Game Planning and Play Calling in the Age of the RPO

Game Planning and Play Calling in the Age of the RPO
Author: Rich Hargitt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2018-11-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781729784693

Play calling is one of the most important parts of having a successful offense. Every team has a playbook, but how do you use those plays in the right situations to maximize your offensive production?This book covers topics including: -The difference between P & 10 and 1st & 10-The Trinity of Game Planning (Matchups, Leverage, & Grass) and how they make preparation easier.-Scripting your openers-Calling plays in the Red Zone-Specific plays for Specific Down & Distances-And more!This book is a one-of-a-kind look at the processes and patterns behind Rich Hargitt's game planning and play calling tendencies, as well as the specific plays Coach Hargitt likes in each situation.

Complete Offensive Line

Complete Offensive Line
Author: Rick Trickett
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492581321

Developing dominating offensive linemen is Rick Trickett’s specialty. His accomplishments speak for themselves: 4 first-round draft selections, 20 NFL players, 13 All-Americans, and more than 30 all-conference selections. Now with Complete Offensive Line, he’s created the most in-depth guide ever on offensive line play. Today’s linemen must have skill, strength, power, quickness, agility, and intelligence to excel at the position. That is why Complete Offensive Line presents it all—from footwork and hand positioning to pulling and cutbacks. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Trickett takes you onto the practice field and into the trenches to learn these skills, among others: • Pass protection • Run blocking • Man and zone blocking • Combination blocks • Blitz pickup • Recognition of defensive sets such as 4-3, 3-4, and stack • Strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities against any defensive set • Techniques and schemes for formations such as spread, option, and the run and shoot With XX of the most effective drills, skill evaluation, line play assessments, scheme suggestions, and unparalleled coaching advice from one of the best in the game, Complete Offensive Line is simply the definitive book on football’s most demanding position.

Power Play

Power Play
Author: F. Ethan Repp
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1622875028

Politics is a mean spirited business. Power Play allows the reader to be in the room where this character driven novel is graphically experienced. History repeats itself. Questionable Police tactics didn't begin in 2014. The awareness and threats caused by aggressive police actions have recently changed but they’re not without precedent. A City Manager has the inside story. Read Power Play, a story set in the 1970’s when blind trust was too often the case. Deceit, revenge, militaristic police, affected legal system and gay tragedy. The end of the Hoover era, amidst the death throes of the Nixon debacle. The author has captured an era, depicting a battle for the soul of the Republic, at the local level. Young, handsome, charming Collier Winthrop is enticed by a crusty old Political Boss, Al Caso, to seek Public Office. Collie soon faces an unscrupulous adversary practiced in deceit; manipulated state investigative agencies and a contaminated police department. Events unfold that uncover a sordid police mentality, unveil the civil rights of the Flower Children violated, ruin reputations and threaten the very lives of Collie's confederates. How can Collie unravel plots unseen and unimaginable, to survive even the earliest months of his political enterprise. The work portrays the depth and conflict of personalities. Politics is a business of expediency. Otherwise decent people justify immoral behavior in defense of careers.

Ready Player One

Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307887456

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9

The Bunch Attack

The Bunch Attack
Author: Andrew Coverdale
Publisher: Coaches Choice Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781585181780

Detailed overview on how to develop and implement a pro-style passing attack using a bunch or clusteredformation. Sections include: general attack concepts, howto install route packages, how to vary specific routepackages.

Ready Player Two

Ready Player Two
Author: Ernest Cline
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524761338

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants. Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance. Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.

How to Read a Football Defense

How to Read a Football Defense
Author: Bill Renner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-09-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537689838

Coach Renner has called plays for 30 years, 23 years as a head coach. He finished his 30-year coaching career with a consecutive game touchdown scoring streak of 141 games, a span of 13-years. During that time his offenses averaged 31.1 points per game and 6+ wins per season. These things were achieved at four different high schools in two different states. And, all four teams became winning playoff teams. Coach Renner used the same method of reading a football defense to call his plays during those 13-years. In this book, How to Read a Football Defense, Coach Renner explains the process of dividing the defense into three parts to read the best area to attack. He uses over 75 diagrams and pictures to show you the common defensive alignments that you must know to be able to read a defense. He explains the role your choice of formations has on how the defense aligns and how that contributes to easily reading the defense. Coach Renner gives you a clear and concise order of how to read a defense to determine the best run or pass play to attack a defender. He details how to read the defensive line, the linebackers, the corners, and the safeties. He gives you specific alignment clues that tell you when to expect a linebacker blitz, a corner blitz or a safety blitz. He also explains how to determine the first level, second level and third level of the defense and what changes in those give you indicators of stunts and blitzes. When you finish reading Coach Renner's book you will have a good understanding of how to simplify reading a football defense. It will make you feel comfortable reading, calling and designing plays on game day that take advantage of a defender's and a defensive alignment.

Game Practice System

Game Practice System
Author: Rick Butler
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781795272186

We feel there is a better way to practice the game of football. The standard way most coaches organize and conduct a practice has just been copied and pasted since the Vince Lombardi days. Quite simply, we as coaches have just duplicated the practice process from our own days as a player. Schemes have changed, players have changed, and society has changed. But, practices for the most part have not. This book will attempt to convey why S2A Game Practice System (GPS) is an "edge of the knife" way to conduct a football practice. The Surface to Air System (S2A), is an offensive consulting service. This book will detail our thoughts from our offensive perspective, but the principles can be applied to all three phases of the game (Offense, Defense, Special Teams). In introducing this "outside the box" way of looking at something new in the game of football, we challenge you as a coach to take this information and determine if there's truly a better way of doing things. Ask yourself, "Is the way we've been conducting practices since I was a player really the most effective way?" Offenses have evolved, the passing game has evolved, and off-season methods of training have evolved. Why hasn't practice evolved? The objective of this book is to make football a better game through the utilization of S2A GPS. It is our specific objective to check the following boxes when developing this practice method: -Get more kids out for football-Create scenarios in which players have a richer knowledge of the game-Create practice situations recreating game situations that lead to more success -Create a safer game-Score more points-Win more games Again, we check those boxes with our main tenant: "If any activity is done in practice that does not directly have an impact on the actual game, we do not do it." It is our sincere hope that football coaches will take from this work the following: To implement a system that allows for a safer game by reducing the amount of time preparing, that reduces the repetitions for contact, and thus lessens the eventuality of injuries.-To implement a system that eliminates the need for the overuse of contact, but heightens the ability for game preparedness.-To implement a system that captures and keeps the learning attention span of even the lowest level learner-To implement a system that elevates the abilities of second and third teamers, and thus increases their value to the overall makeup and depth of the squad-To implement a system that elevates the practice role of each member of the coaching staff-To implement a system that leads to both recruiting more and keeping more young people playing the game-To implement a system that leads to more wins

Gun T an RPO System

Gun T an RPO System
Author: Kenny Simpson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre:
ISBN:

The Gun T RPO system is now available for coaches wishing to see Coach Simpson's offense. His playbook will provide the following for coaches wishing to see how the offense works: Formations and tags. Be as simple or complex as you want with simple tags.Motions and shifts. Confuse the defense by moving players pre-snap.Buck Sweep - All the flavors of buck sweep vs. any front the defense wants to throw out. Strong Belly - Coach Simpson's unique simple way to run strong belly will adapt to any front.Strong Belly Read - Making one blocking scheme into many is the goal of the Gun T RPO system.Jet Sweep/Quick Belly/Quick Belly Read - All 3 plays run with the same blocking rules and little adjustments.Counter Game - How to run a traditional wing-t counter and mix it with the RPO game.Passing game in the Gun T RPO systemHeavy SetAnd more...Review from Coachtube about the Gun T RPO System: "Coach Simpson's Gun T Offensive Overview is an excellent offensive resource. This course provides the foundation of Coach Simpson's offensive philosophy. Coach believes in the monikers that "Less is More" and the "Rule of 3", which both were evident in the explanation of the offense. His explanations were clear and concise, and the presentations were easy to follow." - Todd Knipp"This is absolutely amazing. Coach Simpson does an excellent job of explaining his system. Whether your a young coach or an experienced coach this is must see. You can easily see why he is a successful coach. His detail an organization is on point and I cannot wait to learn more from Coach Simpson." - Mike Kloes"I've been following coach Simpson for a while now and it's very clear to me that even though I may not be a HC, we have similar philosophies. If you are a Wing T guy looking for ways to "Modernize" your offense, or a Spread guy looking for an effective and efficient run game this is the offense you should be looking at!" - Coach Sheffer"The course by Coach Simpson was quite helpful. As the new Head Coach of a small school - the Gun T system is going to help us be successful right away. Being a spread coach for the last 8-9 years, this system easily blends the best of both worlds of spread and wing-." -Mike Wilson"Coach Simpson's Gun-T Offense is dynamic and efficient. This course gets into the foundation of building blocks of the Gun-T offense and what you are trying to do offensively to be as successful as possible." - Austin Pink"Amazing detail on numerous variations of attaching RPO's to your Bucksweep. Keeps it simple yet extremely informative. Great Job Coach Simpson, you made me a believer! Highly recommend!" - Mike Turso"Coach Simpson does a awesome job explaining his system, and he does it a way that people like myself who are not familiar with RPO's can understand!" - Coach Coleman

Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593318188

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?