Dude,
How long does it take to go Pro? How longs a piece of string. We play you guys a lot at Yorkies, and repeated scrimmaging is not going to take yours or our game anywhere.
You need to breakdown the game into it's component parts, drill and repeatedly train these again again again again again again until they become body memory. If training consists of repeated scrimmaging, any Gremlins in your game will never get corrected, especially as no-one is really there to say what you did wrong or how to correct it.
We've all done the post game of "you got shot out because......", but you got to work out how to correct any faults. How do you play tight, how do you correctly snap shoot, how do you run and shoot. There's probably many ways to do some of the skills, but until you practice and train these to be effective your never going to have the skills to go out and play pro.
Love or loath Robbo's analogies, but once you get past the flowery language, the one that best illustrates this is the one about Jamie learning how to snap shoot blindfolded. Dedication and practice. Everybody wants to go out and shoot fools, rather than sit there doing the same old repetative task, but until you adapt this mind set your not going to improve at a significant rate. If training is repeated scrimmaging your never going to do the difficult stuff or the unnatural because your not forced to do it. Seeing players shooting off-hand is rare as rocking horse poo, because it's difficult and un-natural, go out against a team who has practiced this and other skills and the minute you come out on the left side of your bunker right handed your going to get lit up like an Xmas tree.
Once you get the skills down, next you need to learn how to do this under pressure without losing your head. You could be the best snap shooter in the world, but if you can't keep your head under pressure, and maintain enough composure to repeat what you've learned, your going to be about as much use as tits on a bull in a game. So you learn how to snap, off hand shoot etc under pressure, at least you've now got some of the tools you need to go out and play competitively, however look at the great players and their cool as cucumbers under fire.
Scrimmaging should be used to put the component parts together and practice what you know under pressure. Also at this stage, you should start to learn your game awareness, timing and comms. You may have the best teams comms, or even timing in the world, but if you can't play tight, or shoot tight you ain't going to be on field to put movement and comms into practice.
The gulf between teams that really train and drill and those that think training consists solely of scrimmaging is vast. I've played against some players who have worked on the basic skill sets recently, but at the end of the day, despite all our firepower, I've been left with an arsehole like a ripped out fireplace after these guys have gone through us. Of course scrimmaging is vital, but it's a component part of a complete training set-up. Maybe it should be treaded as a reward after a few hours of monotonous drilling.
Perhaps a Stongle analogy is in order, compare Paintball to your average post pub beer-lariness. You could be a competent street fighter, but you come up against a Zen Kung-fu master with their practiced Shaolin, Wu-Tang, "you must think first before you move skillz", and you going to get punched up the face before you know it.
I'm not criticising you at all, just pointing out where you, me and others are going wrong. I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and if you wanna really train and drill PM me and we'll try and sort something out.
Peace.
