Preparing the Offensive Install

By Anonymous - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - No Comments

If you've read my article Organizing a Season Plan then you are familiar with our structured approach to the season.

A key component in Phase 2 is the Install schedule. Irregardless of your preferred offensive system, you will have to prioritize what gets installed and in what order.

Here is my process for this task.

During Phase 1’s System Development, we identified the following:

Key Run & Pass concepts

IZ
OZ
Power
Iso
Jet
Buck
Wedge
Sweep
Toss

Pass

Flood
4 Verts
Swing

Packaged

Zone Option

Yardage goals per concept

Inside: 3 yds
Edge: 5 yds
Perimeter: 7 yds

Blocking Schemes

Zone
Power

Surfaces (More details in Being Multiple)

Left / Spread / Strong / Over / Trips
Right / Spread / Strong / Over / Trips
Beast Left / Right

Motions

Jet
Rocket

With this information identified, we prioritize the run/pass concepts into groups:

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta

The groupings are arranged by desired Point of Attack:

Inside
Edge
Perimeter
Screen/Pass
Packaged

This allows us to look at all concepts of a given P.O.A and rank them with little confusion.

Alpha	Core	Charlie	Compliment
Inside	31 Zone	Inside	11/12 Iso Zone
Edge	34 Power	Edge	37/38 Zone
Perimeter	X Jet Zone	Perimeter	38 Toss Zone
Screen/Pass	21 Swing	Screen/Pass	Flood
Packaged	31 Zone Option	Packaged

Bravo	CCompliment	Delta	Compliment
Inside	21 Zone	Inside	Wedge Zone
Edge	34 Iso Zone	Edge	Sweep Zone
Perimeter	18 Buck Zone	Perimeter
Screen/Pass	4 Vert	Screen/Pass
Packaged	X Jet Zone Option	Packaged

Once the concepts are categorized and ranked, we can begin to carve out the necessary practice time for each group.

Make note of two key points:

Ensure the Alpha group is enough for you to ‘live on’. This group should be your ‘best of’ plays for each category i.e. Inside, Edge, Perimeter etc
Resist the urge to skip ahead or around. Stick to your plan.

This process will assist in time management and practice/game planning. Also, it will help to identify necessary offensive/defensive skills that need to be taught. As well as their respective EDD’s.

Img 1: Practice Schedule

As you can see, we will live and die with the Alpha group until game 3. This will give us 6 weeks to focus on the Core concepts before moving the Compliments. This approach has the added benefit of ensuring that our Offense will look differently in the Post-season (for those pesky scouting teams). We do not want to be in a position where we’re trying to install new concepts (with little practice time) late in the season.

You can adjust this schedule based on your familiarity with your team and their respective maturation.