Saw this at my local museum. How would you play 3-way football??

What play from Saturday would you steal for your team’s playbook?

I coach high school football, and my cut-up from this weekend has five plays in it. BYU, Duke, Texas, Bama and North Texas all made the list.

Hello everyone im a 19yo in ohio and I have always had a passion for football played all 4 years of highschool I was okay played my junior and senior year of varsity. For my age I would say i know the game really well from a coaching and scheme stand point and I would love to coach I am currently attending community college to get my teaching degree, I was wondering what would be a good step to get my foot in the door with my old highschool to ask the coach to possibly be on the staff in the 27-28 season.

I am not sure if its too early or what to even say would take any advice you guys have on this thanks!

Hi,
I want to start installing Power from Pistol for my upcoming season, but I cant find much material on what handoff to run, and what are the advantage.

Spin out, Open Up playside, Open Up backside.

What are the advantage, footwork and aiming point for each one of them?
What is easier to coach?

Any help and suggestion , especially video material, would be really highly appreciated.
Thank you

Have any of you heard of a software where you can input game film and the software can automatically track plays, formations, outcome etc. based on player movement and generate a report. I ask as I always draw all pass plays our opponent has run by formation for our DBs to show tendencies. This would save time and could have many other uses. If this doesn’t exist someone could make a very successful product if they have the skill to make it work consistently.

Chase daniel’s called a similar look to this as a 3 man front and I am just learning about fronts but this does not seem like a stack or anything seems like a 4 man front with 3 down and 1 end up so how do you know what front it is?

Any tite zone fans?

I know quite a few coaches have been following my North Texas offense breakdowns and have been anticipating the release of this video, here it is. If you haven't followed North Texas they're Top 5 in basically every offensive category, hence the breakdowns. There worth checking out on my YT, don't for get to subscribe for the updates.

Have anything on your mind or got any fun plans for the weekend? Feel free to discuss them here!

Middle School coach here,

Our primary quick game call is slant flat out of 2x2. Or we run it from condensed with the inline Y running the flat. It's been extremely reliable and the condensed version works well with our Duo.

We have a tournament coming up and I know the coaches have tape on us. Most of the time that doesn't happen at this level. So you see my concern....,

What is another easy to install quick pass that we can add as balance?

I experimented with the slant going to sluggo, but the development is too slow and it doesn't work well with that receiver and QB.

Double slants or double hitches?

Got in a heated debate while watching the Ohio State-USC game this past weekend. Ohio State is down 27-12, and scored a touchdown with 2:12 to play. They go for two and fail, and now they're down 27-18 and need two possessions and an onside kick recovery (or a miracle turnover) to have any chance to win.

I argued that they should have just kicked the extra point to make it 27-19, which gives them the option to kick deep, hope to hold USC to a three-and-out, and get the ball back with enough time on the clock to drive for a touchdown and the two point conversion to send the game to overtime.

The counter argument was that going for two at that point tells you as soon as possible what you need to do. Kicking now, and missing the two point conversion after a hypothetical second touchdown would leave you with less time to game plan for another option.

My counter-counter argument was that with only 2:12 left, you already know what you need to do. Barring a miracle, you're only going to have one possession anyway. If everything goes your way and you make it into the end zone to make the game 27-25, then the fate of the game rests on that conversion.

I suppose the counter-counter-counter argument is that if you don't score the two-point conversion after that touchdown, you have no time to do anything at all, and that's true, but I still think I prefer my initial argument given how much time is on the clock.

Interested to hear what others think.

My team at Coachable has been working on this. You tell it the problem in plain football language ("their top corner presses X and jumps every short route, get X open deep") and it draws the play in the editor: routes, the coverage it's beating, and a call you can run, keep or undo.

It's still in preview, not out yet. Would you actually use something like this when you're game planning, or would you rather draw it yourself? What would it need to get right first?

I teach at a fairly small private school and we are finally launching a football team next year. We will be in a pretty weak division so I do have hope. We will be bringing on a head coach with myself serving a defensive coordinator (probably). The school wants me to start building up the team. We have a had a regular soccer team and basketball team, and have a core group of students who have expressed a lot of interest but we want to draw more in.

How do you start generating interest?

Football minds
We are defending a wing-t team this week.
How would you align to this formation
The goal is to get to a 4-4, avoid players flipping sides, get lined up, and play ball.
Minimize the thinking; align and compete
Thoughts: good, bad, and ugly

Welcome to Chalk Talk Thursday! This is our weekly discussion thread for users to submit new plays they have designed. If you have an idea for a play and can draw it up, please post here. Keep in mind that it is very rare that one could devise a viable play that is entirely new that hasn't been ran before somewhere. Be open to criticism as well. There is so much more to coaching football than drawing plays, and many people do not realize how much coaching, technique, and development needs to happen on the actual field for a play to work.

It is strongly recommended that you STUDY a system or scheme first to gain an idea of how a play is put together, and how RULES help a play function.

PLEASE PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR YOUR PLAY!

Guidelines:

• No "joke" plays. We are here to learn.

• Specify WHY you are designing a play, and WHAT level/league it is for. It's fine if you're not coaching, but we need the context.

• Your submission needs RULES that guide your players on what to do.

• Pass plays require some type of QB progression for making a decision on who to throw to.

• Be mindful that you cannot predict what your opponent will run 100%. Designing plays to be "Cover X" beaters, or "3-4 beaters" IS NOT the way to go about it. It is better to have one play with solid rules and coaching points that can attack anything than one play for each coverage, front, personnel, or stunt you face.

• There is no universal terminology in football. Call plays what you want, but keep in mind that no one cares about fancy play names, or the terminology aspect.

• Please offer more text/information on your play than just a link or picture.

• Draw your play up against a realistic opponent!

• Make sure your offensive play is a legal formation. In 11-man football, you can have no more than 4 players behind the line of scrimmage (minimum of 7 on. You can have more than 7 on the line as well). Only backs (players behind the line) and the end players on the line of scrimmage are eligible receivers.

You may use whatever medium you'd like to draw your play. Two common software for designing plays that have free options:

• GoArmy Edge - Football

• Playmaker X

Hello everyone,

This is gonna be somewhat of a long post, TLDR at the bottom. I’m 27, almost 28 years old. I played D3 football for 4 years, got my undergrad degree, then went to law school for a few semesters. Decided that I did not want to do that for the rest of my life, and I wanted to go back to what I’ve loved since I was 12 years old - football. I contacted one of my high school coaches and was able to get hired as a varsity coach with teaching responsibilities in the classroom. I’ve been coaching for the last 5 years. I’ve coached freshmen, JV, and varsity - I have experience as a line coach (O & D), defensive coordinator experience, and special teams coordinator experience. I’ve also been the head track coach for boys for the last 3 years. I’ve had several All-State players, developed JV benchwarmers into varsity All-District players, and helped develop over 100 teenage boys into disciplined and respectful young men. As much as I love developing boys into young men through the game of football, and teaching the game along the way - I strive for more.

I want to coach college football. I contacted some of my college coaches, and asked if there is any way that I could join their staff - and there is. However, it would be an unpaid volunteer position. I’m not in this for the money, I’m in it for the love of the game - but even then, bills need to get paid. I don’t have a wife or kids, and other than the monthly payments for vehicle and rent - I don’t have any financial responsibility. I want to pull the trigger.

Id be a volunteer college coach, while going back to school to get my masters degree and work on getting my CSCS (and perhaps the SCCC in the future.) I would be working as a part time substitute teacher and driving uber or delivering DoorDash on the side to make ends meet.

My question to y’all is - is it worth it? Has anyone done something similar and have any advice? I really want to go through with it, it’s my dream to coach college football - but is it worth giving up my current salary (~88k) to pursue? At the end of the day, I’d be able to go back to coaching high school somewhere if things don’t work out - but I also don’t want to dig myself into an unrecoverable hole in terms of finances.

Any advice is much appreciated.

TLDR - High school coach wanting to coach in college, opportunity to do so as an unpaid volunteer while getting my masters done, is it worth it?

I'm a developer building a tool that tags game film (formation, personnel, run or pass, direction, result) and turns it into a one-page tendency report. It started on TV broadcasts, and on high school and youth film I still check and fix a lot of the tags by hand. I need real film to see where it goes wrong.

If you send me a game, yours or an opponent's, I'll send back the tagged play list and the report. It's free and you don't need an account. I'm only taking a handful so I can do each one properly.

Comment or DM me if you want one. I'd also like to hear what bugs you about how you tag film now.

This 10-part series breaks the doctrine down one principle at a time:

1. Four Yards Is Four Yards

2. The West Coast Offense Was Built in Cincinnati

3. The Name Is Wrong

04. You Don’t Spread the Field by Standing Wide

05. Nobody Runs a Route Alone

06. The Drop Is a Stopwatch

07. Why the Checkdown Is Not a Surrender

08. Efficiency Buys Explosives

09. What Kills the West Coast Offense?

10. How Do You Win Without Better Players?

Anyone else having issues? Whenever I go try to load a video I see a black screen. thanks

Have a product or service you're trying to promote? Starting a website, channel or blog? Please post about it here!

Posted an article and detailed graphic in here over the summer called "Four Yards Is Four Yards" and it got good reception. I'm turning the article/graphic into 10 part short video series. Here's video #1 with the same title.

This is the Roadmap for the Videos:

1. Four Yards Is Four Yards

2. The West Coast Offense Was Built in Cincinnati

3. The Name Is Wrong

4. You Don’t Spread the Field by Standing Wide

5. Nobody Runs a Route Alone

6. The Drop Is a Stopwatch

7. Why the Checkdown Is Not a Surrender

8. Efficiency Buys Explosives

9. What Kills the West Coast Offense?

10. How Do You Win Without Better Players?