Why Are Packers Players Crediting the iPad For Their Success?
- Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:31pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The Green Bay Packers finished the regular season 15-1 and are poised for another Super Bowl run. Their quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, is a favorite to win the league’s Most Valuable Player award, and their receivers find more holes in opposing defenses than they do in a block of Swiss cheese. So why? Certainly skill plays a factor. But now some players are touting a secret weapon: their iPads and a fancy app.
Yes, that’s right. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explains:
Like some other position groups, the Packers receivers watch film through an application on their personal iPad. [Wide Receiver Donald] Driver can spend time with his three kids and study film all at once.[...]
Technology blended harmoniously with strategy. Coach Mike McCarthy has built this offense on abusing mismatches. He zigzags receivers across every possible contour of a defense and has arguably the best triggerman in the game. Green Bay went 15-1, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers likely will win most valuable player honors. But for this system to work, receivers must all be on the same page.
They don’t necessarily need pre-snap audibles. They recognize coverages and – through football telepathy – adjust. This app fosters such synergy. It carefully categorizes film of each opponent. All receivers study what coverages a defense plays on first down, second down and third down.
Green Bay Packers Receiver Jordy Nelson (Photo: AP)
And the receivers can’t say enough good things about it.
Donald Driver:
“It makes it easy, it makes it easy,” Driver said. “It‘s more convenient for me so I don’t have to force a DVD in or say to my wife, ‘Hey, babe, can I put a DVD in so I can watch film?’ and she leaves up to the bedroom. I kind of like that intimate time with my whole family. I’m still able to sit there with my iPad.”
James Jones:
“You watch so much and watch the individual so much, you know his weaknesses,” said James Jones, who caught 38 passes for 635 yards and seven touchdowns. “You know on certain routes you can do this to him and he can’t cover that. From watching film, that’s what we catch up on. We use some of that in our routes.
“You can say, ‘OK, this guy, when he’s in press coverage he likes to use his hands a lot. He likes to get his hands on you. And this guy, when he’s in press coverage, he likes to mirror you and not put his hands on you.‘ It’s ‘OK, No. 29 is on me. He’s going to put his hands on me. I have to be ready to knock his hands down. If I knock his hands down, he’s in trouble.’ ”
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“On the plane. At the hotel. Wherever you go, you’re taking this iPad with you,” Jones said. “Wherever you go, you have game film with you. Even if it’s before the game and A-Rod says, ‘Man, did you see this play? Did you see that play?’ And we can say, ‘What play? Let’s look at it.‘ It’s a lot easier.”
Somewhere, Steve Jobs is smiling. And Packers fans are too.
But be careful not to give the product, instead of the those who use it, too much credit. Business Insider notes that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players were all given iPads this season, and they finished 4-12. Their coach was subsequently fired.
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VERACIOUS
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 7:19amGo pack go!!!
Report Post »BLINKY2525
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 4:12pmI’d love to know the name of this “fancy” app.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:33pmBecause of the IPad they can make good plays – there’s a tax for that; because of them making good plays with an IPad that the people use to watch and follow scores to make money on bets – there’s a tax for you too; because people were able to ask the IPad for directions to the game there’s a tax for that too; because they can track your every move by satellite while your traveling and consuming energy while putting out CO2 – there’s a tax for that too.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:35pmEventually it will be that “You can’t get out of bed in the morning without an App for that” and therefore you should pay tax just for living.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:53pmYes, and it will be called a “Census Tax.”
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 6:08pmHow often do you carry on conversations with yourself??
Report Post »LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:36am@Whitey4West
Didn’t you hear Eliasim is a popular username :-)
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:24pmWhat if “The ezalB” ran stories like this one?
VIDEO: NH poll workers shown handing out ballots in dead peoples’ names
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/11/video-nh-poll-workers-shown-handing-out-ballots-in-dead-peoples-names/#ixzz1jBQDNnNw
What if ?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:19pmOh well if the IPad has helped them be successful, then perhaps they should have a tax for that? Or, is this what all these reports are adding up to? A similar story may be a article on Yahoo about the possibility of Tebow’s touch-down pass being illegal because they claim not all players were lined up on the Line of Scrimmage properly. Maybe there’s an App. for that and perhaps a tax too?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:22pmSometimes I think I’m on the wrong team, because if people want to be slaves, then why not make them slaves?
Report Post »eagle2715
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:36pmBecause then you become a slave master and inherit all the goodies (sarcasm intended) that go along with it…
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:41pmAnd not hardly a single one of the ignoramuses in America see this coming in the distance because most don’t even believe in a devil, let alone God, and therefore you are incapable of thinking out of the box, having enslaved yourselves. Then maybe you should be slaves?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:44pmeagle2715,
Report Post »Even God isn’t a “Slave Master” but God does let people enslave themselves because if they don’t invite God, then it is they invite slavery.
teddrunk
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:56pmSo basically, the Packers found a more efficient way to work harder to prepare for an opponent.
Report Post »I remember years ago when it was the Cowboys that were known for using “high tech”.
HotFixIt
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:03pmIt’s not the iPad.. it’s knowing how to use it! Critical thinking… something the kids today are not being tought….
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:48pmYou can doe the same thing with a laptop. They’ve been around for a couple decades now. I guess since the Blaze has been trying to reinforce that Jobs was some kind of demigod for a while now, it could only happen on an Apple product.
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:06pmAn iPad is much easier to start and use than a laptop… lightweight and much more portable and any laptop. Wish I had one!
Report Post »KixAcelot
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:06pmSounds like you don’t have an ipad. Since I got mine I haven’t opened my laptop a single time. They are lighter and far more portable than a laptop. Add to the fact that they are easy on/easy off and not having to wait for boot up and shut down.
You’re absolutely right, portability has been around for a while. The ipad, and other similar devices, just make them more so. Don’t hate.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:07pmWhat I really need, is an app, to advise me on what other apps I absolutely have to have, to complete my otherwise fairly nice app free life…….nah, maybe not….
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:21pmI don’t hate Fix, just annoyed. I‘m just sick of having a liberal and liberal company shoved down my throat as if the world wouldn’t still spin on it‘s axis if Jobs hadn’t been around. It‘s all great stuff I’m sure but, you would think from this story a player couldn’t sit on his couch and look at game film until the Ipad came out.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:22pmOops, Kix.
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