The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

Champions are Built in the Weight Room, so check out these tips for better football strength training! It’s great to come back from the winter holidays and see your guys again. Ready to get after in the weight room and start building for the next season. But don’t waste their time. Check out these 10 football strength training tips to get more out of your weight room this off-season!

Your football team’s defensive playbook just didn’t get the job done last season. Is it time for a change? I’ve been spending a lot of time focusing on the reasons you should NOT change your defensive playbook. Way too many coaches jumping from shiny object to shiny object. But there are reasons why you SHOULD make a change. Remember, only a Sith deal in absolutes.  This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast shares the 8 reasons why you might want to change that defensive playbook for the 2020 season… and hopefully for the last time! Sign up for your Free MaxOne Demo

The Wishbone Offense might not be as popular as it once was. But we can still learn a lot from a 1970s Arkansas Playbook. Download the Arkansas Wishbone Offense Playbook The Miami 4-3 Defense was originally developed to shut down the Wishbone Offense that Barry Switzer was running at Oklahoma in the 1980s. But we’re going to go a little further back.  Today’s playbook breakdown is on the 1970s Arkansas Wishbone Offense. It’s a really well laid out playbook from the Lou Holtz era (that’s the claim anyway). Plenty to learn from any football coach, whether you run the Option or not! Show Links Download the Arkansas Wishbone Offense Playbook Sign up for your Free MaxOne Demo

Quarters Coverage is the perfect fit for your 4-3 Defense. But you can’t let Pattern Matching slow your defense down. Quarters Coverage can mean a lot of things to a lot of different coaches. Cover 4? 2-Read? Palms? Hey who knows… but here’s how we do Quarters Coverage as of now, in 2019.  A lot has changed over the last 12 years since I started running Quarters Coverage. It’s a pattern match coverage that requires you to have some pretty good Safeties. But if you’ve got the horses, and the time to teach it… this is a great way to coach a winning football defense! Check out the episode for an in-depth look at updating Quarters Coverage for the 2020 Season. Show Links Get the 4-3 Defense Video Series here: http://joedanielfootball.com/43videos Learn the Umbrella Principle, the most important concept I’ve learned for defense Fritz Shurmur’s Coaching Team Defense at https://amzn.to/2Z0DEmf, for which I wrote the foreword. My interview with Shap Boyd, author of Quarters Coverage Made Simple from several years back is at https://joedanielfootball.com/shapboyd/.  The original Quarters Coverage Made Simple that I learned the 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage system from  is at https://coacheschoice.com/quarters-coverage-made-simple/ Sign up for your Free MaxOne Demo

Let’s get outside the box for leveling up your football team’s off-season in a new way. Coach McKie joins us on this episode! Coach McKie from The Talking Football podcast and the Football Coaching Podcast Network joins the show as we run down our Top 5 Ways to Level Up Your Football Program. This is a little more ‘out of the box’ thinking on ways to make your team better this off-season. You’re going to get some tricks that we’ve used throughout our coaching careers, plus some ideas we’ve taken from other walks of life to apply to coaching. This is a good one! Show Links Check out Coach McKie’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/rsmckie The best strength training program I’ve ever used is available at http://joedanielfootball.com/weightroom. For your speed program, Dale Baskett is at godfatherofspeed.com.

Time to plan your 2020 Football Off-Season. And there’s a whole lot to plan for if you want to be successful. OK, Mister #nooffseason, here it is. All the things… well, most of the things… you’ve got to get done during the off-season. There’s plenty of work.  This episode breaks down your football off-season into coaching development, player development, speed and strength development and on-field development. This is going to be a critical time for your 2020 Football Season.

Get the breakdown on coaching defensive line in the 4-3 Defense. Alignment, Stance, Key Reads and Assignment. The Miami 4-3 Defense is a great system for defenses that have the right athletes. One of the features is the simplicity and aggressiveness in the Defensive Line play. We’ll break down the ASKA for coaching defensive line play in this great defensive front. Alignment, Stance, Key Reads and Assignments for your base 4-3 Defensive Line.

Is there a perfect Offensive Playbook for your Football Team? Probably, but it might not be for the reasons you think. Following up on last week’s show on choosing the perfect defense, this week we’re working on finding the right offensive playbook for your football team. It’s a little different. I’ll walk you through eight different offensive playbooks that might fit your team. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means, but a good enough look for you to get a good idea on how to figure out which one is right for you.  At the end of the day, none of these offensive systems are better or worse. Every single one of them can and has won championships. But there’s one that’s right for you as a coach. Find it, and then STICK TO IT!

What’s the best football defense for your team to run? There is no ‘right’ defense, but there’s a right one for you. Wasn’t planning to do this show, but it’s a good time for it. If your defense wasn’t ‘lights out’ last season, or if you’re just moving into coaching or rising to a coordinator position, you’re probably looking for that ‘right’ football defense.  I can end your search for the Holy Grail of defense right now. It doesn’t exist. But there is definitely a right defense for you to latch onto and become the expert at. This episode is going to help you choose the best football defense for you and your football team. Then help you stick to it.   Show Links Check out the Umbrella Principle for the 4-2-5 Defense at http://425defense.com/podcast Download the Defensive Installation Manual above or at https://joedanielfootball.com/dim

Once upon a time, the I-Formation Offense was dominating the High School football world. And it’s not dead yet. When I started coaching way back when, we were lining up in the I-Formation Offense. Running the toss sweep, Iso, and trap. And it was a pretty good offense. The I-Formation Offense is not dead in the high school football landscape. In today’s episode I’ll break down when you should use the formation, how to make it a part of your offense, and we’ll put together a basic playbook for the I-Formation.  Show Links Free 3-Video Series teaches the Power, Counter and Power Pass Coaching the Trap Play Coaching the Toss Sweep Play in the I-Formation Offense