Brad Sham - Do Not Adjust. The Second-Half Problem Is Not With Your Set

[Parcells4Life]

I think fans believe that Coaches and players can simply select a new playbook at halftime. As the article points out there just isn’t time.

I’ve been a part of college football locker rooms which have more time and the “adjustments” are not coaches talking to players aside from showing them on a white board the main plays they’re getting beat with. It’s all the coaches on each side having literally 4 minutes to have a round table. They can’t during the game because they’re all in different spots either on field or in box.

They don’t draw up a new 15 play script like the first half. It’s like “I think we should target 24 more or let’s try more A gap blitzes”. So Pederson last week was probably told let’s see what running the ball does.

As Garrett and Sham have pointed out, the majority of adjustments are between series on the sidelines with the tablets. And mostly that’s showing the plays that have already been run.

 

[wssaustin]

What was Sham rambling?

Really 2nd half adjustment only happens around the 12 minutes of half time? It happens in the game-planning, coaching players both mentally and physically to keep focused for the entire game. This coaching stuff are just doing everything predictable, lack of creativity.

 

[coult44]

So in the games we won where we won the 2nd half did we make adjustments or did the other team not make adjustments?

Because it's clear in all the games we lose we don't adjust..... or something as the logic here goes.

I just want to know if people are positing that at halftime Jason flips a coin and decides whether to make adjustments or not?

So what's your argument? He makes adjustments, even if they're wrong? Or, The other teams adjust to his adjustments to quickly for him to adjust accordingly? Or, we need to adjust our adjustment arguments? It's obvious that he fails miserably in the second halves, and his team follows suit and falls apart in almost every second half. What would you say needs to be the correct adjustments to this second half debacle every game?

 

[JoeKing]

I'm not insisting it's correct. I was just pointing out that you think everyone is wrong and what you believe is correct just because Broaddus said so.

That's not what I said at all. I said I already believed no one knows what they are talking about BEFORE I hear Broaddus say a word. He just confirmed what I already suspected strongly. If he had said something contrary to what I already suspected I wouldn't believe him. I don't get my information from a failed scout so stop your false narrative that that is what I am doing.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

So what's your argument? He makes adjustments, even if they're wrong? Or, The other teams adjust to his adjustments to quickly for him to adjust accordingly? Or, we need to adjust our adjustment arguments? It's obvious that he fails miserably in the second halves, and his team follows suit and falls apart in almost every second half. What would you say needs to be the correct adjustments to this second half debacle every game?

I've said long before this article came out that halftime adjustments are basically a myth....certainly how they are discussed.

You don't spend all week installing a gameplan and then throw it out and install something else in 15 minutes.

I've been in a locker room. It just doesn't happen to that degree. Meanwhile teams are constantly adjusting all game long. Why do you think you have an array of assistants upstairs? Folks calling down to talk to the QB? QBs looking at stills and now video of plays on the sidelines?

 

[Toruk_Makto]

I'm pretty certain I am not as knowledgeable as some here. Yet I have heard coaches for many decades talk about half time adjustments. So your theory is they are just placating fans. And ignoring how to improve their design or tweak it to win the game.

Pardon me if I think that is not based in anything but conjecture.

It is a matter of practicality. There simply is not enough time to make meaningful changes. And if there is...then there is that same amount of time and more to make changes during the game.

It's a matter of practicality. You have 12 minutes.

 

[Zman5]

That's not what I said at all. I said I already believed no one knows what they are talking about BEFORE I hear Broaddus say a word. He just confirmed what I already suspected strongly. If he had said something contrary to what I already suspected I wouldn't believe him. I don't get my information from a failed scout so stop your false narrative that that is what I am doing.

You think he's a failed scout yet since he "confirmed" what you believe to be true, he is correct and the ex-players are wrong. OK. What ever floats your boat.

 

[JoeKing]

I've said long before this article came out that halftime adjustments are basically a myth....certainly how they are discussed.

You don't spend all week installing a gameplan and then throw it out and install something else in 15 minutes.

I've been in a locker room. It just doesn't happen to that degree. Meanwhile teams are constantly adjusting all game long. Why do you think you have an array of assistants upstairs? Folks calling down to talk to the QB? QBs looking at stills and now video of plays on the sidelines?

 

[JoeKing]

You think he's a failed scout yet since he "confirmed" what you believe to be true, he is correct and the ex-players are wrong. OK. What ever floats your boat.

Nope, I believe I'm right and Broaddus final said something I agree with. Being a failed scout doesn't mean he's always wrong.

 

[Zman5]

Nope, I believe I'm right and Broaddus final said something I agree with. Being a failed scout doesn't mean he's always wrong.

To you, he is a failed scout but his word has more clout than the ex-players and coaches when he agrees with you. Yeh I get it. That is very clear. You can trust the failed ex-scout. I prefer trusting an ex-player that had success in the league.

 

[Doomsay]

I'm pretty weak at pot banging tantrums. I actually think the game is about talent and execution. Strange, huh?

Are you really a supporter of this coaching staff?

 

[JoeKing]

To you, he is a failed scout but his word has more clout than the ex-players and coaches when he agrees with you. Yeh I get it. That is very clear. You can trust the failed ex-scout. I prefer trusting an ex-player that had success in the league.

Broaddus calls himself a failed scout and his word doesn't mean crap to me. The ex-players/coaches are all contradicting each other and you won't specify which ones you are listening to so who knows which one of them is right?

 

[rpntex]

Execution. So how does that work? They draw up a plan and say go execute it.

Atlanta, their plan was for the left tackle to block the defensive end and give Dak enough time to work. That failed because they guy could not execute that plan.

So in your estimation, at half time what should be done? Since your position is merely go execute, then the left tackle just needs to block the guy. Which is what the team essentially did. They brought a tight in over once, but abandoned that.

The results is the guy could not stop the defensive end who got 5 sacks.

An adjustment would have been to chip the defensive end with a running back on some plays. Move a tight end on some plays. Maybe throw screens to that guys side. Stretch the offense horizontally to force that guy to stop rushing straight up the field. You saw this in the first half of the Eagles game.

But then half time comes and the other team makes an adjustment and Dallas becomes neutered.

It isn't as black and white as you paint it.

Dallas did make the adjustments you mentioned. They chipped with a TE or RB on 8 different plays after Claiborne’s 2nd sack. The problem was they didn’t do it every play, and fans tend to fixate on the plays when they didn’t. The narrative then becomes “Dallas NEVER gave him any help”.

As for adjustments, NOBODY makes any at halftime. If I Team waits until half to make adjustments, they are so far down they have to completely shelve the game plan. Adjustments are made on the fly, during the flow of the game, not at halftime. Read the entire article you cited...it says as much.

 

[rpntex]

Then why do the ex players who announce the games talk about half time adjustments?

Did you even READ the article you linked in your OP? The answer to your question is in there.

By the way, there’s another of those “ex-player turned announcers” quoted as saying he’s never seen wholesale adjustments made at halftime.

 

[Zman5]

Broaddus calls himself a failed scout and his word doesn't mean crap to me. The ex-players/coaches are all contradicting each other and you won't specify which ones you are listening to so who knows which one of them is right?

Most ex-players/coaches are saying otherwise. I'm sure there are other failed ex-scouts who doesn't agree with Broaddus.

 

[JoeKing]

Most ex-players/coaches are saying otherwise. I'm sure there are other failed ex-scouts who doesn't agree with Broaddus.

Otherwise from what? Who cares?

 

[Zman5]

Otherwise from what? Who cares?

Most are saying we aren't making adjustment. And obviously many do care since we are all talking about it.

 

[JoeKing]

Most are saying we aren't making adjustment. And obviously many do care since we are all talking about it.

It doesn't matter.

 

[Zman5]

It doesn't matter.

To you maybe. Not to everyone.

 

[JoeKing]

To you maybe. Not to everyone.

Okay, believe what you want.