Game: Eagles at Chiefs Play: Kelce soars far & high above the Eagles What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? Like clockwork…another week passes in the NFL; and another list of exceptional movers show & shine their skills for us all to bear witness to on that Sunday. Sometimes, it just so happens…
Game: Atlanta Falcons at Chicago Bears Play: Cohen makes good on his nickname What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? Here we are again! Oh sweet Movement Play of the Week breakdown & analysis, how I have missed you! It’s hard to believe that we are now on our fifth season of highlighting…
The NFL regular season is almost FINALLY upon us! With this new season come rejuvenated hopes with every team starting back at 0-0 and, of course, so many movement skills to be showcased by the select players across the League that have gone out and put in the work to polish their craft to become…
In August of 2013, on this very blog site, I asked the question, “Who is in charge of movement?” This figurative proposition was not to be taken literal (i.e. I don’t really propose that there be a coach ‘literally’ in charge of the athlete’s movement solutions per se) but stood as a call to action…
Annually, at this time of the year, a couple of things are bound to happen for me during the training of my NFL players: -A lot of ideas swirl around my head on the daily. Some of these ideas are good…others pretty bad. Some are theoretical…while some are immediately applicable. Some are logical…and more are…
Introduction It’s time…Super Bowl LI is just a few days away. And for most football fans it can’t come soon enough. Both inside and outside of the football world it is a bonafide national holiday. And for this particular football movement specialist, it is a day like none other as I get to hear takes…
Year in and year out, the Mover of the Year blog post ends up being my favorite one to write. Many people may think it’s relatively easy to select the recipient of the award but in reality it gets relatively nerve-wrecking because it’s something that to me I just have to get right! Because of…
Picking up where we left off yesterday, we now come to our 2016 All-Movement Team for Defense and Special Teams. As you will see below, we see some all too familiar faces as well as some potential upsets with some players getting leapfrogged because of some of their highly proficient peers. Defensive Line/End General Movement…
Here we are again! It’s time to recognize the players across the National Football League whose performance, like this blog’s namesake, goes well beyond the stats that they put up over the NFL season. Instead, this list is all about who the athlete is, from a movement performance standpoint, when we compare him versus his…
Game: Chiefs at Chargers Play: The King of the Hill strikes again What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? I will be the first to admit that there are times that I may sound like a broken record here at Football Beyond the Stats. Usually this is for a very good reason; it…
Game: Ravens at Steelers Play: The Bell rung on Christmas more than once for Baltimore What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? When I talk to many of the blog’s readers, I always find that there are a good number of people who still believe that I am selecting a player’s overall movement…
Game: Packers at Bears Play: Two teammates tearing it up! What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? It happens at least once every season where two plays are so close in comparison to their overall movement proficiency that I can’t decide which one to deem most masterful for the week so I end…
