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If you sign up for NFL Replay, you can watch "the full 22" videos during the week. It's inexpensive. I hate that they don't show this view on regular broadcasts. It's such a big part of the game, to know what type of coverage the DBs are in when a play starts. To know whether the QB made a good read, you'd have to see the coverage on all of the receivers.

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I agree. I enjoy football strategy and like seeing different coaching styles in action, but this is hard to pay attention to during a standard broadcast. So I really love the trend toward offering multiple ways to view games. If you haven't seen it already, the "BCS Film Room" edition of last year's National Championship game was one of the best broadcasts I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Js6gMlc-U

I would casually watch games in this format last season just because it's super fascinating -

However, I absolutely fell in love with it rewatching the Super Bowl (Hawks fan) and just following Kam Chancellor - The guy got completely snubbed for MVP

Here's another person's 22 man camera view talking about The Touchdown Canceller's (quite literally perfect) performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4ng4U3utc

Pedantry, but I believe the term is the "All-22".

Edit: I don't know if they offer the All-22 but NBC's Sunday Night Football is always streamed online for free and they offer multiple camera angles. It's pretty nice compared to what other broadcasts offer.

I'm guessing this is the link

https://gamerewind.nfl.com/nflgr/secure/packages?ttv=0

That's actually pretty cool! Do they do this for college football?

I assumed it had something to do with not providing that information to the currently playing teams while they are currently playing, are teams allowed to have "spotters" up in the stands to get an overhead view?

They are - in fact they can take photographs of it and bring it down to the benches: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/football/0-t...

Apparently they have started replacing the physical photographs with Surface tablets as part of a sponsorship deal with Microsoft as well: http://blog.surface.com/2014/08/surface-ready-nfl-sidelines/

Interesting article from 2011 talking about why the NFL didn't give the "all 22" view to the teams:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405297020371620...

"Lonnie Marts, a former linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars, says there are thousands of former NFL players who could easily pick apart play-calling and player performance if they had access to this film."

And another one for the conspiracy buffs:

"The NFL makes a handful of plays from the All 22 available on its web site for a fee, but they're often so blurry the players' numbers aren't visible."

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