Myth about halftime adjustments

[Bobhaze]

I just really think you’re getting hooked up on the “halftime” part of it. Adjustments are certainly made by coaches…on at least one sideline, in almost every game.

If they’re not… Why the hell would they let the quarterbacks look at an iPad in between drives? Let’s not get caught up in semantics of when the adjustments actually happen

Right. I’m not saying coaches don’t make adjustments. I’m saying they make them all game long. Halftime is not the be-all of times to “adjust”.

Players and coaches say in the extremely brief NFL halftime, there is no time to scrap the game plan and come up with some inspiring “adjustments”. That’s all I’m saying.

One of my sons has been a HS football and basketball coach (never a head coach) and he says all the coaches he’s worked under did not have some major skull practice adjustments at half time. He said they talked about a few things by position groups, players went to the restroom, etc but he says he never took part in some major halftime adjustment sessions. That’s just one coach I realize.

 

[IlliniNation]

I don’t know past high school, but our 2nd half adjustments happened during the week, otherwise known as plan B

At halftime, if what we were doing wasn’t working, we went to plan B.

This is a good point. As a HS defensive coordinator I better have a plan B and have worked on that during the week. Hard to have HS kids go over a 2nd half scheme change in 10 minutes.
At the NFL level I'm sure whatever coordinators discuss is something their guys have done before and talked about.

 

[Cmac]

One of the biggest myths in football. Ask a coach from HS upward and they will tell you “halftime adjustments” are a huge myth.

.....then what did SF do? According to Trevon (of all people), SF made adjustments. We looked like some got power naps at halftime.

 

[Bobhaze]

.....then what did SF do? According to Trevon (of all people), SF made adjustments. We looked like some got power naps at halftime.

They made them all game as good coaching staffs do

 

[atlantacowboy]

Obviously teams aren't scrapping an entire week of preparations and doing something completely different in 20 minutes. But there is a game inside the game and some teams seem to be better at fine tuning what they are doing as the game evolves. Jason Garrett was the worst coach at in-game adaptations I've ever seen.

 

[Bobhaze]

Obviously teams aren't scrapping an entire week of preparations and doing something completely different in 20 minutes. But there is a game inside the game and some teams seem to be better at fine tuning what they are doing as the game evolves. Jason Garrett was the worst coach at in-game adaptations I've ever seen.

Apparently his struggle continues. He hasn’t been able to secure a HC job at any level since he left in 2019. This the guy Jerry said teams would line up to hire.

 

[atlantacowboy]

Apparently his struggle continues. He hasn’t been able to secure a HC job at any level since he left in 2019. This the guy Jerry said teams would line up to hire.

In the immortal words of George Constanza " if you believe it, its not a lie".

 

[Cmac]

They made them all game as good coaching staffs do

Yep

 

[Shane612]

I’ve always had my suspicions about halftime “adjustments”.
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Maybe they reevaluate run/pass ratio. Or minor coverage adjustments. But those adjustments are made and called by the coaches during a game.

 

[Ranching]

One of the biggest myths in football. Ask a coach from HS upward and they will tell you “halftime adjustments” are a huge myth.

I've coach MS, HS and College games...if used right, halftime adjustments can make a huge difference...especially HS with the 30 minute halftime. Coaches talk on the headset all the way into the locker room, assistant coaches should be drawing and writing adjustments on the whiteboard....after a quick bathroom break, you have a full 15 minutes before you go out for a 7 minute stretch and agility.....

 

[Ranching]

That is a good point…you spend all week game planning for a team and it doesn’t work but 15 minutes at half time does the trick lol.

One play can win or lose a game. You plan and watch film all week, but you don't have film on what they do in the first half. He'll yeah, it makes a difference in close games.

 

[Staubacher]

For all those who think halftime adjustments are the key, watch this. There’s barely time for fans to go to the concession stand or the bathroom at half. You think teams have time to install new game plans?

Sturm is a know nothing Dak Stan idiot. Of course Shanahan is going to downplay the adjustments.
What a tool.

 

[Ranching]

I don’t know past high school, but our 2nd half adjustments happened during the week, otherwise known as plan B

At halftime, if what we were doing wasn’t working, we went to plan B.

Plan B is an adjustment....

 

[Tabascocat]

Plan B is an adjustment....

I’m pretty sure I said that was our adjustment

 

[FVSTONE]

For all those who think halftime adjustments are the key, watch this. There’s barely time for fans to go to the concession stand or the bathroom at half. You think teams have time to install new game plans?

Who cares, whatever the 9ers did during halftime worked!!!! Every time the Cowboys showed a 5 man D-Line Purdy switch the play from a run to a pass play, which is something that he didn’t do in the first half. So halftime adjustments were made so give it a rest…….

 

[KingintheNorth]

Ehhh, I love Kyle Shanahan, but I have lived that life. My DC (I coached Safeties, Linebackers, and D Line over my career) spent every available minute making adjustments with me listening and watching the clock. I also worked with him a few years at a high school, and it was basically the same thing only we kind of dumbed it down.

It's basically half the time making adjustments and then half the time communicating it to the defense. Position coaches are typically reiterating those changes to their group on the way back to the field and up until the 2nd half kickoff. Some examples would be if we want my Strong Safety to change his drops on certain coverages or we want our 3Tech to change his alignment to certain looks the offense is showing us.

Our HC was also the OC, so he took care of the Offense, and we ran the D. He almost never addressed us as a team during the half.

 

[BHendri5]

Halftime adjustments are just mental, nothing else!!!!!
There’s not enough time to make these mythic halftime adjustments lol, people are so gullible, and stupid, even the ones that played from high school are higher and now are just fans fall for this mythical crap, they can’t remember at any point while playing any halftime adjustments other than the coach talking about mental stuff

 

[Pola_pe_a]

Adjustments happen throughout the game. That!s why position groups sit together with their coaches after every series. You talk about what you’re seeing and what works and what doesn’t. More adjustments come after the first couple series than at halftime.

 

[Sarge]

There absolutely is half-time adjustments. Minimal in nature but there are. I think people confuse half time adjustments with game planning that occurs during the week. Adjustments are made, in part to the game planning and corrections needed based on the first half that couldn't be discussed during the first half.