Watching films with your players.

Lou I feel that watching film with my players has been very beneifical because having watched it on film they now can take to the practice field with a better understanding of our opponents alignments. ALmost all teams have some sort of tendencies based upon formations and alignments as well as an individuals stance. I school my players hard on recognition of a possible tendency. I watch our previous game with our players on saturdays and then never look at it again with them and at least 3 times per week will watch film with them. Watching film with my players I find very beneficial. Can always use as a reference point on game night when making adjustments also. Coach CAmpbell

i know i've mentioned it efore when the questions about a playbook came up but i truly believe that the reduction in cost and ease of application make digital editing systems the greatest teaching aid added in the last 20 years of football. i have never seen kids study film so much and get so much out of them as when your able to cut by tendencies / series / teaching objectives.

reasons

1) the game is not sequential anymore so kids are forced to look at the plays rather then scoreboard or great plays.

2) just to the sheart repetition of a play (redundancy) the kids pick up tendencies - since the cuts are made with graphical interlays typed over - written notes on an opponent can now become visual realty - not just coaches words.

3) additional factors like specific reads can be reinforced by a)repition (shear # of same plays in a row) b) sequencing of plays

4) tapes can be made to emphasize specific aspects and the clutter (down time) strolling through unused plays. this also allows coach to prepare specific lessens

5) you can take #4 one step further and make specific tapes for specific players. we use to make one for qb. (all looks / reads / stunts / with option keys squared and circled on the film) also if a player was having a hard toime with one aspect we made him a short cut of that problem plus him doing it right.

6) since you can actually write on film and since it's not sequential (whichwould allow for "spectator viewing) i actual allow my players to view tape on their own.

7) as i've said before a viedeo playbook is the best way to teach.


hope this helps


john iannucci

My next question on this topic is the following: What do you do with players during films? Do your players take notes? Do you watch film with individual positions only? Coaches, I have never been in a program that watched films effectively, so I really need help on this issue. This goes for evaluating your own film and your opponent's film. Thank you coaches.

Lou Cella

Coach Cella -

Due to our time and facility constraints, we generally watch our film as an offensive unit. Ideally, I would rather the position coaches spend some time at least watching tape with their players, but we don't really have a set up conducive to allow that. We watch our Friday game on Saturday a.m....followed by a typical Sat a.m. workout...and then we throw on an opponent tape for 10-15 minutes and watch as a team...just to get them thinking forward. We then present scouting reports on Mon a.m. followed by a 15 minute tape session as an offensive unit...they do not take notes, we simply point out major components of our opponent's schemes and show them the "why's" of our game plan. We try to watch some practice with them during the week for a few minutes and then re-visit the game type of our opponent on Thursday. I would love to be able to spend more time watching tape, but in Texas we have an 8 hours per week time limit with our kids (not counting athletic periods) and so time is a tight.
pdow