WEBVTT - Julian Edelman Breaks Down EVERYTHING in an NFL Playbook 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.680 What is it like to learn an NFL playbook? What's 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:07.240 it like to learn an NFL playbook? Well, it's it's 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.720 your back. When I came in, they give you the 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.960 three inch binder. It was actually a binder back then, 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.119 three inch binder, which is the big boy or what 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:16.759 is that right? 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:24.240 And uh, three inches is huge, Yeah, And so they 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:29.000 would give you that and there'd be a table of contents. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.440 There'd be I mean, it was laid out professional. This 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.320 is this was the pros, you know, and you had 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.559 like at the top you had special teams slots, then 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.920 you had the offense install slots, and then when you 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.000 get into offense install slots, that would break down to 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:54.920 you know, a whole bunch of things from formations, personnel groups, splits, informations. 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:00.600 They would have protections, they'd have all the site adjustment rules. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.880 It have all the hot adjustment rules, it have everything. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.560 Everything was broken down fundamentally on there on like you 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.240 could find it in the in the playbook. Now it's 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.479 it's transferred now to the iPad, which it's probably way 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.000 cleaner and way awesome. And I remember we did that 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.720 later in my career for the younger guys that were 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.560 coming in. But I mean it's just a it's literally 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.639 like the encyclopedia of everything that the offense is about. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.560 I mean it goes you have we have an example 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.240 up right here that's exactly how it looks. It'll have 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:42.319 the basic and then it'll have like the defensive line. Uh, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.000 they'll have like how each play goes against each line. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.440 It'll break down each coverage, it'll break down everything that 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.600 the defense defense does, so you can commute like what 0:01:52.640 --> 0:02:00.040 did Gruden say, recognition, communicate execution RCEE yep, So you 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:05.440 have to recognize what's going on after you learned your formation, personnel, group, split, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.480 potential motion, potential shift, like all those things. That's in 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.200 the beginning, and then it goes into how things change 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.399 against the defense. I mean, it's a it's a it's 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:22.320 a literally it has every single bit of information that 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.920 the coach will explain to you. And it's much like 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.760 the textbooks when we were kids, where you could read 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.919 that and if you could do that, it'd be great. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.520 But I was always a guy that would, you know, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.720 I had to study it. I would look at it 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.440 while we were installing it, while the coach was addressing 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.840 the classroom, you know, you would go through your playbook 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.640 and you would kind of highlight and then for me, 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.280 a lot of guys, for like guys like me, receivers, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.680 the receivers always. I was a guy that used flashcards 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.000 for personnel groups because there's like sixty different personnel groups. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.360 So you know, on Rangers, that's what is said before 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.640 the play that tells everyone who they are Rangers. The 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.920 personnel group. Our Rangers an eleven or eleven personnel group 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.120 were example, Danny goes to the F, I go to 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.480 the z. Lafel's on the X, and Gronks at the Y. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.720 So there's three receivers one tight end, and then whoever 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.160 is in the backfield is in the backfield. Then you 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.799 would have regular. Regular was twelve, So then regular puts 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.960 me at z Lafel at X, and then there'd be 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.520 two tight ends that would come in so you'd have to. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:38.840 Go over that. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.440 So I would always flashcard personnel groups and formations because 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.200 if you fuck that up, you weren't getting a rep. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.240 How often are you shifting between these like so when 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.080 do you find out that you're like the Z and ranger. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.320 Or that's how often I find that out through the 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.680 coaches like weekly weekly. So if they'll give you a 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:04.360 group of personnel groups that we're gonna highlight this week, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:09.360 we're gonna use these six. These six personnel groups Rangers, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:19.839 sub sub half and uh another one regular no regulars two. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.960 Those are all eleven personnel grips. So these are all 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.560 these could be the same. This is there's three receivers, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.679 one tight end to and one running back like regular, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:38.880 sub half, Rangers, Army Marines. Those those tell like every 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.520 guy which spot they have to go into. So you 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.800 could make a play for a guy. Instead of changing 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.080 the whole concept, you could just change the personnel group. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.440 So if you're trying to get what's this, you're trying 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.120 to get Danny at the F. Instead of putting him 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.400 at the F, you just changed the personnel group and say, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:56.159 now Danny goes. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.240 You know what I mean? Right? That makes sense? Tag 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:59.840 it from there, Tag it from there. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.400 You would never tag you just say rangers, okay, and 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.599 that would put That would tell everyone where we all go. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.760 I'm at F, I'm at Z, he's at Z, he's 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.640 at X, all right, and half I'm at I'm at F, 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.920 he's at Z. Half again, I'm at f but maybe 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.039 half in sub everyone's in the same spot, but the 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:18.960 tight ends change. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.240 There's a new tight end in you know what I mean. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.400 So the personnel groups are fucking They were a bitch 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.680 to learn. And then there's a formations, so then the formations. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.839 They would break it down. All right, guys, we'll have 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.279 these eight formations and these personnel groups, and then we 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:41.839 could have these seven empties and empties were you know, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.120 whenever you know the quarterback is empty and there's five 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.159 guys on the line of scrimmage, five receivers, and so 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.640 like you'd have to learn were what each formation was 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.120 because you'd have to put the F in here, the 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.680 X goes outside, like if you're an empty, And it 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.440 was just a whole lot of studying. And so once 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.680 you got those down, then you'd have to learn defenses 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.000 because when you things could change or you know, then 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.920 you learn your concepts. So you go personnel groups, formations, 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.760 and then you learn concepts. There was concepts that were 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.400 two man concepts. Then there was three man concepts. So 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:24.400 like read read was an incut from by one and 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.760 number two has an option route to the outside, and 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.239 so conceptually you were trying to high low this backer. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.800 So that's read now a three man concept or ICE 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.160 is another one. Ice was where this guy has an 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.479 incut and this guy has a cross route. So that 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.440 you'd learn those two man's and there would be three 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.200 man concepts, and so you're basically learning how you're building 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:54.440 in your mind, how the quarterback calls the play. So 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.280 first thing you're gonna hear is personnel group. Then you're 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.680 gonna hear formation, and you got to learn your protections 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.599 because after your formations and concepts, you got to learn 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.600 the protections because the protections could it could change your 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.920 route if you are a sight adjusting or if you're 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.160 depending on if you can get it protected. The receivers 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.480 would have to know because if it's only a five 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.760 man protection, there could be a hot and a side 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.960 adjustment if you're an empty So you'd have to see 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.560 where the mic point is and communicate with the quarterback. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:32.040 The quarterback was set, he would set the protection. You go, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.960 Mike fifty two, which is the front side backer, or 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.760 here you go, check easy, check easy, We're gonna mic 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.440 fifty four. He'd change the protection and he would look 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.000 at me and he'd say jewels. So that makes him 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.560 the mic. He's the mic, he's the will or the 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.280 will because or the Sam. And then the next guy 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.320 would be a different slot, the jack, you know, to jack. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.119 And so then he would look at me and say 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.240 these two if those two guys came, If he said two, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.200 then I'd have to break my side adjustment. Now if 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.440 he looked at me, Tom could look at me and 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:15.080 he could say, hey, Jules, if he did that, that 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.760 means one or the other. If any one of those 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.600 guys come, you gotta break all right. But if he 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.280 said to it, you got to go when the two 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.640 guys come. And sometimes they would come and one guy 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.040 would jack out, so you'd have to get en route, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.240 all right. And then so another one he could look 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.040 at you and he could sit there and you see 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.600 your guy on your face coming. But Tom paulus change 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:42.040 protection all the way over he over here, so he'd 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.240 make that guy the mic who's on over me, the 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.559 star or whatever, and he would sit there and go, Jeles, 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.720 you're locked. So if he regardless no matter what, whoever came, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.520 you're locked on the route. So that's when you'd have 0:08:55.559 --> 0:09:02.760 to study your protections. So you go Personnel group formations, concepts, protections, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.880 and that's kind of then you'd break into how defense 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:08.280 was was involved. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.679 So if you're locked on the route, that means no 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.480 matter what it's the play called route is drawn. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.200 Up, okay, messaged sight adjustment. What explained, The. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.160 Hot is to the strong side, So when the Sam 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.240 and Mike and Sam come, that's a hot the sight 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.720 adjustments to the weak side. So it'd be like a 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.640 Will and a week safety. So like if this guy, 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:37.640 so you have your Mike Sam Will, right, you always 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.640 see the quarterback making the point. So what what he 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.600 can do is though he could change. Well we always 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.560 think that this guy is the MIC, right because he's 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.439 near the tight end the strong side of the passing strength. Well, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.840 he could change and make that guy the MIC, So 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.880 then it would make him the MIC. The guy to 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.320 the right of him who is the star would be 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.160 the Sam, meaning that the lion can get a Protec. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.000 And then this guy who we think is that it 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.760 looks like the MIC is now the will. Okay, so 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.000 the line could take care of the Mic, Will and Sam. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.760 You know, that's when other guys get involved. That's when 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.000 that's when side adjustments and hot hots get involved. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.439 So inside adjustment is like a to the weak side. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.520 It's to the weak side. It's a changing the route 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.160 based off of the changing the route. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.040 A hot and a side adjust could be the same 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.600 kind of thing for the receiver, but it's just telling 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.720 which side they go. So if it's it's to the 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.560 passing strength, that's a hot. If it's the passing So 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.120 if so, if I'm sitting here right and we got 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.120 we make him the mic, he's the SAM. So he 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.280 whoever comes off here, you're hot. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.280 So you're going to fill that space where they were. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.880 Depending on what the hot is, it could be a 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.880 it could be a burst. You have to like a 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.880 five yard hitch full speed. You can't lollygag it because 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.319 then they sniff that and then they'll break. So you 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.199 got to come off the ball hard every time. That 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.640 was like the number one pot coaching point to any 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.280 kind of side adjustment or hot, you gotta come off 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.720 because defense is fucking smart. You know they'll sniff that 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.079 bullshit out if you come lollygagging off and then they 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.240 break and it's a pick six because they got a 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.200 guy coming to that area. But if you're sprinting, that 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.800 guy doesn't know where you're going, so he'll he would 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.079 be all scared and he'll be less hesit or less 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:27.160 aggressive to break. So getting back strength is hot, so 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.480 to our strong side. Right, So this guy, we make 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:35.040 him the mic. Anyone come off that, Sam, you're hot. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.600 Anyone coming off the will you're sighting and then you 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.480 just have to read if they're coming well, yeah, we 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.840 have to. But the quarterback in our system, we had 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.880 Tom Brady, so he was the ultimate reminder and he 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.200 when he was dishing out his protections and getting stuff, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.000 he would tell you, and the good quarterbacks do that. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.120 If you look like Peyton Manning and all those boys, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.880 they would sit there all right, I'm locking you. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:02.400 I'm locking you. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.520 Because he changed the protection and it's it's it's a fact. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.559 The protections are the most fascinating things. That's why offensive 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.680 linemen like they have. Not only do they have to 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.840 be choreographed in such a great manner together as one 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.320 like they're dancing, but they have to be able to 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.319 see shit body. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:22.200 Language of the guys. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.640 They got to be able to break down the defensive 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.240 fronts because things change. The protections change if there's a 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.400 three down or a four down, like that that's when 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:31.600 we got to start, you know what I mean. But 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.640 that's more of the defensive offensive line. You really only 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.480 needed to know the backers. Now, if it's a run play, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.040 are you a part of the protection call too. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.120 Or how does that? How does that work? 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:43.839 So run play? 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:49.320 On certain run plays, uh, depending on the mic call, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.280 you would always have like the six man in the box, right, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.200 so the sixth man on the box or is it 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.640 the seventh Either be the strong the strong safety coming 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.720 down or the star or it would be that corner 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.480 if that, if that, if one of the safeties dropped 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.280 into the box, you'd be responsible if it was a 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:12.000 six or seventh. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.280 Scott Chattio is gonna kill me. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:16.280 So. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.600 But a lot of the times if the court on 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.520 certain plays run plays, the quarterback would lock you on 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.880 your guy over your face because they have a line. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.000 Like on a trap play or something. You wouldn't come 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.679 down to get the force because we're having alignment coming 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.800 and pull to get him or the lion is adjusting 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.520 up to that guy. You know, you'd always for the 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:45.120 most part of most of the time for receivers, they're 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:50.280 blocking skill guys. Safety's corners. Now, when you see the 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.320 guys the on the bunches, the receivers on the bunch. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.800 A lot of times you're seeing with like the Lions 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.840 San Francisco, they'll have have their receiver Saint Brown. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.000 He'll he'll set the edge and he'll take out. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.640 Of the end and then they'll pull the tackle in 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.440 the in the guard on those toss traps. But like 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.800 that's those are like one off plays and they'd have 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.040 to be condensed down. You're not really going in and 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:18.840 getting linebackers because that's usually for for the line. There 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.640 are certain occasions where like in Seattle, the Seattle Super Bowl, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.600 on the back side of this, I forgot the run play, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.520 but there was a backside play where I would go 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.760 up and I I I would the linebacker would be 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.320 in my face and I would go up and go 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.280 to the safety like and you could fully get them. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.160 But then there'd be times where they could lock you 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:44.840 and you'd have to just get If you're on the 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.280 back side, you have to get in his way and 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.720 get in his way to cut them off for the 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.000 front side of the run. But most of the time 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.440 you're playing, you're you're going against the smaller guys, unless 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.440 it's one of those specialty plays the playbook. I mean 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:05.520 this everything for the offensive line and you have everyone's. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.760 Uh, you have all of it. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.760 So you could go through the offensive line part and see, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.080 you know, the shades because like they have a bunch 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.040 of stuff on like on you know they divide the 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.560 guy one, two, three, Uh what shades they are and 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.440 you could learn all that you know. The I mean 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:29.160 it's it's it's like an encyclopedia of everything fundamentally they 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.040 have in your playbook. They have a whole section on 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.040 just your the cadence and the snap counts. Wow, you 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.320 know what I mean, the going on two, going on 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:45.360 three color this color that you know gold calls or uh, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.440 you know to change plays. There's an audible section how 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.320 you every way to communicate anything it was in the playbook. 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:55.360 That's incredible. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.240 You know what if you got say how much was 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.000 getting added or like say you install play from week 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:02.400 six that. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.680 Those are all the fundamentals. Now once you get in 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:05.360 this is. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.360 This is all training camp right right, and there's a 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.560 lot of is a test to see who can retain 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.640 what and you won't even have to get if you 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.320 listen to the coaches, you You're not just gonna sit 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.400 there and be a guy that I mean, they're smart 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:19.960 guys that will sit there and read the playbook and 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.120 they can digest it. But if you go along with 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.440 the coaching, you know, that'll that'll help you. The month 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.360 you're paying attention to class, you don't have to go 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.560 do homework. Yeah, well, it's good to reference it, you 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.840 know what I mean, It's just like school. It's fucking 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.960 just like school. There's some guys that can sit there 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.040 and read the formations and do it. I mean I 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:44.240 had to put them on flash cards and concepts and 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.320 me and Hoyer would sit and bounce them off of 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.040 each other. Because you know, when you're young football player, 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.720 a lot of the a lot of the evaluation of 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.680 you is how much you can retain how much can 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.440 you take from the classroom to the drills to the 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.199 team periods. They that's like that's the huge, like one 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.680 of the biggest evaluation processes of these young football players 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.720 because once you get to the reg to get to 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.879 your point, once you get to the regular season, okay, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.480 you that's all fundamental. Now, new plays, game plan plays 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.080 come in and so you're gonna have to be able 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:25.119 to install a ten to fifteen new plays each week, 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.760 potentially on what that team's weaknesses are. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.760 Are those getting sheets to go into the playbook? 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.760 Those are yeah, so each week on a Wednesday, so 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.040 you have your big ass book and then when you 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.479 come in then you get back in the day, they 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.080 would give you sheets just like those sheets, and you'd 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.439 have all your your past concepts on there, all your 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:50.800 run concepts, the install for that week's prep. And so 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.359 some of it could carry over to some of the 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.800 stuff that we already learned in training camp and in 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.080 the install, but some of it can be completely new 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.480 and completely different. But if you lean on your fundamentals 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.399 of what you've learned in training camp, you'd be able 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:09.480 to communicate and understand it because it'll still be this. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.040 It could be the same, it'll be the same language, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.440 but it could be a different concept or a different 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:18.679 protection or a different personnel group that's incorporated into it. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.800 So it's just like fit finding out the puzzle. So 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.000 to simplify the playbook, the organization of it. If you've 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:32.240 mentioned personnel, you mentioned formation, protection concepts, concepts, you'd have 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.840 snap counts, snap counts. That's usually at the beginning you'd 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:40.719 have splits for receivers. What is that splits are so 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:47.200 in certain formations of certain plays and certain concepts. So 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.280 like on a say ice, if you're the outside receiver, 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.040 which ice is an incut and a crosser, If you're 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.520 the outside receiver on ice, you have to have a 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.920 plus four split from the number yards. Yes, then there 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.199 was also a plus two split on certain concepts. Then 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.840 there was sometimes there was a minus two split. So 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:13.200 and then when you get into like certain formation buzzwords 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:18.320 like nasty, nasty tells everyone that you're condensed. So then 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:24.200 you'd have those in the playbook on buzzwords for uh 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:31.520 buzzwords for formation splitting, you'd have Then you'd have a 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:38.119 whole section on movement. So movement is shifts and motions. 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:43.760 So for us, if you heard if there, if the 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.160 suffix was I n G ing, then you're coming in. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:53.400 If the suffolx was a p app, you're coming across. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.040 So so if you're the F and you hear fing, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.680 you're just coming in for a pass play. 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.480 If you're because it's thing is f I n G, 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:02.880 that guy is going in. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.399 So if you hear zing, the Z is coming in 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.960 ying the. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.679 Other you're going the other because it's AP right. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.920 FAP, it would be across for a block of blocking 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.760 for a like a run play FAP. If it's fact 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.520 a C then then then you're going across for a 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:31.159 pass play or something. Then there was z U, z U, zig, 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.560 I G. You hear a lot of that with the 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.600 slot that's going into the guard and back out, So 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.280 that's a formation indicator. You're seeing what kind of coverage 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.520 you can get. Then there would be the Y shift. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.720 All that's telling you is when you hear a you're 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:51.320 you're your letter and shift. You're starting on another the 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.480 other side and you're shifting over and we're resetting the 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:55.760 play to that. 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:57.000 You know you're here. 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:01.159 H home that's just telling the home is one of 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:05.320 those buzzwords for a shift for the H home. He's 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:09.120 coming from all the way outside the receiver back into 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.320 the home spot. So there'd be a whole freaking table 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.879 of content or what is it a chapter on that, Yeah, 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.600 you know, so, I mean it goes into everything. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:20.120 Then you have just beyond that. I want to hear 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:21.400 all the different segments. 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:29.640 There was fing fact, there is h fing fact fat 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:38.880 uh zig or zig. There was z shift. Then there 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.680 was h home you could use all the other letters 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:48.359 for that you have and I'm probably missing one. Yeah, 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:51.600 that's you'd have there, and there was probably a couple others. 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.399 Then there was a there would be what was this, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:22:00.159 There was a fast one, like a fast motion. We 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.240 started doing that. So let's bet Mike McDaniel with like McDaniel, 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.040 there there'd be the fast it's like a rabbit zing 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.159 or there. There's there are certain buzzwords for that. If 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.280 I heard it, I would I'd be able to do it. 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.119 What other like chapters outside of like movements, so we 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:19.840 got personal formation protection concepts, snapcount splits, movements. 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:23.239 Movements, and motions. 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.440 Motions, So there is like it's a misnomer that there's 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.919 actual plays in the playbooks rather than you go concepts 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.600 and then concepts, then concepts and routes. 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:37.560 So then you'd have you'd have every single route, you know, 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:41.639 like a go route, a in cut. Then there's there 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:45.800 was the fourteen yard incut, the twelve yard incut, the 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:48.440 twenty yard in cut. There was you know, there was 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:52.560 the stopper route, which is a twenty five yard like 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.320 comeback but you break you open in and come back 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:57.960 down the line. There was a comeback at sixteen, There 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.040