Old School Clinic

Here is some "Old School Nebraska" RB clinic for you.

My Latest Distraction

www.FISHDUCK.com

A website devoted to Oregon Football and Chip Kelly's offense !

Any Video Converter

I just used this for the first time. EASY!
Put a DVD into the HOME COMPUTER. One of the only reasons to keep the old "dino tower"...come back later that day and all six different films are ripped and neatly organized into one folder!

Some retro Notre Drill tape for you!

Coach's Technology Toolbox

Every year I work in this game I run across a couple of products that aid me in my coaching. I thought I would try to put them together in this list.

1. Ps2- The old steady eddy for me. It costs about 45 dollars today and works like a charm as a commando remote system. Simply drop the DVD in and you are off to the races. I like the ps2 for its portability and price point. When I am at home I use the PS3 which blows the PS2 out of the water but is still too expensive for me to throw in my back pack and bring to films.

2. VLC Media Player-Free media player that plays almost anything. I like this product b/c it allows me to take screen shots of film and drop them into PowerPoint. Additionally, you can record segments of a game if you would like too and they are saved in a windows friendly format.

3. Any Video Converter- A great free program that can be found on filehippo. You can convert your video files into almost any format with this freeware program. Additionally, it will easily record and transcribe video off of Youtube.

4. 3d Play book-One of my newest acquisitions but one that I absolutely love. It replaces the chalkboard and allows a coach to very easily accomplish the same thing on screen that looks similar to a Madden game. A coach can draw the play for his players and then have the digital players move on the field according to the lines that have been attached to them. Additionally, the program allows you to take screenshots of plays and drop the file into to PowerPoint.

5. Helmet Camera-I acquired a helmet camera about a year ago and it has been awesome. the camera sits on the inside of the facemask and records what the player sees. When you couple this video with the wide and tight shot it really adds to the ability for a coach to instruct a player on the finer details of a play. This camera is excellent for 7 on 7, 11 on 11, and inside run.

6. End Zone Camera-We bought our first end zone camera last year from a company called Endzonecamera.com. The product is excellent and worth every penny we paid for it. During the season last year there were multiple times when our camera was up and running in five minutes and the other team's end zone camera was sitting there collecting dust. The controls on the camera are extremely easy to use. The total setup time for this camera is five minutes and it takes about that long to teach someone how to use.

7. External Hard Drive- I bought an external hard drive last year that gets it power from the USB cord. After buying this type of external hard drive I will never buy one that needs an external power source to run.

8. Evernote-This is a cloud based product that allows a coach to place a myriad of items on it. I used it twice today. The first time was a practice today when we were running kick off return. During KOR a player had a question about their blocking assignment and I was able to pull up the blocking assignment on my Smartphone to show the assignment to the player and describe to them what they were supposed to do on KOR. The second time I used the product today was when I was preparing my notes for this blog entry. I hit the microphone button and talked about the topics. When I was ready to write this entry, I simply pulled up Evernote on my phone and hit the playback button to listen to my ideas that I had developed prior to the writing of this article

9. Join Me-Another free program that gives people the ability to view your desktop. I used it this week when I was instructing my qb on read keys for our quick game. Additionally, you can give the person you shared the desktop with access to your computer if you feel so inclined.

10. Watchgamefilm-I use this program on a regular and consistent basis. It is an excellent program to house video, pictures, word document, PowerPoints, and other football related files. I have worked with the guys from Watchgamefilm for several years and they have always been amazing to work with when and if an issue arises. The other nice part of this program is it sends alerts to your players when a particular file is ready for their viewing. If you are looking for an alternative to other football video sharing sites this one can't be beat for the price($99/ year)

11. Tversity-If you have a PS3 and you have your video files housed on your computer, this program will give you the ability to watch your video files on the PS3. I like this program because it is extremely easy to setup and easy to use.

Notre Dame Spring Practice

Love the quick blocking drill

HATE the STRIPES on the JERSEYS

Chicago Glazier Clinic notes done...rough draft

Here is the rough draft.
I'm looking for more information about Coach Matt Canada (OC Wisconsin).
I still haven gotten the Powerpoint from HUDL.
I may need to proof read some parts...

Chicago Glazier notes on Google docs

MISSISSIPPI STATE EMPTY CLIPS

THANKS to OZONE Offensive Consulting for sharing!

OZONE Membership Information

Proper Form for tackling

A little defense...make sure you teach form tackling first then DON'T start with this...

QB Drills

Some You Tube treasures to watch while we get our Hudl clips back up (sorry)

Unique Opportunity

Would you like access to College Teams that run the Spread Offenses?

My coaching buddy has a Bill Williams type opportunity. I took advantage of it and it is well worth the small investment!

OZone consulting

V Drill

SCAN PLUS ONE

For those of you who have purchased my manual the No Huddle Experience here is an example of Scan Plus One.

Guest Blogger Scott Grizzle QB Mentality

Quarterback Mentality

DECISIONS, DECISIONS…

By: Scott Grizzle

QB Coach, Raceland-Worthington High School, Kentucky

As a player, I was fortunate enough to work with current Louisiana Tech offensive coordinator Tony Franklin for a ten session quarterback school in Lexington Kentucky. During that time, Coach Franklin provided me with a great deal of knowledge about playing the QB position and how to approach my role as the leader of my team. Along with Coach Franklin, I have also been influenced by my high school coach, Randy Vanderhoof, and my collegiate coach, Dane Damron, who is now the offensive coordinator at Eastern Kentucky University. Through learning from these coaches and several other outstanding coaches I have developed my philosophy for coaching the quarterback position. In this article I will go into detail about the one of the many qualities I believe it takes to sustain an effective mentality for your QB.

Decision Making

There has always been heavy debate over what is the number one attribute that a good QB must possess. For me, there is no debate, that quality is decision making. Having a good decision maker under center will allow your team the chance to be successful. There are a couple key components to programing your QB to be a good decision maker. The first, getting him to understand his limitations. This is called “playing within yourself”. Not every QB has a 50 yard arm, not every QB is 6”3 and can run a 4.6 in the 40. But that doesn’t mean that they cannot be an extremely productive player. It is crucial to verbally establish these limitations with the quarterback. Coaching football is about honesty, not blowing smoke. If your QB only has a 35 yard arm, make sure he understands that and make sure he knows you have a ton of confidence in that 35 yard arm and that’s why he is your QB. This will help him play within his limits and not try to exceed them. As a coach, it is our job to tweak your offensive strategy to accommodate for these limitations. For example, everyone runs the “mesh” concept. It’s a simple high-low read. The QB reads the corner route (or post) to the play side mesh. Well, if you have a QB who isn’t capable of throwing that deep route effectively, no problem.. just tell him to read the deep route as “pre-snap” read only and if he doesn’t like it pre-snap based on corner or safety alignment then once he gets the snap, he reads directly from the mesh route combination to the play side back. This eliminates him wanting to be a “gun-slinger” and trying to throw 30 yard ball that he has no business of throwing. Instead he is reading two 7 to 10 yard mesh routes and then progressing to his play side back on a swing or shoot route. Making his reads easier and taking away the possibility of him doing something out of his element makes his decision making process much easier and effective. Thus providing him with throws he can make and that will build his confidence throughout the game and the season. Another great example of this is on the “zone-read” concept. If you have a QB with limited speed, you can still run the zone-read. As long as he understands that his job is not to EVER try and outrun that defensive end or C gap defender. If he is slow then tell him he needs to think, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE every time to the back, with the only exception being that there is an absolute commitment by the C gap defender and a clearly open running lane is present. By simply thinking GIVE every time, the pressure of making a decision goes is diminished and his job now becomes to carry out an exceptional fake every time in hopes of holding that C gap defender and gaining his respect. In this scenario the defense still must respect your QB because if they don’t and they decide to totally commit to the give, then he does have the authority to pull. This way you are taking away that voice in his head that tells him he can outrun a C gap defending if he is “partially” committed. Once again, making your QB understand his strengths and weaknesses and tweaking the offensive strategy to those strengths and weaknesses will allow him to be more productive and to limit turnovers and mistakes.

Another key concept of decision making is getting your quarterback to feel comfortable MAKING DECISIONS. It sounds simple, and it is but it is also an area that is overlooked. The way I implement this strategy is to constantly have my QB making decisions in practice. In drills, he is rarely just throwing or going through footwork. Most of the time he is throwing based on a decision making process, or using footwork based on a decision, not simply just going through a set of agility cones or a three step drop type scenario. For example, when we practice in-pocket football during our individual period, I use a drill that provides a variety of rushers and angles so that my QB has to make a decision about sliding up, stepping back, or sliding left or right in the pocket. The “point-and-slide” drill is well, pointless, if all he is doing is stepping in the direction you tell him to. He won’t do that in a game, so don’t do it in practice. Force him to slide in the pocket based on a true in-game look. Therefore always making him use his mind to make a decision about where to slide in the pocket and giving the drills you do in practice a chance to help him in a true in-game scenario. Along with incorporating a ton of decision making drills into your practice, incorporate decision making into your meetings and every day conversations. Make him get on the dry-erase board and draw your schemes, give him verbal scenarios about coverage, blitz looks, down and distance, and time management. Make him constantly make decisions and make him understand why those decisions are either good or bad. The more comfortable he gets with constant decision making during practice and meeting the more confident and comfortable he will be at making those during a game.

Lastly I want to discuss how the idea of making your QB have a “short-term” memory. This is critical because being the decision maker of the offense will inevitably lead to him making some bad decisions. When that happens he must learn from them and MOVE ON. Dwelling on past wrong decisions, bad throws, bad pre-snap reads, bad protection calls and so on will only cripple his ability to make good decisions later in the game. You must instill the “PLAY THE NEXT PLAY” mentality in your QB. Whether he makes a great play or a bone-head play, he must understand that it’s behind him and all he that matters is the NEXT offensive possession. He must take responsibility for his mistakes but not beat himself up over them, the greatest QB’s in the game make mistakes every Sunday. It’s not a game of perfection; it’s a game of improvement.

I hope that this article conveyed the importance of getting your QB to be a productive decision maker. By allowing him to fully understand his abilities and his weaknesses, by constantly putting him in decision making circumstances and by getting him to have a short term memory, you can develop a great decision making mentality in any quarterback and allow him the chance to be a productive leader for your offensive attack.

Dropbox clinic power points

I have some clinic PowerPoints from speakers in a folder on Dropbox. I can share it with you if you send me an email or direct message on Twitter.

dacoachmo@hotmail.com

@dacoachmohuddle

 

Please feel free to add any clinic power points you have collected during the clinic season. Thanks!

 

 

Chicago March Glazier Clinic Nuggets

Scott Isphording QB coach Toledo

“If your drills are getting stale then check out You Tube…you would be surprised how much is out there”

“What you see on film is either taught or tolerated”

“Don’t try and teach too much in a drill”

“45% of fumbles happen in the pocket”

Matt Canada Offensive Coordinator Wisconsin

“It doesn’t take any TALENT to give good fakes, get off the ball, and not jump offsides”

“The QB’s job is to make completions; the coach needs to make the call for a first down.”

Dave Doeren Head Coach Northern Illinois

“If you can’t lead, the follow the right people.”

“Three P’s – Prepare, Practice, Play to Win”

Frank Steele HUDL rep

“Use Punt to help sync up WIDE and TIGHT views”

“Use arrow keys for ODK instead of mouse, it is much quicker”

Harry Hiestand Offensive Line coach Notre Dame

“Run them off the ball and ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK”

“If the defense is moving around…GOOD…they aren’t moving toward the QB!”

Rick Ponx Defensive Coordinator North Central College (IL)

“Use buzz words to help technique”

“Terms like UPPERCUT and SKY the EYES help reinforce rolling the hips into a tackle”

No Huddle Radio Segment

If you get a chance check out the link to a recent radio interview that I did on John Anderson's Coacher corner radio show.

John Anderson's Coaches Corner Radio

After listening to the program if you want more information about running the no-huddle check out the manual I wrote at amazon.com

The No Huddle Experience: My Journey into the World of No-Huddle football