Plays.

A play in foot ball is either defensive or offensive, a defensive play is any strategic set of movements preventing the ball from moving forward, however an offensive play is when the players try to advance the ball as much as possible. Weather the play is offensive or defensive it must have a begining and an end.

The begining of a play happens:

•  After a scrimage, where the center usually passes the ball to the Quarterback but can be to any other bcak (Fullback or Half back).
• A play can also be commenced after a free kick, wich can either be a kick off, after a touchdown, or a free kick, after a safety (when you are tackled in you own endzone with the ball).

The play must also end, and this happens by:

• The ball carrier in a running play is tackled to the ground.
• The ball is ran out of bounds by the carrier or is forced out of bounds by the oponant.
• An incomplete pass occures, this is when a pass is thrown and not taken possesion by the reciever.

An offensive play can be played out in many ways. The two biggest categories are running plays and passing plays. Running plays start behind the line of scrimage then advance it pastthe line of scrimage to gain yards. Passing plays are usually used to gain alot of yards but can also be short and fast passes do get to your spot quickly.

There are also many defensive plays broken down into six main categories

1. A RUSH = Its exaclly as its said, "a rush" is used to rush a play on the offensive like while making a passing play. If the rush is preformed very well it may result in a sack, chances are also very high for an interception or at least an incomplete pass.
2. STUNTS = A stunt if more or less a better rush a bit more difficult to preform but more effective and less obvious.
3. BLITZ = A blitz is also a form of a rush but instead of using an defensive player they will use an offensive player like a linesman to rush the QB.
4. COVERAGE = a coverage play is used to stop a running play from the offensive team, but also being able to defend a passing play if needed.
5. MAN-TO-MAN = Man to man coverage is often used during a blits because every receiver is covered only by 1 man.
6. ZONE = playing zone defense is having many defensive players in one zone anticipating a pass attempt in a certain area. This often results in an interception or hard tackles.

These are rush plays by David Mils



This video explains how a defensive 5-3 stunt is ran.



This is a great blitz ran properly.



As u can see the HB was supposed to run but could not pass either.



As you can see all through out this play every man had another man to watch.

This shows the zones being covered in a zone coverage play.