Coaching football at its most basic level is the search for conflicts of assignment. A conflict of assignment is when a player’s instinctual reaction to stimuli is put into a state of turmoil. No matter what the player does, they are wrong. In Chapter Six of the Introduction to the Wisconsin football team’s Dairy Raid offense, we will delve into a play type that has been wrecking defenses for decades.
Package plays are the ultimate conflict of assignment inducers because a well-crafted play will have simple answers built into it to counteract any reaction. By definition, package plays are all schemes that combine multiple concepts into one on-the-field play.