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| Ed Scott
February 28, 2010
10:13:37 PM
Entry #: 3403361
| - Your biggest improvement will come after your first game.
- Know your rules. List ten things you can do to exploit the rules and do at least three or four each week. Do what you do best. No more - no less.
- Watch where your opposing coach stands before each play. He might telegraph which way he is going to run or throw.
- Use all your timeouts in each half for strategic reasons. If you have a nice drive going - use one at around three or four minutes before end of quarter or half. Then run your two minute drill and make it last like its ten minutes.
- Write down your special team lineup for kickoff and return team. Practice it and use it during the game.
- Write down which way your running backs arc and run.
- Show run stop dominance in the early part of the game. Use a three/three or three two. If you can stop the middle run early the opposing coach may turn to his pass offense early.
- If you lose - it was probably two or three critical mistakes you made during the game. Recognize it and make the correction. Bad pivots, bad pitch decisions, penalties, poor special teams will all combine to kill you before being overmatched by talent or skilled veteran coaching.
- Try switching your loopers around if a coach is rolling out of the pocket. If he is killing you on runs outside - try using your regular loopers but place them five to eight yards back.
- Spend an hour or so a few hours before your game or mid-week putting a nice slice of double side tape under each platform. Nothing worse than having your figures unbalanced because they are sliding off the platform evey time they move. One roll of carpet tape will last a few seasons. It's like two three bucks. Cut strips and then cut sideways to make base top sized pieces.
- Eliminate the worst six or seven bases from your team each week and replace them with better bases. No sense having someone in your box that won't perform or does so poorly just to make it look like you have a lot of players.
- If you have that many bad bases you will have to come back for my next installment.
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