As Many Football Wristbands As There Are You…
Here at FirstDown PlayBook we spend a lot of time talking with coaches about your football wristband sheets. You know why? Because there are as many ways to do your football wristband sheets as there are you coaches out there.
One of the advantages we have here at FirstDown PlayBook is that we have actually coached before. Sometimes that is an advantage because we actually understand the difference in a pin & pull and a zone block. Other times it means that we have actually done the work that you do on a weekly basis. Two of those things are football wristbands and wristband sheets.
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The first thing to admit about your football wristband sheets is that it will be the very last thing you do during your week of game preparation. It has to be. How are you going to have a functional wristband sheet if you don’t have your plays, defenses and your game day call sheet finished.
This means that you are normally putting your wristbands together at the eleventh hour early in the morning of the game or late the night before. Anxiety is a normal part of this process since you obviously want your players to have a clue during the game.
Then comes the issue of how many plays some coaches want to put on their wristbands. Some coaches want to get 120 play calls on the three flaps of their wristbands. Others wisely choose to have around fifty max. However; once again, every coach needs to to it his or her way.
“Green Left Twin Nasty-Z Peel Tight-Pass 37 Buster Bluff-X Post-Y Bite On 2” Never Made It On A Wristband Sheet In The NFL
Then there’s the coach who expects to put the entire formation and play on their wristband sheets. Trust me, I coached in the NFL for nine years. “Green Left Twin Nasty-Z Peel Tight-Pass 37 Buster Bluff-X Post-Y Bite On 2” never made it to the wristband sheet. The play call was abbreviated or there was a code word on the wristband sheet.
There is only so much real estate on any one players arm. I looked up in Alabama’s first game this wear and the wristband was so big that I thought it was going to cause the quarterback to fumble. That’s on a grown ass man’s arm. FirstDown PlayBook caters to coaches who work with all ages of players.
We run into this with our flag football coaches too. We see coaches who want to take 60 flag football plays into a game and expect the diagrams to be big enough to actually see and execute. They may look good and readable to the coach as the wristband sheet is put together. However; on game day when the pressure is on and players are tired, critical mistakes are made.
Just Because You Have 60 Plays On Your Flag Football Wristband Does Not Mean Your Players Can See Them When It Matters Most…
See where I am going here? There are limitations to what you can and more importantly what you SHOULD do with your football wristband sheets. Having said that, we do not coach your football team, nor do we want to. Here at FirstDown PlayBook we have given you a text wristband sheet and a play wristband sheet option that provides 90% of you what you need.
We understand that there will be 10% who will have to do some extra work with how they create their wristbands. Once again, football wristbands and wristband sheets are a pain in the backside. I can say that with complete certainty because I did them for 30 years of college and NFL coaching.
