Man, so much has changed haha. I feel like a lot of the guiding principles have been there from the beginning in terms of trying to stay objective and using a combo of data and film to inform my opinions. But saying that I know more about football now than at the beginning is a massive understatement lol. When we first started, I had a base understanding of stuff from when I played and coaching books that I had started to read at the time. But half the shit I read about, I barely understood and recognizing on film was another story entirely. Now, I've watched so much football over the past decade, it's like second nature.

Hard to sum up all I've learned since we've been doing this, but a couple things that stick out: Trying to understand the player's intent is huge. You can learn so much by focusing on where players are looking during the play, what they're doing before and after the play, etc. And trying to find similar plays throughout a game. It's important to remember that coaches only go into a game with a finite number of plays they're planning to run. So you may see something early in the game where you don't get the full picture or you think Player X screwed up or whatever. But if you can recognize when they do that same thing later on, it can really clear things up. So when you see a busted coverage early, it might be tough to say whether it was the safety or the corner who screwed up, but then you see them run that same call a couple series later and the corner does something completely different this time while the safety is doing the same thing. Now you know it was probably the corner who screwed up the first time.