Making Your Off-Season Count | Post-Season Evaluations
Now that the season is over for the majority of us it’s time we take a look and reflect on the past season. This is a very important process for coaches.
Coaching Offense
General Offensive Coaching Tips
Creating a Leverage Advantage By Using a Compressed Split
At any level of football one of the most dangerous things to defend is speed on the edge of the field. As a result, defenses will work hard to keep outside leverage and keep everything inside of them.
Elements of Running a Simple 2 Minute Drill
Running an effective two-minute drill is one of the toughest things to do in football. The ability to teach players how to move down the field using a limited amount of time will stress any coaching staff.
Over the Shoulder Drill for Wide Receivers
As an up-tempo spread based team, we are always looking to get our receivers as many catches as possible. Because we have short practices we often miss out on individual time where receivers can get the base catches that allow them to develop the skill necessary to make big time catches in games.
Simple Run Pass Option for Youth Football | Push Screen RPO
The Push Screen RPO is easy to install and it’s a concept that can be executed on the youth football level. This run pass option gives the QB an easy pre-snap read.
Defending the Inside Zone Running Play
The Inside Zone is one of the top offensive schemes in football. This play is so dominant because it can be run from so many different formations and personnel groups.
Play Call to Practice Time Ratio
The limiting factor on all football teams is time. Every team has a limited amount of practice time and a limited amount of practice reps.
Running Inside Zone with a Tight End
Tight Ends present all sorts of issues for defensive coaches. One of the main issues that they bring up is that the defense now has to defend an extra run gap.
Simple Rules for the Pin and Pull Play
The Pin and Pull is one of the plays that is sweeping the country as a run game staple. There are multiple advantages of running the Pin and Pull and using it as your main tool to get to the outside in the run game.
Bash Tag on Inside Zone
One of the tags that is sweeping across the landscape of college football is the Bash Tag. This tag allows the offense to combine misdirection and the read game.
How Efficient Are Your Practices? Simple Steps to Increase Player Engagement
One thing that all coaches, players and parents can agree on is no one wants to have a practice where there are lots of kids standing around. Kids standing around at practice are not getting better at football and normally are not having fun.
Attacking the Defense with the Thing Series
One thing that can be frustrating for the defense is when the offense is able to give a variety of different plays off essentially the same look. When you combine this with a formation that presents a heavy run threat on one side of the formation with a passing threat on the other side of […]
The 5 Concepts in Developing a Winning Mentality
These 5 Concepts apply to coaches and players. Always remember that your team’s attitude, body language, and overall vibe is a reflection of how they are being coached.
Offensive Line Pre-Practice Steps
Pre-Practice is a great time for the Offensive Line to work through some of their basic movement patterns that will increase their ability to complete their assignments. There are a variety of different ways you can approach pre-practice.
Attacking the Backside of the Trips Formation with Read Routes
One of the things that can make life really difficult on defenses is if you can effectively throw to the backside of the Trips formation. Most defenses will put an extra defender over to the Trips side and leave the backside to the Cornerback and the Linebacker to defend the single receiver.