Playsheet Diagrams

Clipper coach,

I will be using them as an aid, because a lot of the kids play both ways. Reps and chalk talk will be the primary thing that our OL coach will use.


To All,

A little off the subject, but what do you guys do about teaching your TE's? Do they spend time with your OL and Receiver coaches? Do you have a large enough staff to have a TE coach? Do you treat them primarily as OL, or do you try to involve them in the passing game also? I ask because I like using TE's in the passing game. Teams here, seem to generally disregard TE's as a threat, and time and time again I see oppurtunities to take advantage of TE's.

Regarding TE's, my (limited) experience has been that we have assigned them with the receivers, unless we are working something special with offensive line(unbalanced line, etc.) However, our TE's have little blocking responsibility, and function more as recievers.

WarsawTiger

those that do hand them out,
if you are running an inside zone play, do you draw each possibility against each possible front?

We hand out "homework" for the offense. We teach them how the play is to attack the defense first, sort of the play "theory". Then as they start to understand how the play works, they learn to make the blocks not by memorizing who to block and where against what front, but by recognizing where we're attacking, who threatens that spot and deciding who's gonna block him. The homework is an offensive formation drawn up against a number of fronts. In the beginning of the year, we'll remind them on the sheet what the play design is, and then ask them to show the blocking scheme against the different types of fronts. As the year progresses, we stop reminding them of the play theory and start adding stunts and blitzes. Then we rep the stunts and blitzes during group and team periods. I believe kids learn best by doing and not just listening. Let them visualize it on paper, and then live. Works great.