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When I coached HS on the rez, we'd meet as coaches and I'd be noting all of these things we could play off of and break tendencies, etc and it was all for naught.  We weren't there yet and likely never get there.  

Kids playing both ways who didn't grow up watching football and are just doing it for something to do until basketball season made it pretty limited.  I'm sure most every coach from big HS and up has a ton of info/ideas/plans in his back pocket, but if the players don't have the wherewithal to handle them, it becomes irrelevant.

That's why football actually is a good corollary to war.  It's not as important or anything, but everyone is assigned a physical chore and you're only successful if everyone does their job.

Just on a screen pass, you have linemen initially blocking for just the right amount of time before releasing to get out and upfield, a QB often having to drop a pass over D-linemen to a RB who had to mimic some other play before receiving the ball...and THEN the footballing happens.  Linemen have to just bum-rush defenders and smother them or at least get their head across, the RB has to read those blocks and sometimes speed past his blockers, if there's heat from behind.  WRs this whole time start out by seeing how far they can trick DBs into following them downfield, before turning into blockers themselves - a skill they're not practicing all that much.  

"We're dealing with a lot of shit here" - Bull Durham

We all know that.

American war is more akin to bringing massive firepower down on suspected enemy.  That has no corollary to football really where both sides are limited by rules, even if Alabama is playing Charleston Southern.

What's amazing really is how in American wars, Charleston Southern often prevails.

I never caught that show.  I recall seeing Fromm come up to the line and look over the defense, which to me nearly always looked like every defensive set the other team had all day excepting  extreme downs.  Fromm would give hand and verbal signals.  Maybe he was calling off blocking assignments to the OL.  Hand signals may have simply directed the back to run left or right.

I dunno, the defense looked like a standard set to me, usually.  Obviously, if you see the safety creeping up, there's a sign.

Yeah, with the TV sideline angle, I can't tell how they are lined up, but it looks the same play after play other than 3rd and long or short.  I also wonder if a defense is shading right a bit and the QB calls an audible, they should shift left a bit as the clock runs down.  I know they do this on occasion.

When I coached HS on the rez, we'd meet as coaches and I'd be noting all of these things we could play off of and break tendencies, etc and it was all for naught.  We weren't there yet and likely never get there. 

Kids playing both ways who didn't grow up watching football and are just doing it for something to do until basketball season made it pretty limited.  I'm sure most every coach from big HS and up has a ton of info/ideas/plans in his back pocket, but if the players don't have the wherewithal to handle them, it becomes irrelevant.

You can not do tactically, what you cannot do technically.

I think every coach, everywhere, at every level probably struggles with this. But in youth sports, it's king.