SI.com: The Little Things in Denver

I wasn't aware they were doing it but it makes a whole lot of sense.  Where in life can't you succeed more often through a better awareness of your situation and all things that can impact it?

I can recall when most of us though that like Mike Singletary, Mike Brown would also end up coaching because he was also such a student of the game.  Why wouldn't you want to use every tool you have at your disposal to gain an advantage.  Apparently two of the Pats best defensive players, Chandler Jones, and Jamie Collins are no longer Pats simply because they wouldn't put the time into film study.

If you play high stakes poker you know you're playing the others at the table and not your hand so looking for patterns or tells is the difference between winning and losing.  When I caught fast pitch for years I would study a batters stance and his swing plane along with his adjustments to certain pitches so I knew which pitches he couldn't handle at all and which he'd pull or couldn't pull and them I'd call the game and position the defense accordingly.  I love analyzing stuff like that.