Early morning ramblings to the assistant coaches

Note: This was completed and emailed around 2:30 am Saturday night / Sunday morning…

Fella’s

I traveled out to my parents house today and helped them do some fall cleaning. I felt kinda tired and didn’t want to risk a drowsy drive on the way back to Lehi so I drank three energy drinks – two sixteen ouncers (Rock Star and Monster) and one 24 oz (Monster) – and guess what, they totally work! So, I am physically drained but I can’t get my mind to shut down therefore I spent some time (way too much) on our formations to ensure that all the kids are treated fairly. So let me know what you think.

I have devised four (4) formations: Army, Navy, Air Force & MARINES. In keeping with the military theme and trying to mirror the realities of the US Armed forces the Marines is our strongest and most formidable formation with both Bugga and Zach enlisted while the Navy formation is our weakest, Bugga and Zach in reserve status. Anyhow, I have structured it such that every boy can have at least one chance to try and advance the ball by being either a QB, RB or WR. Keeping with our base formation of Alpha Right (see attached) I have placed each boy into one of the four formations. You will notice (probably only because I pointed it out and neither of you two are as anal as I am about this stuff) that five (5) of the boys are only involved in two (2) formations while six (6) of the boys are involved in three (3) formations. I make up for this potential discrepancy in playing time by having three (3) of the five (5) (Bugga, Zach, and Trevor) always playing Defense. The other two (2) boys (Adam, Morgan) will have distinct / unique roles on Special Teams. Adam will be our full time kicker and Morgan will assume all kick off return duties. Additionally, I propose two defensive formations – Raider / Charger (I hope this naming convention isn’t a direct correlation to their namesakes, else we will most likely want to change the names to DENVER BRONCOS) with Raider being the default defense. Also, I have created two (2) kick off teams – a Raider team and a Charger team. (Currently I don’t have .gifs created for these positions, but who knows by the time I get done drafting this email I may still be totally wired and have created them too) Finally, I have also created two Kick Off Return teams using the MARINE and Army formations. (Formations that include Morgan [see point above about kick off return man for further clarification])

Without further ado, the formations:

<–snip formations–>

This week in practice I would like to have each of the four (4) QB/RB/WR combinations practice the four (4) base plays (Dive/ Fake Dive/ Reverse/ Fake Reverse) with one another separate from the rest of the boys. While one of us is working with the three (3) boys we can have the remaining boys (lets hope that all 11 boys show up) work on the blocking assignments correlated to whichever group (Military Unit Name) is practicing the skilled aspects of the plays. (I hope this makes sense) Finally, we need to make sure that we practice with Trevor, Jack and Dexter the role of a defensive end. (contain first – pull flags second) If we can get them to understand containment our backers will eat up any running play.

Ok boys, I think this is enough for now, please let me know if you think I have missed anything. And finally, I just want to thank both of you guys for helping out, it sure makes this a lot more enjoyable when I don’t have to worry about everything during the game.

Peace,

Jon

P.S. As you probably can tell I created the kick off formation .gifs…
P.P.S. Please think of a way to teach the boys their formations to which they belong. (I used the military names because I thought it would be easier to remember than A,B,C or 1,2,3 but I am open to suggestions.)

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