Wrist Coach Cards for Defensive Personnel

We don't have that many CALLS that a wrist band would be required!

I coached in a 3-5 system this past season that had many scripted blitzes, so I could see them being useful for that, but even then only for the first game or two. After that the defenders better know their assignments inside and out, otherwise they are doing us no good.

HEY BILL,

WOW!!! 55 DEFENSIVE CALLS!!! HE MUST BE DEFENDING AGAINST HIS OPPONENT , THE REFS, AND THE OTHER TEAM'S FANS!!! HEHEHE

Jerry

We have used bands for several years the orignal reason was because of the no huddle offense. We use words for our calls rather than numbers. We are a 4-4 multiple front, stemming, stunting, blitzing defense. Our calls can get rather lengthy. Last year I had the idea of creating separate bands for each position group.(Length of the calls was no longer a factor) This has been a little thing for us that is a big thing. One of the biggest advantages of this system is being able to separate the DE calls from the DT calls. Instead of having to tie the entire front into a slant for example we can Jet an end on the strong side and sink the weak end into an inside gap. Depending on the opponent we will use 12-20 calls each week. The techniuqes that our initially taught do not change but the combination of possible calls becomes numerous and changes weekly. Another big advantage is each individual positon focuses only on his call, there is no confusion about the other part of the call that does not pertain to them. I work out the gap control and make sure the call is sound in the weekly game planning. We then simply yell a number and each position group checks the call for that number. The following is an example call by position group.

DT's Slant Str
DE's Jet Sink Str, Jet Wk(Box)
Ins Bkrs Mike Attack Wk, Black
OB's/C's/FS Black Disguise

It might seem a little crazy but it has been very effective for us. We have led our conference in scoring defense 4 of the last 5 years.