I just want to know. Wouldn’t certain plays require knowing what the other team is going to do in their next play? How on earth does a team choose plays, and what can be their reasoning behind choosing it?
Also, don’t teams have entire playbooks, with dozens of complicated plays in them? Do the players all have to study these constantly to remember them all?
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> Also, don’t teams have entire playbooks, with dozens of complicated plays in them? Do the players all have to study these constantly to remember them all?
Most NFL playbooks have hundreds of plays. But for most positions, it is much simpler. For the OL, there’s a limited number of blocking assignments each has to remember for each blocking scheme. For a RB, there’s only 8 different “holes” the play can be designed for, and a few different routes or blocking assignments they can have, for a receiver, there’s only a dozen different route concepts, so they just need to know where to lineup and which route to run.
The trickier part comes in high presnap movement offenses where there could be shifts and players in motion. That’s why sometimes you will see someone who is newer or who is in a new position being instructed on the field reminding them of how they should shift/move presnap.
The QB has a harder time as he has to know exactly where everyone will be on every play, and all of the movement that should be taking place presnap. That’s part of why rookie QBs and QBs new to some system usually run a drastically trimmed down playbook.
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