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Jene Bramel: What the TV Angles Don’t Show You

Jene Bramel gives us a dynamite piece on the value of All-22 angles from coaches tape using a touchdown from the Ravens-Texans game in Week 6 as an example. Photo by Ario_

By Jene Bramel

Television makes football look and sound amazing.  They give us HD video and surround sound, on-field suspended cameras, and parabolic microphones.  But the TV production crews – including many of the color broadcasters and their spotters – still miss showing us crucial chapters of the game story.

Thankfully, football geeks can get a glimpse behind the scenes every week with the Game Rewind service on NFL.com, which provides the coaches film for a few selected plays.  It’s a great way to see if something went down as the television angles and the announcers said it did on Sunday.  Sometimes, the two stories are as different as what my seven year-old and four year-old tell me after I find that half the Halloween candy has been eaten two weeks before they’ve put they’re costumes on. Continue reading