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Football's Best Offensive Playbook

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I highly recommend this book for both offensive and defensive coaches. Dee Hawkes has persuaded many coaches of note to talk about the things they have always kept a closely guarded secret: the ins-and-outs of their favorite offensive plays. Detailed descriptions and diagrams accompany each play.

Fans of the game will find this book interesting and educational as they seek to understand more about offensive play and techniques. At least an intermediary knowledge of football is suggested for non-coaches.

If you are looking for a comprehensive playbook this is it! It lists plays submitted from some of the best and well respected High School, College and Professional coaches in the nation. Not only does it diagram the X's and O's but also give detailed position by position responsibilities for each play against various defenses! Even if you don't implement these plays into your own offense, it is a fantastic reference book.

I bought this book expecting to get a football playbook. Well, I got some football plays, but not a full playbook. If you're new to football then this book would be for you. I got what I was looking for in [...] . They offer a pretty solid offensive and defensive playbook. If you are a rookie then get this book, but for us veterans the [...] or equivalant is more our speed...

This book shows just a few tidbits of genious in the coaching ranks of both high school and college football. Even if you have a concrete system of your own, this book will give you an idea about a few plays you may want to add to your arsenal.

This book was simple to understand, helped me create my own hybrid play book, and is applicable from flag through High school levels of play.

This book has no real audience. It is so basic that a high school coach would find it pretty useless, but uses terminology that a beginner would find hard to follow. In the front of the book and then again in the back it gets into some basic explanations of terminology but not enough to help with too many of the plays in the book.

The copyright is 1995. So much of what is covered can be easily found on websites these days. Complete offenses are available for free on a dozen sites I can think of off the top of my head. Don't waste your money on this one.

Dee Hawkes does a great service to all coaches with this compilation of the best offensive plays in current use. He also provides a handy "play finder" section for quick reference.

Plays are broken down by type (off-tackle, options, quick passes, etc.), and by formation (predominantly I formation, but with a healthy mix of single back/spread, Wing-T, veer and even wishbone). Hawkes also makes it easy to locate plays by each coach who submitted them.

And what a group of coaches -- the greatest offensive minds in college and high school football for the last 20 years are represented here. Cross-referencing plays among coaches reveals insights into the differences a seemingly minor blocking variation can make in the success or failure of a play.

Highly recommended.

This book is a collected work of the most successful football plays from a variety of systems. If you purchase this book, as I did, looking for a PLAYBOOK you will be sorely disapointed.

The individual plays are well diagrammed and explained, as well as the philosophy behind their use, but there is no consistency within the book. You could not, for example, take this document to your football practice and install the plays with your high school team and expect to have a successful offense.

Rather, if you are running an offense SIMILAR to the offense of one of the coaches who contributed to the book, then you may find ONE OR TWO plays that you can add to your existing system. This is a far cry from being a "playbook" as the title claims.

I do not recommend this book for any coach below the high school level, or for parents wishing to learn the sport better. You will only be confused.

This book is a great investment for any coach. It has diagrams of the most successful plays by the most successful coaches in the profession. Not only does the book diagram the plays, but it also provides in-depth information about each play. There are plays from almost all offensive formations, such as the I formation, Wing T, Split Backs, Wishbone, and Single Back. I would recomend this book to any football coach that is interested in expanding their offensive knowledge.