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Post by oguru on Dec 17, 2007 10:57:10 GMT -6
I feel I am an aggressive play caller, based on the fact that I look for the weakest player on the defense, and just pick on him all game long,and make his life miserable. However at the same time I am not going to do something to put my defense in a bad position. So if it's 4th down inside our 40 we are going to punt. Why because if we don't make it we are giving them a short field and hurting our defense. I learned this while I was a assistant coach at UW-Whitewater,and it worked pretty well as our defense was strong the past three years,and could always shut down a opponents offense. There is a difference between being agressive and being stupid as a coach as well and to me going for it inside you 40 on 4th down is STUPID.
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 17, 2007 11:06:34 GMT -6
wingt74
It's interesting, what you describe is someone who has a "grab bag" of plays.
There is another thread (actually, more than one) that talks about offenses that have a philosophy vs those that are just a grab bag of plays.
I think...an aggressive play-caller...and easily be confused with someone who has a grab bag of plays!
I'm not sure how you got "grab bag" out of anything that I wrote. I don't think throwing deep all of time or going for it on 4th down all of the time make you aggressive so much as it makes you predictable. I think aggressive (or efficient, I like that better) playcalling is having your entire playbook being a potential threat from any position on the field. We will throw it or run the option from our one yard line or theirs, to others this might seem aggressive, to us it is what we practice and what we do. I think being unpredictable on any down is more desirable than "aggressive", but I guess the two could be considered the same depending on the point of view. A guy who can line up and pound it down the field and then hit the play action is just as aggressive and effiecent if he has the horses to do it. I don't think it matters what system you run, it can even be done with the vaunted Wing T, what I'm saying is that having each part of your system a viable threat throughout the entire field is aggressive, or effecient. For example, a Wing T coach that runs belly down on every short yardage situation isn't as aggressive IMO as a Wing T coach who will occasionally throw belly pass on short yardage. Just my two cents, before taxes.
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