Offensive Playcall Sheet

I listened to the head coach of WVU, Rich Rodriguez, and on the back of his playcall sheet he has an 'answer sheet'. On his answer sheet is various defensive fronts, coverages, and styles of def. play(ex. aggressive LB or hard-rush DE). Under each category he lists 2 or 3 base plays and formations to attack the defense.

I thought this was an interesting idea.

how many plays do you script for your opening script and do you try to stick to them as much as possible.

one way to use the script in accordance with your situations is to script the first 15 (or whatever #) as on-station calls. go through the script, when you reach one of those points that you have listed as special situations on your call sheet, get off that one and go to the first play listed in the specific special section. then, go back to the script, picking up where you left off.

example:

you go through the first 4 plays of your openers with no problems but come upon 3rd & 9. if the next play on script (play 5) is not suited for 3 & 9 then go to play 1 in the 3rd & long section. the next play call will now be play 5 out of your openers (unless you fail to convert and choose to go for it on 4th down - in that case you would go to that section - - but, regardless, go back to play 5 of openers on the next 1st down call) this method validates your openers. we set them up as on station play calls, mixing things up. at our coaches meeting thursday we "play the game in our heads" to designate the openers (things we want to establish, things we must run, things we must see, etc.) and the special situations. we cuss & discuss these in a calm setting rather than wait until heat of the battle. once we feel good with a play decision it goes in. we like going through the first half this way. allows us to see what we had originally wanted to out of our openers and allows us to continue to put drives together.