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BUILDING THE GAME PLANHere is how I game-plan for specific opponents and systems.11 VERSUS TIGHT DOUBLE WINGDOUBLE WING: SCOUTING AND GAME-PLANNING TEAM "X"In planning my defensive game plan, I'm going to present scouting information on"Team X", an imaginary (but not too unusual) <strong>Double</strong> <strong>Wing</strong> team. For the sake of thisexercise, Team X is a small high school that plays in the Midwest, and doesn't thinkmuch of the forward pass. (Not that it matters -- I could just as easily game-plan forthem if they were a five-wide junior college from Southern California; it’s just a questionof emphasis.)I'm making a pretty heroic assumption, which is that we've scouted every play fromscrimmage they ran the previous season, and that they're using the same system underthe same coaches. It wouldn't make that much difference if we had less completeinformation, though -- we'd still have a pretty good handle on tendencies. The more(good) information the better, though, of course.So: Here is a breakdown of Team X's offensive preferences. I've deliberately simplifiedthis so this won't run to 20 pages, but the idea is the same if you're facing a WCO clubthat runs 80 plays from 10 formations.I. SCOUTING THE OFFENSEFormations: Team X runs exclusively from Tight and Spread (ends split out 8-10yards).Plays: Team X used the following plays last season:77