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You are absolutely right, the intricacies of football are just bewildering to even a more-than-casual fan like myself...
There are a ridiculous # of simultaneous events happening at any moment in football.  And they evolve very rapidly.  In baseball, you have some positioning things that happen, some orchestration between fielders, but it is largely isolated events.
Millen was talking about a Hass interception that was, in his mind, Burleson's fault.  Because Burleson turned his head toward the quarterback for a second, and slowed briefly, and rotated his hips a few degrees, or somesuch... LOL!  Like 99.9% of fans are going to see that.
Too, if a fan follows their team, that's only 16 games a year to try to understand what's happening out there.  vs. 162.  Heh!
Maybe this is why I enjoy listening to him talk about football.  It's like listening to Sister Wendy Beckett talk about art.  It's not that I'm a huge art fan...  But the wealth of detail and WHY behind all the things that you do or don't notice in a scene is fascinating.
I don't know that anyone who hasn't played the game could understand football on the same level as an uber-analytical guy who has actually played the game.  And played the game for several of the best football minds in history.