What to look for from the booth

Look for things that are hard to see from the field:

1) Dline alignment (was he in a 1, a 2i, etc) and stunt pattern
2) O line technique errors (what mistake was specifically made that caused a breakdown)
3) Alignment/Leverage for the opposite side of the field (ie things happening on the opponent's sideline)

we are a spread team

On the offensive side I want a few things.

1. How are they lining up presnap. Post snap do they seem to be hiding their coverage or are they pretty vanilla? Most are vanilla these days but our DBs are very active presnap and stem all over the place.

2. If we motion (especially on something like jet) how are the DBs defending it? Are they rolling to the motion? Are safeties coming up hard on it to plug the run?

3. In the run game, who is making the tackle? Are backside LBs running down zone so I can come back with counter? Etc.

4. If it's split field coverage, how are they determining which side is which? Ex: where and why are they running 2 on one side and 4 on the other?

That's pretty much all I need to know.

Box guy needs to tell you who made the play. That will tell you what play to call next.

Position coach needs to watch their position and tell you "johnny phuked up on that play and missed the block, but it was there" "billy didn't run the right route, or it would've been open"


As the coordinator you should be able to tell if they're lining up and running what you expected but the guy in the box can help with that if needed.

Down and distance. Personnel substitutions. Formations. Break downs in the play. In that order.

We run Wing-T so, offensively, we're looking for the following:

1. How is the DL reacting to our blocking schemes? Are the trying to get penetration (i.e. we need to trap them) or are tey stepping down (i.e. we need to hit the edge)?

2. Are the LBs keying the guards or are they playing assignment football (yes we see this sometimes). If they are reading guards, WHICH LBs are reading them? We also want to see how fast they are flowing with the guards.

3. What kind of coverage are we seeing? We don't need this for our passing game as much as we need it to identify the force players.

4. How is the secondary responding to our motions? Are they rotating the coverage or are they following?

5. Are they pressuring the A-gaps to disrupt pulls? If so, how are they doing it and how do we need to adjust or blocking? We'll also hit them with a stretch scheme (Rocket or Jet) fairly quickly if they're blitzing those gaps hard as we want to make them think twice about doing so..