Anthony Sanchez
The way to build a professional football team is like an architect in how you build and choose where to start from, my preference and Ideology of how to build is from the inside out on both sides of the ball. On offense you start with the offensive line without them you have no run game or passing game, then you look at quarterback and then your defensive line which is your life line to apply pressure to opposing offense's beginning with stopping the run and pressuring the quarterback. These two sides of the ball are what I consider the base of any team, it should be well documented that whenever you think about starting or revising a team's structure you must also have your front office in order to make sound and collective decisions to improve the state of the organization.
The building of the offensive line will in turn help solidify the quarterback position, I feel in building an offensive line you start with the blind side of your quarterback which could be a left tackle or right tackle and then you find yourself a center who can be the second voice on offense aside from your quarterback who can make line changes and blitz calls. Now to determine the right signal caller this can be accomplished by collectively deciding between the coaches, general manager, Vice President of football operations and owner on the qualities, skills, direction, coachability, and ceiling of whom they choose to be the quarterback. In my opinion the starter should have a strong arm, but at the same time provide touch to excel in making the difficult throws, should have capability to read defenses, strong understanding of the game and in all honesty needs to have the biggest heart, determination and ability to command respect from the players in the huddle to lead his team, an additional quality that I put stock into is to be intellectually sound on the field, which is just as important as being physically gifted. A good quarterback at no time panics, must try to have grace, patience and poise to get through bad games and to me a key ingredient to a quarterback's success is comprehension and knowledge of the playbook. The organization must do it's best to choose the right guy, because choosing the wrong quarterback can set your team back a few years and put the organization in a bind. Once the starting quarterback is decided upon you should then really look at a primary backup who should be someone non-disruptive to the team, professional and most importantly accepts his role to fulfill the teams common goal, this person understands he does not have to win the game, in my opinion a successful backup quarterback knows he does not need to be a savior, just let the players around him perform.
Now we focus the attention to the other side of the ball the defense, where it all starts up front with the big guys. The defensive tackle is not a glamorous position, but one of thee most important on a team, that player must be able to take on blocks, shed blocks, take up space to stuff the run and agile enough to help apply pressure up the middle. The next position on the line that is important are your defensive ends and this will take a little more research and scouting, because they do not grow on trees. The defensive end that I personally would scout is one who can get up field and apply pressure, one who can disengage from their block to make tackles, not just a pass rusher but with the balance to run stop as well, self motivated and someone with a very high motor. The defensive line that a coaching staff puts together should be fundamentally sound, can pass rush as well as plug the lanes in order to stuff the run. A good to great defensive line has the ability to smash opponents in the mouth and bring a ferocity to the field to intimidate. If as a coaching staff you can put a defensive line together with those characteristics in turn it will help other positions on the defense stand out that much more and can help cover some deficiencies, for example the linebackers, secondary will feed of the pressure and intensity helping the linebackers keep the offensive lineman off them and the secondary the ability to make plays in the pass game. A big focus for me on the defensive side of the ball really boils down to a coaching staff conveying the importance of all eleven men knowing their assignments, especially with how creative offenses have become with shifts, motion, tempo and deception. In my opinion a great thought and mind set is to instill in your defense attitude, that no matter what happens no opponent should ever break the plain of the end zone you're defending and when they do score it should be taken personal, when the team learns to apply this attitude the evidence will be in their play, confidence, their knowledge and understanding of their assignments and in the bottom line which is to stop all that line up across from you.
My final thoughts starting with the offense boils down to execution, blocking, smart play and the ability of all five offensive linemen to be on the same page with their quarterback and coaches. On the defensive side it is really about attitude and the trust you have in your teammates to execute and know their assignment to the play being called in. In the end it comes around full circle and the bottom line is in order to ascend your team to a more competitive state it starts and finishes in the trenches, I believe if you have that under control the possibilities of success on the football field are vastly increased.
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