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.