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Pre-Season PD
It has arrived… the last two days… the bane of all coaches, especially fall coaches. Professional Development In-Service on Pre-Season Practice days. Now, I never wanted to shirk any of my teaching...
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Tis the Season
Like colorful fall foliage, there are a few things that, for me, herald the upcoming football season … My wife, Jamie’s, birthday… 8/8/64… a square root baby… through the years her birthday celebration...
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Defensive Game Planning – The Ready List
The Ready List is the list of fronts and stunts that we believe will be the most successful against our opponent’s top run and pass plays. We have already determined what those plays were, and all the...
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Defensive Game Planning – The Play Grid
The next step in the game planning process is completing the tool I call the Play Grid. This is an Excel worksheet that includes every play we have broken down from our opponent’s film. It is a...
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Defensive Game Planning – The Call Sheet
The final goal of the entire game planning process is to assemble the tool to be used on game day, the Call Sheet. As I mentioned in my first post on this subject (Defensive Game Planning – Genealogy)...
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Defensive Game Planning – Game Procedures
This post will guide you through game day procedures, using the tools that have been discussed in the previous Defensive Game Planning posts. Links to all of these posts are at the end of this post....
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Defensive Game Planning – FAQ’s
I have received some questions regarding the Defensive Game Planning process I have detailed over the last few days. The answers to these questions (as well as questions I was asked when giving this...
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Defensive Game Planning – All Posts, Forms, and Video
Let me start by thanking Coach Keith Grabowski of Baldwin Wallace University for the kind words in his post today, Follow Up: Advice to young coaches taking on a (Defensive) Coordinator Role. His...
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Defensive Game Planning – Flipped Coaching
As a coach and teacher, I have a continuous, internal dialogue that takes place. Time is at a premium, and it is inflexible, so whenever I am contemplating adding something else to my plate, this...
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Hail to the Redskins!
I have to admit to my excitement this morning when I noticed views of my blog several hundred ticks ahead of where it normally would sit at that time. After some investigating, I found out that my...
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