Coach ,Fundamentally sound defensive line and skilled linebackers are essential for a team's success. These players are the backbone of the defense, responsible for stopping the run, pressuring the quarterback, and disrupting the opposing team's rout...

Coach -Your quarterback isn't 6'5".Most aren't. You recruited a kid with accuracy, feel, and some athleticism. He's 6'1". And every time he steps up into a deep U-shaped pocket and tries to throw over the line, you're rolling dice on tips, overthrow...

Coach -The quarterback's eyes never change.Run, RPO, or play-action pass, his eyes go to the same defender on the snap. The boundary safety. Coach Luke Schleusner built his Idaho drop-back pass game so the quarterback's job is one read against one d...

Coach -The trash is in the backfield.The misdirection. The motion. The play action. Every lie the offense is selling lives there, and the second your linebackers' eyes drift up to look at it, the run gap they were supposed to fit is gone.Coach Micha...

Coach -The starter wants a breather. An assistant walks over before kickoff and asks if a backup can go in.The answer at Texas Tech is no.Coach Kenny Perry, associate head coach and special teams coordinator at Texas Tech, has run units at TCU, Kans...

Coach -Are you looking for tips to make your offensive line indy more efficient?Four boards. Two groups. Two pullers per rep, alternating sides, with the next set already loaded up before the last rep is finished. That's the entire setup, and it cuts...

Coach -The vice tackle has help on the other side.The sideline tackle has help too. It's just the sideline.The hardest version is when there's no help at all. A post safety, a head-up ball carrier, a two-way go staring at him in the open field.Coach...

Coach -Your pass game is busting because it's too complicated.Coach George Pachucy proved it the other way around. He stripped his quick game down to one yes-no question for the quarterback and one set of receiver numbers for everyone else. Last yea...

Coach -The RPO works because your DB is guessing.Bail and they hand it off. Bite up and they pull and throw the bubble or the slant. The offense is reading him. He's reading nothing.The fix is the flat foot. A DB who stays loaded, holds leverage, re...

Coach -It's blitz-proof.It works in wet weather.It builds QB confidence.It controls the clock without stopping it.It exploits the defense's pass rush instead of being punished by it.And it doesn't require a great offensive line.Coach Tony DeMeo, cre...