The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

Strength calls are important to get your best players in position to make the play. Here’s how to use them. There’s a reason defensive coaches make strength calls. But there’s a lot of thought that needs to go into those strength calls.  In this episode we’ll talk about how to make your strength calls fast, make them easy, and make them work for your defense. Because if they’re not helping your defense, they’re making your defense worse.

Do you have a plan for when your team gets to start practicing again? Here’s the Do’s and Don’ts. In some areas, coaches are getting to start working with their players again. In other areas, that time is still a long way off. But you need to have a plan.  I’ll share the 7 things you cannot do if you want to have success in the 2020 season when teams start getting back to work. Plus the plan for teams getting back to work in June, July, August and beyond.

The concept of using Levers to get constant improvement on the field has fascinated me. Here’s how to make it work for you. Nothing has changed the way I look at coaching football in the last twelve months like the concept of pulling levers. It takes everything I’ve learned about coaching and puts it into a systematic approach to constant improvement. I love the levers concept because it builds on the ASKA principle we’ve been using with our defensive position groups for several years. Now you can use that ASKA principle to create levers you can pull - like buttons to press - to get incremental improvement all season long.

Forget about fancy ball drills. This is what Wide Receivers really need to work on in your football practice. No position group wastes more time working on things that don’t matter for their offensive attack than receivers. In this episode, we’re going to focus on what a Coach Simple, Play Fast, Win approach to Wide Receiver drills really looks like. Cut the fancy ball drills. You just don’t have time for that with the 90 Minute Practice Plan. It’s all about blocking, and running precision routes with perfect timing for the receivers in this offense.

Randy Jackson is the guru on creating a winning culture for your football. He’s going to answer the questions that need answers. When I had my first chance to be a head coach, I knew I needed to establish a certain attitude in our players. Call it culture. But we needed a strategy to do it.  Randy Jackson is the author of Culture Defeats Strategy, but as you find out in this podcast, there’s a strategy to building culture.  Find out the keys to building that team identity, plus a ton of incredible nuggets you don’t expect. We had our JDFB Insider clients on hand to ask some questions that you’ll love to hear the answers to.

ASKA is a pre-snap checklist for your players. But it’s much more than that for your coaching staff. Alignment. Stance. Key Read. Assignment. I stole the ASKA principle from TCU several years ago. But it’s grown into so much more than it started. ASKA is a pre-snap checklist for your players. But it’s the Coach Simple, Play Fast, Win measuring stick for coaches. If your ASKA is too complicated, your players are playing slow. In this episode, find out what ASKA is all about, get examples of ASKA, and find out how it has become of the backbone principles of JDFB Coaching Systems (including the offense!).

If you have the right Offensive Line Footwork, your guys should never miss a block. Here’s how to make it happen. Coaching Offensive Line has always been my true passion in football. It’s the most exciting position to work with for me. And I love working on the perfect footwork to make a block. The right footwork turns an average offensive lineman into a great player. It can turn a bad player into an average offensive lineman. It’s amazing how focusing on just the first two steps of your offensive line footwork can change the entire fortune of a football team’s offense.

Football Drills are what every coach seems to be looking for. But what really matters is running the RIGHT drills. Looking for the best football drills for every position? You won’t find that in this episode. This episode is the guide to choosing which drills to run, and creating the drills you need to run.  It’s about being efficient. Effective. Getting results. Actually doing something with your coaching besides wasting your player’s time running around a hula hoop or fighting over a pad.  This episode is all about football drills that actually make your football team better at playing football. This is not rocket science. Show Links Learn all about the 90-Minute Practice Plan with Practice Planning to Keep Your Players Fresh from Season 3 of The Football Coaching Podcast Check out Group Football Drills for Low Numbers from Season 5 for developing your group drills. Also from Season 5, an episode on 12 Keys to Getting the Most From Individual Football Drills.

The 4-2-5 Defense System requires a lot of planning. Here’s how to plan your defensive System. The 4-2-5 Defense System has been completely updated for 2020. Here’s the blueprint you need to follow to get your System ready for the 2020 Season.  You don’t have to use the 4-2-5 Defense System to make this blueprint work for you. But you must make sure you’ve covered all these bases if you’re going to be ready to win in 2020.

Time for the definitive answer of 4-3 Defense or 4-2-5 Defense… which one is better? It’s the Battle of the 40 Fronts. What’s the right defense for your team? There’s no single defense that is BETTER than any other front - that’s not what we’re here to figure out.  It’s about whether the Miami 4-3 Defense that we teach in the 4-3 Defense System, or the 4-2-5 Defense System is the right one for your football team.  I’ll break down 15 key points for each defense, score it up, and come to a completely meaningless conclusion. It’s up to you to decide which one is right for your team.