpreting the Nerlens Noel Jersey data that they have in their po se sion because all the teams have data. It's how are you taking the data, analyzing it, and interpreting it to impact your decision-making on a game-planning basis and on a play-calling basis. Those are the two main things that we're going to notice through the course of 16 games. Certainly, some of the teams are using this information to help define their strategies: increasing their pa s rate; increasing their pa s rates on early downs; running when it's most opportune to run (against boxes that aren't quite as stacked); in situations where they're running out Ben Simmons Jersey of spread formations; pa sing out of heavier personnel groupings. Those are some of the things that smarter teams are working on, as well as play-action and those types of things."The dumb teams are kind of avoiding doing that. They're running the ball a little bit too often. They're not taking advantage of scouting their opponent to understand the strengths of their opponent and be willing to change their game-plan on a week-to-week basis to maximize the leverage they have in winning that particular game. Guys say, 'Well, this is our philosophy and we want to do what we do. We want to do what we're good at.' And so, inevitably, they never do enough to tweak their game-plan. And Terrance Ferguson Jersey that's exactly why, for example, the lost to the in the playoffs and ultimately why the L.A. lost to the in the Super Bowl. Because they weren't willing enough to tweak a few things and take advantage of some of the weakne ses of their opponent."Sharp singles out the Seahawks and as teams that could stand to improve by implementing more beneficial offensive strategies. Both teams, he notes, have excellent quarterbacks; but the Seahawks seem to be leaning even more into a run-heavy offense because that's just what they do, while the Packers have brought in coach Matt LaFleur to modernize the offense compared to what Mike McCarthy was doing over the past several seasons. Sharp also pointed to LaFleur's former team, the , who he believes could help out by leaning into more advantageous play-calling strategies.Beyond these data-focused strategies, Brinson and Breech spoke to Sharp specifically about how the are orienting their offense around , which is a smart call despite its focus on the run game. Plus, the evolution of the NFL's analytics movement, how teams use running backs in the pa sing game, what to make of the , and some of Warren's favorite team bets of Allen Iverson Jersey the 2019 season.
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