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Cleveland Browns Film Room: Game 6, Rookie Defenders

October 18, 2012 by 23 Comments

Like we did last year before it became fashionable, we’ll take a seat each week in our very own WFNY Browns film room and break down a little tape from the game, with a specific focus.  Do enjoy.

Back from work training. Apologies abound for my absence. Thanks to Craig for filling in. Let’s get to the tape.

So I was curious about the defense this week. Due to injuries, we started two rookie defensive tackles (Hughes and Winn) and a rookie LB getting his first ever regular season action (Johnson). Specifically, I wanted to see how they did against the run. If you look at the stat sheet, the Bengals only gained 76  yards on 20 carries. That’s an average of 3.8 yards per carry. Consider this though, 20 yards of that total came on 1 rush. Which means that the defense held Cincinnati to under 3 yards a carry over 19 attempts. [Read more...]

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Cleveland Browns Film Room: Game 2, Third Down Offense

September 20, 2012 by 18 Comments

Like we did last year before it became fashionable, we’ll take a seat each week in our very own WFNY Browns film room and break down a little tape from the game, with a specific focus.  Do enjoy.

Right off the bat, I have to apologize. For whatever reason, last night the all 22 coverage and my computer would not get along. I could stream the regular broadcast, but when I tried to switch to the coaches film, all chaos happened. So this film room will be from the original broadcast footage. But the show must go on.

Let’s play some word association. It’s third and six, and the pass is complete for a _____ yard gain. What number did you put in the blank? Probably a four or a five. But what about last Sunday? [Read more...]

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Cleveland Browns Film Room: Game 1, Richardson’s Debut Part 2

September 13, 2012 by 28 Comments

This is the second part of our film study on Trent Richardson’s debut. If you missed part 1 earlier go back and read it first. No, really. Do it.

(Like I wasn’t going to use the sweet graphic again.)

Ok, so we’ve been through three running plays already that gained a total of 4 yards. Let’s take a look at Richardson’s best run, and a fan favorite. [Read more...]

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Cleveland Browns Film Room: Game 1, Richardson’s Debut Part 1

September 13, 2012 by 11 Comments

Like we did last year before it became fashionable, we’ll take a seat each week in our very own WFNY Browns film room and break down a little tape from the game, with a specific focus.  Do enjoy.

Finally. Some actual football to break down. With so many question marks surrounding this team, we should have endless topics for the film room this year. I was curious about several aspects of this game, and debated several topics. Ultimately, my curiosity about Trent Richardson and the struggles of the running game won out. What exactly did happen to the number three pick in the draft, and should we be concerned about his 2.1 yards per carry average?

Let’s start at the beginning- [Read more...]

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Fixing the NFL Stadium Experience

July 25, 2012 by 47 Comments

We’ve bemoaned the NFL stadium experience for a while here at WFNY because of the guy with the huge orange gloves. This is the TV guy who stands on the sidelines of NFL games and ushers the game in and out of TV timeouts. He’s not the man responsible for the jamming of commercials down our throats, but he embodies it in every NFL stadium every week. The one example that trumps all the rest is the overload of commercials after a touchdown. Typically there is an extra point, commercial, kickoff, and another commercial. Heaven forbid there’s a replay challenge on the scoring play, a team timeout or an injury to shoe-horn yet one more commercial in there. As the NFL loosens rules on blackouts and mandates in-house Wi-Fi and tries to re-invigorate the stadium experience, I think I have the way for the NFL to fix all its problems.

When the NFL announced that they were going to release the “All 22″ angle which shows a low-quality picture of the field so that every player on the field is in view, the reception was overwhelmingly positive. There were some nay-sayers, but they were easily drowned out by the people who were more than willing to shell out the $60 per season to have access to this football-geek angle a few days later online.

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NFL to release “All 22″ game footage to fans

June 15, 2012 by 6 Comments

You have no idea how happy it makes this football geek to know that I’ll be able to deconstruct football games this season using the “All 22″ game footage. When you’re watching on TV and trying to figure out what happened on the backside of a play or in the defensive secondary and you can’t see it because the camera is focused only on the line of scrimmage, it takes a lot of guesswork to surmise who might or might not have been open or missed an assignment. This coach’s film will show us all 22 players on the field at any given time.

The NFL was reportedly nervous about releasing the film because they didn’t want to open up extra criticism to coaches and players who are already under pretty strong microscopes with fantasy football. The NFL doesn’t do everything right, but in this case, they asked the fans who were already paying for the “Game Rewind” service.

In order to gauge the interest in the camera angle among football diehards, the NFL surveyed those already subscribed to the “Game Rewind” service, and Berman said the data showed that “the level of interest in this product among those fans was off the charts, and that goes beyond coaches and sportswriters, where the interest is around 100%.”

What this means is that we’ll finally be able to tell conclusively how many plays receivers were open, but a QB didn’t have the guts to throw it to the spot, preferring to dump off to a relief valve. We’ll know if a safety and a corner aren’t successfully covering their zones or biting on the run fake.

In some circles, I am sure it will lead to a lot more criticism, but I think it will also increase the education about the game. I can’t wait for it, and I can’t wait to be able to pick key plays or sequences and break them down for you next year using MS Paint! 1

[Related: Jim Brown says Mike Holmgren’s Comments “Shows Class”]

 

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  1. Just kidding! I use PowerPoint! Really I use PowerPoint. [back]

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