The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

There’s a few ‘Make or Break’ situations you need to consider when practice planning. Here’s how to get ready for them. During the course of a football game, there will be a few situations that are very hard to prepare for in your practice plan. They’re those situations where the crowd gets loud and emotions run high. In this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, we look at practice planning for a few of the most important situations and plays you’ll face during the course of the game. It’s those moments that could win or lose the football game for your team. Or cost you the entire season.   Show Links Learn all about the Pistol Power Offense System at http://pistolpoweroffense.com Check out a free video series on the Power Series in the Pistol Power Offense System at http://pistolpoweroffense.com/podcast Check out my podcast on Practice Planning to Keep Your Players Fresh to find out more about those 90 minute practice plans: https://joedanielfootball.com/2018practice/

How can you get your players to play aggressive football on Game Day? There’s not a magic drill to fix this. https://joedanielfootball.com/membership It might be the biggest frustration I hear from coaches on a consistent basis. “My players just don’t play aggressive. They aren’t tough. How can we fix it!?” Most coaches are not approaching this question the right way. You’ve got to address the root of the problem when your players aren’t playing aggressive enough. And it’s not just throwing your hands up and saying, “Kids these days!” Today’s episode is all about the 4 areas you need to address to get ‘more aggressive’ play from your football team. And exactly what playing aggressive football really means.   Show Links The podcast on Practice Planning to Keep Your Players Fresh at https://joedanielfootball.com/2018practice/ which includes downloadable practice plan templates. Randy Jackson’s Culture Defeats Strategy book on Amazon [affiliate link]

Go back in time with the Oklahoma 5-2 Defense Playbook from the 1985 National Championship Season. https://www.footballxos.com/download/oklahoma-sooners-5-2-defense-1985-gary-gibbs/ We’ve been looking at a lot of 3-4 Defense lately. I’m hearing more and more of it. So it makes sense to go back in time and look toward the origins of the 3-4 Defense. That means we get to break down a playbook! I found the perfect one with an aggressive defensive scheme from the 1985 Oklahoma Sooners. This 5-2 Defense has a great look at multiple fronts from the 3-4 Defense (or 5-2 Defense) and a coverage package that will fit right in for today’s game. There’s some adjustments to be made. But it’s great to see how the defense fits perfectly with the Umbrella Principle and mirrors so much of what we do in the 3-4 Defense System.  

This is the basic blitz package for the 3-4 Defense as we teach it in the 3-4 Defense System that’s a part of JDFB Insider. First we’ll talk about the blitz package in the 3-4 Defense System and how the front, stunt, blitz and coverage all have to work together. This is going to be different depending on if you’re a 2-gap or 1-gap odd front. Then we’ll look at those base blitzes, and why you might want to use them. And most coaches in the 3-4 Defense System want to use them on every down. Finally we’ll talk about blitz technique considerations. Disguising blitzes with no show, show it and bluff looks. Blitzing on run downs vs pass downs, and training the eyes of your linebackers to read out of blitzes when necessary. There’s no reason to blitz a gap if they’re not running there.

You don’t need to have pads on when you’re teaching tackling to your football team. Find out how to get it done! Teaching tackling to your football team and seeing better results on game day will done more for your football team’s winning percentage than anything else you can do. After all, this game is still all about blocking and tackling. There’s an entire off-season for your team to improve their tackling. And with rule changes being put in place limiting live contact, you may be teaching tackling with no pads on all season long! In this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, I’ll share tons of drills you can use to teach tackling to your football players without any contact. And without screaming WRAP UP! Show Links Flat Orange Cones for tackling drills on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2SPunZp [affiliate] Four Cone Drill video clip - go to https://joedanielfootball.com/2019tackling/

The Run and Shoot Offense set records in the USFL in 1984. Let’s see what we can learn from what they learned in 1985!   A few weeks ago I started looking at the Run and Shoot Offense. With the assistance of Jason Hahnstadt’s Demistifying the Run and Shoot Offense video series, I came up with a base understanding of the offense. But I wanted to go deeper. Do I think the Run and Shoot Offense is the right direction for a High School Football team to go? Only if you have a background and a guaranteed Quarterback pipeline. Do I think there are elements we can take from the offense? Absolutely. So I dug around through a few Run and Shoot Offense playbooks. Settled on the 1985 Houston Gamblers playbook with… wait what? Kevin Gilbride? No idea. That’s who’s on the front page. John Jenkins was the Offensive Coordinator after Mouse Davis had moved on to the new Denver Gold. Yes, this is the first time we’ve ever talked about the USFL in the history of The Football Coaching Podcast. Coincidence, with the AAF coming around this year? Yes. Completely. Anyway, here’s the links to the playbook and some other useful links for Run and Shoot Offense enthusiasts… Show Links The 1985 Houston Gamblers playbook, and several other playbooks mentioned in this podcast can be found here (thanks to footballxos.com) Get the Demistifying the Run and Shoot video series at 25% Off, FBCP listener special My earlier podcast as I stumble through learning the Run and Shoot is Season 4, Episode 5 of The Football Coaching Podcast I mentioned our passing concepts in The Pistol Power Offense several times, but you can get a taste of the offense with a free video series on the Power series at http://pistolpoweroffense.com/podcast

No matter how good you are, every coach is going to lose some games. But there is a silver lining to every cloud! Every coach wants to win. And there are times when your job will depend on it. But every loss can’t be a soul crushing defeat that sends you into the doldrums for a week. In this episode, we’re going to break down losing into 3 categories of losses. Then we’ll look at how you can best deal with each type of loss. You’ll find out how to get the most out of each loss, so that your team moves forward instead of bogging down and falling behind.

Give the same look to the Quarterback every snap using Roll Cover 3 coverage. Here’s how to do it. The simplest way to disguise your coverage is to give the same look on every snap. One way to accomplish that is to align your safeties and corners across the field in a straight line - then adjust before (or after) the snap. On this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, I’ll go in detail on installing a Roll Cover 3 system into your defense. This is based off of our 4-3 Defense System packages, but can be incorporated to any defensive package with a few adjustments.   Show Links My free video series on the 4-3 Defense System at http://the43defense.com/podcast A great resource for putting together your defensive philosophy is Fritz Shurmur’s Coaching Team Defense at https://amzn.to/2MWSnZu (using that link gives me a little kickback - after all, I got to write the foreword in it!)

Get the most out of your passing game drill progression by having a plan. Here’s how to have success in the air, faster. Want to get the most out of your passing game? You’ve got to have a plan for your passing drills. There’s a lot more to it than just working the QB’s throwing motion, too. A lot more, in fact. And a lot more than playing 7 on 7. In this episode, I’ll outline how to plan your passing game drill progression to work your most important route concepts to perfection.   Show Links 10 Keys to Coaching Quarterbacks from S04E06 of the podcast: https://joedanielfootball.com/2019quarterback/ Wide Receiver Drills for Better Route Running from S02E08 on the podcast: https://joedanielfootball.com/2018widereceiverdrills/ YouTube video on coaching better route running from your receivers: https://joedanielfootball.com/receiver-routes/ YouTube video on the relationship between Quarterback footwork and Receiver footwork in route timing: https://joedanielfootball.com/timing-wide-receiver-routes-quarterback-footwork/  

Coaching Quarterbacks doesn’t have to be complicated. This is The Non-Guru Guide to Coaching QBs!   This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast looks at how to coach quarterbacks when you’re not a Quarterback Guru. It turns out you don’t need a PhD to get the job done.   First, you’ll find out the 3 critical skills your signal caller needs to have when you’re deciding who should play the position. Then we’ll break down 10 Keys to Coaching Quarterbacks. You can download the 10 Keys in PDF format in the download box at the beginning of this page.   Show Links My article on the Characteristics of a Great Quarterback from several years ago Coaching Quarterbacks to Read Coverages from Season 2 of The Football Coaching Podcast Get the foundations of the Pistol Power Offense System with my 3 video series on Coaching the Power, Counter and Power Pass.