Coach ,Retired New England Patriots Offensive Line Coach Dante Scarnecchia, who coached for the Patriots for 34 years, and Bill Belichick for 19 of those believe that the two most important things we do every day are position meetings and practice ti...
Coach ,I bet you know where these lines come from."Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes down to today, and either, we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play. Until we're finished.”“To me...
Coach ,Taking the reins of an offense or defense as a coordinator is exciting. It’s also a lot more work and responsibility.It’s important to understand the role and how to approach it. For me, success came through trial and error, studying others an...
Coach ,Indiana Head Coach Tom Allen did appear at the 2020 IHSFCA Clinic, but unfortunately, the replay was not available..until now.You’ve probably seen this on TV. It was something that the media loved and would show when they were talking abo...
Coach ,Make the defense wrong! It’s a simple objective of the RPO, but in order to have a quarterback who can do that, it does take drill work and repetition.Here are 3 drill methods to get your RPO game functioning proficiently as you work your...
Coach ,If you are lucky, you go to the clinic. You take notes. You watch intently as a new idea that can help your team win is shared on video.You walk away from the clinic with the visual in your mind and the notes on the page. It helps, but it...
Coach ,Over the course of your career, how many times have you walked away from week 1 saying “We need to get into better shape?”For some, practice planning is a copy/paste function. Templates are set up and the practice plan varies little over the c...
Coach ,The Punt is such an important part of the game. Long ago a coach told me that the punt is the biggest offensive play in that it moves the ball farther down the field than any other play.We certainly don’t want our punter out on the field...
Coach ,Whether you have a big strong defensive line or a smaller athletic one, movement up front is something that offenses must spend time on to run the ball effectively. Coordinating an offense, our approach was after the first practice...
Coach The zone read and advent of the RPO was the inside zone read with a bubble. The throw was relatively simple and safe because it wasn’t going down field, and the concept took advantage of numbers both pre-snap and through reaction post-snap...