Do you work on plays or players???

[MplsTom]

This is a cousin to the tweaking thread. I agree with Jimbo on this one and a case in point was Adrian Baxter's win in the Beltsville Bash last weekend with a relatively "new" team.

One area I see that people could really improve is if they spent 1/10th of the time working on plays and formations as opposed to players.

So you have the fastest base...so what. A bigger question is "how are you going to get him open". What ways are you going to angle receivers so they help each other? Not every play has to go to the house. Really good coaches in this hobby are often content to "move the chains." What options do you have if your opponent does defense a, defense b, etc...

As for strength, as long as you have "competitive" strength, how does your defensive formation stack up? What are ways that you can your opponent's strengths or tenancies? Bully ball is boring...I love to play coaches that employ that style as they are one-dimensional.

Also, are you as a coach looking at what figures work best against what figures? Often the base doesn't matter if the other guy is forklifting him onto his 2 back prongs.

Tweaking can be fun and I'm not ripping on tweaking or tweakers. I just think the competition level in this hobby can improve more by guys working on "plays" than "players".