Insights on football intelligence, reading the game, and player development.
Scouts talk about vision like a birthright: she has it or she doesn't. Cognitive science says otherwise. Game intelligence is background knowledge, vocabulary, and fluency — and the player app is built on the same principles great teachers use.
Pause-and-predict is more than video analysis. Research shows that temporal-occlusion training improves anticipation and decision-making, with benefits that transfer beyond the screen.
The Willingham-Hirsch research on knowledge and reading lands a finding football development has been circling for years. Reading comprehension requires three things, and football is the harder version of the same problem.
When a player can't read the game, the problem is almost never a missing tactic. It's that they don't understand enough of what they're seeing. Research on reading comprehension changes how we should develop game intelligence.