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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They don’t know what play the other team is going to run, but they can makes guesses based on the tendencies they’ve shown as well as the current game situation.
If the offense makes substitutions than the defense is allowed to match and those personnel groupings affect what plays the offense can or is likely to run (more wide receivers vs big guys for run blocking).
For the offense, yes there can be a number of plays, but a lot of it is just various combinations of a smaller set of concepts. Like, a play to that has a receiver running a post on one side and a receiver running a hook on the other is technically a different play than a post and cross, but as long your receivers know how to run those different routes, you can make lots of combinations.
When the QB calls out the play in the huddle each word is a code word to convey information to one or more players about their role(s) in the play.
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