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For the football coach and/or athletic director looking for a winning edge for their program; for the fan who yearns to dig beneath the game-day blather of TV experts ; for students of conflict theory who find themselves attracted to the American version of football because they sense far more strategic thought at work than with, say, soccer; this book is for you!The Wild Bunch offense features modular elements of some of the best-known football offensive systems of the past 50 years, and it does so in a way that maximizes deception and misdirection through what I call the unity of apparent intent - making one thing on offense look like another, and another, and another, long enough to confuse the defense and prevent the kind of swarming gang-tackling that the best defenses feature. These modules include play series borrowed from the Air Raid passing attack, the Fly Sweep offense, the Bunch passing attack, and the Run & Shoot offense.The Wild Bunch: A Conflict-Theoretical Approach to Offensive Football is a complete guide to coaching an American football offense, and a must for the aspiring coach -- it not only teaches the WHAT and HOW of offense, but the WHY, and therefore a better sense of the WHEN.

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Ted Seay is senior policy consultant with the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) in London, England. Prior to that, he served for 26 years as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, most recently at the US Mission to NATO as arms control advisor from 2008 to 2011. Previously, Seay was seconded to the Secretariat of the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies in Vienna from 2005 to 2008. Prior postings included Slovenia (1998-2001) as liaison to the International Trust Fund for Demining (ITF); the US Department of State's European Regional Political-Military (EUR/RPM) office (1996-1998), negotiating compliance with the Dayton Peace Accords' military annex; and State's Strategic Policy and Negotiations (PM/SPN) office (1994-1996), where he helped draft the Dayton military annex. He joined the State Department in 1985. Seay has coached American football internationally with the Waverley Sharks in Melbourne, Australia, and as a volunteer assistant with the youth program of the Chrysler Vikings in Vienna, Austria. Since 2000 he has also served as an Internet consultant with football teams in Australia, Canada, the Philippines, Mexico, England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark and the U.S. Seay has spoken at a number of clinics, including the first Double Wing Symposium in Dallas, Texas in February 2004, at a single wing clinic in Los Angeles in May 2005, and at the Single Wing Conclave in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, both in person and via Internet video conferencing. Seay holds an A.A. (Criminology) from City College of San Francisco, a B.A. (Political Science) from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. (Strategic Intelligence) from the Joint Military Intelligence College. In addition, he believes himself to be the only person in history to have been published by Wisden Cricket Monthly, Gridiron Strategy, and Arms Control Today.

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