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Take Your Eye Off The Ball: Playbook Edition by Pat Kirwan, popular analyst for NFL.com and Sirius NFL Radio, and co-author David Seigerman, makes sense of the chaos in this new expanded edition of last year's bestselling title. This updated version features even more of Kirwan's unique insight and analysis, and includes new content examining the importance of special teams, gaining competitive advantages, draft preparation and developing trends in the NFL. This edition also provides fans with more user-friendly diagrams and charts that empower them to track the action the way coaches do. Plus, it features a sturdy new binding that allows fans to use this as the workbook it was designed to be. In addition, Take Your Eye Off The Ball: Playbook Edition includes an exclusive DVD tutorial, containing nearly three hours' worth of Kirwan's football expertise.
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This review is from: Take Your Eye off the Ball (Paperback)
If you want to understand the specifics of the game and what to look for... this is your book! Pat understands the game like no other and can break it down so that you understand why and what happend on the field. He explains what to look for bringing more enjoyment to watching the game you love. Take Your Eye Off The Ball opens up a whole new universe to one's understanding and viewing of the game. Purchase it and you will not be sorry!
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4.5 out of 5 stars (67 customer reviews) 31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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Succinct and very informative,
By Todd Sharp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Take Your Eye off the Ball (Paperback)
So glad that I got this book. I never played football myself, being the proverbial 80 lb weakling. But, I love football and try to find cost effective matierials like this whenever I can.The author assumes that the reader is a somewhat proficient student of the game and doesn't waste time with simplistic explanations of what the positions are called or what the rules of football are. This book is aimed at fans familiar with the game. 'Eye Off The Ball' gives some of the best descriptions of position strategies, player responsibilities, why responsibilities developed the way they did and what attributes are important in the player for a given position. It explains the coaches eye for the game, how fans can misinterpret what is happening on the field and what they should consider as alternative points of view. Pat is amazingly succinct and there are times that you'll find yourself wishing he had spent more time on a subject. Otherwise, the book is very quickly paced, well organized and will be easy to refer to later. I feel like I gained some football acumen with this one. It's the best book on football I've read, not to dry and not biographical. I'll be looking for other stuff by Pat in the future. 30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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Fantastic Book for the Football Purist,
By Phil Hartley - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a fantastic book if you're a football fan and you want to know more details of how the game is played. I've been interested in football (I love the game) for more than 20 years and was itching to get a better picture of what goes on inside teams. For example, how they prepare for games, what are the responsibilities of the different coaches, etc. This book opens up a whole new level of understanding presented by someone who is clearly an expert and who has the resume to prove it. It has some great tips on just how to watch the game. I highly recommend this book!
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Pro football for the layman,
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While I have never played a down of organized football myself, I still like to think of myself as a Hall Of Fame armchair quarterback. Not sure there are too many people I could convince on the veracity of that objective, but that's beside the point.Over the past few years, I've listened to the Sirius Radio NFL channel quite a bit. Pat Kirwan is a co-host of the Sirius show called MOVING THE CHAINS. I've been impressed by his football intellect as well as his understanding of the business side of the game of professional football. As a former NFL GM, he was kind of the anti-Matt Millen in the scope of his football erudition. It's for that reason that I was intrigued to buy this book, and it did not disappoint. While I fully understand the basics of football, Kirwan helped me to see how all the Chess pieces on the field fit together on both the offensive & defensive sides of the ball. There is a significant gap in the terminology of the game between what the players know & what spectators understand. I will admit that I've learned quite a bit from playing NCAA Football 09 {football video games are WAY more complex and authentic these days than when the 1st MADDEN games came out in the early 90s}. Kirwan's book has augmented my understanding of the terminology to the extent that if I heard Payton Manning spout out a play call I might be able to decipher(!) at least part of what he's saying. For myself, college football is my game & Michigan State is my team. Pro football uses a great many more sophisticated schemes ~ I get that. Nevertheless, I've found that this book has helped me appreciate the complexity of the college game as well as the NFL. After all, at the end of the day, football is football be it high school, college or pro. The book also delves into how NFL prospects are rated & why some players are a much better "fit" for one system than another. I used to think that a cover corner was a cover corner until I read this book. Kirwan has illuminated to me that many of my preconceptions were way off the mark. Reading this book is kind of like listening to your favorite symphony with Leonard Bernstein sitting on your couch pointing out to you all the nuances of the chord changes & musical phrases. Pat Kirwan has done for the football spectator what Carl Sagan did for the layman science enthusiast. Just as Sagan opened up the frontiers of science for all of us to comprehend & appreciate, so too has Kirwan laid bare the nuts & bolts of what epitomizes the game of football. Well done. |
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