SCRIPTING

5 to 7 plays , we go off if the on-track is just wayyyy off, , some of the script has either/ors built into as well, so we can hurt people early with their initial reactions to some of our stuff

For the contrarian viewpoint,

We do not script. The darn teams we play against never let me tell them what defenses to be in.

Seriously, because we are a Veer team, often the scheme we meet was not the one we saw on film or the year before if we were successful against it. So a script would be a waste of time.

If the defense is what we practiced for all week, we just go ahead and run the game plan.

This is probably due in part to the fact that I'm an old timer who's still a "seat of the pants" kinda guy. Scripting probably works well for a lot of coaches, however.

I believe you're right, brophy. If you are a multiple formation team with movement, you will probably want to find out early how your opponent is going to line up against or adjust to those things.

In that case, scripting is probably valuable if not necessary.

We only have five or six formations (don't use 'em all each game) and don't run motion, so it's not an issue with us. If I want to find out how they're going to adjust to twins for example, I don't need to script it. I just call it early on.

And we don't have that many plays, anyway, that we'd be saving for certain situations only.

I am a visual learner. The plan I use during the game has our formations drawn on it with run plays listed by hole, pass plays by zones so I can "see" them in my mind's eye versus our opponents' defense as well as field position (hash, middle).

When I tried scripting (or "listing") I couldn't find the list I wanted
for a specific situation half the time or already knew what I wanted to do without it.

Or, maybe I'm just lazy.

scripting is based off your game plan .. i.e. "what you think they will do combined with what you want to do (establish)"

we script plays in "sequences" such that we have several "openers" we will use. our initial 15 plays of the game is set up in a manner where we are trying to "establish" our game plan (what we feel like we must do to win the game). at the same time, we script sets of plays to use for specific situations like 3rd/short. 2nd long. 3rd medium. if we reach one of these scenarios while going through our 1st 15 or another of ours 'sequences' we will get off that script and go to the 'new' script.

example: we have run our 1st 4 plays from the sript with no major problems. but, it is now 3rd & 7. if the 5th play in the script is not one that falls into a 3rd & long category, we get off the opening script and go to the 1st play in the 3rd-long script. the next play we will call will NOW be the 5th play in our openers -- we ALWAYS go back to the openers.

what this does is allow us to play the majority of the game 'on script' so we are sure to establish our plan of attack and see the adjustments the defense has made (their game plan).

while on defense, we script the next series. either the whole thing (package, form. & play) or just part of it (package.... or formation, etc.) throughout the course of the game we are adding & subtracting plays from our categories ... i.e. "we need to run lead weak on short yardage" .. or "stay out of doubles on 3rd & long". we always want to have a databank of plays to pull from on the fly so we do much of our "thinking & planning" when we don't have the ball.

Here is what I did with the belly series. Early I ran the FB (Belly 1) not neccesarily to establish it b/c we were not a good inside running team...but to see how the D keyed it. We would usually hand off to the FB and fake our crossbuck to see if they were keying FB or TB. Then we could go from there. If the LB ran to the FB then by all means the next play was crossbuck. If they stayed home and played sound we usually waited a little long to set it up. Also we wanted to run OSV early to see what the DE was going to do. Was he going to crash etc. I would also throw a play action early on off our best run, often times before even running that run play. So for example if we ran Iso really well on the tape they got Iso pass was probably coming first this week since all week long they got geared up to stop iso.

We did not use a lot of motion or really a lot of formations. But I would run flanker R and then flanker L to see if they flip flopped any personnel. Stuff like that. What do they do when I line up in Wing-I. By alignment can we now down block on the DE with the wing and run toss sweep?

So I probably scripted 7-10 plays from 2-3 formations. But like a lesson plan it is just a guide.

If you're a multiple formation/movement offense, you should read coach huey's posts.

He more than know whereof he speaks.

oddstack: Like most of the coaches here, I don't bother to script as a way to defeat tendencies. However, I do script to see defensive reactions to motion from different areas on the field (hashes versus middle). I will script around 10 plays that show different motions from different ball spots, and the reactions I see will help determine what I run for the rest of the half. My second half calls, of course, will depend a great deal on what we decide to do at halftime.

I am also a big fan of situational scripting, where I will order the plays on my call sheet by what I want to see first in each down-and-distance/field position/time on clock situation. That data gets analyzed after the game, and helps build future game plans.

In your scripts, how do you decide a good 2nd and medium or 2nd and short Etc? Will you change week to week?

tog, I think what he was asking is how do you determine what plays to put in the call sheet for 2nd and med. or 2nd and long???

Ours will change week to week, depending upon their personel, coverages, base defense, blitz tendancy, etc.....

Tog,
That is so cool. Thanks. Did you use shift-insert to paste the screen capture?

we also want to know how do they adjust to motion. We see so little motion from the other teams we usually have to fall back on the previous years tapes to see how they adjusted.

Tog, nice call sheet! Good stuff.

Thanks for the print screen help. That was a skill I learned today.

Hey Tog, is everyone having problems with putfile and posting of large images?

my flippin laptop won't do it...does it need to be hooked up to a printer???