Essay on "Football Playbook Season Schedule Explanation"

Quoted Instructions for "Football Playbook Season Schedule Explanation" Assignment:

PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS:

Team Playbook ***** Explanation

1. COVER PAGE - name, the NAME OF FICTIONAL SCHOOL AND CONFERENCE, nickname with logo (WILL BE SENT) This page should be in color.

2. Page 1 ***** Simply include MOTIVATIONAL STATEMENT AND CORE PHILOSOPHY (WILL BE SENT)

3. PROVIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS (you do not have to include the cover page or page 1 in the table of contents)

4. SEASON SCHEDULE ***** Use the conference schedule (WILL BE SENT) THEN FILL IN NON-CONFERENCE GAMES on your own (USE ANY of the teams from the other conferences)

5. SEASON SCHECULE EXPLANANTION

Give a BRIEF EXPLANANTION FOR WHY YOU PUT CERTAIN TEAMS ON YOUR NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (for example, are you trying to build a challenging schedule, easy schedule, fill your stadium with big crowds each week to bring in revenue, build confidence in your players early in the season??? Just give a short explanation for why you included each of the non-conference teams on your schedule.

6. OFFENSIVE PLAYS AND OFFENSIVE PHILOSPHY

A. The first page of this section should be the STATED GOALS AND PHILOSPHY OF OFFENSE. You should include the following:

THREE GOALS RELATED TO STRATEGIC OR TACTICAL ASPECTS OF YOUR OFFENSIVE GAME PLAN (running the ball effectively to control the clock field, eliminating mental mistakes, eliminating turnovers, outscoring your opponent with a high powered and entertaining offense, etc.)

B. The second page should INCLUDE A DIAGRAM OF FOUR BASIC FORMATIONS WITH A NAME FOR EACH FORMATION.

C. The third page should DESCRIBE YOUR PLAY CALLING SYSTEM, Whole numbering system, description of line splits, and give the names and/or numbers of the offensive players in your system (e.g. X, Y, Z, H, A-Back, are you numbering the running backs, etc).

This should INCLUDE AN EXPLANATION OF HOW RUN PLAYS AND PASS PLAYS WILL BE CALLED IN THE HUDDLE***** if you plan to huddle. If you use a no huddle offense, DESCRIBE YOUR SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATING PLAYS BETWEEN YOUR OFFENSIVE PLAYERS AND COACHES.

D. DIAGRAM AND LABEL THREE RUN PLAYS OUT OF YOUR BASE FORMATION VS AN ODD FRONT. DESCRIBE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EACH POSITION.

E. DIAGRAM AND LABEL THREE RUN PLAYS OUT OF YOUR BASE FORMATION VS AN EVEN FRONT. DESCRIBE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EACH POSITION.

F. DIAGRAM AND LABEL FOUR PASS PLAYS OUT OF YOUR BASE FORMATION. DESCRIBE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EACH POSITION. EXPLAIN THE GENERAL LOGIC or PHILOSOPHY BEHIND YOUR PASSING PLAYS (what areas of the field you hope to attack, why you think it will work against zone or man, or a specific type of zone such as Cover 2 or Cover 3, etc.) This can be a bullet point explanation.

7. BASE DEFENSE AND DEFENSIVE PHILOSOPHY

A. The first page of this section should be the STATED GOALS OF DEFENSE and PHILOSOPHY OF DEFENSE. INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

THREE GOALS related to strategic or tactical aspects of your defensive philosophy (getting opponents off of the field on 3rd downs, creating turnovers, being physically more aggressive or mentally tougher than the opponent, not giving up more than 10 points a game, whatever. . .).

B. DIAGRAM your base defense and DESCRIBE the responsibilities and alignment for each position vs. the run and vs. the pass. Diagram and explain the adjustments for each position vs. a 10, 11, and 21 personnel.

C. DIAGRAM THREE DEFENSIVE LINE *****MOVEMENTS***** and three *****PRESSURES***** or both, that you will use in your defense. EXPLAIN your logic behind each movement or pressure and when you might use each defensive call. EACH MOVEMENT or pressure should have a name.

Try to incorporate position names, letters, team colors, team mascot names, etc. into the names of your defensive adjustments, movements, and pressures.

8. PRE-GAME ITINERARY

This will show your pre-game schedule for a 7:00 p.m. road game at a school that is one hour away from your school.

Your schedule WILL INCLUDE departure time from school and bus loading time, time and location of pre-game meal, time and description of all pre-game meetings, and the on-field pre-game practice routine (general description)

9. INCLUDE THE PRACTICE PLAN (WILL BE SENT)

PLEASE KEEP THE FOLLOWING IN MIND

1) All work should be your original work and not copied or cut and pasted from another source.

2) You may use ideas and concepts from other sources (such as an old high school playbook) but you need to write and draw all plays, formations, descriptions, and diagrams by hand or use Word, Excel, a playbook generating software, etc

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