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Football Offenses & Plays | 
| Author: American Football Coaches Association
Creators: Bill Mallory, Don Nehlen
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 327689
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 233
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0736062610
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3322
EAN: 9780736062619
ASIN: 0736062610
Publication Date: August 21, 2006
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Book Description
Football Offenses & Plays presents all of the popular offensive systems used today as well as tactical advice for play calling in each of four areas of the field. It features insights from many of the game's top offensive minds, who have conceived, or are extremely successful in employing, a specific means of attack: - Discover the strengths of the I-Formation from Al Borges and the use of the H-back from Joe Novak.
- Maximize the use of one-back sets using two, three, or four receivers with the help of Glen Mason, Joe Tiller, and Gregg Brandon.
- Make the shotgun a real weapon with the insights of Randy Walker and Rich Rodriguez.
- Learn how to use four receivers from shotgun formations from Rich Rodriguez.
- Trace the development of running attacks, including the veer with Bill Yeoman, the wing-T with Tubby Raymond, and flexbone with Fisher DeBerry.
- Execute soundly in the yellow zone, green zone, red zone, and gold zone with guidance from Dennis Franchione, Ralph Friedgen, Larry Kehres, and Terry Malone.
- Employ the best strategies for two-minute and no-huddle situations with advice from Gary Tranquill.
- Help your quarterback make effective play calls at the line of scrimmage with the audible system presented by Don Nehlen.
Developed by the American Football Coaches Association, Football Offenses & Plays is the most detailed and comprehensive book on offensive tactics ever published. Make it part of your game plan this season and see your side of the scoreboard light up!
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 Haphazard at best. Youth Coaches AVOID! January 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In my experience as a football coach at both the high school and youth levels over the past nine years, what coaches need the most are comprehensive playbooks that detail specific game situations and help neophytes to understand not just what a play is supposed to look like, but also how it attacks the defense and WHY it is called. You rarely in football call a play to score. You call it to gain a minimum acceptable amount of yardage in order to sustain a drive. Understanding this vital point is a CRITICAL part of understanding the strategy and tactical situation of the game.
You will NOT find that information in this book. Much like the inaccurately named "Football's Best Offensive Playbook" (ISBN: 0-87322-574-0) this book is a confusing mishmash of individual plays and complex ideas. An inexperienced youth coach trying to use this book would be hopelessly lost and end up with a playbook that looks like it came from Madden.
Almost no effort is devoted in this book to the concept of series-based football and the idea of making as many plays in the offense look as similar as possible in order to fool the defense into overpursuit. All of the plays shown are drawn against a 4-3 defense, a defensive system almost NEVER used below the high school level.
I also agree with the previous reviewer that the book should have included something about the West Coast Offense. Although the system is completely unsuitable for the youth levels, it has some application in it's passing attack, and with its widespread use (29 of 32 NFL teams currently run it in some form) coaches are bound to want to incorporate it. Its lack of inclusion means that the book is not comprehensive.
If you are an experienced coach looking to expand your system, you will probably find a few tips and tricks here. If you are a beginner, or are coaching at the youth levels, I strongly recommend "The Wing-T from A-Z" series by Dennis Creehan (ISBN: 1-57167-426 and 1-58518-250-8), "Winning Single Wing Football" by Ken Kueffel ,the SWinger's Bible, (ISBN:0-9744022-4-9) and "Coaching the Single Wing Offense" by Jim Ahern (ISBN: 1-58518-912-X).
If you are interested in the pass-first attack of the West Coast Offense and the Spread (And I hope you're not at the youth level where these offenses are inordinately difficult to install and use), then I recommend "Football's West Coast Offense" by Henderson and Olsen (ISBN:0-88011-662-5) and "Coaching Football's Spread Offense" by Stowers and Butzer (ISBN: 1-58518-198-6).
Above all, I recommend, "The Toss: A New Offensive Attack for High Scoring Football" by Jerry Vallotton, which is available only through his website now. Web searches will lead you to him easily. (Amazon sells the book, but it's currently out of print and several hundred dollars. It's much cheaper through the author.)
I do not particularly recommend this book.
~D.
Derek A. "Coach" Wade
Author: Impact! Coaching Successful Youth Football Vol. I: The Program
 Some good stuff May 14, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It has some good stuff but there isn't anything in here about the West Coast Offense.
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