Analysis Notebook

The Analysis Notebook returns for a Week 14 edition, highlighting of more plays found noteworthy by the PFF analysis team.

This time Sam Monson and Ben Stockwell are joined by a play suggestion from Khaled Elsayed. The PFF trio have brought to the table a touchdown relying on some clever scheming, a touchdown relying on pure speed and athleticism, and one truly dominant display from a defensive lineman that completely torpedoes a short-yardage run.

So swim along as we dive deeper into this week’s select plays–one week closer to the end of the NFL regular season and the start of playoff football.

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Week 13 brought its fair share of interesting plays to the table, including one that required a half-hour round table discussion between PFF Analysts just to try and work out exactly what one player thought he was playing at on a given play.

Sam Monson and Ben Stockwell return for another week of plays that deserve to be highlighted for one reason or another. We’re going to take a look at an all-too-rare sight this season for Chargers fans, an impressive run play, and a momentum-swinging pick-six.

So take a seat and enjoy the breakdowns.

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Week 12 down, Thanksgiving passes, we’ve said goodbye to November and we head into the final month of the NFL’s regular season.

Luckily nothing is changing here as our analysts are back this week to take a look at some of the plays that took their fancy in an interesting week in the NFL. Sam Monson and Ben Stockwell are going to dive into what can happen when you spread a defense across the field and also see an unlikely candidate give a tutorial on how to run a draw play in the NFL.

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Week 11 is in the books and as Thanksgiving rolls around we have just enough time for a quick look back before we’re straight into Week 12 action.

Once again, our two expert analysts Sam Monson and Ben Stockwell are in attendance, and once again they have a selection of three of the more interesting plays they came across this week.

Among them we’ll see a quarterback sneak (of all things), a wide receiver option pass, and a quick pass to a receiver crossing the formation against what looked to be a blown coverage by the defense. Only one of these plays went for a touchdown, and it was the shortest gain of them all. Read the rest of this entry »

Just when you think you’ve seen everything in the NFL, you get a week like we just had. Whatever you think about Tim Tebow as an NFL quarterback / media circus, you can’t deny it’s great to watch the Broncos break out a college offense for him to run against the Chiefs.

In this week’s Analysis Notebook our top analysts, Ben Stockwell and Sam Monson, cast their eye over some suicidal blitz calling, a carbon copy of a play previously featured on the Notebook, and exactly what the Broncos are doing to make Tebow work.

So sit back, relax and enjoy the Xs and Os from another week of NFL action.

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Another week down, and another week of some interesting quirks found by our pair of analysts. Sam Monson and Ben Stockwell are back casting their eye over some interesting plays from week nine’s games.

Though there were plenty of highlight reel plays from this week’s games we’ve chosen a selection of plays that might not leap to the forefront of your mind when choosing which to analyze. That’s just the kind of guys we are.

This week we’re going to depart from the usual tack of analyzing some of the headline grabbing touchdown passes and look at a few plays much more under the radar. That means turning our attention to a pair of plays where the defenses came out on top, and one where a defense’s over aggressiveness led to them giving up an easy first down conversion.

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With plenty of worthy Week 8 plays to choose from, PFF Analysts Sam Monson and Ben Stockwell select three that stood out to them during their weekly tape review work.

Watching every play of every game so closely, it’s understandable that the little things that set certain plays apart bring smiles to their faces. That idea holds true again as a couple of clever designs – one on an interior blitz, the other an ill-gotten but entertaining pass completion – are joined by a perfectly-executed run in this week’s Notebook.

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With one more batch of games done, we’re turning our eye towards another week of plays that stood out to us for one reason or another.  Sam Monson is once again joined by Lead Analyst Ben Stockwell to talk some Xs and Os share thoughts on a few interesting moments in the Week 7 action.

In this week’s trio we have a pick-six, a 91-yard run, and a rookie learning how things work in the big leagues. Let’s break them down and see what happened.

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We’ve wrapped another week of game reviews and have collected another set of plays to have a closer look at. PFF Analyst Sam Monson is once again joined by our Lead Analyst Ben Stockwell for a gander at some Xs and Os that they found interesting in the Week 6 games.
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We have a game-winning touchdown, a spectacular read-and-react play from an individual defender, and why you can’t forget about trap blocks when you’re playing defense.
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Let’s dig in.
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Two of PFF’s top analysts return for another week of the Analysis Notebook as Ben Stockwell and Sam Monson show you three plays that caught their eye this week. Only one of the plays was a touchdown, but all three showed some excellent execution by the offense and some tough situations for the defense.
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Let’s take a look at what they saw.
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