The Wild Bunch: A Conflict-Theoretical Approach to Offensive Football

For the football coach and/or athletic director looking for a winning edge for their program; for the fan who yearns to dig beneath the game-day blather of TV experts ; for students of conflict theory who find themselves attracted to the American version of football because they sense far more strategic thought at work than with, say, soccer; this book is for you! The Wild Bunch offense features modular elements of some of the best-known football offensive systems of the past 50 years, and it does so in a way that maximizes deception and misdirection through what I call the unity of apparent intent making one thing on offense look like another, and another, and another, long enough to confuse the defense and prevent the kind of swarming gang-tackling that the best defenses feature. These modules include play series borrowed from the Air Raid passing attack, the Fly Sweep offense, the Bunch passing attack, and the Run & Shoot offense. The Wild Bunch: A Conflict-Theoretical Approach to Offensive Football is a complete guide to coaching an American football offense, and a must for the aspiring coach -- it not only teaches the WHAT and HOW of offense, but the WHY, and therefore a better sense of the WHEN.