Rating: 
Summary: Advanced, but Utterly Essential
Review: A word of warning: This is not the best place to start for beginning coaches looking to plan and organize an offense. A youth football coach just starting out should probably look to other sources of information, notably John T. Reed and other youth football coaching guide authors.
On the other hand, anyone coaching high school or higher levels MUST have this book. This is how to build an offense from the ground floor up, written by someone at the top of the game's very highest level.
Coach Billick shows you how to determine how much offense (i.e., how many plays and of what type) you will need to achieve offensive excellence during a football season. Then he "deconstructs" that season, taking it apart level by level until you can see how much offense you will need PER QUARTER.
Billick provides a masterly explanation of "situational" coaching. He shows how to take the plays you have determined are necessary, and practice them against the exact situations and defenses that you will actually need them for in games.
You end up with a "3rd and short" offense, a "coming-out zone" offense -- in short, with the entire contents of the "call sheet" you will use during a game, all constructed in a precise and logical manner. This will save you from the greatest sin a coach can commit during your precious few hours of practice -- wasting time.
Again, this isn't for everyone, and probably not for most beginners, but it is utterly essential.
Highest recommendation.
Rating:
Summary: Advanced, but Utterly Essential
Review: A word of warning: This is not the best place to start for beginning coaches looking to plan and organize an offense. A youth football coach just starting out should probably look to other sources of information, notably John T. Reed and other youth football coaching guide authors.On the other hand, anyone coaching high school or higher levels MUST have this book. This is how to build an offense from the ground floor up, written by someone at the top of the game's very highest level. Coach Billick shows you how to determine how much offense (i.e., how many plays and of what type) you will need to achieve offensive excellence during a football season. Then he "deconstructs" that season, taking it apart level by level until you can see how much offense you will need PER QUARTER. Billick provides a masterly explanation of "situational" coaching. He shows how to take the plays you have determined are necessary, and practice them against the exact situations and defenses that you will actually need them for in games. You end up with a "3rd and short" offense, a "coming-out zone" offense -- in short, with the entire contents of the "call sheet" you will use during a game, all constructed in a precise and logical manner. This will save you from the greatest sin a coach can commit during your precious few hours of practice -- wasting time. Again, this isn't for everyone, and probably not for most beginners, but it is utterly essential. Highest recommendation.
Rating: 
Summary: Not a very helpful book, in realty.
Review: As a successful offensive coordinator in college football, I spend about two weekends in the summer coming up with plays for the following year. By taking the basic plan of a few simple setups, I have collected a series of plays that make my playbook bigger than the Houston phone book. So, the first assertion of this book, that one needs to devote more time with play design, is false. In Chapter 12: Adjusting To The Opponent's Gameplan, the authors suggest a number of things a coach can do to alter the gameplan during the game. This is also misleading - as a highly successful college coach, I script the first 150 plays of each game weeks in advance. Then, from the comfort of my air-conditioned booth, I am able to run the offense at leisure. There is no need to adjust playcalling ONE IOTA, if one schemes the offense correctly, as my record shows I have. Furthermore, one need not look at the time left in the half or game to alter play calling. Stick with the plan! It doesn't matter if you have a solid runner and are on the 5 yard line - do not deviate from the plan of quick passes. Time, and experience, will show that a properly implemented plan will always save the day. My final discord is with Chapter 22: Adjusting Your Plays To Your Talent. This is ridiculous. Again, a properly drawn-up scheme does not rely on talent, only on execution. So, it doesn't matter if you have some tall freak of a WR, or an All-American TE (or two). Stick with the plan! Those plays you drew up after a drinking binge following your visit to the Denver Broncos WILL WORK. So go for it! You too can be successful! Just look at my record!
Rating:
Summary: Very solid information that will help you organize
Review: Coach Billick has done a strong job of putting together information on the organization and structure of an offense. While much of the info may not seem revolutionary, it will likely help any coach crystalize some of his thinking and organize what he does on a week-by-week basis in a MUCH more efficient manner. He deals with everything from the size and scope your offense should encompass to installation to weekly schedules to staff organization. You're sure to pick up some pretty solid ideas..
Rating:
Summary: A great book that helps you implement your philosophy
Review: Coach Billick's book does not tell you what the best offense is. He shows you how to best implement your offensive philosophy so you can practice what you are going to use in a game. His percentage charts are very valuble, explaining everything from the importance of positive yardage on first down to the need to create explosive plays. Great for offensive coordinators and helpful for those that coach defense.
Rating: 
Summary: Learn the game from one of the best!!
Review: Coach Billick, the newly named head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, shares his basic overview of the steps involved in setting up and implementing an offensive game plan. Chapter divisions include: How Much Offense?, Base Offense, 3rd Down, Pre-Red Zone, Red Zone, Special Categories, Installing the Offense, Game Day, The Soap Box, and more!
Rating:
Summary: Billick should include...
Review: How to keep from losing to a division rival 5 times in a row.. in embarrassing fashion...
How to teach your quarterback who to flop the ball to when he's getting destroyed by a future all-pro safety in his own endzone...
How he can keep his job so that my Sooners can tear him apart year after year...
As for Mr. Davis...You have a good point. Let's look at your record. How many conference titles have you won? None?..Hmmm, well I guess that means no National Titles...and...How about Conference rivals?...No????
Mack Brown 4 more years!
Rating:
Summary: Too complicated, title misleading
Review: I found the book to complicated. The title is misleading. He never really shows you how to develop a offensive game. It basically shows you how he does it, but theres no developing involved.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Offense?
Review: Mr. Davis has a great offense? Being shutout by OU does not give him much credibility.
Rating:
Summary: Mr. Davis: where is your book?
Review: Obviously, Mr. Davis wouldn't recognize real knowledge if it bit him on his large rump, so disregard his review.
A tremendous book, buy it, you'll be very pleased. Mr. Davis, go back to the land of steers and queers, idiot.
| 
