Simplifying Offensive Play Calling In the Spread Offense

Looking back throughout my coaching career, I am often amazed at how complicated and wordy the offensive systems I have coached in have been. Even as I read new articles on offensive football strategies, I am dumbfounded at how wordy these plays can become. Therefore, when I earned my first offensive coordinator position, I wanted a simplistic way to get across as much information to my players with as little wording as possible. As I started to design the new offensive system, I wanted every term or number to mean something in our system. Without going into my own personal philosophies on offense, I hope that you can gain some appreciation for how we call our offense and incorporate some of the ideas I will present here.     At Springfield High School, we use an offensive system that conveys an immense amount of information in as little amount of words as possible. The system can be