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Reddit mentions of The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays
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Reddit mentions: 4
We found 4 Reddit mentions of The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays. Here are the top ones.
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Color | Black |
Height | 9.22 Inches |
Length | 6.13 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | August 2011 |
Weight | 0.86200744442 Pounds |
Width | 0.8 Inches |
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.
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:
Piggybacking to provide Amazon links:
...and also to add a couple of homer suggestions of my own:
This book is awesome:
https://www.amazon.com/Games-That-Changed-Game-Evolution/dp/0345517962
Has a whole chapter dedicated to Belichick