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Old 12-28-2010, 02:41 PM
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Default A Short Course on How to Play Shootout Football

These are just basic plays. The players have been tweaked to run certain ways so it's not a lot of re-changing how players run other than the read and react. On pass plays, safeties are put in spinning motion to represent zone coverages.

Offensive sets begin in a formation and then audibles can occur. In the Shootout method, it is a 3-1 ratio. The reason being is that it forces you to play an honest brand of defense at the start. One person I was always fascinated with that picked that up right away was Ken Allen of the Big 10. I watched some of his games on TV and things that he did as a defensive coordinator tells you a lot about what he knew defensively.

On offense, after a pass is caught, players can react. Every once in a while, you will forget to react a player and he zooms past that guy.

There's a couple of kickoffs on here too. One shows the kick return team going back to form the wedges/blocking schemes. Another one has the kicking team moving forward to block right away at the point of attack.

There is stacking involved in this play, which allows audibles to be called and isolations and exploiting of one-on-one matchups and unbalanced sets are taken advantage of.

All and all, if played the way it is suppose to be, you can run more than 100 plays in a given 3 hour game. The sequence you will be looking at is from a solitaire sequence so everything applies. The only difference between solitaire Shootout and competition Shootout is that in Solitaire, we shake the box for the actual play, which could be from 1-100, and the playbook determines the play at that time. Some teams had small playbooks, such as the Rams in the 80's. They started most plays in the Power I with Dickerson.

Feel free to ask any question regarding Solitaire or Competitive Shootout play.

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