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The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays
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Found 4 comments on The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays:

u/Macrophe · 18 pointsr/nfl

The Genius: How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created an NFL Dynasty
https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Reinvented-Football-Created-Dynasty/dp/0345499123/ref=sr_1_74?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475238145&sr=1-74&keywords=nfl+book

Jaws might be loudmouthed idiot on tv, but he co-authored a pretty darn good book
The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays
https://www.amazon.com/Games-That-Changed-Game-Evolution/dp/0345517962/ref=sr_1_67?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475238131&sr=1-67&keywords=nfl+book

And all hail Belichick
War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team
https://www.amazon.com/War-Room-Belichick-Building-Perfect/dp/006208240X/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475238058&sr=1-11&keywords=nfl+book

The Education of a Coach
https://www.amazon.com/Education-Coach-David-Halberstam/dp/1401308791/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475238301&sr=1-1&keywords=david+halberstam+belichick

Pretty funny insight into players perspective:

The Rookie Handbook: How to Survive the First Season in the NFL
https://www.amazon.com/Rookie-Handbook-Survive-First-Season/dp/1682450341/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1475237975&sr=8-4&keywords=nfl+book

Also Pete Carrolls book Win Forever is an excellent read.
It has more to do with his Trojan days, but is a very clear telling of his coaching philosophy and why he has succeeded in Seattle. That man knows how to connect with people.

u/Jurph · 10 pointsr/nfl

I agree entirely. My wife bought me this book and Jaworski's The Games that Changed the Game and they made great off-season reading for me.

Kirwan's book is about the tactics of football: how players handle each other physically, how small groups of players work together to create mismatches, gaps, and opportunities, and how offenses and defenses work to bluff each other about their intentions.

Jaworski's book is about the history of football strategy: the long arms race of papers, rocks, and scissors that offenses and defenses have thrown at each other in the last fifty years. One of Jaws' chapters covers the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl, where Belichick's game plan eliminated the Rams' best weapon; as long as Belichick is in the league, understanding what he did in that campaign will be useful 'military history'. If you follow an AFC team (or are a Belichick fan) then that chapter is worth the price of the book.

I would also add Chris Johnson's The Essential Smart Football which is somewhere between the other two: each chapter generally focuses on an offensive or defensive scheme (a play, a formation, etc.) and gives examples of how it works, illuminates what it is intended to defeat, and handles it all with the same conversational tone that Michael Lewis adopted for Moneyball. (Johnson, like most sports writers, is an unabashed Michael Lewis fan.)

A few odd-ball recommendations:

  • Any of Harold "Tubby" Raymond's books about the Wing-T at Delaware. Delaware is a I-AA school but Tubby's offensive work was innovative and led him to an amazing win-loss record. Many of his innovations live on in today's NFL and you can see shades of it in (among others) Kubiak's zone-blocked offense. Belichick's father Steve coached the Naval Academy, which traditionally has played against Delaware for years. You can bet your ass Belichick has one or more of these in his library. Rich Gannon played under Tubby, and Joe Flacco came through the Delaware system not long after Tubby's retirement. (I need to re-read one of these now that I understand the game better.)

  • Football Scouting Methods by Steve Belichick, was long considered the definitive text on scouting an opponent before a game. Bill Belichick uses this as his 'gimme' answer when asked what his favorite football text is. (Full disclosure: I haven't read this yet. I came across it while looking for a Tubby Raymond book.)

  • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is the definitive fictionalized account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Coaches and leaders everywhere are urged to read it for its lessons on leadership, especially how different personalities clash in a stressful environment with imperfect information. Your favorite team's coach has read it; your opponent's coach has read it; you should read it too.

  • Darker Shades of Blue, another perennial text for leaders and coaches. Deals with the 1992 Fairchild AFB crash of a B-52H, and the organizational cancer that quietly established the conditions for the preventable deaths, which occurred when a pilot who was frequently scolded for 'hot-dogging' decided to show off during what should have been a routine fly-by. One of the men aboard was taking his final B-52 flight before retirement and his wife and child were on the ground watching the crash. If your team's locker room prizes integrity and not letting bullshit slide -- if you've ever said "Boy I'm glad my team doesn't have a toxic locker room" -- then your coach may have read this document. It's a great read.
u/JustOneSexQuestion · 1 pointr/nfl

This book is awesome:

https://www.amazon.com/Games-That-Changed-Game-Evolution/dp/0345517962

Has a whole chapter dedicated to Belichick