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This is the week!

The C.O.O.L. Clinic begins Thursday afternoon and it’s loaded with great offensive line coaches sharing their knowledge.

From top to bottom the line-up is stacked. In fact, Coach Wylie believes this is the best line-up in the history of the C.O.O.L. Clinic which first began in the early 1980’s.

It kicks off with a presentation by Aaron Taylor, founder of the Joe Moore Award which honors the best offensive line unit in college football. It is the only trophy that awards a group effort. He will share what they evaluate and what makes the best line unit.

Of course, the coach who led the last two offensive line units to win it (2021 and 2022), Michigan Offensive Coordinator/OL Coach Sherrone Moore will be speaking on “Gap Schemes Teaching Progression & Attacking Defenses” 

National Champion OL Coach Stacey Searles of the Georgia Bulldogs will be presenting on “Effort the Georgia Way.” With back-to-back Championships, learning how the Bulldogs approach effort should be an interesting talk.

Andy Heck is back after presenting at the C.O.O.L. Clinic in 2022. The 2023 Super Bowl Champion OL Coach of the Kansas City Chiefs will present on the “Screen Game - Slow & Quick” which were a big part of the Chiefs offense.

Glen Elarbee coached the offensive line that paved the way for college football’s fastest offense. He knows how to coach linemen to be physical while playing in an uptempo offense. He will speaking on “Why the Inside Zone fits with Tempo and Spreading the FIeld.” This style of receiver wide splits with the fastest pace offense has definitely trended over the last few seasons.

That’s just a couple of the highlights of this year’s C.O.O.L. Clinic.

C.O.O.L. Clinic Plus

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The premium pass will get you access to “The C.O.O.L. Clinic Plus” membership which gives you access to this year’s talks for 12 months as well as a one clinic talk per month from the previous two years of virtual C.O.O.L. Clinic and a curated library of nine other past C.O.O.L. Clinic that included OL Coaching Legends like Howard Mudd, Dan Radakovich, Alex Gibbs, Dante Scarnecchia and other talks from the archives.  That’s 137 talks over the course of the next 12 months from the most valuable offensive line library.

Here’s the rest of this week’s line-up:

CFL Grey Cup Champion Kris Sweet - “Wham Schemes and Ways to Separate the Defense”

NFL Presenters:

Carmen Bricillo, Las Vegas Raiders - “Various Bse Run Game Schemes”

Chris Foerster, San Francisco Forty-Niners - “Run Game Schemes Built Off Base Beliefs”

Jim McNally, NFL Alumni - “Footwork on the run game. Bracing- Torquing -Shuffling and Rooting”

College Presenters:

Alex Atkins, Florida State - “Gap Scheme Variations with Screens and Run Action”

Brian Callahan, Minnesota - “Tight Zone”

Keith Clark, Dartmouth - “Double Teams in Zone and Gap Schemes”

Scott Fuchs, Kansas - “Pass Blocking (Short Sets and Technique)”

Josh Henson, USC - “Adjustments and Techniques for Movement”

Eman Naghavi, Houston - “Counter, Counter Variations, and RPO”

AJ Ricker, TCU - “Inside Zone Variations”

Conor Riley, Kansas State - “Pin & Pull and K-State G Play”

Brian Braswell, Maryland - “Outside Zone and Pass Pro Fundamentals to Make you Better”

Also presenting:

Steve Palazzolo - Pro Football Focus - “Insight into OL Play”

The C.O.O.L. Clinic begins on May 18 and runs through May 20. https://cool2023.coachesclinic.com/

I agree with Coach Wylie. This is going to be a great one!

Coach Grabowski

P.S.

If you purchased a regular pass and want to upgrade to the premium C.O.O.L. Clinic Plus, please email me.