in non-american-football terms, it's an asymmetric interaction (attack) formation. rather than establishing a 1 to 1 pairing between opposing players, this app

in non-american-football terms, it's an asymmetric interaction (attack) formation. rather than establishing a 1 to 1 pairing between opposing players, this approach means that a play isn't reliant on the physical/defensive strength of the front line, rather, the speed & accuracy of any node can be leveraged. it's a step away from rugby and towards a game of tag. in many ways, it parallels the battlefield innovations that allow smaller, faster but weaker forces to defeat a stronger, rigidly structured but predictable opposition. it's decentralizing the game by removing the emphasis on a single quarterback as a control point, meaning the defense has to target the entire team, rather than 1 bottleneck. just as we've seen in other fields that have watched this occur, the criticism of this approach is that the 'spirit' of the game relies on the head to head match ups that this approach does away with. it makes the game a lot more strategic & less about brute force - brute force that is the heart of the game for many fans. that said, as someone who's mostly played the marginalized outlier positions as an outmatched line gets pummeled into the turf, this is a really attractive strategy because it requires collaboration between everyone on the team, which doesn't happen as much as it should in high school football.