The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

Time to put the finishing touches on that defensive playbook to get ready for the upcoming season. How much do you need in it? The biggest problem many coordinators will run into this season is not going to be not having enough play calls. It's going to be having a defensive playbook that is too big. And for no reason. When you're using a Coach Simple approach, that defensive playbook needs to only include the calls you absolutely need. Especially with a shortened off-season. Check out this podcast to find out just how much you need in your defensive playbook this season.

Understanding horizontal and vertical seams is critical to your run fits on defense. Let's take a deeper look at the concepts. This concept is a big one in run fits. Understanding horizontal and vertical seams, and how to pull the levers to fix those seams for your force defenders, is one of the fastest ways to improve your defense. Seams is a fancy word for run lanes… or run lanes is a fancy word for seams. They can happen horizontal to the line of scrimmage, or perpendicular to the line of scrimmage. But the issue remains, when you have seams in your defense, you create run lanes for the offense. In this episode we'll explain what horizontal and vertical seams are, how they create run lanes, why they happen, and how to fix them. This is a critical episode if your defense has had trouble maintaining force on the perimeter. Show Links Pulling Levers for Constant Improvement: FBCP S07E06 Coaching the ASKA Principle: FBCP S07E03

What does it take to run a Championship caliber 4-3 Defense? Find out from Coach Dave Dugan. Bishop-Fenwick High School in Massachusetts is a perennial title contender and their 4-3 Defense run by Defensive Coordinator Dave Dugan is a big contributor to that success. Coach Dugan joins The Football Coaching Podcast to talk about what's worked in building his defensive attack. Find out how this brand of the 4-3 Defense teaches simple Linebacker reads and a pattern match Cover 2 coverage to shut down their opponents. Plus you'll find out how you can prepare your team with a short off-season - because in Massachusetts they do it every year!

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.