Before I go further into looking at how technology can aid coaching, I wanted to get a more broad sense of the some ways that technology is impacting the game of football itself. In reading BleacherReport.com's article (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1643602-how-technology-continues-to-reshape-the-way-football-is-played-in-the-nfl), there are a number of ways technology will continue to change the game. You know that yellow line you see on TV that represents a first down? Soon, you will be able to see the same line on the field when you are at the stadium with the use of a laser.
Another way technology is going to change the game is that players' movements will eventually be digitalized so that you aren't actually watching film when they show you a replay. The company EyeScout, which has previously paired with the military to recreate soldiers' movements, will allow you to zoom in on the quarterback's hand and watch a digitalized image of the actual play on the field in a much finer detail. This will allow cameras to give the perception that they have every angle of every play, when in reality images will be able to be recreated digitally in a much clearer picture.
A final potential area of focus beyond technology affecting football coaches is the way technology already is and must continue to make the game of football safer, specifically with concussions. The much feared and publicized Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has gained momentum over the last few years as the scar that is left on the brain when a player suffers a concussion. Within the next 10 years, Ithaca professor of Exercise and Sports Sciences fully expects concussions to be diagnosed immediately through the use of technology with various sensors inside of helmets that measure the amount of force in an impact; and also a recognition of the needed chemicals in a brain that a player is lacking when they are concussed. I played with a concussion in high school. Anybody who loves the game has (NFL players do it every Sunday). But that's what needs to be re-taught. The braver thing to do now is admit you have a concussion and take yourself out of the game. Technology must be used to educate players about the dangers of concussions so that the game that so many love won't soon be placed on life support.
Another way technology is going to change the game is that players' movements will eventually be digitalized so that you aren't actually watching film when they show you a replay. The company EyeScout, which has previously paired with the military to recreate soldiers' movements, will allow you to zoom in on the quarterback's hand and watch a digitalized image of the actual play on the field in a much finer detail. This will allow cameras to give the perception that they have every angle of every play, when in reality images will be able to be recreated digitally in a much clearer picture.
A final potential area of focus beyond technology affecting football coaches is the way technology already is and must continue to make the game of football safer, specifically with concussions. The much feared and publicized Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has gained momentum over the last few years as the scar that is left on the brain when a player suffers a concussion. Within the next 10 years, Ithaca professor of Exercise and Sports Sciences fully expects concussions to be diagnosed immediately through the use of technology with various sensors inside of helmets that measure the amount of force in an impact; and also a recognition of the needed chemicals in a brain that a player is lacking when they are concussed. I played with a concussion in high school. Anybody who loves the game has (NFL players do it every Sunday). But that's what needs to be re-taught. The braver thing to do now is admit you have a concussion and take yourself out of the game. Technology must be used to educate players about the dangers of concussions so that the game that so many love won't soon be placed on life support.