eli5: How do American Football teams choose plays?

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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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The defence has two major options at defending the pass, man mark or zonal other then there are options about blitzing the quarterback, sending more people to tackle the quarterback than the line can handle, the problem there is if the line can hold off long enough for a completed throw there is normally a wide open receiver. Almost every designed play on the defence is a combination of if this happens do this if that happens do the other, which is why learning the playbook is so important in American football.

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