Pulling the Right Levers on Defense | FBCP S20E17
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Coaches are constantly looking for ways to get better at making adjustments. It’s game night, the opposing offense is driving, you need to make changes but you can’t install a whole new front right now. What’s the quickest way to make adjustments on the fly, and where do you start anyway? On this episode Joe and Daniel discuss the Levers Principal, how to pull them for improvement, identifying which ones to pull, and how to build practice plans that highlight levers.
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Build Your Run Plays to Gash Any Defense | FBCP S20E16
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Building out your Run Plays for your system doesn’t have to be complicated. You get a few base plays, you make them look as similar as possible, you add some wrinkles… bingo, bango, bongo, your offensive run game is born. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss what it takes to build out your run game, keeping the blocking simple for the linemen, designing your core to minimize break points, and adjusting that core to attack any defense.
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Designing a Defense That Dominates on Game Day | FBCP S20E15
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Designing Defensive Plays generally isn’t the big thing amongst football coaches. We always see the offensive guys putting their newest play design on a napkin at the local watering hole, but defensive guys “draw the field upside down" and don’t get the same freedom to break traditional rules. In this episode, Joe and Daniel walk through the fundamentals of Defensive Play Design, run fits being the foundation, building a play that fits your system, and how to attack your opponents.
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Fix Your Team’s Execution with Extreme Ownership | FBCP S20E14
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Everything is YOUR FAULT! No, seriously, everything is your fault. What You choose to do with that information is often the make or break point in any endeavor. But, there’s more to Extreme Ownership than that. In this episode Joe and Daniel discuss the Extreme Ownership Principle, how you can take control of problem solving with extreme ownership, and how you can develop player leaders using the same principle.
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ASKA: The Linebacker Buy-In Tool | FBCP S20E13
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Giving your linebackers the perfect gameplan for Friday nights is difficult. We’ve simplified it to nearly elementary coaching points, but the pressures of the game can take a toll on a young player’s mind to the point of failure. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss the ASKA principle for your linebackers, what makes it operate, how you can use it with your current playbook, and how it’s a gameplanning tool in hiding!
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Too Many Play Calls, Not Enough Answers | FBCP S20E12
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Coaches across the nation are on a mission to build the “perfect” playbook. How do I carry the right amount of tools into a game without overloading my players? Here’s the deal, most of us are getting it wrong and we’re less efficient with the loads of plays we carry, rather than being surgical with a few great ones. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss limiting your playbook to plays that do a certain job, how to determine exactly what you need, and how to add new plays without confusing your players.
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Why Great Coaches Put Limits on Everything | FBCP S20E11
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Building a practice schedule doesn’t have to be a big complex thing. Sure, you make a ridiculously nice one on a spreadsheet, add photos, some color… or just scribble it on paper (don’t do this, you coaches deserve better)… but the most important thing is the content. To decide what goes into your practice, you need to compartmentalize your coaching. On this episode, Joe and Daniel discuss how to use the containers principle, how staying focused leads to faster development, and how to get more done in less time.
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What I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Head Coach | FBCP S20E10
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
On The Football Coaching Podcast, hosts Daniel Chamberlain and Joe Daniel record live at Milton Academy in Massachusetts with guests Brady Bradbury and Kahn Chace, discussing what they wish they’d known before becoming head coaches. Bradbury says he initially assumed he’d run a complex 4-2-5 college system, but learned to tailor schemes to players and staff capabilities, simplify to help coaches teach, and manage constant daily “fires” unrelated to football. The group emphasizes that coaches often overestimate staff buy-in, must intentionally schedule time to educate coaches, and...
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Steal Your Way To Winning | FBCP S20E09
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
“Nothing new under the sun,” is a statement that’s truer than we like to admit. It also gives you the “okay,” to stop pretending you’re going to do anything different than any other coach out there. You don’t have to build a brand new football idea from the ground up. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain jump into system stealing, system matching, and system evolution. Learn how to find proven systems, find the right system for your team, and how to evolve the system year after year.
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A Step-by-Step System for Installing the 4-2-5 Defense | FBCP S20E08
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
As Spring Ball gets closer, 7-on-7 is looming, and season seems just around the corner, you’re probably looking through your defensive install plan, scratching your head, wondering how to get it all in the most efficient way this season. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain talk through the best defensive install plan for the 425 defense, and likely any defense, for this upcoming season. They talk planning what you need to install, how to get it all installed in 5 days, and how to ensure you have enough ready for week 1.
info_outline3rd and Long is the ultimate, we don’t have a great play here, offensive situation. The deep pass is already covered, the run hasn’t been great or you likely wouldn’t have been in this mess to begin with. So, what are your options?
In this episode Joe and Daniel discuss the reality of 3rd & Long, what your real options are to convert, and how you can use situational practice plans to better prepare your players for the tough down and distance.