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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 14:17:10 GMT -6
I agree. But it seems that most people are saying it is a mistake to take the ball first because Mahomes is going to do whatever it takes. But if you play that logic out, that means that the 49ers will HAVE to score a TD and HAVE to go for 2 and get it no matter if they get the ball first and second. That is a tall order. Possessions are the most important thing. If I can get 1 or more possessions than my opponents , then I increase my chance to win and if in sudden death overtime (after both teams get a possession), it should greatly increase my chance. But for some reason, it seems that most everyone on this thread thinks that you should go second. Trying to wrap my brain around how Mahomes is unstoppable and let's possibly give him more possessions helps you win. It just sounds like 20/20 hindsight. If 49ers would have elected to give the Chiefs the ball first and the Chiefs score and then 49ers go down and score, and then Chiefs kick a FG to win, this thread would be so different.
Who can honestly say that before last Sunday night, that they would defend the 49ers decision to give Mahomes an extra freaking possession!!!BE HONEST!!Look at it in this perspective. What's better chances of positive outcome. Let PM know what he must do to win (which he has a track record of in these situations) OR say We supposedly have the best offense in NFL. In an overtime situation let them know what they must do, and if it comes down to a 2pt conversion, or giving the ball back to PM. Is my chances better seeing if my offense can gain 2 yds or give ball back to him knowing what he has to do. My perspective is based on players. This guy obviously is special. Do you allow Jordan to take the last shot to win the championship? or do you make him shoot first and put the ball in your hands for a championship? I don't understand why I can't get this point across. Or at least it feels this way. If we accept the fact that Mahomes is always going to get it done, then the 49ers have to score a TD and get a 2 point conversion. No matter if they get the ball first or second. So that is irrelevant. But if you go second, you now are giving Mahomes and extra possession to get it done!! But if you take the ball first and score and get the 2, then Mahomes can go and score and get 2, and then you can just go kick a FG and win!! The game is over. Mahomes doesn't get a second chance.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 13:27:51 GMT -6
The scenario you are looking for is that they stop the Chiefs and then score. Mahomes as good as he is, isn't going to score every time. The Chiefs didn't score a touchdown at all in the first half and lost 6 games during the season. Mahomes is good, but he's not unstoppable. Correct, BUT he did and Has scored when they Must in the playoffs except for one time vs Bengals. His other losses are against the Goat, so they are acceptable lol. Which is why you better try and get one more possession than him. So take the ball first!!
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 13:22:00 GMT -6
Let me ask a question for everyone especially those who say that Mahomes is ALWAYS going to what it takes to win. (By the way, I am not arguing that he won't. Ha). Describe a scenario where the 49ers get the ball second and win? The only one I can come up with is the Chiefs score and kick an xpt and then the 49ers score and go for 2 and get it. The scenario you are looking for is that they stop the Chiefs and then score. Mahomes as good as he is, isn't going to score every time. The Chiefs didn't score a touchdown at all in the first half and lost 6 games during the season. Mahomes is good, but he's not unstoppable. I agree. But it seems that most people are saying it is a mistake to take the ball first because Mahomes is going to do whatever it takes. But if you play that logic out, that means that the 49ers will HAVE to score a TD and HAVE to go for 2 and get it no matter if they get the ball first and second. That is a tall order. Possessions are the most important thing. If I can get 1 or more possessions than my opponents , then I increase my chance to win and if in sudden death overtime (after both teams get a possession), it should greatly increase my chance. But for some reason, it seems that most everyone on this thread thinks that you should go second. Trying to wrap my brain around how Mahomes is unstoppable and let's possibly give him more possessions helps you win. It just sounds like 20/20 hindsight. If 49ers would have elected to give the Chiefs the ball first and the Chiefs score and then 49ers go down and score, and then Chiefs kick a FG to win, this thread would be so different.
Who can honestly say that before last Sunday night, that they would defend the 49ers decision to give Mahomes an extra freaking possession!!!BE HONEST!!
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 12:43:01 GMT -6
Which would not be a bad choice. Do you give it back to him not knowing the possibility, or do you say, our best chance is to go for 3 yards with what some think are better players (49 offense was most of the talk) for a chance at a championship? Bottom line is I get the final choice as to how this game is decided with the best part of my team able to decide it. Side note: I think it is on the 2 yard line for NFL. Yes, I do think that is the best choice. If you go second. But I think the better choice is to take the ball first. Score. Surprise onside kick.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 12:35:17 GMT -6
Let me ask a question for everyone especially those who say that Mahomes is ALWAYS going to what it takes to win. (By the way, I am not arguing that he won't. Ha).
Describe a scenario where the 49ers get the ball second and win?
The only one I can come up with is the Chiefs score and kick an xpt and then the 49ers score and go for 2 and get it.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 12:03:28 GMT -6
Let me shift the discussion just a little.
Let's say the Chiefs win the toss and decide to kick.
What do you do on that 4th down? FG or go for TD?
That shouldn't change anything because of who won the toss. The decision should still be the same.
So by that logic, everyone who says that the the 49ers should have kicked first, is really saying that the 49ers should have gone for the TD. Right? How can it not be that? You can't say that they shouldn't have taken the ball first because Mahomes was going to go win it, and at the same time say that you should have settled for a FG.
You could almost take the logic one step further, that if the 49ers would have scored, they should also go for 2. Because if you kick the xpt, and are up 7, when Chiefs then score, they would just go for 2 (and get it - because it is Mahomes) and beat you because they don't want to give you the ball back and let the 49ers just need a FG to win after the 49ers just drove down for a TD.
And then if all that is true, the ONLY way to beat Mahomes, is to score a TD on your possession and convert a 2 point conversion. And then kick a FG on your second possession. Which means you should take the ball FIRST!!!!! Otherwise, you don't get that 2nd possesion, if Mahomes is ALWAYS going to do what it takes to win.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 10:12:04 GMT -6
So yeah, 400 combinations would be easy. I don't anticipate that'd be the hard part. The only part I anticipate being hard, and the only part I was asking about here was, after the huddle broke, the players being able to remember the part of the play call relevant to them in case there were a lot of tags on one. All the rest is just football. I literally cannot explain to you how right and how wrong you are at the same time. Experience is the only thing that can. I have tried to help. Hope it works. I really do. Best of luck to you.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 10:01:56 GMT -6
Let me try and articulate this one more time.
It is not like taking the ball first LOST the 49ers the game.
IF, they kicked first, we should still assume that the Chiefs score at TD. No reason at all not to since they did. There was never a time during that drive that they had to face a "kick the fg or go for it decision". And they certainly were going to go for it on that one 4th down play no matter when that situation happened during the game.
So if they kicked first, that means that the 49ers now have one more play to score a TD. That means they have to score on that play. Certainly that is way better than what happened.
But, it also means they then have to either convert a 2 point conversion or stop Mahomes from just getting a FG. Since they kicked the FG the first time, going for 2 there seems unlikely. The odds are, at best, 25% that they score on that play and then convert a 2 point conversion.
I truly believe (and said it at the time before the kick), that a surprise onside kick after the FG was the way to win that game. Even if you don't get it, Mahomes still has to score a TD after they recover the kick. And everyone feels that was inevitable anyways. And don't quote onside kick stats at me. Those do not apply to an onside kick.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 15, 2024 9:50:39 GMT -6
Na this ain't no where close to to that bad LOL...That will go down in infamy as the worst. They had plenty of time to give it ML twice to try and get 1 yard, who was the best offensive player in the game that season. They will have to just eat that one. Thats where their coaches thought plays instead of players, and their analytics costed them a SB and gave Brady another. EXACTLY
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Post by silkyice on Feb 14, 2024 20:17:11 GMT -6
Let me add,
You can certainly run the play from the OP. You can even call it that. And execute it. You could also call it Tangerine or Barbie Special and execute it.
What you can't do, is what you are wanting to do, and that is be able to adjust the formation multiple ways, how you take a snap multiple ways, motion multiple ways, have multiple backfield schemes, multiple blocking scheme, multiple pass, and multiple counts and combine those any way you want and just be able to execute.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 14, 2024 20:10:01 GMT -6
Your system is good. Well thought out. Logical. Adaptable. Modular.
It is going to be a DISASTER.
You aren't just wanting to run that long play in the OP, you are wanting to be able to run that play with 400 different combinations. And then have 20 other plays that have 400 combinations. Actually, do the math, it is probably way more than that.
If you were coaching 7A football in Alabama, I would think that this is a lot, but doable and can work with good coaching. But that is because I know that 1) You will be two platoon 2) You will have 10 coaches just on offense 3) You will start meetings in January 4) You will get a Spring Training 5) You will get the kids 4 days a week during the summer. 6) You will have August to get ready for the game. 7) You will have TWO athletic PE classes. You will get your whole team twice a day during the school day. 8) You will have everything filmed from the box and a drone. DURING PRACTICE. 9) After practice you will be able to meet and watch film with your kids. 10) You have an indoor facility to still practice in bad weather. 11) You will have lights to turn on when it gets dark. 12) These kids live and breathe football. 13) Most of these kids have been playing 4-10 years already. 14) They are 15-19 year olds.
If you were doing this in 4A football in Alabama, I would think it COULD be doable because just a few schools have what I outlined above.
You have ZERO of those things outlined.
How many days a week are you practicing? For how long? Does everyone also have to practice and learn defense and special teams? What playing time requirements do you have? Will your backups be able to handle this? Will you be able to practice all this?
You even said that you didn't learn all the passing game last year. How can 10 year olds be expected to EXECUTE this? All 11 of them? Even the scrub that HAS to play? And notice I said execute. Not learn, understand, line up, not jump offsides, but execute this against defenses that can line up in different places and move and hit you.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 14, 2024 12:47:12 GMT -6
How much would it ease your memorization task if the same cadence were used every time, with the fullback calling the snap based on where he saw the motion man (if any)? The fullback would still have to memorize where the motion back would have to be for that play. How much would it ease it if the "over" tags were combined into one? A lot
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Post by silkyice on Feb 14, 2024 11:08:00 GMT -6
brophy the videos you showed are not what happened. What happened was that Kelce misjudged his distance and bumped into an off balance man while yelling at him. I do agree here. That the bumping was accidental. While the bumping wasn't 1st degree bumping, it was 3rd degree bumping. HA
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Post by silkyice on Feb 14, 2024 10:58:33 GMT -6
]I'm calling BS on these excuses I agree. Not saying it is the worst thing ever or that Andy handled it wrong or right. But let's be clear, it wasn't right what Travis did. Also not my job to handle it. A few more points that change things: 1) if it wasn't a veteran 2) if it wasn't a hall of famer 3) if they hadn't already won some super bowls 4) if they would have lost 5) if it wasn't a playoff game or super bowl 6) if this was two different (you know what else). 7) if this wasn't Taylor Swift's boyfriend - I kid, I kid. Meaning, what would have been said if a rookie player on San Fran did this? Would we maybe say, "That is why they can't win the big one?" and/or "This is unacceptable, you have to be able to keep your cool in the big game and not cross player/coach boundaries." or do we just blow it off.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 18:40:09 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/sports/49ers-players-admit-unaware-overtime-rules-super-bowl-lviii-surpriseThis blows my mind. 49er players saying that they didn't know the rules and the Chiefs' player that caught the Super Bowl winning TD didn't even know that won the game. I get they all have second jobs as plumbers and all, but you would think someone would explain new rules and situations with them at some point during the 18 week season. I get there are restrictions on how much they football they can do in the NFL like 8 hour days max and having Tuesday off and all, but surely at some point they could go over this stuff. Maybe like during a 5 minute water break or something like that. Asking a lot, I know, I know.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 17:57:11 GMT -6
Absolute nothing burger. It was only noticed because Kelce somehow lost track of his space. This is the NFL. It is a professional organization. The dynamics are nothing compared to schoolboy football. Don’t agree it was a nothing burger. It was at least a small order of fries.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 16:18:34 GMT -6
In all my years we haven’t been in many OT games; we’ve been in 4 total and are 3-1. One reason we haven’t been in many OT games is that we will go for the win (TD > FG or 2 >1) almost all the time, so that line of thinking influences my response. In H.S. and college, I don’t think many would argue to have the ball first. When we’ve had the ball first and scored we have always gone for 2. If we have the ball second, regardless of what they did we go for two (unless a kick will win it AND we have a kicker… that happened once and we missed the kick to win and lost in the 2nd OT). Given all that, I can see an argument for taking the ball first in the NFL, but (personal opinion here) I would do everything slightly beyond reasonable to get 8 points out of the deal. As far as the 49ers decision, I don’t have a problem with them taking the ball first, and I don’t have a problem with kicking the FG (4th & 4 was it?). My thinking is go for it, but I understand their reasoning. KC has scored one TD all game. The potential for an extra possession carries some weight here. And (for the record) I didn’t have a problem with Seattle throwing on the goal line vs. NE. (I did not like the play/formation; didn’t stress the LB enough to me… but I’m not a big “tight bunch passing guy” either, so I’ll take it they knew what they wanted…Butler just made a great play). They had to burn a TO on the long reception, leaving them with one left. If you run and get stopped- now you “have to” throw (or take your chances on one play). If you throw and it is incomplete, you have more options on the next down. Unfortunately, if you throw an interception, people will bring that up for the next 50 years whenever there is a controversial decision made in a super bowl. Unless someone takes the ball first and kicks a field goal… then you might get replaced. All I know is I am one hell of a lot better coach from the stands or from my living room than I am on the sideline. I like what you said, but do want to discuss a couple of points. Trying to get 8 points out of the first possession doesn't make sense. It means you scored a TD. Why go for 2 there? If you don't get it, you have forced them to score a TD knowing they have to have TD and when they do score, they win with a kick. But if you kick, you are reasonably assured that you should get one more possession and on that possession all you have to do is kick a FG to win. On the Seahawks, you can run BECAUSE you have a timeout. The call to make was a bootleg. You now can throw it away, or score by run or pass, and Lynch had torched them so they would have to sell out on the run knowing that you can run because you have a timeout. Now that is a little 20/20 hindsight. But throwing like they did was not 20/20 hindsight. That was a BAD call. That is how you lose. Agree it was a great play by the DB. But they gave them that opportunity. Run or boot. Boot is actually the best call. Then you still have your timeout for 3rd. Like Tubby Raymond said, "You don't have to make the perfect call, just avoid the bad play call."
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 16:09:39 GMT -6
I think a scenario where I would defer is if I had already decided that if the other team scores first, then I'm going to go for 2 and the win after my TD. Similar to what I was saying earlier. Surprise onside after the FG. Would have been the biggest ballsy move of all time.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 13:46:12 GMT -6
knowing they were in 4 down territory their whole drive which helps call plays. But that is not exactly true. It is true until they get into FG range. All of your other points are good.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 13:14:24 GMT -6
I too found it perplexing that the Niners were not ready for Zone read. I know you don't chase ghosts but you have to think players there and say we will not let Mahomes beat us. If he wants to throw it to somebody else or run it with Pacheco tip your cap to them. Right. And at worst all you give up is a first down if they do it with someone else. But they were going to do it with Mahomes, so bet that!!
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 13:12:57 GMT -6
Surprising. If you kick first, you HAVE to win on the second possession or you lose or put yourself in situation where the other team has has sudden death advantage. Yes, but you on that second possession have several advantages. Isn't the ONLY advantage that if the first team scores a TD, that you know you have to score a TD? Or if they kick a FG, then you have to at least kick a FG? So the advantage is that you know what you have to do to match. And all that does is give the ball to the other team to win in sudden death. Now knowledge is an advantage, but not an overwhelming advantage when all that advantage does is to know what you have to match. It isn't like hs or college. Matching is fine there. Matching is not fine in the NFL. Meaning, if everything is the same, but the 49ers kick first, the the only advantage they would have is to know that they had to go for it on 4th instead of kicking. Now that is an advantage. Not arguing it is not. But if they don't score there, they lose. And if they do score there, Mahomes gets the ball and only has to kick a FG to win. Of course that is better than what happened last night. But that is 20/20 hindsight at it's finest.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 13:04:42 GMT -6
Also, shocked that the 49ers didn't play the 4th and short play after the timeout better. No timeout, I get it. But did no one on the 49ers say that during the timeout that Mahomes is going to have the ball? I realize it was a run pass option, but no reason to go with the fake. And I realize that he could have handed that ball off also. BUT, the season was on the line. Make someone else pick up that first down besides Mahomes. Again, especially after the timeout. NFL DC not using triple option principles to stop zone read. End and LB both chased Exactly, even when the whole world knew that Mahomes was going to end up with the ball. That is my point. At some point, you think players, not plays. The Chiefs certainly did. And there was a TIMEOUT!!!! No idea what Shanahan's role with the defense is, but as a head coach, during a timeout, it is your responsibility to go to that huddle and say stop MAHOMES!!!
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 12:42:33 GMT -6
I likely would have chosen to kick as well, but I do not think it is a slam dunk decision, and I think the math works out that taking the ball was not in anyway crazy. Surprising. If you kick first, you HAVE to win on the second possession or you lose or put yourself in situation where the other team has has sudden death advantage.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 12:13:35 GMT -6
OT for last night: Both got a possession. So it is like a HS rule type (not exactly). It was not sudden death or even the if first possession is a TD then game is over. Again I thought it was absolutely crazy not going on defense first. Hold on. You thought it was absolutely crazy? You do realize that if 1) they hold the Chiefs to a FG, that a FG now wins the game for the 49ers. 2) if the 49ers scored a TD on the first possession, then a FG now wins the game for the 49ers. 3) If you play defense first, and the Chiefs score a TD on their 1st possession (which they did), then the 49ers have to score a TD, and then the Chiefs only have to now kick a FG to win. Fine if you thought they should kick first. I disagree, but somewhat understand the logic (actually I don't), but to think taking the ball first is "absolutely crazy" makes no sense.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 11:44:37 GMT -6
Also, shocked that the 49ers didn't play the 4th and short play after the timeout better. No timeout, I get it. But did no one on the 49ers say that during the timeout that Mahomes is going to have the ball? I realize it was a run pass option, but no reason to go with the fake. And I realize that he could have handed that ball off also. BUT, the season was on the line. Make someone else pick up that first down besides Mahomes. Again, especially after the timeout. Quoting my own post to say that just makes the Seahawks interception all the worse. With the season on the line, give the ball to your best player. And I realize it wasn't 4th down. But same concept in my book.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 11:42:29 GMT -6
Also, shocked that the 49ers didn't play the 4th and short play after the timeout better.
No timeout, I get it.
But did no one on the 49ers say that during the timeout that Mahomes is going to have the ball? I realize it was a run pass option, but no reason to go with the fake. And I realize that he could have handed that ball off also. BUT, the season was on the line. Make someone else pick up that first down besides Mahomes. Again, especially after the timeout.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 12, 2024 11:39:53 GMT -6
I honestly thought the best decision after the FG was a surprise onside kick. It just felt like Mahomes was going to get a TD. How crazy would that have been!
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Post by silkyice on Feb 9, 2024 16:35:09 GMT -6
I think it's a lot but I see where you're coming from. I've not coached that level of ball, I've only been as low-age as MS, but one thing I keep in mind even at the HS level is all these words are just words to the kids. "Trap" to them is what they put down in Fortnite right now. They don't know what Trap is in football until you teach them. If you tell the kids this whole play is called Skittles, they don't have to know everything about Skittles like you do as a coach. They have to remember "Ok on Skittles I line up on the other side and pull". Then you base the tags off of those. "Skittles Pass". ok same as skittles but now it's a pass. The tags should build on the playcall, not be the playcall. Well of course learning the calls is secondary to learning the techniques. And I'm already simplifying things by using "trap" to mean any pulling action (and having only one puller in the formation -- because in my experience at this age, it's about all you can do to have a single player good enough to play the O line and quick enough to beat the runner to the hole). So a cross-block is a trap, and a "trap" to the 1 or 9 hole means pull and protect the outside. And your system would be easier for the kids to remember if they had only a very small number of plays. But as soon as we have plays enough to hit several holes with different actions, they're going to have trouble remembering whatever they're supposed to do based on the play name. I had trouble myself last season remembering what route patterns went with what names -- and was glad that for my role in coaching, I didn't have to! (Although occasionally we did have confusion between the coaches on some assignments.) Several holes with several different actions. You don't get that on 1/2 the teams on the NFL level. How did y'all do last year?
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Post by silkyice on Feb 9, 2024 16:30:28 GMT -6
All of what you said can certainly work. No doubt. But is it? If it is, truck on. If not, think about major simplification. Since I haven't tried it, I'm trying to predict whether it will. I'm sure that's true, but I can't predict what point one way surpasses another. What I'm counting on is that most of the players won't have to listen to much of the full call. They all have to know the snap count. All except the center have to listen for "flip" in the formation. Only the puller (I expect one pull-capable player on the field at a time) has to listen for "guards over", and only the ends have to listen for "ends over". Only the tailback has to listen for "rocket", and only the wingback has to listen for "fly" or "blimp". Some of the line has to listen for "trap", which in this code won't always mean what you'd consider a trap play, but the same general action. The line has to listen for "pass". The center, fullback, and tailback have to listen for "direct". Most of the players have to listen to both digits of the play number. Most of these words won't be there most of the time. 2 digits and a snap count will always be there, and the rest are tags. But I'm concerned the number of words on some plays will still be too much for some to listen to, and particularly for whoever's relaying the play in. When I played rugby by the time I took 10 running steps all the blood would drain from my brain and I was a deaf amnesic zombi. I'm even thinking of having the field captain select the plays for the reason that then nobody has to convey the call from a coach. The only advantage I'd have calling it from the sideline would be a printed table telling me we couldn't use this motion with that count on that play. Play calls don't work like that. I understand what you are saying, but that 10 year old guard who is chewing on his mouthpiece, trying to pull up his pants, while hearing his dad yell from the stands "block someone", can't just magically hear some words and not the other. Some words might mean things to him and some words he might can ignore, but he HAS to LISTEN to it all. I am going to help you here since you asked for it and just said you haven't done it before, three words is the limit for 10 year olds. You go over three words it has to go back to one. Three words is the limit for ALL 11 players to hear it, understand it, and execute it during an entire series of downs in a game situation. Of course that doesn't mean by game 5 after your players have shown they can handle that, that you can't add another word to a play or two. I would be willing to bet that most coaches here would agree that play call is too long for high school kids that play both ways.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 8, 2024 13:43:19 GMT -6
First, once it gets that long, just tag the whole thing one word. Call it Banana. Call it Chevy. Call it Scooby Doo. Call it whatever. My rule is once the play call gets over about three words, then it gets its own word. But then the players have to memorize and decode the whole thing. They have to know Banana means a lot of things that aren't easily relatable to the word "banana". My idea is that by making the play call modular, they don't have to do all that memorizing. Each word means something simple and following simple rules. You're right, I would not expect to practice every combination, so some "plays" would be unadjusted. However, I'd expect that once they get certain rules down, then it won't matter what the "whole play" is, they'll execute the same. Very little changes with each tag. The only tag that requires its own practice is "flip" because everything is mirror image. Doesn't mix well with man-in-motion. If the back has to be just there for the play to work, it has to be timed to the snap. One thing I've thought about, is to have the signal caller watch and call for the snap at just the right moment -- but that sacrifices both the element of surprise against the other team and the value of rhythm for our own team. The man-in-motion would be a complete decoy in many cases, added to a play just to see if it gets the linebackers leaning the wrong way. So we could add "rocket...on two", say, to many plays it has nothing to do with -- in fact, losing a lead blocker on belly -- as long as the tag is available. But that works only if rocket sweep gets established as a threat. The teams I've coached with here in Newton have never used rocket, and I don't know why. Maybe they've been afraid to lead a pitch to a man in motion, maybe they think it works only if you have a real speedster halfback. Meanwhile they've used jet, never with much success, telegraphing it by running it only from double wings and running very little else from double wing -- and never seriously teaching reach blocking steps to go with it. I've already done it with 9Us, no problem. The snapper's head is up, and he either hands it to the QB (sidesaddle T) or throws it between his legs just one way regardless of which of the deep backs catches it. 3 counting "flipped" ones separately? I've coached with 10Us where we had more formations than that -- 5 IIRC, and this was considered fairly standard for that age playing wing T in our club. By the time they were 12Us we had more formations, and more than that as 14Us. All of what you said can certainly work. No doubt. But is it? If it is, truck on. If not, think about major simplification. The only thing I will disagree on is the modular concept. Actually not disagree, just give you a different perspective. One that another coach had to convince me on and then it was an aha moment for me. While modular is awesome, I have found that at SOME point, the modular just gets too big and their brains will freeze or stop. 1+4 = 5 is easy. So is 2+6=8 and so is 3+9=12 and so is 4+2 = 6 and so is 18+7=25. But 1+4 and 2+6 and 3+9 and 4+2 and 18+7 all at once gets tough when you just got hit and run back and you are 10 and the qb calls all of those out and you have to process them and line up and motion and remember the snap count and whether you are under center or not and what you are supposed to do and then the defense moves and you get hit again. And you only have 5-10 seconds to process all that. Sometimes just saying run "Banana" works better. The kid just goes, "oh, I know what to do on Banana." You will be surprised how well that works. It is even better when you can be modular and then come up with one word on wordy plays that match or have a word association. And when they don't, just call it Banana.
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