Format: a printed book, shipped to you.

This is the starting point of the whole system. If you are installing the Gun T for the first time, this is the book, and you can install off it without buying anything else.

Most playbooks are a stack of plays. A coach reads one, likes four of them, puts them in, and finds out in week three that they do not fit together, so when a defense takes one away there is no answer. This one is built the other direction. A small number of plays that share blocking rules and backfield action, run from a lot of formations, so a defense that stops the look has not stopped the play.

Every play comes with the diagram, the teaching points, where it fits in your game plan, and when to call it and why. That last part is what most playbooks leave out, and it is the part that shows up on Friday night.

Who it is for: high school and youth coaches installing the Gun T from scratch. It does not assume you have run any of it before.

What it is not: it is not a season update and it is not the most recent version of what we run. 2.0 through 7.0 are the updates, and they build on this book rather than replacing it. Start here, then add the year you want.

What to do next

• Organizing the install and the practice week: Gun T RPO - Organizational Guide
• The first season update: Gun T RPO 2.0
• Coaching third through ninth grade: Gun T Youth Manual