

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
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Nov 8, 2022 • 34min
Teach Tapes - Coaching and Calling 2nd Down
On this week’s episode of TeachTapes, Keith and co-host Steve Hauser continue to walk the field this time taking a look at all of the open field second down situations, tendencies that develop and the skills and techniques that can be developed to increase success on this down.
Shownotes:
-The most forgotten down
-Styles make fights
-The Big12 for examples
-Difference in halves for 2nd down
-Baylor on 2nd down
-Rod Marinelli standards
-Carry out fakes to get information backside
-Your identity shows up on 2nd down
-Complements and dressing up 2nd down
-Matt Ryan boot drill
-Shane Day drill
-Goal line reps
-Flood drill
-Quick game - when the eyes are going to pop
-Tight ends
-Getting angles back
-Dynamic use of the running back
-2nd and extra long (11+)
-Shallow screen and stick draw
-Ryan Walters - How did they get to 2nd and 10?
-Patterns or tendencies won 2nd and 10
-2nd and on track plus consideration for time and score differential
-2nd and short “waste down”
-The importance of receiver blocking
Related:
https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/2nd-down-the-most-forgotten-down-ryan-walters-dc-illinois-from-the-ihsfca-virtual-clinic
Ryan Walters, DC Illinois, presentation on 2nd Down - The Most Forgotten Down:
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Nov 7, 2022 • 44min
Mushroom Society - Dante Scarnecchia, Retired 5x Super Bowl Champion
On this week’s installment of the Mushroom Society Series, Keith and co-hots Bob Wylie are joined by Dante Scarnecchia to discuss aspects of what was an incredibly successful career. His 34 tenure with the New England Patriots was the longest in the NFL. He was a part of 10 of the organization’s 11 Super Bowl appearances. Coach Scarnecchia was a part of five Super Bowl Championships.
In this episode the coaches discuss the keys to a successful career, working in an elite organization, and more.
Shownotes:
-The decision to become a football coach happened early
-How coaching defensive backs helped development as a coach
-Taking the defensive quality control job for Bill Parcells
-Key to longevity in the profession
-Advice to young coaches always looking for the next job
-Staying physically fit
-Keeping great players from leveling off
-Takeaways from working in an elite organization
-Advice to having a successful working relationship with Bill Belichick (or any strong head coach)
-Most effective way to make adjustments between series
-Developing a great relationship with your offensive coordinator
Coach Scarnecchia’s COOL Clinic Talk:
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Nov 2, 2022 • 32min
Defense With DC - Early Game Calls, Motion Adjustment, Coverage Variations, Bunch Run Fits
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":
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Nov 1, 2022 • 33min
From the Leadership Journey Season 1 - Adversity with Brian Kight
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
Oct 31, 2022 • 34min
The OC Office Hour - Trick Plays With Former NFL And College Coach Terry Shea
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:
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Oct 27, 2022 • 27min
Teach Tapes First And Ten Open Field
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:
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Oct 26, 2022 • 38min
Complementary Football - Perspective From Dan Carrel and Eric Marty of the USFL Michigan Panthers
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:
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Oct 25, 2022 • 49min
OC Office Hour - Creating Explosive Plays - Jeff Mullen
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:
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Oct 24, 2022 • 33min
Effort And Commitment - Brian Kight, Daily Discipline
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
Oct 21, 2022 • 58min
Mushroom Society -Offense & O - Line from the Defensive Perspective - Steve Szabo, Retired NFL Coach
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:
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