Give Your Football Self Scout Teeth


By FirstDown PlayBook on Nov 22, 2025
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There are football coaching buzz words for virtually every season. The ones your looking for this time of the year are words like playoffs, bowls, championships. However, the nature of our game says that most of us will be left to look to next season. That’s when words like player evaluations and football self scouting become important to improvement.

It’s a very important part of the process. After all, how can you get better if you do not know the areas where you need to improve? The easy scapegoat is looking to your personnel or in a simpler word, your players. Granted, this is a big part of the formula, but it is a trap to place all of your future plans to improve on this alone.

Football self scouting is essentially taking a look at your team and seeing it as your opponents do. Every team you play during the season breaks down your tendencies to some degree. Some will do a better job than others, but you can bet that they know your tendencies to some degree just like you study theirs.

Bring Your Self Scouting Hit Charts To Life With FirstDown PlayBook!

Some football teams do a good job of self scouting themselves every game or every three games or so. Every football offense, defense and special teams coordinators should self scout themselves at the conclusion of the season. Whatever the case is for you, this is where FirstDown PlayBook can help you.

FirstDown PlayBook Football Self Scouting Tools

To say that it is important that your football self scout information is accurate is to point out the obvious. If your data is incomplete or inaccurate, that can be more damaging than not self scouting yourself at all. You simply run the risk of fixing something that is not broken.

The other very important part of a football self scout is that the information is easily understood. We have all seen extremely or overly detailed information that is rendered useless because of the way it is presented. A bunch of numbers or percentages that are hard to decipher does no one any good.

FirstDown PlayBook allows you to easily create football hit charts like the one you see above. When you present your self scout information like this the real tendencies jump off the screen at you, your football staff and players. This cuts down on wasted time filtering through tedious reports.

So hopefully you are in the playoffs and your self scout hit charts are for your next opponent. However; if you are already looking ahead to next year, let FirstDown PlayBook help you give your football self scout more teeth!

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