Coach ,As life gets back to normal and things open up around the country, we look back on over a year of virtual learning shared by some of the best coaches across the country.  We went through and added up and organized who your fellow coa...

Coach ,New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton has coached at every level, in recent years he has even coached youth football. As he has looked back at his career, he can see there were decisions that really made up his pedigree as a coach. They we...

Coach ,One of the most interesting sessions at the C.O.O.L. Clinic was presented by Pro Football Focus. In a segment of the presentation, the effect of play-action was covered and Steve Palazzolo emphasized it by saying “Play Action is a Cheat C...

Coach ,How do you find an edge?A line from a classic football movie, “Any Given Sunday” that I have used with my players, my staff, my kids and myself is,  “The inches we need are everywhere around us.”It comes down to finding that edge to...

Coach , If you coach football, you have heard of the famous Angelo Football Clinic.  It began with 12 coaches wedged into a San Angelo hotel room with a chalkboard trying to figure out how to stop what, at the time, was the unstoppable...

Coach ,Empty formations aren’t reserved for use by only spread teams. They can be utilized in any attack with the concepts that you already have to create stress on a defense. The key for making empty successful in your offense is to make it sim...

Coach ,The RPO has come into its own as a dynamic way to attack any defense from any offensive system. There’s no shortage of ideas in how to utilize the run pass options.  The defense certainly has become better at stopping them, but...

Coach ,My high school coach used to say, “Give me players, not plays.” I think we all agree that a great player makes us look so much better as a coach, but those players rely on us to have a plan that positions them for success.What’s the value of a...

Coach ,If you could take out two players of the offense, how big is that for your defense? We will get into that in a minute, but before that, we would like to congratulate one of the members of the Coaches Clinic Community of Coaches.Congratulations...

Coach ,What’s the best way to put a defense on its heels? Operate at a speed which they cannot.Whether you huddle-up or are no-huddle, one-word tempo is a tool that allows an offense to operate at warp speed. Really any play could be run in this mann...