Every year we highlight a Game Changer from NFL teams who have made an impact on the game. Previous winners include Ian Cunningham, Andy Weidl, and Ray Agnew.
Many teams have a player who needs the install taught a few extra times. He’s still catching up in meetings when the rest of the room has moved on.
Two very different players can look like that. One needs more time to take in a lot of new information at once, in a room, off a screen. The other picks up the install easily but needs more time to make decisions at speed when the picture changes. They look the same on Wednesday, and they need completely different coaching.
The first player is often fine on Sunday once the concept lands. He needs less volume per meeting, more time with it, and fewer stacked adjustments. The second might learn the install quickly and still need simpler reads and more live reps before game speed feels normal.
Game Changers find out which one they have before deciding what the player can handle. It’s one of the most useful things AIQ shows a staff, because it measures how a player absorbs new information separately from how he processes the game under time pressure. The two often don’t match, even in the same player.
We’ll announce this year’s NFL Game Changer soon.
— The AIQ team
