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Clinic Talk: Terms and phrases used by offensive football coaches

With more and more coaches stepping into the world of announcing and the "Film Room," option during the National Championship game, I'm going to provide a glossary of terms commonly used on offense to clarify this coaching jargon. Here for SOTU we will discuss: schemes, personnel groups, and formations.

Schemes:

The foundations of offensive football arise in the scheme the coach is trying to employ. As fans of the game we hear a lot of phrases like "pro style" or "spread" and we often wonder what the difference really is because during a Patriots game I see both.