Rabbit Hole Sports Blog: What We Can Learn From Successful Football Offenses
SATURDAY- If you work a traditional Monday-Friday job, take a deep breath you've made it to the weekend. Whatever happened during the week, this is the time to take a deep breath, move on, and focus on what's in front as opposed to behind. Like how in football, no matter what happened in the previous game or week, by the time the next week starts, it's time to focus on what can be done to make the next game the best game, not what could've been done in the last one.
The perfect segway/analogy to lead into the first topic of a series I hope to become a staple here at RHS, which will be centered around examining various things in sports, what we can learn from them, and how those lessons can be applied to everyday life. By writing this I hope to help everyone see the value and lessons that can be learned in sports. To start this series off I'll be looking at what can be learned from successful offenses in football, and how we can apply those principles to find success in our own lives.
"What the heck is this guy talking about?!?!?!" I know everyone is thinking it, but please, bare with me for this entry, and I promise what I'm talking about will at least make some sense.
Ok, here we go!
No matter what level of football you examine, there's a couple patterns that can be noticed amongst the most successful offensive (and honestly even defensive) units. There's the obvious, which is that the best units typically have the best players. Something that's true in literally everything. If you have people who are great at what they do, you're typically pretty good. Beyond that though, the most successful offenses run the same core concepts over and over again, packaging them with different formations, personnel groupings, motions and shifts. They make things look as different as possible for the defense, then run a lot of the same things over and over again with little wrinkles and variations that both play to their own strengths, but also attack the defenses weaknesses. This principle is replicated by some of the most successful companies in the world.
Take Apple for example (accidental rhyme), they have their core products (iPhone, iPad, iMac), and consistently come out with new models of them with different features and appearance. For the most part you know what's coming, but there's that little wrinkle or change that entices you to get the new one. We see the same thing in football. The best offenses know what they do well, and tweak those things to make them consistently effective. We can take this principle and apply it to our own lives as well.
It's much easier said than done, but being successful comes down to finding what we love, and figuring out how to present it in a way that brings value to people. The exact same thing I'm trying to do here with RHS. Sports is a weird scope to do it with, I'm well aware of that, but my hope is by doing this myself, I can help inspire other people to do the same. I believe the world is driven forward by each person finding the purpose and value they bring to it, and it would be a humble honor if I could provide the platform to help as many people as possible do that.