OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING

							                     OFF-SEASON
          GAME PLANNING
      Andrew Coverdale – Head Coach – Castle High School
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                        OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING
                                       THE GOAL:
                         Build the RIGHT base, and ensure that it is as
                         strong as it can be by the way it is practiced

                “BUILD THE RIGHT BASE”
                Within your system, create a core offense that fits your talent, your
                opposition, and situational football, giving you the answers you need
                under stressful situations with the right amount of volume.
                       *Most coaches go back to their core in tight spots/big games

                “ENSURE THAT IT IS STRONG”
                Practice what you’re going to call IN PROPORTION to how much you
                will call it…develop the SKILLS your kids will use in proportion to how
                much they will use them! (Fundamentally sound)
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                          OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING
                                           STEPS
                        1. Develop your package: The 6-question test
                        2. Prioritize your plays & allocate reps
                           A. Running game
                           B. Passing game
                        3. Create an installation chart based on those
                           priorities
                        4. Identify skills associated with your plays
                        5. Prioritize skills and block out practice
                           based on those priorities
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                          OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING
                              THE 6-QUESTION TEST
                        1. Does it fit our philosophy, and does it
                           compliment other things in our offense?
                        2. Does it fit our talent set?
                        3. Do we understand the least desirable things
                           about it & are we prepared to live with them?
                        4. Can we coach it in detail and fix the
                           problems?
                        5. Does it help us beat the teams we have to
                           beat on our schedule?
                        6. Is it ‘CHEAP’ or ‘EXPENSIVE’?
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                          OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING
                              CHEAP v. EXPENSIVE
                        1. How hard is it for kids to learn?
                        2. How similar or different is it, conceptually,
                           to what your kids already understand
                           about football?
                        3. How much practice time does it take to get
                           good at?
                        4. How many new skills are involved as
                           opposed to skills already being used
                           elsewhere in the offense?
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                          OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING
                                PRIORITIZING PLAYS
                        *RUNNING GAME: Allotment Chart
                        *PASSING GAME: “Jobs” to do!
                          A. Defeating coverage (Needs chart)
                          B. Situational football (Menu)
                          C. Quantifying it (Rep allotment)
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                          OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING
                             INSTALLATION SCHEDULE
                        *The higher the ‘rep target’, the earlier it
                          goes in (common sense)
                        *Lots of approaches!
                        *Week 1: Establish the CORE
                                       Base situations
                        *Week 2:       Tag, refine & adjust the core
                                       Apply to situations
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                           OFF-SEASON GAME PLANNING
                                    SKILLS
                        *Recognize the individual jobs that have to be done
                          by individual players on all your plays, list those
                           EXAMPLE: Power O – O Line>>   1. Down block   2. Seal block   3. Combo
                                                         4. Slush        5. Arc (TE)     6. Skip pull
                        *Group skills to identify with families of plays (e.g.,
                          Zone Skills, Gap skills, Screen Skills)
                        *Spell out specifically your individual time, pre-
                          season, for each position
                        *Allot skills time that corresponds to the priority
                          given the plays they’re used in, then plug the
                          drills that practice those skills into the individual
                          time slots