How Do You Call Plays As An Offensive Coordinator?
An offensive coordinator’s job at the high school, college and professional level is to keep his team’s offense performing cohesively. Normally, this is facilitated by having top-caliber players who are simply better than their opponents. But when an offensive coordinator does not have that advantage, he still bears the responsibility of keeping an offense moving. The best offensive coordinators will try to build a versatile attack. Teams have to be successful through the air and on the ground, but there are coordinators who have the personnel for running the ball inside, running the ball outside, throwing the deep ball and being successful with the short game. It is okay for an offensive coordinator to excel in any one particular area. That is his “personality.” Having one area of the game that he excels at teaching and implementing allows a team to feel confident when a particular play is called in a clutch situation. Most coordinators, particularly at the high-college and profession
