Coaching Canadian Football by Football Canada

Author:Football Canada
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Human Kinetics, Inc.

Other ideas for useful columns are penalties and highlights. The idea is a chart or spreadsheet that’s as useful as possible in supplying the data needed for you and your staff to prepare for the opposition. You also can use this scout sheet for your own games. If you fill it in as completely as possible during the game, you’ll cut down dramatically on the time needed for entering data and tagging your own game film.

The fourth way to present the opposition’s offense is on the field in practice during your defense period. During practice one, show them the opposition’s formations and get players properly aligned. During practice two, review alignment and then run some of the opponent’s main plays. During practice three, review alignment and plays while adding presnap motion. If you have enough time and players, you can also use scout periods (inside run, pass skeleton, or full scout team periods) in which your offense runs the opposition’s plays. Again, if you have named the formations and plays using terminology that is familiar to your offensive players, they will be much more efficient in running the opposition’s plays. You will still want to have diagrams for the players to look at before each repetition.

Your final step is to prepare yourself for game day. During the week of meetings and practice, you should have taught your players the main formations, players, and plays of the opposing team. You may have also given them a couple of defenses they should audible into if the offense comes out in certain formations. Now you need to get yourself ready for the game. Based on your study of the opponent and their tendencies, you can put together your call sheet or scout sheet. How you do this will be specific to your needs as a play caller. A less experienced coach may want to make a call sheet that lists all his defensive fronts and coverages and then organizes them in lists based on down and distance (for example, based on scouting, what defenses should be called in second and long situations?). A more experienced coach who has a very strong grasp of his own defense may want a sheet that is divided by field zones, lists down and distance and run–pass percentages, and includes notes of specific offensive tendencies. If you are using headsets and have a coach upstairs in the spotter’s booth, you may want him to have a list of the opposition’s top formations and plays based on down and distance and field zone. He can provide little reminders of likely offensive play calls that you may want to consider before making your defensive call.

Scouting the offense is a big job, but if all of the defensive coaches work together, it can be an efficient process that gives players a big advantage on the field. Nothing shakes an offensive team’s confidence more than lining up and having the defensive players call out the play that the offense is running. If

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