There is a moment every defensive coordinator dreads, and it happens the first time your jet man crosses the formation at full speed and the ball is gone before the linebackers get their feet moving.
If you can't throw the curl against man coverage, you shouldn't be throwing the ball. Here's how to teach it right. When it's third-and-eight and you have to have it, you need a pass concept you trust against anything.
The gap between a confused player and a confident one usually isn't talent. It's the system. Watch a young or struggling team long enough and you'll see the same thing.
Defensive coordinators don't lose sleep over how many plays you run. They lose sleep over how many pictures you show. Here's something worth remembering the next time you're tempted to add another play.
The fastest way to get the ball to your best athlete, and the play that makes everything else hit harder. The jet sweep, or speed sweep, is one of the simplest ways to put real stress on a defense.
An honest look back at a hard first season, and what I'd tell any coach making the jump. Switching to a new offense is humbling. A lot of coaches make the move to the Gun T expecting the wins to show up right away, and then reality sets in.
The buck sweep is the heartbeat of the Gun T. Here's how to build everything else off of it. Every offense eventually finds the one play the defense knows is coming and still can't stop.
Most Monday mornings in most coaching offices, the film session goes the same way. The coordinator pulls up film of the opponent. Twenty minutes later, everybody leaves knowing what the defense does.
You just got promoted to offensive coordinator. Maybe you're stepping into a new job. Either way, you've got something to prove. You've got ideas. Schemes nobody in your region is running.
I sat in a staff meeting yesterday. We were there for three hours. Three hours. And you know what we accomplished? We moved two plays around in our second level coverage and debated whether we should call a play that nobody's good at yet anyway.
You're running a drill in the first half. The coverage is soft, a linebacker runs his gap wrong, and a parent yells from the stands: "That's not how it's supposed to work." Their kid isn't even in the game yet.
The RPO is shredding high school defenses. And I know exactly why. Coaches are trying to scheme against it. They're adding calls, changing responsibilities, inventing new rotations.
Here's a question I hear all the time: "Coach, how do we blitz without getting killed?" And I understand the frustration. You need pressure to make things uncomfortable for the offense.
The spread offense isn't going anywhere. Every Friday night, you're looking at four, five, sometimes six receivers split across the field, and your defense is scrambling to adjust.
Two or three coaches. One practice. Everything has to happen. Here's how to structure a 90-minute practice with a skeleton staff and get your team sharp.
Coaches cram 80% of their playbook into spring practice and wonder why nothing works in fall. Here’s the proven system to install your offense efficiently in just 10 days.
Small schools don’t have 22 athletes. The Gun T system is built for limited talent depth and maximum efficiency. Here’s why it works where other offenses fail.
The Hook You installed the RPO three weeks ago. You thought it was perfect. The read is clean. The throw windows are there on film. You practiced it all week.
