Allowing MORE plays to be used in commonly used categories

[Dean-Atlanta]

Some coaches believe it strengthens a game plan to use more than the required minimum in play categories that are used more often. This is more possible on defense where the league minimum is 6 plays each in 6 categories. Some teams uses as many as 8-12 in categories like RL, PM, RM, and/or PS.

This is less possible on offense and part of the reason, current rules requires the use of 5 each in lesser used categories like PMR and PSR and 3 each in GLP/GLR. Some teams will call the league minimum for PSR/PMR in the profile (such as 10 RM, 10 PSL, 1 PSR on 3rd and 2-5) which means in many games only 1-2 plays are called from those 2 categories that must take up 10 play spots in the game plan. This is a waste of play spots and leads to more repetitive calls of the other categories used in the 10-10-1 profiles alignments used. If we allow fewer calls of those play categories, and more plays to be included in the game plan, a coach will have the flexibility to use MORE, not fewer, plays in a game.

Here is the current league minimum for offense:

RM 10
PSL 5
PSM 5
PSR 5
PML 5
PMM 5
PMR 5
PLR 4
PRD 4
RL 4, RR 4, GLR 3, GLP 3 are optional
total 48 plays mandatory, 62 with all optional included

Here is what I think we should adopt, to allow coaches the flexibility to include more PSL, PSM, PML,PMM in the game plans, the most commonly used play categories in passing:

RM 10
PSL 5
PSM 5
PSR 5
PML 5
PMM 5
PMR 5
PLR 2 (50% timed or rollout)
PRD 2 (50% timed or rollout)
RL 2, RR 2, GLR 2, GLP 2 are optional (50% max QB runs or timed or rollouts)
total 48 total plays mandatory, 56 with all optional included

I think a game plan should still have at least 48 plays, but by lowering the lesser used category minimums, coaches will have the flexibility to use more PSL/PSM/PML/PMM which are used more often, allowing more plays overall to be called in a game.

I think we should seriously consider making this change for next season.