How to create an Academic Game Plan for your players
Losing players to grades is a travesty. Now, as a coach you can’t be the one to go and do your players’ homework or go…
Author: Rick
How to Pass the Ball in the Wing T
This article’s focus is going to to be on a dangerous subject… Throwing in the Wing T! Coach, stick with me…passing in the offense is…
How to defeat the 4-3 with the Triple Option
One of the biggest problems for a Triple Option team is facing a 4-3 defense with a true Mike linebacker right over the ball. If…
How to attach perimeter screens to Buck Sweep
Every year it feels like more and more coaches come to this type of play style — whether that be Under Center Wing T coaches…
How to Run the Triple vs. the 4-3
The 4-3 is a tricky defense that people run against Triple Option offenses… But don’t worry. Coach Kelley Lee has the answer:
How to do end of season evaluations
How do you evaluate your team and your staff? It’s a tough task and I know that at the end of the season, it’s not…
How to train your QBs during the year
Yearly Plan for QB Development This is our yearly plan for quarterback development. As I mentioned we have a 12-month plan. Obviously, we have a…
How to Run the Power Play with a Tight End
Do you run Power? Do you run Power Read? Do you run Power Read with a Tight End? Here’s what the play looks like in…
Pressed Corners Are Good Corners
I think it’s fair to say that we all wish we had a cornerback that could play press all night and always jam up the…
Let’s Talk About Practice
Are your practices fast and efficient? Not everyone is the head coach and responsible for organizing practice, but we all contribute to how efficient practice…
Check Out These Kickoff Return Drills
One of the most demoralizing things for your team is to give up a kickoff return for a touchdown. Every year you think it won’t…
How to teach your corners the Shadow Technique
Teaching cornerback technique is one of those things that can make or break your secondary. We often think of a cornerback’s technique as coming straight…
How to Break Down Film
I wanted to share with you a few tips on how my staff and I prepare for the opponent’s offense. You might already have a…
How to Stop the Mother of All Air Raid Plays
4 Verts is the mother of all Air Raid plays. The last concept added to the arsenal by Mike Leach, it is not simply sending…
Make Sure Your Athletes are Eating Right
I want to share with you the following document that we have used to explain football nutrition to our players. There is some information near…
How to Defend the Option
In this post, I talked about how you need to defend the Buck Sweep play from the Wing T. But there’s another offense you don’t…
How to Get Your Offensive Line Humming
Even if you are a “passing guy” you cannot forget the offensive line. Without these guys, there is no offense. And that’s not specific to…
3 Drills to Help Your Quarterback
How do you feel about your quarterback drills? This is the player who is holding the ball every play, who carries the mental load of…
You Need This Drill to Help Your Blocking
When you near the end of the season and defenses are getting better and they’ve got tons of film on you, you’ve got to ensure…
How to Defend Buck Sweep
In high school football, you can see so many offenses from week to week. And when you run a high school defense, you certainly cannot…
3 Drills to Get the Most Out of Your Wide Receivers
Wide receivers are supposed to catch the football, right? Yes, but often times, and especially if you like to run the ball, your receivers are…
How to run the G-Load Option and Power Option Pass
As you probably know, the TEX-BONE marries the triple option offense with the spread. It uses traditional option schemes out of spread formations to get…
How to Blitz with Purpose Using HUDL Beta
Dialing up blitz pressures should be calculated, not at random. With the use of Hudl Beta, we’ve been able to identify favorable situations for our…
How to Practice RPOs for Maximal Success
RPOs are good old-fashioned football when run properly. Read ’em if you can’t block ’em. And the good thing about RPOs is that they can…
The 4 Parts of the Game Planning Process You Need
Game planning can quickly get out of hand without structure. You need to have a system in place that you can repeat every week for…
How to Fix Slow Linebackers
One positional mistake that can tank your defense is a slow linebacker. And I’m not just talking about speed, but a slow reacting linebacker. The…
How to Attack the 33 Stack
The stack defense is one of the most frustrating schemes to deal with, especially if you don’t see it very often. 10 years ago it…
Another Way to Add Tempo to Your Offense
This one word is a huge reason why Coach Steinberg’s offenses have such great success: TEMPO. Coach Steinberg’s offense is simple so his players can play…
Three Drills to Stop Fumbling Running Backs
One of the quickest ways to kill your team’s morale and momentum is an untimely fumble. You’ve been driving the ball down the field and…
Teach the “WHY” Behind Press Technique
Let’s talk about teaching press technique today. Every coverage ends up in man-to-man. When a CB has to guard a WR, he can turn one…