Evaluation and Analysis of Offensive and Defensive plays in American football

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Evaluation and Analysis of Offensive and Defensive plays in American football
In sports, coaches analyze numerous collection of videos when determining the appropriate style of play. American football coaches are required to organize their teams in a way that they score more goals and concede less. Thus, a coach can decide to either adopt an offensive or defensive style.
Application of the defensive plays makes it difficult for the other team to score goals. A team using the zone defense with the 4-2-3-1 formation. The defensive backs and linebackers are required to work together to cover some areas which prevent the opposition from making passes (Atmosukarto 991). The linebackers cover the midrange and short space in the middle of the field. In case one linebacker moves forward, the other one is required to expand his zone to cover the roles of the vacant linebacker. Often, if one linebacker moves forward, there is the risk of leaving larger spaces in the pass defense. Also, the play requires the defensive players to be positioned 12-15 yards from the scrimmage line.
The down out offensive play necessitates shooting towards the opposition’s goal, dribbling and making long and short passes. The play has either two or three receivers. They are required to be agile and fast to catch more passes (Atmosukarto 996). When passing occurs, the receivers and backs have a particular pattern of play with the quarterback needed to throw the ball to one of the players.

Down out play allows all the players to spread out to catch the opposing team off guard.
Offensive play is more effective than defensive play. Offensive play involves moving the ball by specific patterns from the defensive players to the attackers. Thus, it may be difficult for the opposing team to gain possession of the ball. On the other hand, the defensive play gives the opposition the chance to possess the ball more and may, therefore, create many goal scoring opportunities.
Work Cited
Atmosukarto, Indriyati, et al. “Automatic recognition of offensive team formation in american football plays.” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. 2013. Pp. 991-998.