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Post by machfu2001 on Dec 13, 2012 16:13:20 GMT -6
How much time do you spend preparing for opponents in the off-season?
Obviously, our biggest task is to make our kids bigger, stronger, and faster, but is there anything you guys do to aid in preparing for opponents the rest of the year?
We spend every week during the season watching our opponents videos, but I was wondering if we should be doing more in the off-season to establish preliminary game plans against teams that we know we are going to play.
Anxious to hear your thoughts.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 13, 2012 17:37:23 GMT -6
I chart each of the following in the offseason, but it is really to just give me a good idea of how fast I need to get to what... 1) Offensive Style of all 10 opponents (3 STR, 2 STT, 1 WingT, 2 Pro, 2  ) 2) Defensive Style of all 10 opponents (4 Odd Stack, 3 4-3, 3 3-4) 3) What gave us issues in those offenses and defenses and why. 4) How do we fix the issues (change gameplan, change scheme, emphasize certain things more) 5) Personnel I need to worry about on all 10 teams (Any DL I have to worry about? Any WR's I will have a nightmare matching up with? etc...) Other than that, it is just a focus on us getting better rather than them. |
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Post by emptybackfield on Dec 13, 2012 17:47:58 GMT -6
We spend every week during the season watching our opponents videos, but I was wondering if we should be doing more in the off-season to establish preliminary game plans against teams that we know we are going to play. Are you certain the teams you play next year will run the same systems? If not, you could be wasting a lot of time and energy on something that won't help you. |
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Post by spartancoach on Dec 14, 2012 9:38:09 GMT -6
None.
Sole focus is on weightroom, speed and agility attendance and recruiting.
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Post by tigeroption on Dec 14, 2012 10:20:46 GMT -6
I got this from a guy on this board about 5 years ago. I will admit I don't do this for every team but key opponents that we know we will play next year we do.
He suggested that you chart every play in your previous season's game. Draw the X & O's of the offense and defense, then from film draw the movement of every player, every block of the offense, every false step and pursuit angle from the defense, path of the ball carrier, circle the position player that made the tackle, for each play of the game.
It is incredibly time consuming but I did this for 4 league games the first year and was surprised at how much stuff you can miss just "watching" film. Mistakes we made, things the defense had done that I didn't realize, etc....... It gives you great insight into what a team was trying to do defensively against your offense, alignment, assignment.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Dec 14, 2012 10:45:03 GMT -6
I got this from a guy on this board about 5 years ago. I will admit I don't do this for every team but key opponents that we know we will play next year we do. He suggested that you chart every play in your previous season's game. Draw the X & O's of the offense and defense, then from film draw the movement of every player, every block of the offense, every false step and pursuit angle from the defense, path of the ball carrier, circle the position player that made the tackle, for each play of the game. It is incredibly time consuming but I did this for 4 league games the first year and was surprised at how much stuff you can miss just "watching" film. Mistakes we made, things the defense had done that I didn't realize, etc....... It gives you great insight into what a team was trying to do defensively against your offense, alignment, assignment. I've read about Wing T guys doing this as well, Dennis Creehan calls it the 22 man diagram. From there they start to put together a preliminary gameplan as far as feature formations, plays and why they are going to use these. I'm going to go back through and do it this off-season. I didn't do it last year because we seem to have alot of change from year to year as far as defenses go. However, my thought is this year that there are certain things teams will try do us to defend Rocket, as in how they react to motion, etc. how they will stop our Belly - G, etc and so on and so on. So, in the process of going through and seeing what particular teams did to stop some of our base plays and lined up to our formations and putting together I very basic gameplan I'm kind of "playing the game in my mind" to where I know that when a defense does "X" this is how I counter that, either by formation or a new play, etc. I don't know, it sounds good on paper. I'm going to start doing that this January and go from there. |
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Post by blb on Dec 14, 2012 10:53:34 GMT -6
Unless I know of a coaching change I will breakdown opponents' Offense (play by play and by Formation) so I can pull it out next year when we get ready to play them.
Also take notes-do diagrams on how they defensed us because most teams are different against us (Pro-set Veer) than everybody else, so last year's film often helps me more than the trade films in-season.
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Post by msalazar51 on Dec 16, 2012 10:07:24 GMT -6
I chart each of the following in the offseason, but it is really to just give me a good idea of how fast I need to get to what... 1) Offensive Style of all 10 opponents (3 STR, 2 STT, 1 WingT, 2 Pro, 2 ) 2) Defensive Style of all 10 opponents (4 Odd Stack, 3 4-3, 3 3-4) 3) What gave us issues in those offenses and defenses and why. 4) How do we fix the issues (change gameplan, change scheme, emphasize certain things more) 5) Personnel I need to worry about on all 10 teams (Any DL I have to worry about? Any WR's I will have a nightmare matching up with? etc...) Other than that, it is just a focus on us getting better rather than them. |
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Post by msalazar51 on Dec 16, 2012 10:08:52 GMT -6
oops, messed up, forgot to put a message with the quote...
I do this for the teams that have not had a coaching change.
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Post by coachd5085 on Dec 16, 2012 10:46:43 GMT -6
We spend every week during the season watching our opponents videos, but I was wondering if we should be doing more in the off-season to establish preliminary game plans against teams that we know we are going to play. Are you certain the teams you play next year will run the same systems? If not, you could be wasting a lot of time and energy on something that won't help you. I wouldn't say it would be wasted time. It is developing your football acumen. |
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