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A few years ago I was interested in using a Go Pro camera. Lucky for me I was able to buy a used one for pretty cheap. It definitely is an interesting perspective and can help with Oline play as well. I may have to invest in  updated one with remote for easier of editing. 

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Using One Word Calls in the Tempo Offense by Coach Banks

Coaches, ask me on twitter from time to time, how do you speed up or do meaningful "check with me" for your offense during the game and/or during practice. One thing that helps in a tempo offense, whether you are full speed No-Huddle or you are no-Huddle and then scan the field is one word calls. The question then is how and when do you use the calls. Here is a brief over view of how we use the calls. We basically take 5 calls into the game, each week and we decide as a staff on Sunday in the manner they will be used.

HAWKS – This is our base run game call. 3rd/4th and short, Inside the 5 on 1st down trying to catch the defense off guard, sometimes off an explosive play to get tempo. It is normally a call like Doubles zone with a comet screen,  i.e., jet motion to trips; zone with a bubble. This sort of play we love on 4th and 1, we usually decide as a staff if we don’t convert this third down we are going for it and already know we are calling Hawks. 

HORNETS – This is usually a pass play that includes a motion and a shift. This is a base pass play you run, like y cross, sail etc.. Find a way to shift and then motion a player and run it. We usually call this play 2 or 3 times max a game.  We catch the defense off guard with something they have not been expecting or have not seen before. Have fun with this one!

BULLET – Is a play we run a lot and we know the defense is expecting it when they see a certain formation. If you are worried that defense might know a signal or a look and can run a play as a 2 way go, call BULLET. Your team knows you are either running zone to the left with a bubble or if you call flip zone to the right with a bubble. Something basic in your offense. Tempo play, no signals involved and gives you a chance to scan the defense and find numbers while not having to go through signals again to change the play. 

BULL – This call is similar to BULLET in that is a check with me play, however The formation stays the same and the run call or blocking is the same, but the pass routes can change. So you can call Trips Right Y Cross unless you say Flip Then it becomes Trips Right Sail. A way run 2 of your preferred pass routes that week against the look you deem best.

COWBOY – Is the last One Word Call and it is not a play. It is a formation. Got a formation that you don’t use often and you want to use it for just this week. We make this our Cowboy call, Unbalanced, double TEs, etc.. Something the kids know when they hear it to line up in it. For us in the playoffs, it was 2 TE Trips. We didn’t normally run this formation but when we did in the playoffs, we put certain kids in at TE that we thought gave us an advantage. 

This is how we used one word calls in our offense.

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As I finish up my review of his eBook....
(Actually debating on whether I include a clip of the movie SCANNERS)

Here are some great articles. Coach really cranks them out!

ONE WORD PLAYS

FOUR VERTS

SPACING

QB MANUAL

WING IT

RETENTION LEARNING 

ONE WEEK until SPREAD FOOTBALL clinic

WHEN: March 10. (SUNDAY)
TIME: 9am-12 (REMEMBER DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME)
Crete Monee High School IL
20.00 per coach
SPOTS ARE LIMITED!
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We will film it AND might try to LIVE STREAM IT!!

SUNDAY MORNING slot fit our (family) Schedules the best!

LOOK and LISTEN

I have always struggled with how to practice No-huddle...Use signals or Codes that the defense starts to learn and cheat (bad defense,bad!). Last week I started to channel my inner ADD. What if I called a code and some signals at the same time? So I would sugar huddle the Offense and tell them "DOUBLES...Listen to me" BREAK.  I would yell our code for ALL HITCH and signal ALL GO. Then WRs run ALL GO...perfect.
"DOUBLES...Look at me" BREAK. I would yell our code for Y Stick and signal Y Cross.
Then the WRs run Y Cross...bingo.

The WRs have picked it up and now the defense can't cheat!

I helped out our young WR group for TRIPS formation...the question always being what does #3 do now, coach?
"TRIPS...ONE and TWO listen to ME, THREE Look at me"
I yell the concept for #1 and #2 WRs and signal #3.

I have started to expand it a bit today and had another assistant stand next to me. We would sugar huddle and I would make the call
"Listen to Me"
"Look at Me"
"Listen to Coach"
"Look at Coach"

Now the next challenge, how to indicate who/what is live and what is dummy during a game!

The wait is over...

2012 ND clinic notes

Thanks to Kyle Mc from Ohio for filling in some blanks!

Coming Soon...

I asked Coach Chuck Martin "What is your favorite concept?"
He was excited to answer this question (that was not about fundamentals).

Coaching Abroad

Knowing that my co-author already has done this, I am now interesting in traveling across the ocean and offering my services for a week this Summer. First week of July and/or the last week in July.
Some of the services would include

• Clinic for coaches.
• Coaching players.
• Installing an offense.

Let me know if there would be any interest.

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NO Huddle to conserve energy

I wrote this a while back on Coachhuey.com

I picked up my copy of Coach today and ran across the aforementioned article. The author Chris Metcalf discusses the benefit to running a no huddle based upon saving your quarterbacks legs throughout an athletic contest.
He took the average distance a quarterback would have to travel from the has to the sideline and back again throughout a game. He also added the distance a quarterback would have to travel to the LOS throughout a game and came up with some staggering results.

If a qb runs to the sidelines 40 times per game the qb will have traveled .93 miles during the game.

If a qb runs to the sideline 50 times per game the qb will have traveled 1.16 miles during the game.

If a qb runs to the sideline 60 times per game the qb will have traveled 1.40 miles during the game.

If a qb runs to the sideline 70 times per game the qb will have traveled 1.63 miles during the game.

If a qb runs to the sideline 80 times per game the qb will have traveled 1.86 miles during the game.

After I read this I ironically received an email from a colleague of mine who was discussing the merits of proper foot attire for a football player. In is his email, he told me that for every step you take when you are running the impact on your legs is 3 to 6 times the amount of your body weight. This point got me thinking about if we asked our qb to run to the sideline 40 times during the game what the actual poundage his legs would take throughout the contest.

In order to this I needed to find out the average number of steps it would take a person with a three foot stride to complete one mile of running. Through my research I found the average number of steps is 1,760 for one mile of running. I then decided to take the mean of 3 to 6 times a person body weight in order to calculate the poundage. And lastly I decided to use 170 lbs as the average weight of a quarterback who would be running back and forth to the sidelines to get a play from the OC.

Formula
1,760 steps in a mile
4.5 times a persons body weight per stride
170 lbs Average weight of a qb

170 x 4.5= 765 lbs per step
765x1,760=1,346,400 Total poundage exerted on body

Think about the total damage you putting your qbs body throughout a game if you are not incorporating the no huddle into your attack.