The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

What are your favorite football video games of all time? Here’s a look at the games we used to play. There is no great football coaching insight in today’s episode of The Football Coaching Podcast. I’ll be back with more of that, next episode. Today is just about doing something fun. A little different. A walk down memory lane with the football video games I grew up with.

What’s the Secret to Defending RPOs with the 4-3 Defense? It’s not really a secret. Season 2 of The Football Coaching Podcast wraps up with defending RPOs with the 4-3 Defense and Quarters Coverage. We’re using the defense as drawn up in The 4-3 Defense System that is part of JDFB Insiders. Quarters Coverage offers some special flexibility that you might not have in other coverages and with other packages. The true nature of the 7 man front and 2 high safeties might be your best answer for defending RPOs. Listen to this week’s episode and find out why The 4-3 Defense is my favorite defense for defending RPOs! (...on paper) Show Links Learn the foundations of the 4-3 defense with my free 3-video series A lot of the RPOs we run are detailed in the episode on Coaching RPOs in Your Current Playbook  

You don’t have to create an entire RPO Playbook. It’s easy to incorporate RPO’s into the offensive system you’re running right now. Run-Pass Options (RPOs) are the hot topic for offensive football coaches across the country over the last few seasons. The schemes have made their way down from the College level down to the High School ranks in a hurry. Many coaches have been abandoning what they’ve always done in favor of more modern, “exciting” offensive schemes. The purpose of this episode is to show that you do not need to do that. You can use your existing offensive playbook and add RPOs into the mix, without sacrificing all you’ve done in the past.

How do you Coach Simple so your players can Play Fast? Triggers are the answer to your problem.   Triggers are a stimulus, or event, that happens on the field that tell your player to initiate a response, or reaction. For every action on the field, there is a reaction by your player. (but this is not physics and we do not want the response to be equal!) In this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, we’ll be looking at triggers for every offensive and defensive position. Plus, how you can use triggers to simplify your teaching and get your players to react faster. Show Links Jerry Campbell has an excellent collection of manuals at https://www.jcfb.com/ Video on setting up the timing of your Run Plays: https://youtu.be/CnEXaE2GXMA Curl Pass Concept including Trigger Reads: https://youtu.be/4LzPFyQ8clc Ron McKie’s The Pin and Pull RPO eBook gives an in-depth look at using triggers to coach a single play that will always be the right call. Rex Ryan’s Coaching the 46 Defense book has an excellent chapter on Defensive Line triggers. The Pistol Power Offense System teaches our Triggers for the passing game and the run game: http://pistolpoweroffense.com  

Coaching 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage gives you great pass coverage. Plus you get 9 defenders against the run! I love coaching 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage. It’s incredibly effective if you know how to teach and adjust the package. And if you have the right guys. There’s a ton of advantages, but there are also a few difficulties you need to be aware of. We’ll discuss all of that on this week’s episode of The Football Coaching Podcast. We teach this complete 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage package in The 4-3 Defense System included as part of JDFB Insiders. But there are some important updates in this episode, too! Show Links There’s only 4 types of defense! The infamous Episode 80 strikes again. Get my 3 video series on the 4-3 Defense exclusively at http://the43defense.com/podcast  The 4-3 Defense System is part of a JDFB Insider subscription. Shap Boyd’s excellent Quarters Coverage Made Simple video. If you’re interested in Press Quarters, the Michigan State Cover 4 video is great.      

Clemson’s Spread Offense uses a Hurry Up, No Huddle approach. Don’t be fooled, there’s nothing fancy here.. The 2013 Clemson Offense playbook is available from Chris Brown’s SmartFootball.com through the link below. It’s a great look at the simplicity of many modern Hurry Up, No Huddle offenses. The Clemson Offense was already introducing RPOs at that time, and showing the development of some of the more run-pass options we see today. It’s an interesting look at the Spread Offense during a time of critical development. In this episode we’ll be focused on the Day 1 Spring Install for the Clemson Offense in 2013. Show Links Download the playbook from SmartFootball.com The foundation of the offense is very similar to the Pistol Power Offense System Get my free 3 video series on the Power Series

It may be the hot new thing in football, but coaching RPOs is here to stay. Check out this simple primer for adding Run-Pass Options to your Offensive System. Thinking about coaching RPOs in your offensive system? There’s a few things to consider first. This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast is a basic introduction to using Run Pass Options, no matter what offensive system you currently run. If you can add this new phase to your offensive attack, you could really open up the scoring next season!

If you can’t block ‘em, read ‘em. That’s what the Option Gurus like to say… but how do we read ‘em!? Listen to find out! I love Option Football. Any style. Flexbone Option, Split back Veer, Zone Read Option, or today’s most advanced Run Pass Option plays. At the end of the day, it’s all option reads. This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast focuses on coaching option reads for your Quarterback. How do you read the Dive Key? How do you attack the Pitch Key? Check out this week’s Football Coaching Podcast to find out!

The Miami 4-3 Defense is one of the most successful defenses of the last 30 years. Let’s break down the 1996 Miami Hurricanes 4-3 Defense Playbook. The Miami 4-3 Defense is one of my favorite defensive schemes out there. In the previous episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, we talked about the foundations. In this episode, I’ll dive into the 1996 Miami Hurricanes 4-3 Defense playbook. This very detailed playbook gives a look at how the defense was evolving throughout the 1990’s at the college level.  

How did the Miami 4-3 Defense come to be one of the most popular defenses in football today? Here’s the background.   When Jimmy Johnson installed his 4-3 Defense at the University of Miami, he built a great defense. It continues to expand and adapt with the evolution of offensive football, year after year. In this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, we’ll look back at the origins of the 4-3 Defense, before Miami. The Even 4-3 Defense and Tom Landry’s Flex 4-3 Defense get examined. Then we’ll break down the basic philosophy and foundations of the Miami 4-3 Defense that I teach today in our 4-3 Defense System. You can get my Free 3 Video Series right now to learn how to teach and install the Miami 4-3 Defense. Visit http://the43defense.com/podcast to get instant access!   Show Links 4-3 Defense for Football is one of my first YouTube videos from several years ago, on the basics of the Miami 4-3 Defense Coaching Football’s 4-3 Defense by Tim Simons and Mike Freeman, book from Amazon Is There Any Way to Explain Football’s Most Confusing, Convoluted, Intellectually Taxing, Perhaps-No-Longer-So-Great Defense? From D Magazine The Landry Flex 43 and the Even 43 from Cowboys Nation The 43 Flex, from Tom Landry to Rob Ryan from Code and Football Coaching Football’s Double Eagle Flex Defense by Ted Amorosi, book from Amazon   (I love the 4-3 Defense, I doubt you’ll ever see this many links in the show notes again!)