The Argument for Team Chemistry?

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Huddle

Thanks for starting what promises to be an interesting thread.

I've coached boys in baseball, football, and basketball. Keeping the same squad together is far more important in basketball than in the other sports. The more basketball they play together, the better able they are to anticipate and react to each other in the flow of play.

In football, QBs and receivers who spend more time together working on patterns, can make impromptu plays that are similar to basketball passes relying on anticipation and reaction. But, aside from that, football is more about carrying out planned assignments. I think "chemistry" is a relatively minor factor.

I'll tell you what worries me more than chemistry.

I've read about Al Saunders' system at Kansas City. If it's as complicated as it sounds, young Jason Campbell is going to have a full plate. I hope he's up to it.

It's not really the timing and the executing of assignments that worries me so much. It's something I mentioned later....can we maintain the hunger. That "intangible" that existed in the lockeroom when we went on the five/six game win streak.