A follow on to “General Ideas to the Game.” As a coach you will run into teams that have strategies they use to try to beat your team. Some will play a high line and try to catch people offside. Some teams will do even crazier strategies that will seem outrageous. I feel that it is important that coaches have some idea of how to combat some of the common strategies used in the game.
It is even more powerful if your players know how to see the other teams strategies and change on the fly during games. Again, I go back to coaching through questioning. During training sessions if you set up an exercise where the “defending” team is playing a high line, stop the session and ask the “attacking” team, “what are they doing, and how do we combat it?” The idea is that when they see it in a game, they will make the decision on their own on the field!
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