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Thanks for the shout out! I wanted to create a term that illustrated the era of football which we are in: The Post-Spread Era. You either know how to create/constrain space, or you don't. Those that do not understand the 'new' rules of the game are likely to get left behind. Thus, the name Spatial Darwinism.

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I like the term a lot, and appreciate even more that you gave the concept a name we can use. More of a joke on my end, sorry if it didn't land :)

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I totally got it! Appreciate it.

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Good stuff coach. One question, how do you make the teaching adjustment versus match coverage? (Ex: Rip/Liz)

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By showing how our concepts play out against their pattern matching. We've still been able to get away with identifying man or zone, but if we play a team that that plays rip/liz for example, then we'll show them that the seams won't be there even if you ID the CBs as zone. We see it quite a bit so they've gotten used to "mixed signals" from the D

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