![]() No, we’re still not at the actual plays yet. It can get kinda out of hand, especially when you get to the NFL level. Terminology is one way to mask what you’re doing to gain an advantage. Information sharing is really important to the profession during the offseason, when coaches talk to each other and attend clinics. Some playbooks can have a full glossary of their verbiage, especially the pro-style schemes. Here’s one page of Tennessee’s 2002 defensive playbook (there are eight pages of jargon in total): 2002 Tennessee playbook Oh good heavens is there ever terminology. If you’re going to conquer the space - a football field - you should understand its constraints. When you think of it like that, it makes sense. Football plays are the distribution of players across open space. Great modern offenses stretch the field vertically and horizontally.įootball gets likened to war because it’s a territorial struggle. Malzahn’s playbook even has a diagram of a football field: 2010 Auburn playbookįor a team like Auburn, the amount of space on the field is important. Other procedures in playbooks include snap counts, audible procedures, alignments, stance descriptions, fronts, gaps, line splits, and personnel groupings. Nothing can be taken for granted, and that’s why it’s in the playbook. There’s a significant portion of at least one practice devoted to getting just the huddle right. It might seem simple (it’s just the huddle, right?), but the amount of detail a team has to go through on just the basics can be stunning. 2001 Florida playbook 2001 Florida playbookĮven though the sport’s obsessed with the no-huddle these days (a scheme that Oklahoma was running in the 1950s, by the way), there’s still a method to the up-tempo madness. Yes, players have to practice every detail about how to huddle.įrom Steve Spurrier’s 2001 playbook, here’s how the Gators huddled and relayed plays. The brilliance of an offense like the air raid is its simplicity. He draws it on a whiteboard, and the players copy it down. That runs in contrast to a coach like Kliff Kingsbury, who installs his offense without a playbook. Here’s one (1) day of what Chris Petersen wanted to get installed back in the Boise days: 2001 Boise State playbook Some go far beyond that there’s a composite Big 12 schedule in Miles’ 1996 playbook that shows every team in the conference and when they play each opponent. Most playbooks detail daily responsibilities throughout training camp and/or a regular game week. there are detailed stats that back up some of the more nebulous team-building topics: 2008 Alabama playbook 2008 Alabama playbook So much scheduling. In addition to graphics like this one from Alabama’s 2008 playbook. Nick Saban’s playbook takes that to a higher degree. ![]() ![]() “This is what we’re going to do, and this is how and why we’re going to do it.” Today’s teenagers don’t just jump when you say how high, and they need to have the why explained to them, but older playbooks show it’s been that way for a long time. Here’s the roadmap 2002 Ohio State followed to a national championship: 2002 Ohio State playbookĭespite the drill sergeant nature of coaches, these philosophy sections are where they can actually explain themselves. Here’s Rich Rodriguez’s 2005 goal sheet: 2005 West Virginia playbookīut here’s Gus Malzahn’s 2010 playbook: 2010 Auburn playbook ![]() Sometimes it’s much deeper than the buzzwords about being fast and physical. Team policies (there are five pages of them): 1996 Oklahoma State playbookĪnd what literally everyone in the program does (there are three pages of this): 1996 Oklahoma State playbook Coaches put their team’s ethos for the season up front. You go 50 pages in before you get to anything related to football tactics.Ĭaptain’s responsibilities: 1996 Oklahoma State playbook Miles’ playbook is deep at 480 pages, despite what you might think about the simplicity of his scheme during the LSU years. Playbooks are usually well over 100 pages, whether they’re old-school printouts, PDF downloads, or modern iPad apps. 1996 Oklahoma State playbook Ok, let’s go inside. This is purely a narrative ploy to show you the badass cover to Les Miles’ 1996 Oklahoma State playbook. The structure of a playbook tells the story of how a team builds a scheme from the ground up. The video game version might be the most familiar version of a football team’s bible, but in the real world, the structure and layout that your team uses has way more than just drawings of routes and coverages. This is what most people might think a playbook looks like. ![]()
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