Three cups deep: the watchtower

I began this series six weeks ago, as a way to scratch two different itches simultaneously: 1) creating a unique way to preview upcoming Lions games, and 2) exploring the interplay of offensive and defensive systems.  It seems like this is something that almost completely ignored by the greater football-watching public; what happens when one specific offense meets one specific defense.  Even when delving into the dark heart of football knowledge, I don’t see as much consideration given to this aspect of the game. For example, when I read an explanation of an offensive system, it's often chalked up in a defenseless vacuum, or matched against a vanilla defense: Chris Brown – Smart Football In my mere two decades of consciously watching football, many offensive and defensive systems have fallen in and out of favor--sometimes in direct response to one another.  Famously in Detroit, we saw the June Jones/Mouse Davis “Run n’ Shoot”.  Its pure, original form...