

Coach and Coordinator Podcast
Keith Grabowski
Keith Grabowski interviews the most knowledgeable head coaches, coordinators, and position coaches from professional, college, and high school football. Keith and his guests discuss the philosophy, concepts, schemes, and strategies that they have learned throughout their careers. Each show includes a specific idea that can be applied to help coaches at every level find the winning edge.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Oct 4, 2022 • 41min
Defense With DC Learning From Ole Miss, 4 Min Defense, Max FG Block, Defending Option
On this week's episode of our in-season defensive series "Defense with DC," USFL Michigan Panthers Defensive Coordinator Dan Carrel focuses on some things we can learn from the Ole Miss defense, situational end of the game, and defending the option.
Shownotes:
-Desert Swarm
-Using unique fronts to reduce from
-Coaching movement
-Drills and technique
-Defending condensed formation
-Coaching the "buzz" safety
-The value of a 4-Minute Stop
-Having the book on the sideline for this situation
-Max FG Block
-Defending Option - Playing the ends in 3-4 and defending the QB Sweep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 3, 2022 • 39min
The OC Office Hour -An Approach to Situational Focus - Jaime Elizondo, OC, XFL San Antonio
Our guest on our in-season OC Office Hour series is Jaime Elizondo, Offensive Coordinator for XFL San Antonio. He discusses an approach to situational football, especially in regard to how it affects the game in the 4th quarter.
Shownotes:
-Early game decisions are not black and white
-Finding the Hidden Momentum in decision making
-Two thought processes - every drive ends in a kick or by in-game needs
-Stack the odds in your favor
-At some point, you will need to go for it on fourth
-Need to have a process to handle decisions
-Color-coded system for communication
-Practicing with in-game context
-Players need to feel the situation
-Ideas for practice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 30, 2022 • 23min
A Victory Is Educational When It Is Compared With The Defeat You Were Escaping - From Tiger Ellison
In this episode, Keith pulls from the chapters of the book The Run and Shoot: The Offense of the Future by Glenn "Tiger" Ellison, creator of the Run and Shoot.
The lesson written by Coach Ellison is about the platform we have as coaches to build young men and how we have that opportunity by winning. He defines winning and the purpose of coaching as well as discusses why winning allows us to have the platform.
Whether you are experiencing success this season or searching for answers, this optimistic message will allow you to reflect and make the most out of the remainder of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 29, 2022 • 44min
Developing Leaders In-Season with Brian Kight
In this episode from Season 2 of the Leadership Journey, Brian Kight joins the Coach and Coordinator podcast to share insight on building a culture and the leadership necessary for it to thrive.
Leadership development is not just an off-season activity. It is an ongoing process that presents new opportunities to strengthen leadership during the season. That's what BK and discuss in this episode.
0:40 In-season versus off-season leadership
3:20 Learning by doing instead of observing
7:02 In-season availability to improve leadership
9:25 How are coaches giving leadership reps
10:40 Why does a leader exist
15:30 Giving young players bits of leadership experience
19:00 Leading = Responsibility
25:50 Weight of responsibility
32:20 Players being vocal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 28, 2022 • 27min
Teach Tapes - Explosive Runs
In this week's episode of Teach Tapes, we put the focus on explosive runs and the drills and techniques to create and stop them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 27, 2022 • 37min
Defense With DC - Learning From MTSU Plus Defending 2-Minute And Option
MTSU
-DL is getting vertical
-Creating pass rush on RPO
-Penetration kills the play
-Spilling the run
-Safety fitting inside - opening the glance window
-Double squeeze double out into trap coverage
-3 Under - 2 Deep pressure
-Building a library of critical situations
-Defending 2-minute
-The work you did in August won’t be enough in October
-Working against specifics rather than generalities
-There’s a lot less creativity in critical situations
-The worse feeling you can have as a coach
-Bringing a book/card to the sideline for when this situation is about to occur
-Defending Hail Mary
-Bat it down or catch it
-Have a library for Hail Mary - ex. 4x1 Bunch, sprint to the boundary
Option tips (ECU vs. Navy)
1. Force players need to be in a force position
2. Frontside LB aggressive - Backside LB be ready for Center cut
3. Any 3 Man surface - have to have a plan for G Lead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 26, 2022 • 33min
The OC Office Hour - Mid-Season - A Time to Look In The Mirror - Tony Franklin
On this week's installment of the OC Office Hour, Tony Franklin joins Keith to discuss what a coordinator should do at this point in the season to take a look at how things are going, admit mistakes, take ownership for adjustments, and plan for disasters.
Related:
Developing as an Offensive Coordinator
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/from-the-archives-tony-franklin-developing-as-an-offensive-coordinator
Takeaways from OC Magic
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/takeaways-from-oc-magic-part2-jason-mohns-herb-hand-kirk-martin-and-tony-franklin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 23, 2022 • 29min
Elite Coaching - Brian Kight, Daily Discipline
Leadership Journey Show Notes
In this episode from the archives of the Leadership Journey Keith and Brian talk to coaches about the gap between average and elite coaches. They go past the Xs and Os to find deeper reasoning of why so many coaches even with success miss the mark of elite. They express how having behavioral skills is what pushes coaches to the elite level and give examples of those who have succeeded in those skills.
01:03 James Franklin great to elite
02:05 What separates average from elite
03:55 Behavior skills
04:55 Job skills are for your effectiveness behavioral skills are for your excellence
06:05 An average coach can have a job
07:55 Ability to create discipline
08:50 Wins and losses count
10:15 The NFL’s elite
12:10 Its not the quick fixes
12:40 Who has the behavioral skills
13:35 Coaches get too locked in and lose it
14:10 Zero in on the behavior skills
17:00 Thinking command and control is the answer
17:50 What do you obtain from control
19:15 Trying to force discipline
20:40 Urgency with patience and empathy with understanding
22:00 Under every tactical execution there are behavior skills involved
23:00 3 categories of behavioral skills
25:00 The kids' behavior skills come from the coach’s behavioral skills
26:35 Learn by doing
Twitter:
@tbriankight
DailyDiscipline.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 3min
Mushroom Society - Blitz Pick Up With Kyle Caskey
On this week's episode of The Mushroom Society Series, Kyle Caskey joins Keith and Bob Wylie to discuss blitz pick-up, help systems, coaching the offensive line and QB on protection, the player-coach relationship, and more. Bob and Kyle share stories from their NFL experiences in regard to the topics.
Shownotes:
-Sacks and hits matter more than pressures
-Handling who calls the protection
-Tampa Bay example of planning for exotics-
-What’s the structure of the defense?
-Abby calls on double A’s
-Compartmentalizing
-Three triggers we need to get tp
-Oakland Raiders vs NY Jets - watching personnel to know the blitzes
-Rex Ryan calling the defense
-You gotta study the guy that’s calling the game
-What’s the next thing they will do?
-Over saturation of the game plan
-Meeting with C-QB early in the week
-Problems-Solutions handled by a compartmentalized approach
-The protection meeting
-The smarter the center, the easier to make changes
-Matthew Stafford's story
-Having a plan for help
-Hue Jackson - the back releases through B-Gap
-Chip system
-Side boarding with the back
-Slide protection adjustment call vs. Fire Zone
-Qb in protection - Cade McNown
-Block him with the throw
-Player-coach relationship - can you help me be better?
-What to do if you don’t have the answer
-Not everyone is coached the same
-Find out how they learn
-How Kyle would adjust protection to pick up a blitz - double trouble
-Molly the Linebackers
-Tom Moore - board
-Run 16 one more time
Get Kyle’s C.O.O.L. Clinic Presentation “Game Planning for Exotic Pressures” on CoachTube:
https://bit.ly/3SgEzt8
The C.O.O.L. Clinic Channel on CoachTube:
coachtube.com/coolclinic
C.O.O.L Clinic Speakers Playlist on Coach and Coordinator:
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Sep 21, 2022 • 21min
TeachTapes - It's All About The Ball
In this episode of TeachTapes, Keith and guest Host Steve Hauser discuss the ideas of teaching security and teaching takeaways. Steve shares some of the innovative drills he's seen across the different levels of football as well as the situations in which those techniques take place in the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices