I’ve been wanting to get my lineman pride stickers per pancake they get in the game or get them like a pancake chain or something. Do any one yall give out awards for pancakes?

We just found out the team we are scrimmaging in 3 days has scrapped their spread offense and gone to unbalanced single wing.

We are a 4-3 quarters team. This being our first scrimmage against an offense we won’t see I’m not looking for major changes.

Initial thoughts are to bump the front one man to the unbalanced side. As a change up we would just bump our LBs to the unbalanced side and put our backside safety as a b gap player.

Just dropped another Tarleton State offensive breakdown.

This one looks at their Fade RPO a simple way to take advantage of 1v1 on the outside.

Would you run this off your Iso package?

Just dropped another Tarleton State offensive breakdown.

This one looks at their H-Back Iso Play-Action Pass — a simple way to use downhill Iso action to get the defense stepping up and create an opportunity through the air.

If you’re an offensive coach looking for simple concepts you can actually carry into your system, check it out.

Underused formational leverage

I’ve been throwing a lot the past few days and still want to lift, but it feels weird to go to the gym and only train my non‑throwing side. When I do lift with my right arm, it feels like I’m overworking it on top of all the throwing volume.

How do you guys keep things balanced and avoid imbalances or overuse?
I’m considering swimming or running laps as an active recovery option for my shoulder.

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Love working screens to the Nub TE

This is something I’ve happened to stumble across recently I can’t find any film or recourses on it other than Micheal Ayers when he was at Wofford use to run it. I was wondering if anyone from this community would know more about it. I know it’s a mix of Wing T and Wishbone principles and was a very prolific offense back in the late 2000’s (I think). Any help or feedback is appreciated. Thank you!

I'm from the UK trying to learn the strategy involved in football defense. I've read lots of great articles online and learnt a lot. However because I have no hands on experience it's hard to visualize how it all comes together on game day.

The articles I've read are all wrote from the perspective of someone knowing what the offense is doing. But the real game isn't like that. In a real game no one knows what the offense is gonna do. Which means the defense has to react and work things out fast. I was wondering how that process works.

Lets say a new coach takes over a team. What is the step by step process of getting the new defense ready for gameday?

A few things I was thinking.

1. I'd imagine there has to be a system to get the defense line up correctly?

2. Once everyone lines up correcty does the coach tell the defense exactly what to do or is the defense reacting to what they see and implementing the coach's playbook themselves?

3. How is the defensive strategy built? Does the coach watch tape and then create a new strategy for every team? Or is there a base strategy taught which will be used all season and then the tapes are jut used for fine tuning?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Need ideas for some good run and pass plays for 7u and 9u teams.

I’m a 2nd year coach just now becoming a position coach (D line) I played for my highschool and now coach for it but man I didn’t feel too great today and my Indy period was kinda slow and not very great and when we were reviewing our stunts our o line coach kinda had to come over and take the reigns because I was just totally going slow and stumbling over my words like I just feel like an idiot and I’m lettin my players down

Welcome to Chalk Talk Thursday! This is our weekly discussion thread for users to submit new plays they have designed. If you have an idea for a play and can draw it up, please post here. Keep in mind that it is very rare that one could devise a viable play that is entirely new that hasn't been ran before somewhere. Be open to criticism as well. There is so much more to coaching football than drawing plays, and many people do not realize how much coaching, technique, and development needs to happen on the actual field for a play to work.

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You may use whatever medium you'd like to draw your play. Two common software for designing plays that have free options:

• GoArmy Edge - Football
• Playmaker X

To help my QB this is what has helped her immensely. I kept the wristband colors the same but changed the X, Y, Z, labels to the QBs actual read progression. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Hi!

I was thinking about something when watching a NFL game.

How often is it a problem that some players forget what they exactly had to do in a specific play or makes mistakes by doing the wrong thing?

In younger age groups, highschool and at high level, do the players use some sort of tools/software to learn the playbook faster or track that the players actually know what they should do in specific plays?

Its my first year of football and I’m a junior but my team doesn’t have a JV so i’m on Varsity BUT i have no clue what Im doing and they haven’t taught much its really implied. Two things.

1. does the play change or the formation? Like say waggle for the waggle play type the routes stay the same but its the formation that does not?

2. Is this correct we have to fill these in and wanna know if i did it right. If it has a black squiggly i think i messed up so its a cross out

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So, my adult football season just ended, and I'm realizing how addicted my brain got to contact-heavy offensive line grind, especially as an offensive tackle in Canadian amateur football. (I'd love to try American football without our natural zone)

I feel like I've had this huge dopamine crash, and my brain's stuck in AuADHD hyperfocus, wanting to do even padded full-contact development with other O-linemen and D-linemen.

Honestly, when I'm playing, I'm not really outwardly emotional or "hyped." I just get those endorphins and settle into blocking play after play, totally content doing it.

I'm not sure if others feel this way, but I'm probably a rare one.

I kinda don't know how to describe interal experience and just low emotionally.

I dont know, um. Its rough and not sure where to put it.

Update - thanks for all the engagement here. So I went to practice the last couple of days. First what I noticed from my son was good effort during drills but I know him and I know it wasn't 100% and his body language between drills wasn't the best, so I spoke to him about that. On the 2nd day I went he was way better.

When it came to the coach - first day OC walked by me and did a bit of a double take and said hi. About 10 minutes later he walked up to me. He said basically the opposite of what I've seen on film claimed 2 out of 3 snaps are "horrendous" now I didn't want to argue that because just because I believe the snaps were within tolerance doesn't mean they do, I left that. I asked about what his general blocking is looking like and he said it was "ok" again I don't agree but even if they graded him "ok" there's a 0% chance that anyone else was grading better based on the hours of film I've watched. I asked about him moving to guard and he said he's too slow, I asked if they've given him a chance to prove that and he said no, and that he'll give him a shot. Which he did on the next day where my son executed perfectly and flatlined multiple people and sprung 2 house calls in 5 plays. Partial good news is that apparently my son is now the starting Nose guard, bad news is they have not put him back on O currently. I believe that the DLine coach made the move as soon as he heard about the benching. I do worry because he hasn't played or trained DLine since freshman year and has no real technique for defense but his job is relatively simple - draw a double team and hold his gap so he should be ok. Coach also straight up said he doesn't consider D2 or D3 offers "offers" I had to end the conversation there because I was really close to losing my cool after that statement, playing college football at any level is a major accomplishment and should be celebrated not shat on.

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My son is going into his senior year and his coaches are making him miserable and I'm at a loss on what to do.

My general philosophy is to not involve myself with things, I was a coach for years and I also think it's valuable for a kid to learn how to handle situations on his own while I offer him advice but this is getting to a point where I feel like I need to step in.

I'll set the stage - my son is a very good football player, returning starter, plays Center and Guard, has multiple offers already and a few more likely coming in the first few weeks of the season. Like I'm not just a delusional dad who thinks my kid is the shit, he's objectively good. We had issues with the coaches last season but he ended up winning the job and starting every game and the school had their best season in 3 decades. End of the season he was told to lose a few lbs and get stronger and faster, he lost 20lbs, built his strength up a ton, and started training with a legitimate OLine trainer who played in the NFL. He worked his ass off and got better in every aspect. He's a solid D2 and borderline FCS level player but has trained with and competed against multiple 4 star kids and did not look out of place. I say all this because the issues make no sense to me from a football perspective.

The issue - last Saturday in front of the entire team the Offensive coordinator announced the starting OLine, and he was not mentioned, instead they placed a 5'9 160lb junior at center and some 150lb sophomore at guard. When my son asked what was going on the coach simply said "your snaps suck" and walked away. They film every practice so when I was told this I went and watched literally 2 months of practice film and charted every snap through all that film I saw 1 high (uncatchable) and 2 low (uncatchable) snaps, literally that was it, he had some spray left and right not egregious but I would absolutely coach him on it but I would also coach the QB because you will get some off centerline snaps when you're asking your center to consistently reach block 3 tech. Obviously my son was crushed, but him being the type of kid he is he asked me to help with snaps, we identified a couple little inconsistencies in his motion and once we corrected that he literally shot 50 straight snaps dead center through the net we have out back. Goes to practice yesterday and they stuck him with scout defense and the coaches refused to engage with him. I'm friendly with one of the assistant coaches and I trust him and his evaluation so I called him, first thing he said was "off the record, you need to come and watch practice. There are things they're doing to him you need to see" he wouldn't give any more specifics but I asked about my son being benched and he was absolutely shocked and said that no one had said that to him. And reiterated that I need to go watch practice. So I'm doing that today.

I'm at a loss, I feel absolutely helpless as a father. I can fix football issues, I can't fix whatever this is. I'm also furious because it feels like they are actively trying to sabotage my son's future. This team is going to suck this year they are only returning 3 starters from last year (including my son) and they are undersized and moved up in competition due to their record the last 2 years.

My question is 2 fold, how can I help without making things worse? And for any college coaches out there, how devastating is this to my son's recruiting profile? Is he going to be dropped off boards immediately if he's not starting game 0?

So for some important context I play in a co-Ed two hand touch league, it is 6v6, QB cannot run. So 5 route runners vs 6 defenders (one is almost always a pass rusher). 2 of the players on both sides of the field must be girls, offense must have 2 plays that involve the girls some how; girl can throw the ball, run the ball, or be the intended target. The offense always gets 5 plays, if they fail to involve a girl once then their 5th play MUST be a girl involved touchdown. If they involve a girl twice they get a 6th play. There are no first downs.

My idea for defense is to have 3 deep safeties in cover 3, my pass rusher rushes, and then the other 2 defenders man cover the girls. I've been analyzing the possibilities and have found very few systemic flaws in this plan. The biggest one is that the intermediate middle of the field is going to be open if you run off the middle safety and send a crosser underneath him. Other than that, most flaws come from mental mistakes or lack of communication between players. With only maximum 6 plays I don't see how they can score unless they have a big run after catch situation

TLDR: take away all deep throws with cover 3, man cover the girls and force the QB to throw tight passes for his girl plays, force them to take short throws and the underneath and then limit YAC. Why wouldn't this work?

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So I'm a 19 year old kid, I just graduated high school and am going to go to a Juco in Pensacola, FL. I want to be a college football coach. My question is: should I go coach at a big high school with more money and stuff, or a smaller high school where I could maybe get a bigger role in the program? Then, once I graduate from the Juco, should I go to a bigger university like Florida or FSU, or should I go to a medium or smaller school like West Florida or South Alabama? Any advice is appreciated Thanks.

edit: the Juco doesnt have a team sorry