

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.
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Sep 6, 2022 • 42min
Defense With DC - Pass Lane System, 3rd Down Sims, Option Force
USFL Michigan Panthers Defensive Coordinator Dan Carrel is back for another week of talking defense and sharing ideas to make your defense better in-season. This week we pull ideas from OSU-Michigan and Delaware-Navy.
Shownotes:
-Intsalling a pass rush lanes system
-7 possible lanes
-How to practice and game plan lanes
-OSU sims and disguise on 3rd down
-Delaware vs. Navy option offense Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 5, 2022 • 54min
OC Office Hour - Eric Marty, Offensive Coordinator, USFL Michigan Panthers
Today Keith is joined on our OC Office Hour by Eric Marty, Offensive Coordinator of the USFL Michigan Panthers.
Shownotes:
-The smooth operator QB
-Attributes of a smooth operator at QB
-Getting a talented #2 ready
-Don’t know what you have until the lights come on
-Value of playing multiple QB early
-Building confidence in him as a play caller
- Help him get the ball out
-Factoring I what your OL is capable of
-QB/OL friendly concepts
-Tony DeMeo Quick/Naked
-Screens & screen and go
-Test defense’s discipline early
-Coaching the go runner
-Using unusual formations
-starting with the knowns
-Strategy of when to use unusual formations in a game
-3rd and short
-22 Personnel fly
-Creating misdirection with motion
-Mark Speckman
-Pin & Pull
-Thoughts on run game to relieve pressure on your OL early season
-2 minute
-Repping two min
-Last play snap on whistle
Eric Marty Resources:
https://bit.ly/3Bg7M1D Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 2, 2022 • 32min
Next Man Up With Brian Kight
Leadership Journey Next Man Up Show Notes:
This week on the leadership journey series Keith and Brian talk about the idea of the next man up. They talk about the importance of how you get there. What kind of preparation do you need for that to be true for your team? They use E+R= O (Events+Respones+Outcome) on how coaches and players are to be scaled in their possibility to be the next man up. Explaining ideas of how to give and receive feedback so the players can know where they’re at and where they need to be.
02:44 You can’t give what you don’t have
03:05 Teaching E+R=O
04:00 Coaches help level players up
05:40 You have to train like a starter every day
07:00 Use E+R=O where you are
07:45 Train what if your number never gets called
09:39 Bill Walsh contingency plans idea
11:00 There’s a team and there’s an individual
13:10 Roles must be clarified and their importance
14:45 Show your skillset
15:25 Discipline is the shortcut
18:00 You can’t be totally prepared
19:00 Getting into the mechanics of E+R=O
19:30 R factor limit
20:20 E what players are good at or need to get better at
26:20 You have your own E+R=O
28:20 Daily Discipline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 1, 2022 • 52min
Mushroom Society with Bob Wylie- Safety Through Superior Technique Mike Pollak
Today we have a guest joining us and our topic, in general, is safety through superior performance.
Mike Pollak was a 2nd Round NFL Draft pick out of Arizona State and played Guard and Center for 7 seasons in the NFL (Colts, Panthers & Bengals). After retiring from the NFL in 2015, Mike started his coaching career at Corona del Sol in Tempe, AZ as the Offensive Line coach and was promoted to Offensive Coordinator in 2016. Mike turned down a head coaching position to pursue this new adventure with Tip of the Spear Football in 2016. He goes around the country now teaching players of all levels this technique.
Much of what he has learned has been from Scott Peters who now is Bill Callahan’s assistant for the Cleveland Browns.
Coach Callahan and Coach Peters were speakers at the 2022 COOL CLinic and definitely impressed with their presentation on their striking system and outside zone technique.
Today we are going to talk about some ideas that are important to keep an eye on during the season as well as how safety in our game is achieved through superior performance.
Related resources and content :
Wide Zone Pendulum Strike and Pass Pro Strike System
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/wide-zone-pendulum-strike-pass-pro-strike-system-bill-callahan-and-scott-peters-cleveland-browns
Mushroom Society - Transition into the Season
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/mushroom-society-with-bob-wylie-week-0-transition-into-season
Scott Peters - Creating a Better Safer Game
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/creating-a-better-safer-game-part-1-scott-peters-assistant-ol-coach-clevland-browns
Scott Peters - What is Leverage?
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/what-is-leverage-contact-for-every-position-part-2-scott-peters-assistant-ol-coach-cleveland-browns
Tip of the Spear Football:
tipofthespearfootball.com/
Free Course - Mike Pollak - Force Deflection
https://bit.ly/3KGFL6v
Bill Callahan and Scott Peters COOL Clinic Presentation:
https://bit.ly/3q2ycgP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 31, 2022 • 25min
TeachTapes - Mayhem Moments
Teach Tapes - Week 1 - Mayhem Moments
Coach Steve Hauser joins us for the Week 1 episode of the Teach Tapes series designed to give you tips, ideas, and adjustments focused on special teams and offense and defense. This week’s topic is “mayhem moments,” and how to create and limit them. We talk about games from the past week as examples of how to develop and limit game-changing plays.
Shownotes:
-Create or limit Mayhem
-Nebraska's onside kick scheme
-How a call like this is made
-Fake punts
-Schemed up weekly or set plan
-Using to counter deficiencies in the scheme
- ”Woody” punt fake
-Iron Bowl punt situation to end the game
- ”hiding” personnel
-Being sure the situation is right/calling it off
-Jared Goff's example
-Northwestern QB sneak
-Covering a pooch kick
-Return/Cover responsibilities and thoughts on a fair catch
- ”Clear” call by returner
-Watching the coaches on the sideline for a tell
-Florida-Miami game example
-Have a “plan B” ready
-Teach Tapes Clip of the Week: Tips and overthrows
-Simulating the real situations in practice
-Teaching things that will make a difference that is not in the play diagram
TeachTapes Clip of the Week - Tips & Overthrows:
https://twitter.com/teachtapes/status/1563693415417741313?s=12&t=XWcOxH4aMOfOwYl62DvjTQ
Related:
Week 0 - Last Minute Prep for the Season
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/teachtapes-week-1-last-minute-prep-for-the-season
Coaching the Why - Steve Hauser
User-804678956 – Special-teams-coaching-the-why-and-teach-tapes-steve-hauser-former-fbsnfl-coach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 30, 2022 • 40min
Defense With DC - Tackling, Disguise, Quarters, Defending Option
USFL Michigan Panters Defensive Coordinator Dan Carrel is back for another week of talking defense and sharing ideas to make your defense better in-season.
Shownotes:
-Learning by observing
-Making small changes
-Tackling
-Power foot
-How do you drill tackling with limited time?
-Year round tackling plan
-Building drills
-Profile and angle tackles
-Keeping cues simple and building drills around them
-Nebraska vs. Northwestern
-Northwestern Adjustment vs. Glance RPO
-Holding disguise
-Effect on QB
-Playing against Mark Whipple - horizontal passing game
-Teaching to re-route
-Holding disguise - Fire Zone & 3 rotations
-Coaching to hold disguise properly
-Giving away disguise by cheating alignment
-Having a system for disguise
-What the offense is looking at
-The QB needs to look out there and not be sure
-Difference in coaching with USFL rules and systems
-Briles system for QB read
-Cornhuskers’ defense
-Unbalanced double posts
-Covering double posts in Quarters
-Difference in college and NFL quarters
-Curl-Dig-Post
Three tips on defending option:
1. It’s the scout team’s Super Bowl
2. Focus breakdown, viewing film and planning vs. what you run
3. Short yardage situations will win you the game
Related
Erik Chinander:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/from-the-archives-erik-chinander-defensive-coordinator-nebraska
Cody Alexander:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/defensive-trends-at-all-levels-in-2022-cody-alexander-match-quarters
Vince DiGaetano:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/coach-dig-playlist
Defense with DC Week 0:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/defense-with-dc-week-0-removing-the-unknowns
Resources:
DiGaetano Courses:
https://bit.ly/3AZJBoc
Mark Whipple Course:
https://bit.ly/3TtIrII
Cody Alexander Courses:
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Aug 29, 2022 • 49min
OC Office Hour With Jeff Mullen
Jeff Mullen joins Keith today on our weekly in-season series The OC Office Hour.
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.
Shownotes:
-Nebraska vs. Northwestern
-Play calling anticipation
-Charting
-Identifying the type of pressure
-It’s not where they line-up it’s where they wind up
-Using empty
-12 Personnel and it’s effect on the QB
-Key in tempo - mix it up
-Developing and coaching 12 personnel
-Big personnel skelly
-Bigger personnel the easier for QB
-Creating consistency through concept set-up
-Black zone strategy
-Giving the center an out with block back
-Black zone week-to-week carryover
-4 Minute offense
-Taking timeouts on defense
-If it’s working run it again
-The sugar huddle
-Teaching the sugar huddle
-Counter - ability to save the Center
-Counter Bounce as answer to wrong arm
-Receiver learning conversions vs. taking decision off of him
-Stressing a defender by game plan
-Keeping it simple to get in a rhythm as a player caller
-Scripting openers - 15 plays
Related:
Jeff Mullen - Numbers, Angles, Grass
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/numbers-angles-and-grass-jeff-mullen-former-oc-wvu-and-unc-charlotte
Jeff Mullen - Game Planning Field Zones
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/game-planning-field-zones-jeff-mullen-former-fbs-oc
OC Office Hour Week 0
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/oc-office-hour-uptempo-qb-movement-ot-procedure-finish
Learn more from Coach Mullen:
https://coachtube.com/jeffmullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 26, 2022 • 39min
Mushroom Society with Bob Wylie - Week 0 - Transition Into Season
The Mushroom Society - Week 0 - The Transition from Camp to the Season
-Transitioning out of camp
-Coaches practicing the game plan
-Time difference - Pro and HS
-Learning how to watch film
-JV watching their own film from practice to get better
-Finding help to support your coaching from within the school
-Video guys are just as important as your left tackle
-Developing your own video team
-Pro level video
-Getting training for your video staff in the off season
-Getting both end zone views in a game
-Filming practice
-Learning and critiquing yourself as a coach off film
-Joe Thomas story
-Communicating and coaching so all players hear the correction
-Filming individual
-What you don’t tell them is just as what you do tell them
-Player transition to the season in NFL
-One padded practice
-OL talk through at lunch
-Learning for a coach never stops
-Jerry Rice - “You want to get a little better? Work a little harder!”
The C.O.O.L. Clinic Channel:
coachtube.com/coolclinic
NEW COOL Clinic Kyle Caskey - Exotic Blitz Pick-up. Need an answer for Sim, Creepers, and Fire Zone? Coach Caksey gives you the plan from grouping blitzes to thoughts on how to defeat each type:
https://bit.ly/3pLt9RJ
C.O.O.L Clinic Speakers Playlist on the Coach and Coordinator Podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/the-c-o-o-l-clinic-speakers?si=0a6f641779574567ae628501bcbb7d05&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 24, 2022 • 33min
Defense With DC - Week 0 - Removing The Unknowns
We are joined for our in-season defensive focused series “Defense with DC” by the defensive coordinator of the USFL Michigan Panthers, Dan Carrel. After making his way through the ranks as an inter, GA, and position coach, Dan broke into the professional ranks with the Panthers.
This week we focus on transitioning from camp into the season and removing the unknowns of early season by providing and practicing routines.
-Transition from camp to season
-Starting school
-Making a smooth transition into game one- a small case study
-Rehearsing routines
-Making substitution
- the travel party
-Sideline operations and headset operations
-Transitioning units
-Providing the “knowns” and consistency
-Getting off to a great start
-Landmarks on the field
-Facing the unknowns
-When you don’t know
-Making calls that are game ready
-More games are lost than won
-Get after the QB early in the season
-Defending the option
-Devoting enough time to defend option
Follow Coach Carrel: @DanCarrel
Related:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/out-prepare-the-competition-dan-carrel-defensive-coordinator-of-the-usfl-michigan-panthers
This week’s offense adjustments:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/oc-office-hour-uptempo-qb-movement-ot-procedure-finish
This week’s special teams adjustments:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/teachtapes-week-1-last-minute-prep-for-the-season Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 23, 2022 • 23min
TeachTapes Week 0 - Last Minute Prep For The Season
Steve Hauser is completed three seasons as a quality control assistant for special teams for Iowa State before making a change for his young family. However he remains close to the game and his passion for the game continues in what he provides through his social media accounts @TeachTapes.
This season, Coach Hauser will join us weekly to discuss special teams, technique in all phases of the game, drills, and practice considerations. This week we focus on the aspects of coach special teams that are a part of that week 0 preparation and the transition from camp to the regular season.
-Dealing with the time crunch
-The unknown unknowns
-Transition to the in-season routine
-Handling special situations
-Preview, review, execute
-Getting rhythms and routines on track
-Weekly breakdown
-No Sweat Thursday
-Number of units for a starter
-Being ready for game day as the special teams coordinator
-Take the time ahead of time to figure it out
-Taking advantage of personnel opportunities
@TeachTapes clip of the week:
https://twitter.com/TeachTapes/status/1413931795670872067
Related:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/special-teams-coaching-the-why-and-teach-tapes-steve-hauser-former-fbsnfl-coach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices