Renowned NFL analysts' tips to make football more accessible, colorful, and compelling than ever beforeMore and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. What does the offense's formation tell you about the play that's about to be run? When a quarterback throws a pass toward the sideline and the wide receiver cuts inside, which player is to blame? Why does a defensive end look like a Hall of ...

Pat Kirwan's best-selling Take Your Eye Off the Ball was a football fan's undergraduate education. The Go Deeper series of books from Pat and Real Football Network is a master's class in understanding the finer points of playing particular positions. We launch the series, of course, with the most important position in sports: quarterback. Go Deeper: Quarterback includes chapters on: • Understanding the utility of mobility (dispelling the myth of the dual-threat quarterback) • The most impo...

In Under Pressure, Ray Lucas provides fans with a timely, uncensored look at pro football's play-at-all-costs culture. Overcoming questions about his size and skills as a quarterback, Lucas persevered and went on to play seven seasons in the NFL. His professional football career, however, came to a sudden end at age 30, when a neck injury caused him to collapse on the sideline during training camp. Instructed by NFL doctors that surgery wasn't an option, Lucas turned to painkiller...

Today's NFL fans have more viewing options than ever before. Each and every week, football addicts plant themselves in front of big-screen, high-definition TVs and watch the game they love unfold via slow-motion replays and multiple camera angles, pausing and fast-forwarding the action on their DVRs as they please. Yet while more and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. T ake Your Eye Off the Ball is not a...