Mike Leach (coach of Texas Tech and quoted in the article) employs similar tactics:<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/04coach.html?pagewanted=print" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/04coach.html?page...</a><p>Edit: Never thought I'd see a sports piece atop Hacker News.
This is old news. They've been doing this kind of stuff in six-man for ages. My high-school six-man team had a number of formations that worked just like this.
Sounds like some fun disruptive innovation at work, but as a european who doesn't give a flying fuck about "american football" and doesn't know any of the jargon, this was mostly unintelligible.