The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

When your Running Backs are doing a great job blocking for your team, the offense starts clicking. Here's how to get it done. Running Backs spend a lot of their time working on ball handling and jump cutting. Making moves and maybe even catching a pass or two… but there's one skill they better get good at. Run game or passing, coaching up your running backs blocking technique is going to be critical for the success of your football team. Here's a deep look at the technique of blocking for running backs, with a Coach Simple, Play Fast take on the position. Don't forget to grab the FREE PDF DOWNLOAD at the top of this page to get all the notes from this podcast plus DIAGRAMS showing each of the blocks.

There's successful seasons… and then there's a successful program. Here's how you know your team has 'Made It'. There's good teams on your schedule. They have quality seasons and then some years they drop off. The coaching staff has some turnover, the players have even more. Then you've got the perennial powerhouse. No one is ever going to look past these guys, and only a few are ever going to beat them. But their head coach is the most relaxed cat you've ever met… Here's 10 Signs Your Football Team Has Made It. How many has your football team achieved, and how many are you going to reach in 2019?

You've got your playbook all planned out… but how do you get all this in? Here's how to build your Install Practice Plans. Coach Simple, Play Fast, Win. That's what Joe Daniel Football is all about. That means you can get your entire offense or defense installed quickly. So how do you put those practice plans together? You need an Install Plan first. We put that together last month: https://joedanielfootball.com/2019install Now you start from the end, and work back to the beginning. Follow along with this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast to create the perfect practice plans for your install. Show Notes Get the Install Schedule template from Season 5, Episode 2 of The Football Coaching Podcast at https://joedanielfootball.com/2019install Download a free Practice Plan Template from our Season 3, Episode 17 episode on Practice Planning at https://joedanielfootball.com/2018practice/

It's a slight technique change for blocking run plays. But it worked. Here's the How and Why on the shift to shoulder blocking. A few years ago, I came to the realization that something had to change in the way we teach blocking run plays on our Offensive Line. We needed to take out the weak link. Those adjustments had huge benefits. We've got to a shoulder blocking style - but not exactly like old Wing-T Offense or Veer Option blocking you might have seen. This isn't revolutionary. But a lot of coaches have asked about the adjustment to our run play blocking. So here it is! Show Notes Coach Lew Johnston's blog at http://coachlewj.com Watch video of shoulder blocking in it's very early stages: https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/evfw55q5by

It's the foundation of one of the most successful offenses in the history of football - the Wing-T Buck Series. Here's how to do it. The Wing-T Offense has always been a fascination for me, and the Buck Series is by far the most used series in that offense. But I needed to bring in an expert for us to break it down. On this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, Coach Rick Stewart joins me to talk Wing-T Buck Series. We'll go over the finer points of blocking the Buck Sweep, Buck Trap and the Waggle. It's a great show!

You've got a great playbook. How are you going to get it all installed in time for Week 1? It can be daunting when you look at all the great stuff you want to run against your Week 1 opponent, and compare it to the number of days you have to actually get that playbook installed. Today's episode of The Football Coaching Podcast is exactly what you need. I'll share a plan for a 5 Day Install on Offense and Defense. We've done this install schedule with a team where everyone plays both ways, and practices are only 90 minutes long. You can get it done. Don't forget to download the Playbook Install Template at the top of this page!

Georgia Military College popularized the 3-5-3 Defense for the High School level 15 years ago. What's changed? 15 years ago, Georgia Military College came out with a comprehensive video series on the 3-5-3 Defense. It was all the rage back in 2005, with tons of coaches buying them up. I was one of those coaches. We installed the defense in 2006 and I took over as Defensive Coordinator in 2007. By 2008, we had moved on. This time it was the Miami 4-3 Defense. That changed my coaching life forever. With a little more knowledge and wisdom, it's time to go back and look at the original concepts and videos on the 3-5-3 Defense. What's changed? And why didn't we stick with it? Find out what you need to look for when you switch to the 33 Stack Defense in 2019 (and it IS the same - GMC said so!) when you listen to this week's episode of The Football Coaching Podcast! Show Links The original DVDs are still available at Championship Productions: Basics of the 3-5-3 Defense [that's an affiliate link, but I do not recommend buying that one] My Playbook Breakdown on the 2008 Georgia Military College 3-5-3 Defense, which had many tweaks from the original, Season 02 Episode 11 of The Football Coaching Podcast. The 33 Stack Defense free 3 video series on the JDFB version of this defense.

Ready to create your own Defensive Playbook? Here's the simple 10 Step Process to a putting your dominant defense on paper. Coaches love playbooks. Unfortunately, most of the defensive playbooks you'll download off the internet are going to be completely worthless to your football program. There's a 10 Step Process you need to use to putting together the Defensive Playbook for your football team. Find out what it is and get to work putting your ideas on 'paper' with this week's episode of The Football Coaching Podcast.

It's that old football coach that's spent more time on a football field than you can imagine. Can you teach him some new tricks? There's nothing more valuable on your coaching staff than the guy who has 30+ years of experience coaching football. That old ball coach is a blessing. But sometimes, it can get frustrating. Especially if he's set in his ways and you want to move forward into the 21st Century. This week's episode is kind of fun, kind of weird. 10 Tips for getting that old coach to change his ways. He ain't wrong, he's just different.

There's an art to working with football officials to get the calls going your way. Are you doing it wrong? They can be frustrating. Drive you completely insane. Maybe take a couple years off your life. But you can't let the officials in your football game know that, Coach. You've got to keep your cool. This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast is a deep dive into how to communicate with the officials during your game. From pre-game to post-game and everything in between. Want to get those critical calls? You need to check out this episode.