The Effectiveness Of The Football Scouting Procedures In Developing A Defensive Game Plan At Lynwood High School During The Fall 1975 Season

In American Football, the ultimate defensive goal is to adjust to stop the offense; knowing when, where, and what the offense will do is priceless. Today, computerized systems can give much information to defensive coaches, but a defensive coach needs to visualize the data to respond appropriately. Spending a critical amount of time in a meticulous visual process is the only way to prepare for the game. This book explains in detail the art of scouting the offense to win games with the defense. You will learn how to diagram plays during a live game or from a computer video system. You will learn how to transfer each play-card to pre-established tendencies charts. When you have all the information on paper, you will learn how to find tendencies based on down and distance situations, sets and personnel formations, hash-marks, and field positions. Finally, when you have the opponent's tendency on your hands, you will learn how to use it to prepare players, practices, and game plan. This book is a great source of information if you want to learn the visual art of scouting.

Scouting a football defense is vital to the preparation and coaching of offensive football players for a game. Coach Bill Renner outlines a simple and efficient 10-step process to follow when scouting a football defense. The information gathered will provide the coaches and players with a confidence they need to have to play their opponent. Coach Renner has prepared high school offensive game plans for 30 years. He finished his football coaching career with a span of 13 straight years, 142 games, without the offense he was coaching being shutout. Following this simple 10-step process will help a coach in obtaining the knowledge to call offensive plays and know how and why the defense is aligned versus their formation. Play calling becomes more efficient and easier because you are calling plays to attack a players technique in a defensive alignment you are certain of. If you want to be certain that you are scouting your opponents defense the right way, getting the right information to help your offense, this book, How to Scout the Defense of Your High School Football Opponent, will give you that plan.

Coach Renner has coached high school football for 30 years, 319 games to be exact. He has made an offensive scouting report for all 319 games. He was a head coach for 23 years at four different high schools in two different states, Virginia and North Carolina. His 10-step offense scouting process will get you the information you need to know about your opponent's offensive tendencies. It is not designed to predict what your opponent will do on down and distances. It is designed for you and your players to recognize formation and running back set keys so you can know what play your opponent can or will run from that formation or running back set. That is the key to playing effective defense regardless of the talent you have. Coach Renner provides you with his naming and labeling terminology for 27 tight end formations, 12 no tight end formations and 10 running back sets. It is a complete list that you need to name and be prepared to play against. He gives you a diagram for each step in his scouting process so you know exactly what that step should look like. When you're finished you will have an idea of what a simple comprehensive offensive scouting report will look like. If you want to insure your players are prepared for your opponent's offense Coach Renner's simple but comprehensive plan will help you.

Often considered the first-ever book about the art of scouting in football, George Allen's 1953 How to Scout Football explores the importance of careful observation and analysis of rival teams in order to reach victory on the field. In a time before film reviews were commonplace, football teams relied on expert scouts to travel the country and watch games in-person. The scout would then report back with their insight about plays, characteristics of offensive and defensive players, and the team's strengths and weaknesses. Scouting - or "pigskin espionage," as Allen calls it - is useful for all levels of the sport, from high school to college to professional. Allen himself got his shot with the Chicago Bears as a scout, so he was well versed in both its application and importance. George Allen's (b. 1922 - d. 1990) coaching career began at the college level as head coach of both Morningside College in Iowa and Whittier College in California. He then spent a year on the staff of the Los Angeles Rams, followed by a longer stint with the Chicago Bears. With the Bears, Allen was initially asked to scout the Rams for a single season. His reporting was so thorough that his contract position became permanent. Eventually, he would become the defensive coordinator for the Bears. In 1966, Allen returned to the Rams as head coach where he brought the team back from a long losing streak. After five winning seasons with the Rams, he joined the Washington Redskins as head coach where he remained from 1971 to 1977. During his NFL tenure, Allen led his teams to the NFL playoffs seven times. Notably, Allen's Redskins reached Super Bowl VII in the 1972 season before losing to the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins' win gave the team the only perfect season in NFL history - a record they still hold. George Allen is generally considered one of the hardest working coaches in the sport. He was known for preferring veteran players over younger players, focusing on the success of the current team and controversially trading away young draft picks for older, more experienced players. "The future is now," he famously said. Throughout his successful career, Allen wrote several books about the sport, including 1953's How to Scout Football. While scouting methods have changed since the 1950s, the book offers an interesting look back at the techniques of the mid-century. The work goes into minute detail, from the appropriate number of scouts for each game, to where they should sit in the stands for the best view, to what steps a scout should take before, during, and after each game. In the chapter titled "Techniques of Scouting," Allen provides his own preferred methods that he employed during his time at Whittier College. This includes using a rubber hand stamp to create a quick template to fill in after each play. No notes were to be taken during play; all writing was reserved for the moments during time outs and between plays. Plenty of sample charts, graphs, and diagrams are included to demonstrate the techniques. Today's scouting takes place behind closed doors. Coaches and coordinators have the opportunity to stop and replay a game as many times as necessary to reach a full understanding of the opposing team's strategy. Allen's scouting recommendations show us how difficult it was to watch all 11 members of the team at once before the days of home video. "Winning is the science of being prepared," Allen once said. The attention to detail that he displayed as a coach and in his books is what led him to become one of the most successful football coaches of his day. To highlight his lifetime of achievements, George Allen was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

The first edition of Coaching Team Defense was printed over 20 years ago. Yet, the lessons within it remain vital for football coaches to this day. In fact, the lessons contained in this book may be more important to today's football coach than they were even at the time of the first printing of the book. Coaching Team Defense is widely regarded as one of the best defensive football manuals ever written. The book reinforces the belief that Fritz Shurmur was a mastermind in building great defensive teams. A proponent of coaching with simplicity, this revised edition delves into team defense basics and the guiding principles of team defense. Coach Shurmur's ability to think beyond the traditional envelope has inspired and guided football coaches for decades. This revised edition of this classic book offers several new features, including a DVD in which Coach Shurmur shares his insights and observations on the key factors involved in coaching sound team defense. Topics covered in this book include: Goals and Objectives Personnel: Physical Qualifications Personnel: Mental Qualifications Defending the Run Defending the Pass Pass Coverage Zone Pass Coverage Man Pass Coverage Nickel Defenses Practice Organization Scouting the Opponent Scouting Forms

"Considered the bible of scouting techniques" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years; his son is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a three-time Super Bowl winner. When Steve Belichick died in November 2005, the New York Times headline described him as "Coach Who Wrote the Book on Scouting," and cited Houston Texans General Manager Charley Casserly calling Football Scouting Methods "the best book on scouting he had ever read." In recent years this title has been one of the top ten most sought out-of-print books; used copies have been quite scarce. This reissue edition makes the original 1962 text available once again in exact facsimile. The book explains how to scout opponents, recognize defenses, analyze offenses, discover "tip-offs," compose a useful report, self-scout, and conduct postgame analysis.

This book contains ideas and procedures that have developed over a long period of time. A plethora of research has gone into the production of this book. Many of the ideas in the book are original, while others have been gleaned from in-depth film study, clinics, and perusing playbooks. An attempt has been made to cover as many contingency-based situations as we can. Down-and-distance, field zone, and hash variables are covered in detail. Time-related segments such as two- and four-minute defense, time-out procedures, fourth-quarter defense, quarter change, and clock strategies are examined. Reactive events, which are the most intense and pressure-packed aspects of the gamesuch as first down after an explosive play or sudden change scenarioare addressed. This book is applicable to any defensive framework. 4-3, split-4, 50, even, odd, pressure, or conservative defenses can apply the information included in this book. No matter the philosophy or style of defense used, this book can be an aide in game planning.