Coach and Coordinator Podcast

On this week's episode of Defense with DC, Dan Carrel, USFL Michigan Panthers Defensive Coordinator takes a look at the Missouri defense against South Carolina and Temple defense vs. Navy to point out ideas and concepts we can learn from. Shownotes: -Coaching up early game calls -Staying ahead of the game -Thinking about how else they can run their plays -Adjustment to motion -Motion may tie into gap schemes -Spinning to motion in Nickel -Adjusting to motion in Base -Make it simple for your guys but complex for them -Variations of Cover 3 -Finding places where it is advantageous to be different -Making the Game Plan as simple as possible -Defending bunch -Teaching run fits as crack replace -Playing bunch release routes - box concept -Defending the double out Option tips: -Guy who is your tackler - how fast can he trigger -Changing up to cloud to keep safety out -Playing a shade to steal a gap Save 25 % on Dan Carrel's course to analyze your defense after the season. "Make Sense of Your Self Scout": https://bit.ly/3UeqjC8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Kight and Keith Grabowski team up for this special Leadership Journey edition of the Coach and Coordinator podcast. Keith and Brian Kight discuss the challenges of adversity in today’s podcast. Show notes :55 Opportunity and adversity :3:25 Adversity is different for everyone 7:52 Coaching staff will face different types of adversity 10:23 Processing and training for adversity 13:40 Formula for success: E+R=O 15:05 Examples of adversity training 17:32 Putting pressure on variable moments 22:12 Skills needed to overcome adversity 24:35 Detach from the event of adversity 27:19 Maintaining a healthy perspective Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. He’s served as the Chicago Bears offensive coordinator as well as quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, and St. Louis Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coaches and teams once the season begins. Today’s focus will be on how to implement and defend trick plays in a game. Show notes 1:32 How trick plays give you an edge in a game 3:15 Communicating special plays to your team 7:05 Shea’s tips for practicing trick plays 11:20 Creating a trick play with the right personnel 14:18 When to call the play 19:14 Using a special play after a turnover 21:35 How to defend special plays 26:55 Discipline defense and overtime periods 27:39 Favorite trick plays Related Episodes: Planning, Practicing, and Calling Trick Plays https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/planning-practicing-and-calling-trick-plays Building Character, Half-Time Adjustments, Trick Plays https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/building-character-in-season-halftime-adjustments-trick-plays-mike-rowe-former-hc-rocori-hs-mn RPOs, Constraints, Trick Plays, Qb Progressions: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-14-constraints-rpos-tricks-and-qb-progressions Trick Play Resources: https://bit.ly/3TTeH7J Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's installment of the TeachTapes Series, Keith and Stev discuss open field first and ten and how game plans, practice plans, individual periods and play calling are built around this situation. Teach Tapes First Down -The opportunities of first and ten -Beginning to write the narrative and set things up -Alabama ans Mississippi State -Ole Miss and LSU -Using Tempo on first down -Tempo to eliminate DL get off -First down vs. known passing situations -How do you keep a defense on its heels? -Using Tempo and Counters to Tempo on first down -Feeling confidence in a drive and as a play caller -Lane Kiffin trick with tempo -Complements to base plays -Maximizing yardage on first down -Five yard intent and running towards the ticks -George Kittle clip - finishing along the sideline -Ginats and Rams drill -Its what happens when the lines on the diagram run out -Eagles defensive drill off of fast screens -Speed beats power, angles beats speed, and over the top beats angles -Manny Diaz - most TFLs are roll tackles -Vince DiGaetano - one arm tear -The productive missed tackle -Circuits are designed for first down -It’s running and tackling -Chad O’Shea and receivers’ issues with ball carriage -Game plan to practice plan to individual plan Twitter: @TeachTapes @CoachKGrabowski Vince DiGaetano resources: https://bit.ly/3NdCc8U Manny Diaz Tackling Clinic: https://bit.ly/3DBjq8h Video of Keith's example of tempo: https://bit.ly/3W68mr6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Keith discusses complementary football with the coordinators of the USFL Michigan Panthers, Dan Carrel, and Eric Marty. Each share their perspective on what playing team football means and how they can work together to help the other. Shownotes: -What is team football? -Allocation of risk -Responsibility to the team and the game plan -Having a perspective from being the head coach -Getting buy-in from both coordinators -How the Michigan Panthers handle playing complementary football -Situations O/D need to work on together the most -Communicating what we need to do to win at the end of a game -Working together in practice to get the looks you need -How being a multiple offense helps the defense prepare -Creating continuity through terminology -Setting it up so everyone is getting what they need out of drills -The value of good vs. good in practice -Calling your own O/D in the scout team -Turning scout team into quality reps vs. looking at a card -Getting the two sides together to discuss what they see from the opponent as it affects the other side -What the defense can do to play complementary football -What the offense can do to play complementary football Eric Marty’s Offensive System: https://bit.ly/3gIzJY2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Mullen joins Keith today on our weekly in-season series The OC Office Hour to discuss creating explosive runs and passes. Coach Mullen is the former OC at West Virginia University and UNC-Charlotte. He served as RB the OT and TE coach at Ohio University from 1995-2000. From there he moved on to Wake Forest as OT & TE and the QB coach. At WVU he served as QB coach and OC and did the same at UNC-Charlotte. Mullen has had success at every stop in his career. Show notes: -Mike Earys study -27 first downs -Coach Mullen’s definition -Creating explosive runs -Best runs and formations with tempo -Numbers runs -Sweeps and reverses -Orbit sweep -QB as Runner -Power Read -Pin and Pull RPO -Tagging the boundary X -Importance of Fly and orbit -The reverse -Defining efficient plays -Blocking the reverse -Explosive passes -Thoughts on RPO -Play Action must look like run for 3 steps -Bob Wylie - Run Action must sound like run -Selling the run -Offensive line in play action -Run action as an answer -Creating Look alike plays -Game planning off of 4 core runs -Jab-jab-left hook -Play calling anticipation -Strategy for openers -Scripting openers OC Office Hour Week 0 with Jeff Mullen: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/oc-office-hour-with-jeff-mullen Big O System: https://coachtube.com/jeffmullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Season 2 of the Leadership Journey Show This week in the Leadership Journey series, Keith Grabowski and Brian Kight talk about the variation of effort and commitment in a team. They discuss how coaches get the effort desired from their players. Throughout the course of a season, coaches gain an idea of who is giving maximum effort and who is committed as well as those who are not. Keith and Brian discuss what that looks like and ways to respond to it. Also, how to get the effort and commitment from these players without it being overbearing to them. Show notes: 02:10 Looking at effort and commitment levels from players 03:25 Feeling like you care more than the players 04:23 The different types of players 05:40 Compliant or defiant 07:27 You always want more from the players 09:05 Let go of players wanting it like you do 11:17 Be a great observer without judging 13:00 Can’t use command and control 14:33 The gap between coaches and players 15:00 Applying standards by decision 16:00 Structure and freedom 17:05 Educated freedom 20:25 Brian’s coach conversation 22:24 Most people must learn to work like a champion 22:49 Don’t view structure as control but as guidance 24:33 It’s a live dynamic 25:38 Flipping the switch 26:25 You must observe 29:05 The why scale 30:12 Being skillful with discipline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Mushroom Society Series installment, retired NFL and college coach Steve Szabo joins us to discuss his development as a coach, developing in the profession, and we get his perspective on preparing and playing against the offense, in particular, the offensive line. Shownotes: -From the Naval Academy to Viet Nam to coaching -Learning the game -Insight gained from Earl Bruce, Tom Coughlin, Bill Belichick, and Lloyd Carr -Finding the strengths and weaknesses of an opposing offensive line -Difficult formations -False keys -Advice to have a successful career Related: Cool Clinic Playlist (includes all Mushroom Society episodes): Thom McDaniels - Why High School Football Works https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/why-high-school-football-works-thom-mcdaniels-ohio-hs-hall-of-fam-coach Thom McDaniels - how to become a head coach: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/how-to-become-a-head-coach-ohio-hall-of-fame-head-coach-thom-mcdaniels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Teach Tapes, Steve Hauser and Keith begin a "walk down the field" highlighting situations that occur and the techniques that are showcased in each area. They begin with the backed-up area of the field and view this situation from an offense, defense, and special teams perspective. Shownotes: -Walking the field Jay Bilas style -The game is always played in context -Josh McDaniels -Don’t just run plays, understand the objective -Alabama backed up against Tennessee -You have the sense of urgency of one play -Communication and forcing extra communication for the opponent -Elongated edges -Eddie Faulkner vision drill -OL combo drills to drive level one -Stunts and games on the DL -Passing opportunities backed up -Baylor theory -Vert shallow example from USC -Lift and lower on underneath route - examples -Max protect and movement -Tips and overthrows, matching the hand -4th down -Punt technique emphasis -It’s not the punt team’s fault. - make the opponent earn it -Coverage techniques - the gunner -The punt return team -Rare situations to prepare for -Patriots -USC vs Utah -River chuck -Punter - how to take a safety -Open field safety -Fair catch free kick Related: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/coach-grabowskis-notebook-fair-catch-free-kick?si=27bd0a3e5ce241609cd77b149346abf0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Defense with DC installment, Keith and guest host Dan Carrel discuss Alabama-Tennessee, Kentucky-Mississippi State, and SMU-Navy games o different aspects of defense. Shownotes: -Alabama-Tennessee -Split manipulation -Defending stacks -Delineating how to play different stacks -Max splits becomes man -What to prepare for with stacks -Motion into stacks -Mesh from condensed splits -Mesh alert -Kentucky vs. Mississippi State -Drop 8 -Middle push -Closing the B-gap -3 Man X-Stunt -SMU vs. Navy -4-4 1 high -Preparing for 4-verts -Defend the Horn blocks -Good edges, reduce alley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices