How much to show @ scrimmages?

[CoachAc]

I know its early but I figure wants camp starts everyone will be busy doin there own thing so ill ask now. How much of your offense do you show at scrimmages? Do you just run your core plays? Do you run through everything that you have in at that point? All help is appreciated

[Oz1]

we have two scrimmages a year
first scrim nothing but basic plays and formations

second scrim might show more to get actual game prep on certian plays...

other than that keep it simple and master the basics.

[groundchuck]

coachac said:

I know its early but I figure wants camp starts everyone will be busy doin there own thing so ill ask now. How much of your offense do you show at scrimmages? Do you just run your core plays? Do you run through everything that you have in at that point? All help is appreciated

We just run through our core stuff that everyone knows we are going to run. Same thing on defense. Keep it simple. I want our kids who gain confidence with the plays we have to run to win.

[coachbw]

We run basically our entire package, but will only run it from a couple of formations. Last year we showed mostly some Pro, Slot, and Tite stuff but didn't get into any of our spread formations at the scrimmage. We also don't show any of our presnap stuff (Shifts, Motions, No-Huddle, etc.)

[runtheball86]

Run what you need to run in order to prepare for the opener - may sound obvious but too many guys worry about showing too much in the scrimmages .... prepare YOUR team and let the chips fall.

[smd]

we run the basic package. we also rotate with our first huddle new players in every 3 or 4 plays. we want to build depth and get to see some kids versus better talent instead of jv. i view it as a glorified practice.

[realdawg]

I think (alot like others) that you show what YOU have to do to be successful. If you plan on using it regularly during the season, practice it in the scrimmages. I would hold off on any trick plays or double reverse passes though! One thing to keep in mind, if you dont show something you can surprise your opponent in the opener, but the more you show, the more they have to prepare for, and that takes practice time away from them. So to each his own.

[coachveer]

We used to go to our scrimmage and just show our very basic stuff ie. 2 IV, 2 OV, 2 load, 2 midline, 2 traps, 2 playaction pass, 2 3 step...next unit. But one year we struggled in our first game because some of our kids could not pick up some blocking adjustments. Which forced us to make personal adjustments between game 1 and game 2.

The next year we decided to make list and identify specific questions about personal. We then run what plays we need in order to answer those questions. Some times we will run triple 20 times in a row cause we got QB issues. Sometimes we will run different blocking assignments on Load option cause I need to know what kind of TE I got. So if that means we show motion cause we need to know if the motion man can ID who to block on the run then we will.

[rig]

We stick with our base plays, formations, defense, etc. Those will be our bread and butter during the year so we focus on that.

[bigdaddyd]

In terms of approach and preparation, we'll treat it like an actual game (Game uniforms, refs, under the lights etc...), but as far as play calling and defensive schemes; we'll keep it real simple, base stuff.

It's also an opportunity to see certain players in certain situations...

I have a question to add, what if your team is attending a full contact camp in July with ten teams, and 4 of the 10 teams are teams you'll be facing in the fall (league opponents). What would you run then?How would you approach the camp in terms of team goals and also schemes?keep in mind the chances of scrimmaging one or all of those teams is a possibility.

[coachpeterson]

We stick to mainly our base plays. More because we want to focus on getting good at the base stuff and there's not enough time for everything at the scrimmage than worrying about our opponents seeing it. Our first 2 games are non-conference games anyway, so in the big scheme of things they mean very little, so what they see isn't a big deal. I think having our players prepared is more important than worrying about what the opponent may see, especially if the system is basically the same from year to year, teams already know basically what they can expect to see.

[Deleted]

Everyone knows we are going to bring 5 or 6 a ton and if you leave an extra guy in to block we'll bring 7, but we don't do that to our own guys in scrimmage. As for the camp question, most the camps we go to don't want blitzing so they don't get a clue as to what we'll do.