Charlie Weis, Head Football Coach, and serious ass kicker in Rock, Paper, Scissors, had his Tuesday press conference today, which, conveniently enough, is a Tuesday.

One little bit that stuck out was the notion of self-scouting. Essentially the guy knows what he’d do in any given situation, and does the opposite. It’s like a self-aware version of the George Costanza Rule of Opposites.

Quoth Deep Blue Charlie:

Self-scouting means you take all the formations that you’ve used and the down and distance you used and the field positions you’ve used them and see what you’ve done so that you see what your own tendencies are so when they’re breaking, you know; you know what they’re seeing and then you try to break the tendencies. You line up in the eye, and every time you line up in the eye, you run these two plays. Well, you can but the that when you line up in the eye the next game, that’s the two plays they’re going to be ready for. So you run two different plays.

This is not just terribly irritating for defenses, it makes watching the game fun too! Hell, I never know what the guy’s gonna run. And I had a string of 173 consecutive called plays before the previous coaching regime ran the bubble screen. Wait. Never mind.

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