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How To Breakdown Game Film(help)

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I have always been fascinated with exactly how coaches breakdown game film and prepare game plans based on what they see.

Jon Gruden mentioned on MNF that the first thing offense coaches do is look at the front and then the coverage.

I am curious if anyone knows of video's or books that detail how this is done, maybe even high school coaches could chime in and explain.

Thanks
 
Going to be a little difficult to do if all you have is a tivo copy of the game. You need to be able to see the whole field.
 
The coaching tape gives you the "endzone tight" angle....so you can see spacing, gaps (assignments), and techniques more clearly and from the players perspective....it's much more helpful in player/coach dialogue in meetings, etc...

The coach can immediately get on the same page with the player as to what he might have seen on given play and at what time during the play he saw it, etc....

DB techniques (bail, trail, press, etc., etc.)...
 
without endzone tight, it's really more difficult to scout a team with gametape... it's doable for the offensive and defensive fronts, but it's trully not as good, and as easy

endzone tight angles are not available to the public BTW... and if you're wondering what it is, think about games in primetime where there's this camera in the air being right behind the offence and looking towards the defence (not the same thing at all, but it's got its similarities)

what do they look for ? well, when i played and scouted an offence, we watched every play and noted on paper every play with every down and distance situation for each play... that way you can sometimes identify 1 or 2 plays that offences use a lot of times in a game. Especially in the run game... break down the blocking scheme of their favorite play, prepare your defence at practice, and it should save you some rushing yards


The second thing it enables you to do, when you check out the down and distances, is try to find some tendencies (i.e. on 2nd and 10+, if you see 2 passes and 7 RB draws, you might want to talk about that in the defensive meeting room)


for the offensive side, i couldn't really tell what they look at... i'm a defence guy :D
 
I have a strong interest in watching game tape also. I did research over the web for any software or videos of coaching film. I really couldn't find anything. I wish I could find old coaches game tape so I could really see what the players and coaches see during game action. Nothing wrong with being a student of the game. You wouldn't have so many dumb post and ignorant fans if they had the correct camera angles. Best we got now are high school football games and you may laugh but a video game like madden 2010. Its about the closest simulation to real football.
 
I know they have people that piece the different angles of plays together. This use to be called splicing when it was actually film. They have personnel whos job it is to get all the different angles form different cameras and combine them into the game tape.
 
thanks guys, I do have I feel an above average understanding of the game, I know of the endzone tight angle as well the "all 22" which both are use full in evaluating games.

I remember reading once Sid Gilmon said "see it,write it,learn it" regarding plays, and with that I have always tried to do so.

But I constantly hear a player or coach say they saw something on film and it tipped them off...thats what I wanna learn what are they looking for beyond just plays.

I have often thought if I worked at NFL Network I would produce a totaly educational program where the show would be similiar to the playbook but more indepth,also thought of having a "show case" game(lets say NE @ NO) each week and take full advantage of the ex HC's the network employs and have them actually sit in a class room with coaches tape and prepare me the viewer for the up coming game as if I were the player.
Not just one play with a 10sec hilight but 3 or 4 run plays and a few pass plays and when in the game you can expect it same for the defense.
Id have a former coach assigned a team(ex. Martz NO & Billick NE).

I have read many coaches books but its always as if one coach is talking to another, I would love to find a video,book or forum where say an ex coach is simply educating me on how to break film down and learn why a defense should be called against certain offensive plays.
 
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