Platoon

I want to give you some background first on how I call plays and design them...

I dont see anyone else here that does it this way, so I am curious about your opinions as well.

I give every spot a number between 1 and 5, no colors or designation like rb, wr...etc...

so if I call play 545....the kids immediately know that 5 (always the QB) gets it, and gives it to 4, who in return gives it back to 5...545....

I make every play formation in numerical order, starting from left to right...so
1 is the wr on left, 2 is the slot, 3 is usually always my center, 4 is the rb or right wr, and 5 is QB. I try to make all my plays from 2 to 3 formations so the defense cannot see the difference between them.

When practicing I geive every player a number 1-5 again, then we call plays, run them, then I say rotate...every player moves up one number and we start to call plays again, and we do this for 45 minutes every practice...

so if you are 1, you then become 2 and so forth, 5 rotates back down to 1....

So in the games, I only have to do one thing in the huddle, I call the play....the boys know exactly where to go and what the play is!! I havent seen anything even close to this in our league for 2 seasons.

I can call almost 3 plays to everyone elses 1 play....

Here is my favorite play....

I will add more soon...

I made a post in the sticky, about my first practice, now my second practice with 3 repeat players and 4 new ones was a complete turn around from my first practice. Unfortunately to the worse...

So I thought I would start a thread about my season, and I hope any and all who want to give input...WILL....I need all the help I can get....

The 2nd practice had 2 VERY talented players show up, and they BOTH listen. there were 2 others as well, and average talent, one will NOT LISTEN AT ALL, he even runs his OWN pass routes and then yells for the QB to throw him the ball...EVERY PLAY! I was so frustrated I sat in silence the rest of the night after practice. How to handle this one??!!!

Thats all I have for this practice.....