A Short Course on How to Play Shootout Football

[Reginald Rutledge]

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.

[mozeek]

DOWN WITH SOLITAIRE.......

[Reginald Rutledge]

[canadatabletopgames]

and that's the reason why i love solitaire MF


Take it easy

Benster

[mark robin]

thats pretty dang good video RR. thanks. i used my slomo and dickerson may have just been short on that last TD...lol.

[sweetka]

Looks like a lot of fun to me!

[Reginald Rutledge]

The rules and principles are the same for solitaire and competitive. Coaches know that where you stop the board is where the contact is. So if you accidentally go an inch longer than should have, the ball is down at that point. I should have been more cognizant of where the down and distance was.

When I did run it back in slo-mo from another angle, Dickerson did cross over but he was just barely. That's why I got the cameras at 6 different angles for plays like this.

But this is a rule that most people who begin to play Shootout do not understand. In their eyes, the ball should have been stopped where the contact happen. But because we give the switch over to the defensive coach on running plays, they have sole power and authority where to stop the ball carrier. We tell them if they continue to let the ball carrier run after getting hit 10 yards earlier, that's on him. I do not have it in my hand (the switch) so its not my responsibility.

We do this to stop ALL ARGUMENTS about where the ball carrier is downed at. Some people like to use their lack of defensive prowess to blame you when ball carriers are running roughshod over them.

Reginald

[Coach K-LO]

Originally Posted by Reginald Rutledge

The rules and principles are the same for solitaire and competitive. Coaches know that where you stop the board is where the contact is. So if you accidentally go an inch longer than should have, the ball is down at that point. I should have been more cognizant of where the down and distance was.

When I did run it back in slo-mo from another angle, Dickerson did cross over but he was just barely. That's why I got the cameras at 6 different angles for plays like this.

But this is a rule that most people who begin to play Shootout do not understand. In their eyes, the ball should have been stopped where the contact happen. But because we give the switch over to the defensive coach on running plays, they have sole power and authority where to stop the ball carrier. We tell them if they continue to let the ball carrier run after getting hit 10 yards earlier, that's on him. I do not have it in my hand (the switch) so its not my responsibility.

We do this to stop ALL ARGUMENTS about where the ball carrier is downed at. Some people like to use their lack of defensive prowess to blame you when ball carriers are running roughshod over them.

Reginald

one of the shootout rules that I do like, but it still caused some issues because the defensive coach did not want to except "the concept" during the actual game....wanted to move the ball back to the contact spot, but had to remind the coach that is not where the new LOS will begin because you kept the board running........

k-lo

[Reginald Rutledge]

a mature Shootout League because it has been indoctrined in their head that this is where the LOS will be. So there is an emphasis to make sure that you stop the ball on time.

Even at the risk of players falling over, this will not happen. The officials are usually adamant about that. So even if a defensive coach lets the man score and then want to stop the ball when it was really a tackle at the 1 yard line, it's not the offensive team's fault and thus, he should not be penalized.

If leagues are doing it any other way, they are wrong. No arguments should even take place at that point.

Reg