Put a camera on it!

It is amazing to me that the technology that we have available to us is not being used in areas where there is obvious application. I am a quarterback guy. I played QB for almost 12 years. I study everything about them: throwing motion, footwork, candor, demeanor, attitude, everything. As football has become pass heavy at every level, the quarterback has become even more important. It is the one position that touches the ball on every play. The play of the quarterback is the single most important aspect of football, period. To make my point: of the 45 Super Bowls that have been played, the winners of 31 of them had current or future hall of famers at the helm. Granted, I am guessing at the future, but can anyone really argue that Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, or Ben Roethlisberger aren't going to be enshrined in Canton someday?

THIS HAS TO BE DONE!!!

With quarterbacks being so important, every part of their game becomes fascinating.  The most important and most talked about aspects of their game are reads and progression. Reads are what a quarterback sees before the snap and in the initial movement of the defense where the QB is trying to figure out what the defense is doing. What a QB reads determines what his progression will be. Progression is the process in which the Quarterback goes through in order to determine the best places to go with the football, and the order in which he looks to them. This essential part of the game is mostly invisible to the fans. Why? We can put cameras inside of the smallest blood vessels, surely we have the ability to put cameras in a QB's helmet so that we can see what they see. This has an enormous upside for everyone involved. For a coaching staff; when a defense seems to have a QB's number or the QB seems to have made a bad decision, they can go to the tape to find out exactly what the QB was looking at and what the defense was doing, and use the footage to coach up and game-plan accordingly. For us, the consumer, we can finally see what the QB sees. For the league and its billionaire owners....a new revenue stream. Many people may not care as much as I do about what Tom Brady sees when he drops back, but many will. And I am sure that many fans will pay for it. Imagine sitting in front of your high-definition television. You are watching the game, and you have your MFD in your hand. You just paid for an app and subscription that lets you see the game from the quarterback's eyes on your MFD as you are watching the broadcast on the big-screen. And it doesn't just have to be quarterbacks. Imagine being in the helmet of a safety as he blows up a receiver, or the perspective of a running back as he looks for a running lane before he speeds through it. The youtube hits alone would be worth the price of admission!

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