SMART FOOTBALL ON CLEMSON/ALABAMA
Smart Football is here to explain the nuts and bolts of what’s actually happening on the field–or what should happen–in the biggest game in week one, Clemson versus Alabama at the Georgia Dome. Warning: long, brilliant, and extremely informative, meaning it should be a jolt to regular readers’ senses given the usual fare here. Enjoy.–O/S.
This article presents my own Smart Football brand of review for the upcoming Clemson-Alabama game, which is great for me because I’m not actually going to predict who wins the game at all, thus saving me the humiliation of being wrong and preventing this article from becoming irrelevant a week after having been written.
Saban brings the Belichick-brain to the game. Spence brings the refab’d Run ‘n Shoot. NERD JAM GO!
The reason I’m not making such a prediction is because I’m talking today about schemes, and who actually wins this game probably will have done so less because they outschemed their opponent (since both coaches will have great schemes), but instead because of some combination of talent, execution, and luck, and these are things I don’t have any particular insight into.
So I’m just going to analyze one of the better coaching matchups of this season. (more…)
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