by Rich HargittAssistant Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator • Ashbrook High School (NC) A run play can be packaged with a quick screen or pass play which can disrupt the…
How To PACKAGE PLAYS
Packaging Plays Part I Introduction to Packaging by Rich HargittAssistant Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator • Ashbrook High School (NC) Packaging plays can not only ignite an offense but also…
Maybe Your Best Offensive Coordinator is a Girl
Football lessons from a world champion gambler by Jay Stolfi Your best offensive coordinator is a girl. More correctly, your best play‐calling analyzer is a girl. She is Annie Duke, author of the book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts If you’ve ever been the play-caller in a football game, you know that making smart decisions without all the facts is the essence of the job. Duke is a Columbia University graduate and pursued a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Despite the Ivy League education, she is most known for her poker playing abilities. Duke accumulated over $4 million of tournament poker winnings including several World Series of Poker championships. Life, she explains, is a lot like poker. As I see it, so is football In Thinking in Bets, Duke makes the case that the thought process that leads to success in poker is the same thought process that leads to success in business, relationships and other important life situations. In poker, she says, you have to make critical decisions with very limited information…and you have to make them in real‐time. She goes on to give about 250 pages of detailed explanations, scientific data and tells plenty of amusing anecdotes regarding how the mind works and how to correctly analyze the outcomes of your decisions. All of the chapters have relevance to a football coach, particularly regarding offensive play calling, but I will focus on just a few key topics here. John Von Neumann, the noted mathematician, physicist (and poker player) is considered the father of “game theory”. His game theory revolutionized the fields of mathematics and economics. It is the study of how mathematical models can be used to understand seemingly unrelated things such as the likely interactions between opponents, how to account for hidden information, and how …
multiple looks
by: David Purdum Head Coach Bob Stoops recognized the stress the up-tempo, no-huddle put on a defense. The writing was on the chalkboard. The veteran Sooners…
Kentucky’s Best Passing Game Drill
blast from the past by: Mike Leach(When he was Offensive Coordinator University of Kentucky) 0Football coaches often ask each other, “What is your best drill?” At the University of Kentucky,…
The Art of Play Calling
What goes into an Offensive Coordinator’s game plan?by: W. Keith Roerdink 3A good play is easy to spot on game day. It’s the decision to go for it on fourth-and-one that…
Money Play
By Coach Sobolewski Here’s a sample play we run that is tough to defend but super easy to teach. I signal this in with a money sign or I’ll simply…
Inside Veer: How Adding a TE Gives You an Advantage on the Defense (Part II)
Inside Veer: How Adding a TE Gives You and Advantage on the Defense (Part II) By Payton Haynes, Offensive Coordinator, Luther College 3-4 Defense – Adding TE to the playside…
Inside Veer – How Adding a TE Gives You an Advantage on the Defense (Part I)
SUPER SPRING SPECIAL on the LEGENDARY AIR RAID SYSTEM Inside Veer – How Adding a TE Gives You an Advantage on the Defense (Part I) By Payton Haynes,…
The Ultimate Guide to (Almost every) Offensive Football Formation! – Part II
The Ultimate Guide to (Almost every) Offensive Football Formation! Part II Ultimate Guide Series #1 By: Andrew C. Brown Copyright: 2017 Andrew C. Brown …