How Hard is it to Learn an NFL Playbook? | Total Access | NFL Network
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- NFL Network's Curtis Conway and Michael Robinson join "NFL Total Access" to give their insight on the difficulties of learning an entire NFL playbook.
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"run, get kind of open, and I'll throw it your way" Bret Favre
Emphasis on the "kind of".
Lol yea favre probably didn't know when plays as well as the recievers but in his hayday it didn't matter. He could put that ball wherever he wanted to
On offense just run Quick Slant, 4 Verticals and HB Dive
Defense just run Cover 3 and Two Man Under.
xDeeqriz lmfao
xDeeqriz HB stretch too
You must be a Madden player
A-Lock Damn you must be Sherlock Holmes or something how tf did you know
xDeeqriz Straight outta madden 😂 In college we'd call that Duo right, Seam Lock, 22 ice
I’ve watched the NFL religiously for 5 years but am from England and this in depth side to the game will be make sense to me. These guys are are not only great athletes but very intelligent too.
For sure, a lot of people don’t realize how damn smart you got to be to memorize a whole play book lol
no worries , there are a lot of teams that don't understand it either
Coach: 3 wide split banana Ozzie 65 quarter 2 y motion on 3. Got it?
Me: yes (goes to huddle)
“ Alright everybody run straight, on 3 tho.”
😂😂😂
I'm Howling 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Jon Gruden terminology 😂
Everybody that plays madden commenting like they know all about it 😂
😭😭😭😭
Quarterback Rush every play
@@Basetornado Michael vick days lol
@@bnolasco650 ha I only played as Seattle. It worked with Russell Wilson every time.
@@Basetornado try it with Tom Brady or Drew Brees... impossible
Just call hail mary every play
lmao
Just snap the damn ball Colts!
Run with the ball!!
Aaron FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS
Lmao
I'm a throw the ball, you catch it and make a touchdown
Burbing Berries Not very strategic.
Fat Brown Kid Reviews Ask Randy Moss worked for him in his days
good idea
that's Super Bowl winning play calling
You won the super bowl
More teams need the Cutler/Browns playbook... It's one play and it says "Make C'mon Man" this week.
I once got into an argument online with a person who said football players are stupid and would be lucky to get a job flipping burgers if they were not playing. That comment really pissed me off because, although I never played football, I knew that learning a playbook, both in college and the pros, requires a lot of smarts and understanding.
Steve Young who is a lawyer, said law school was easier than being a QB.
Did he really say this, and was he serious?
Josh Laplana yeah. He was on PTI when he said it and was talking about how hard it is to play QB and can’t just plug-in and play QBs. Think this was around the time Josh Freemen was traded from Bucs to Minn and it was after his first mid-season start with Vikings that was poorly played.
Well for one you don't have to remember all the law school you studied while a bunch of 230lb+ men try to tackle you during any given test or debate.
Is Steve Young really a lawyer?
I think it depends some people will enjoy it more than others.
Spider 2 Y banana.
Garrett Leong "Trips Right Fake Zoom Larry Cris Cross"
Garrett Leong "Fake nickel zoom Quarterback key pass right"
Garrett Leong "Yack 91 Hook"
Garrett Leong "20 Halfback Curl X Up"
LMAO
Josh Dobbs out here learnin 5 different playbooks like it’s nothing
the only play i know is the "da bomb" from Blitz
MrBLACKpony AHHH
That was completely unnecessary, but a lot of fun to watch!
Here’s the play, I throw it, you catch it, touchdown
Jamarcus Russell learning an NFL playbook. Hilarious!
This is a really simple playcall. Some of Bill Walsh’s West Coast Terminology made verbalizing the playcall a longer process than running the play itself.
Nothing I love more than downloading old nfl playbooks and just reading through them
Ay where can I get those?
@@willch.2259there’s the biggest library ever to exist, called google… 😂
@@willch.2259 FootballXOs. College too.
Fake 23 Blast with a backside George reverse
🤣🤣
Like your life depended on it
Only 2 plays I remember are this and the annexation of Puerto Rico
Remember the Titans. Yessir! I love that movie!
Yes daddy
When i played i learned quickly that you only have to listen to what you're part is i played center and gaurd not to hard but when they moved me to tackle i had to relearn the playbook because of instead of knowing what the gaurd is doing now i had to know which side the tide end was lining up on and if he was blocking picking or running a route. All you madden players have it easy the play is drawn up for you imagine having to mentally draw up the play in your head. Then getting on the line looking at the Defense and making your reads and yelling and pointing blitz. Its amazing how fine tuned a play is and i can understand why it doesn't work out all the time.
Interesting breakdown. Would be cool to see it more in depth, and breaking down multiple plays, multiple formations.
Manning would call all of this in code at the line. Receivers had to listen for their route while in the look already. Commentators always talked about how Manning’s no-huddle was up tempo but if you watch the play clock he almost always used all of it. It was no-huddle but it was often slower than huddling up because he had to say 4 routes in code plus throw in a few extra cancelled directions to mislead the defense.
Patrick Is like I just tell tyreek hill to run straight as fast as he can 😂
So that's why Eli Manning throws so many picks?🤔🤔🤔🤔
Kowboy Ty he can't read the coverages that well sometimes lol
why exactly??
@Tyler G 2 rings
@@KobaBlack113 defense
Spider Man saying eli’s rings are due to the defense is a very casual and just wrong take
I just finished my last season of college football, at these higher levels of football it's all about concepts and personnel. If it's 11 or 12 personnel it's spread, anything else are pro style with a attached tight end. Then there is 2x1, 2x2, 3x1 kind of concepts where one word describes the routes for receivers. For example.... "Crush Lock beam" would be a 2x2 concept so starting from left to right the left side runs crush which is already a designated route and the right side runs beam routes because it's locked. Unless you are tagged like "Crush Beam Lock X Drive" then if your the X you run a drive. Everything is fancy is just blocking schemes motions and tail back stuff
Nick Guardiola you looking at the NFL or CFL
Mick Funny he went to Western New Mexico University he's not going anywhere near the pros.
Michael Rupp yeah I just looked at their roster, the players are typical for D2 schools, about 2 inches too short and 25 pounds too small. Unless you have Devin Hester skills it’s hard to make the pros at 5’8” 170.
Nick Guardiola hope you had a fun career
Michael Rupp rights that's what they said to other d2 and d3 prospects like Jerry Rice and Steve McNair and looked how they turned out.
Ben McAdoo still being in the thumbnail is so perfect
And don't you just love the guy at the bar, sitting with his woman, explaining HIS warped version of football, yet EVERYTHING he says is incorrect. But oh, "I played in high school" he tells her lol. Comparing high school football to the NFL is like trying to compare a Volkswagen beetle to a Bentley. Both nice cars, but NO comparison.
Give me a few broken sticks and the dirt and I can draw up some 🔥.
Apparently pretty difficult because the giants are 1-8
Idk how hard it is but the giants coach got a dirty sanchez on his lip
@RSFsanchez CC
A Dirty Sanchez is a sexual situation where a man is laying some pipe doggy-style, and while in the midst of sex he inserts his finger in the womans starfish and then smears his finger across her upper lip, giving her a thin shit moustache.
Cover 4 Palms all the way. HB Dive, HB stretch and flanker drive
The actual name of this in...say...the Erhardt Perkins system would be something like *Gun Trips Right YAC Blade Y Out X Follow* .
Funny seeing McAdoo & learning about playbook together
Left Duce zig 22 tomcat. - Willie beamen
1:14 Dude that's Seam 678
God, it’s worse than trying to figure out a math equation.
More of this less of the drama surrounding the NFL.
BLACK 59 RAZOR, SPRINT RIGHT OPTION
Press X every time. Y works also depending on the play you've chosen.
What a great idea for a video I’ve always wondered this
It's funny that they bring up the Texans.
With "X" being the "dominate" receiver, With that play they have, because it's not a post or a deep route, Houston wouldn't put their most dominate receiver there because it's not distance, however, they might if the match up isn't good, but I mean I can still see them put Hopkins or Fuller there just to see a match up take place and get yardage.
Playbooks tbh have defenitly gotten easier, especially for the players, at all levels. The 1997 NU playbook was around 250 pages, and players were expected to STUDY the whole damn thing. 1990 CU was north of 150. 1987 OU was north of 175. You had to study front to back and know exactly what you were doing. And the QBs for NU especially. They would have them audible depending on the shade of the linemen and the linebackers. In some ways its gotten harder, but in many ways its gotten far easier.
Looks like a solar eclipse when they were aligned
Easier than my math class tho
Double slants into scramble always works
Good insight.
Would be nice if the analysts answered each other’s questions.
mike rob bald self love him and beast mode tho
In madden I just throw deep passes with the direction pointing straight down field
4 verts all day
Shotgun four verticals on 3rd&20
This is one of my favourite UA-cam vids
Thats like getting a Degree in Chinese or something
Trips , 60 Magnum , C shallow , smoke
My favorite is Kooma Juija Banksy Fullback watch TD
Do yall have any tips how to remember football plays bc it's hard for me to remember things,I'm a reciever and sometimes idk what I'm doing and my season starts in about a month,and overtime I feel like my team will get mad if I keep asking so please I need tips.
never hurts to ask for help homie
What I like to do is remember your assignment by sections find the passing concepts where you run the same routes find the run plays where you have the same blocking assignment and on plays where you do something different study those ones the hardest. and have someone call a play and you will listen to it and walkthrough your assignment and what you do. Hope this helps even though it’s 2 years later💪👍
*When people say rugby is harder than NFL!* 😂
Certain positions are harder than others , you can't really label one "harder" than the other because of bias.
Rugby doesn't have a point at which the coaches get to call the plays. Therefore the players in real time have to make those decisions.
Will S Bit there are no plays in rugby so nothing to memorize
@@tobe.moemeka Coaches have to think more than the players in a football game. In rugby,hockey,soccer it's the players do all the thinking.
Physically it is
It's very hard especially for rookies just like at Ezekiel and Dak and how much they choked against the Packers
Odell Beckham Jr. #Odeezy #13Hunnit #BreakinRecords incoming salty cowboys fans saying "Odell choked" or "Giants went 1 and done" lol
lmao thats what happened....im not even cowboys fan, but this was an L comment
wow you was so great in your first playoff game lmao
Aaron Rodgers #GOAT #Legend #Clutch First time I agree with u
Aaron Rodgers #GOAT #Legend #Clutch DAMN HAHAHAHA GOT EMMMMM
They just make it seem harder than it actually is.
Are we not gonna talk about how the play drawing only has 10 players? Not 11?
Is this suppose to be a “doubles” set motioned into a trips right set? With lineman slide coverage and tailback checking gap to outside then check down responsibility? Or is this suppose to be an empty set and they forgot to put the H back out with the Y and X? This is a simple scissors concept with Y early motion into an arrow route. Hard part to decipher is, lineman pass pro, and QB responsibility. Is this a drop, roll out, sprint out? And where the heck is my H back gonna protect me? Some unanswered questions here.
yeah I just use hot routes.
Just be like every team and throw the ball to the best receiver
4 verticals in Madden works every time so I don’t see what the problem is 😂💀🤡🤔🧐
Hell yea..
All they need to do is mid blitz and they gonna be straight lmao
Am I the only one who didn't learn how hard it was? 😂🤦🏾♂️
I would SWAG it is easier than 8th grade Algebra I and way easier than 9th grade Algebra II and geometrically easier than Calculus with Analytic Geometry I and astronomically easier than Differential Equations I, but harder than 4th grade math (a Georgia Tech grad degreed Aerospace/Computer Engineer who works for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company who played QB in H.S.
Gun trips , wit da spread , and power o stop playin
Brown chicken salad on 2 , hut , green 18, Omaha, razor check hike
Everyone listen up: Trips right 76 Dingo desmos out Crawley Lego On 1 ready
Hand Off on one!!!!😅😅😅😅
Hey it’s the card key guy
Chicken little flee flicker on 2
Why did they have pick MTV Cribs music for a discussion on learning a playbook.
100 plays ; 24 hrs
Learning an NFL playbook has to be easier than learning everything you need to know to be an Electrician for one simple reason: in NFL football, if you screw up a play, nobody's house burns to the ground and no one could be electrocuted if you don't run a route right. You don't need a license to play NFL football.
Bill T u also need great memory
Meh, you have all the time in the world to figure out what needs to be done as an electrician. You have to go out and figure out whats going on and execute in just a few seconds in the nfl. And millions of people aren't watching an electrician screw up with their paycheck wagered on it.
Sounds like someone is an electrician
I m Indian but I know how to play American football game
Thats funny, because I'm American and I know how to be an Indian phone scammer.
You definitely can use less words to create this play. NFL coaches do an amazing job making football harder and more complicated than it should be. There are So many coaches outside the NFL that are miles long better rest assured.
It’s like a unwritten rule that plays have to be this way 😂
They forgot to add the protection...
How does the "X" know what route to run based on that call?
Andy Smith that's what playbook is for. Memorize the plays
Andy Smith it really depends. in this kind of offense it's all memory based on what pass play is called and the x receiver must know what to do. if you don't know how an x y an z receiver works the z receiver always goes to the call unless something is said on the huddle like slot. the split end or x receiver always goes away from the call so on trips right he's the widest receiver to the left and the y is the tight end and he aligns to the call. kn the play he started off in a different alignment and motioned to the call. in this type of system the x receiver cam have special routes gameplaned to whatever team they are playing or its just about memory of what is called in the west coast play calling system they would call numbers for routes starting from the 1 receiver side to the receiver side and every receiver gets a route called out.
The QB tags it in the huddle
Max Christensen the quarterback says exactly what is shown on the screen. some systems do that but most of the time the x receiver must know what to run. the team will most likely gameplan what route they run but personally I hate the erdhart-perkins system. it causes too much of a confusion for receivers who are retarted. I like the west coast play calling system that tells you exactly what route to run. if your in a west coast play calling system and you don't know what to do you can just look to see what side your on and know what route yoir supposed to do. in the erdhart-perkins play calling system it's based on key words which give you concepts to run and it could be confusing to some receivers because the same play can be called in many formations. the patriots run the erdhart-perkins play calling system and they run out of empty a lot so that shows that their team is full of smart receivers who are able to understand the playbook.
QB and the X signal a certain route that’ll get him open or maybe get them a few yards right off the rip
Forget it I’m playing defense
Never forget the Seahawks didn't run it with Lynch
You got that right
It’s very hard for Ben McAdoo
Just imagine reading, studying, memorizing your A&P 1 and/or 2 book then being able to quote any part of it at any time... I believe that might be equivalent to an NFL playbook LOL.
If your u a qb maybe, any other position u just know what every person
voodoo magic. this is why i didnt play american football at university!
Why is Ben Mcadoo on the photo? I've learned his play book playing madden
Chiefs just run 4 verticals every play
As a WR or RB its not that hard unless you're a receiver playing 123 or xyz...if your just a slot or a one..you just have to learn your stuff. As for the QB 😂😂😂 good luck.
They can see thru your eyeballs
So you're saying it's a huge waste of time and fake chess
Unless Andy Reid has eyeball blockers
I knew he was running
Tripsrye... So we sent defense to the
MAGA
Fake chess matches time waste
NYC 2.0
I suppose it's complicated if you have spent half your life getting your head knocked around
I’m still confused af
Reagan Ellis lmao 🤣 understandable
Mahomes better get that madden 18 quick if he wants a completion during the real season and he should request maddens help.
Still worrying about Mahomes a year later? Bwahahaha
WHAT THAT YOUNG MAN SAY?
Dang nfl seems hard here’s a play from my team I’m in middle school it’s slot right lead right go,out, H post
That's crazy.
only 10 players on that formation. They are missing the TE. Which would be on the right side. Dropped back 1 yard.
How hard is it to have an actual job?
Defense is easier. Almost everyone just runs Engage Eight.
Well first off there's only 10 players on the field
julrodriguez50 10?
Joshua Eden look at the play they showed
julrodriguez50 it's the Qb, who legit can only line up in one spot in most playbooks, behind the center. The line is only shown to show gaps. Yes there's gun, pistol and under center but he's not going anywhere except in some crazy trick play.
TheLongestNard No he means there is actually only 10 players 5 O-line men 1 QB and 4 TE/FB/WR so I'm guessing maybe the other one is HB blocking
Their is no QB on this play. Because their does not have to be one. Everyone knows where the QB is.
Thats what practice is for and its not like they have regular jobs during the day..just eat sleep and study these plays duh
How about the QB just use his finger to "draw" on his hand what route he wants everyone to run.
Say what now? 😂
Omaha, Omaha. If you know what that means you’ll be ok
This video was disappointing. They're just shooting the bull for a full minute, then they adlib on one play for the rest of the time. Put something together that actually explores the complexity of an NFL playbook, like the title says. Make it more academic and less parlor chat.