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If you don’t know what to look for, breaking down film can be difficult.

Ultimately, you want to know what to look for so that it enhances all three phases of your team.

However, some coaches may know exactly what to look for on offense, but have a difficult time seeing the other two phases with the same clarity. Further, whether the video was recorded in-house or submitted by an opponent can have an effect on the way you should watch the film.

Accordingly, it is important to learn how to understand film. Here is my method:

The Offense

When breaking down the offense, the first thing I look for are individual players because I want to know whether or not each player has completed their assignment on the play. In addition to the initial individual breakdown, the are 12 items I look for when evaluating the play of the offense:

  1. Speed and intensity off the ball.
  2. The blocking technique of each position.
  3. How high or low each individual plays. Are they maintaining leverage or giving it up to the opponent? Is everybody staying on their blocks until the whistle?
  4. Is the offense playing on our side of the line of scrimmage or the opponent's?
  5. Do the responsible players, linemen or back(s), effectively pick up blitzes?
  6. Ball handling by the center and skill position players.
  7. Do the backs hit the hole aggressively or tentatively?
  8. The route running and catching abilities of skill position players.
  9. The drop taken by the quarterback during a pass play.
  10. The timing of the passing game. Is the ball on time or is late to the receivers?
  11. The footwork by the quarterback during each play.
  12. Are there any players that take a play(s) off during the game?

The Defense

Exactly like the offensive side, the first thing I want to see is whether individual players complete their assignments during every play.

I also look for the following when evaluating defense:

  1. Speed and intensity off the ball.
  2. How high or low each individual plays. Are they maintaining leverage or giving it up to the opponent?
  3. The ability to get off blocks and swarm to the football.
  4. What side of the line of scrimmage is the defensive unit playing on? When successful, a defense will get consistent penetration into the opponent's backfield.
  5. The presnap alignment of all players, confirm they are in the correct stance.
  6. The ability to tackle in and out of space.
  7. The speed of defense’s play recognition. Are we quick to diagnose or easily fooled?
  8. Do we swarm to the ball? Are the majority of tackles solo or double team?
  9. The ability to cover the pass and rush the passer.
  10. Are the pursuit angles correct? Do we under-pursue or over-pursue the ball?

Special Teams

When evaluating the coverage teams, I always look for the following:

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  1. The punt snap’s speed and accuracy.
  2. The speed of the punter to get the punt off.
  3. The ability to protect the punter.
  4. The distance and height of each punt.
  5. Punt coverage. How fast and disciplined is the coverage.
  6. Tackling ability.

When evaluating the kickoff coverage team, I again look for fast and disciplined coverage, the ability to tackle and the skill level of the kicker.

When evaluating the return team, I look for the following:

  1. Do they run the called return correctly? Is it effective?
  2. Does each individual player hold their block until the whistle?
  3. The skill level of the returner. Does he properly read his teammates blocks?

When evaluating the field goal and PAT team, I initially watch for and evaluate the skill level of the snapper, holder and the kicker. If all the techniques from these positions are solid, then I look at the ability of the other players protecting the kick.

Chris Booth is the Head Coach at Peterstown Middle School in Peterstown, West Virginia. In 2017, Coaches Choice is scheduled to publish 101 Youth Football Drills, a book written specifically for youth football coaches.

By Dave Wyman
September 30, 2011 at 9:43 am
What we see on television doesn't begin to tell the real story of the game and what players, coaches and scouts can find out about an offense, defense or an individual player, says Dave Wyman. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

By the time my nine-year NFL career was over, I had watched enough film to make me never want to see another football game as long as I lived. Now, I’d give anything to watch some real game film.

What we see on television doesn’t begin to tell the real story of the game and what players, coaches and scouts can find out about an offense, defense or an individual player.

Game film is shot from two different angles – the sideline view and the end zone view. Every play is displayed first from the sideline and then from the end zone. The two are spliced consecutively so that you see the entire game in that order. The sideline shot is fairly similar to what we all see on television except every player is kept in the frame no matter how far the play stretches down-field. That’s important because coaches scour through an entire film watching each player throughout every play, grading them for the steps they took, the assignment they did or did not fulfill, and the decisions they made. For a linebacker coach like Ken Norton Jr., who is in charge of three players every down, he’ll either watch the entire film three times, or run it back several times per position, per play.

The end zone shot tells a whole different story, especially for the offensive line and the front seven of the defense. It is filmed close up so that you can only see “the box” or the middle part of the field. For a middle linebacker like myself, I would fast forward past the sideline angle and get right to the end zone view. It’s incredibly revealing and that’s where the saying “the big eye in the sky don’t lie” came from. You can see every movement, every step and every running lane close up.

For an interior lineman like DT Alan Branch, it’s everything. “I usually don’t watch the game itself or where the ball goes,” said Branch when asked about his weekly study of opponents. “Sometimes I’ll watch just the first second of a play for five minutes, just so I can see the steps a lineman takes and try to get some kind of an edge or an advantage.” This may sound boring but it can be exciting if you find a “tell” or a consistent indicator that helps you predict what your opponent might do.

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As an analyst, I keep all of this in mind and I’m reticent to lay blame when plays break down and things go wrong. What looks like one player’s responsibility, isn’t necessarily so once you see game film. It tells a different story and I try to keep that in mind. As a player, I was very mindful of how everything that I did would look on film. Not only are your teammates and coaches going to see the film, many of your peers around the NFL will see it too. Typically, teams look at the last three games of each opponent they’re about to face. So the Seahawks can count on Green Bay, Carolina and Detroit (Atlanta’s next three opponents) all seeing Sunday’s film.

Thom Fermstead, the Seahawks video director, has shot every game and nearly every single practice since the inception of the team in 1976. I interviewed him back in 2004 and we figured that at that time, he had shot close to 3,500 practices and over 600 games including pre-season, regular season and playoff games. Headed into the Seahawks 36th year, that pushes those numbers up to approximately 4,200 and 725 respectively. Talk about being sick of film!

Technology has taken quantum leaps in those 36 years. “Fermie” used to have to travel into Spokane (when they had practices in Cheney) or Seattle to get film developed. Today, it can be downloaded onto all sorts of portable devices and sent home with the players immediately. During the pre-season this year, I saw players looking at game film on laptops during the plane ride home from Denver.

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The computer age allows coaches to access much more information in far less time. I remember watching short highlight reels of film that were specific offensive formations or down and distance situations called “cut-ups.” So called because in the 1980’s, they literally were clips of 16mm film that were cut and then spliced together in order to make a highlight reel. Today, there is software that recalls every 1st-and-10 play or every red zone (inside the 20-yard line) play from a period of time that is specified and then recalled immediately.

Add “paralysis by analysis” to today’s list of jargon. With all of this information so readily available, there is a point of diminishing returns. Coaches have to determine how much is too much information.

As for Fermstead, don’t think that he is just filming practice – he’s also watching and paying close attention. “All of this technology has made the game way too complicated,” said Fermstead. “You still have to just go out and execute and make plays.”

Profound words of wisdom from someone who has, as far as the Seahawks are concerned, seen it all!