Learning Curve Pretty High For Today’s High School Quarterbacks

In today’s high school football, a quarterback has basically evolved into a coach on the field.
The game and terminology has expanded on the high school level, so that means the knowledge to play quarterback has expanded along with it.

Reporter:”Do you think there’s a lot more placed on today’s high school quarterbacks?”
Said Ringgold coach Austin Crisp:”One hundred percent. At least in our system. There’s not hand-off belly or hand-off buck sweep anymore. We’ve got pre and post snap RPO’s.”
Said LFO coach Mac Bryan:”But I think as the game has progressed, more and more people have opened the game up. When you do that, you put more on the quarterback. We put a lot on him from audible systems to combination play systems.”
Said NW Whitfield coach Josh Robinson:”Quarterbacks were turning and tossing or they would have one read. Now they have a progression they have to go through. It’s a different world than it was probably just as soon as I’d say twelve or fourteen years ago. It’s a whole different ballgame.”
Reporter:”Do you have any guess on how many plays are in the LFO playbook?”
Said LFO quarterback Darian Keefe:”Lot more than I can think about. It’s kind of crazy.”
Said NW Whitfield quarterback Gavin Nuckolls:”I’d say over 100. Definitely over 100. Definitely once we move towards the season it might be closer to 200 I’d say. Definitely over 100.”
Reporter:”Do you like have a playbook out at home or an I-pad out at home at night?”
Said Ringgold quarterback Garrett Edgar:”Absolutely. I’ve always got HUDL up on the computer or I’ve got my playbook on my desk. It’s always open.”
Said Crisp:”Our quarterbacks definitely have a lot on them. Not only that but they’ve got to call the protection. I don’t call protections in games. So if we call a passing concept, our quarterback has got to know what passing family is involved with that passing protection.”
Reporter:”Do you use drones to help them see the field from a different angle?”
Said Robinson:”We like the end zone shots better. We use the end zone camera, but you have to use that stuff to kind of get everybody to see spacing and the defense.”
Said Edgar:”The drone view has helped up a lot pro

gressing as an offense. The aerial view. I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s a complete different ballgame seeing it from above.”
Said Keefe:”That’s the position that I chose. That’s what I have to do when I choose this position. The whole team is on you. You control the team. You lead the team. So if you want to play this position, that’s what goes into it.”