Football Scouting Methods Kindle Edition

This was a great book for both new coaches, or seasoned coaches looking to improve their scouting. Belichek does a great job of analysing how to effectively scout all phases of the game, without dictating policy.While the anecdotes, stories, terminology (defensive quarterback?) and proposed equipment (mimeograph?) to use are quite dated, the game is not much different than it was back then. Players still give the same tip-offs, coaches still develop tendencies, and scouts still forget that they aren't there to "watch" a football game.Definitely a book to keep on the shelf.

In this edition, the publisher sought to save money on paper by using tiny font (7) and cramming at least 44 lines into each page. Unreadable. Buy some other edition. It’s a classic work available elsewhere including at the library.

If you are interested in how good football teams STAY good, this is a great place to start. Why are the Patriots, GS Warriors and others so consistently good (lately)? They well understand their opponents. Knowledge is power.

If you are, hope to be, or want to learn about football scouting, you are doing yourself & the job itself a complete disservice if you do not own a copy & have read (multiple times) this quintessential book on the subject of football scouting. I am straight up not overselling this book AT ALL & any scout that has read this book will almost surely tell you the same thing. Written decades before anyone (outside of maybe college football coaches/scouts) ever knew of or cared about anyone named Belichick, this book was known in scouting circles as THE book on the topic. Well written, concise, easy to follow & incredibly pragmatic in it's methods. Just like the Belichick men themselves.

This book is great for anyone trying to learn how to scout a team. Obviously this book was written a long time ago and the game has changed very much since then. However the information on how to scout a team is still highly relevant. The formations shown in diagrams will not be seen in today's game, but that doesn't matter since the diagrams were not meant to show the formations that you will see but how to sketch the formations that you do see. The names of some position have also been changed, but it is quite easy to realize who he is talking about in the terms we use today. Steve Belichick is a great football mind and this is a great football book.

Great information, but very dry and hard to stay interested in.

Great for any coach who wants to learn the more technical side of scouting football teams. It is not hard to read, but you need to spend the time to study this book.If you really want to take away information and become a better scout, this is the book for you. But as I said you need to study it. Take notes, underline, and reread passages as you need to.

This is a great book for the serious football fan who is looking to get to know football better. Written by one of the greatest football minds in the sport's history. Well worth it.

Not a great book. Not too bad but often states

Excellent book for the scouting interested person!

Simples e atual. Muito útil para treinadores com interesse na área do scouting, embora tenha sido escrito há mais de 60 anos. Também é importante entender que o livro era voltado para scouts presenciais e precisa ser adaptado para os tempos atuais onde, no Brasil, raramente se tem a chance de observar o adversário in loco.

O estudo estatístico no esporte é fundamental para o sucesso de uma equipe. Este livro do Steve Belichick mostra como isso tudo começou no futebol americano, décadas atrás.

Un gran libro de trabajo para poder entender el valioso arte del scout , el papá de uno de los más grandes coaches de la NFL