Learning how to Study the Game Properly

    As a quarterback it is very important to know every little aspect of the game of football. It is their job to know the responsibilities of every single player on the field. This forces a quarterback to know how to study the game properly. According to the book The QB by Bruce Feldman there is a very helpful tactic QB Peyton Manning uses to study and prepare for his next games. Peyton explains that he watches 3rd downs on Mondays, first downs on Tuesdays, blitz tape on Wednesdays, a complete game on Thursday and watch the same complete game again on Friday (Feldman 178). The key here to studying the game is taking bits and pieces of what you're studying at a time to be able to obtain full knowledge.

   Take note of how I'm studying only the first downs of this game displayed above. As shown here I am only watching bits and parts of the game to obtain different types of knowledge before putting all of what I learned altogether. "Instead of watching an entire game in one sitting, you're looking at stuff in increments and still getting good work in the film room" (Feldman 178). Studying in increments is a more efficient way of studying certain pointers that you want to work on.

Do you believe that studying in increments is more efficient then watching a game in one sitting?

Feldman, Bruce. The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks. New York: Crown

     Archetype, 2014. Print.