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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 26, 2007 9:38:16 GMT -6
We play most of our games on Saturdays and therefore spend Sundays watching film before our weekly meeting. At our Monday practice (first team practice of the week) we install our plays and plan for our upcoming opponent.
As you know, after watching film for the next two nights (Mon & Tues) I inevitably end up seeing more tendencies, weaker down lineman, etc.
Do you install your offensive game plan your first team practice after a game? If not when do you and why?
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Post by sls on Dec 26, 2007 10:12:03 GMT -6
For us it is a 2 night process. Begin to install on Monday and finish/make adjustments/refinements on tuesday. I ususally do not like to make major changes on Wednesday.
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Post by touchdowng on Dec 26, 2007 10:13:04 GMT -6
We use Spring and Pre-Season to "Install" 80% of our offense so there really isn't too many new things to install during the season. We have to keep it simple and keep getting better at what we do.
We play on Fridays (usually)
On Saturday mornings - We watch our Friday game video with our players.
When they leave, the coaches watch the upcoming opponent video.
We take Sunday to process and frequently call one another to discuss big ideas. We then meet up Monday morning to finalize the big ideas (no big tweaks on anything). We continually check video for mismatches, tendencies, etc. through Tuesday.
We are a multiple Gun / Under offense: Base Runs are Zone, Stretch, Trap, & Counter. We throw 3 step, Playaction, 5 step and boots.
Defensively, we are a 3-5 front.
At our Monday practice we will line our Varsity players up and go through walkthroughs mainly to show them what the opponent wants to do on all sides of the ball. We then go watch video of our opponents. Chalk, answer questions and clear up any of the big ideas we covered on the field. (Our JV's and Frosh play on Mondays)
We use Tuesday as our big installation day. More than likely we will minimize any adjustments by Wednesday and polish from there. Again, we install over 3/4 of our offense/defense before we even play our first game. This minimizes the changes and adjustments (and confusion) for our players.
We script our first dozen (not in concrete) and make sure to include any of the "installs" we practiced during the week.
It's funny, but as we collect data after the season is over, we find that it's usually our base stuff that gets the job done throughout the season. It's the newly introduced stuff that catches the opponent off-guard for a series, or two. They adjust and then we counter punch with our base stuff.
It would be fun to hear how others weekly new stuff operates within their attack.
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Post by tedseay on Dec 26, 2007 10:14:55 GMT -6
Do you install your offensive game plan your first team practice after a game? If not when do you and why? Coach: I try to cover "themes" regarding the upcoming game on Monday, based on the preliminary breakdown of film and/or scouting info, where we paint the other team's schemes and personnel with fairly broad brish strokes, outline what our approach will be (but not in fine detail), and generally try to leave room for additional discoveries from the Monday night re-review of film. Whenever possible I try to finalize the game plan in detail on Tuesday, but there are as you note those times that new info will crop up, and where appropriate I add responses to those discoveries by the beginning of Wednesday's practice. After that, though, I try to lock things in place and rep, rep, rep. The key for me, wherever possible, is to relate all aspects of the upcoming opponent to the familiar -- to concepts and practices that we have studied and implemented before. Even, for example, if I were to face (Heaven forfend) the A-11 offense, I would do my level best to convince the defense that it was just implementing the same old tools from the same old toolbox we had been working on since spring, just in a slightly different way... |
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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 26, 2007 10:37:07 GMT -6
Great responses coaches, thank you. Would most of you agree that you are simply tweaking your base plays to take advantage of what the defense is giving? Do you ever install a truly new play two weeks ahead of time for an upcoming opponent?
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Post by touchdowng on Dec 26, 2007 23:09:15 GMT -6
Red
Good question about the frontloading of plays. I guess it comes down to time management. If you have the time to work on something for opponent B as you prep for opponent A, I guess that could work but shouldn't you be focusing on opponent A? This is just philosophy.
I would be afraid of the message I could be sending my players and coaches. We have done this by accident. Prepared for A and added something that we ended up throwing out of the gameplan, only to uncover it for a later opponent who perhaps runs a similar defense.
When we do anything new, we try our best to build on prior knowledge. For instance, our inside zone is called 22 to the right and 23 to the left. If we decide to "tweak" a block at the point of attack, we might call it 22 "gap" or 22 "bend"
We try to put as much familiarity into anything new that we can. It makes kids more comfortable.
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