Teams still can use the printouts if they prefer. As with the old system - but in a more immediate, flexible and efficient way - teams use the information to adjust play-calling and instruct their players as the game unfolds. The Sideline Viewing System app lets coaches zoom in, make annotations, review plays and tag 'favorites' for later review. For now, teams can still use photo printouts in binders. (AP Photo/ Paul Jasienski) (AP Photo/ Phelan M. The Sideline Viewing System available on Microsoft Surface tablets offers coaches immediate and dynamic options for analyzing their opponents’ strategy and formations during a game. Starting in the 2014 season, all teams have sideline access to league-provided, specially configured Microsoft Surface tablets, on which they receive high-resolution color images almost instantaneously. The league is moving away from the days when a printer behind a team’s bench spit out black-and-white snapshots, transmitted via fiber optic cables and quickly assembled in binders by team “runners” for coaches and players to view. Already, it has helped teams improve player safety and has enhanced the home-viewing experience. The NFL’s partnership with Microsoft does that - and more. The simple answer: The league hadn’t yet found a system that met its rigid standards. This scene raised a fairly obvious question: How can a high-tech league still rely on black-and-white printouts? NFL fans are used to seeing players and coaches huddled on the sidelines, strategizing over depictions of their opponents’ formations and tendencies. Yet as recently as 2013, NFL coaches and players on the sidelines still relied on black-and-white printouts to do essentially the same thing for themselves.įormer Oakland Raiders head coach and television commentator John Madden practices using the electronic charting device 'Telestrator' that was used to illustrate plays during Super Bowl XVI at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich. (AP Photo/File) It’s been more than 30 years since John Madden first used a Telestrator to dissect plays and formations for viewers.
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