How to Defend the Iso Run Play

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The Iso Play is probably one of the most popular and common running plays in football. It’s a power running game coming straight at you. One of most frustrating things is that if you can’t stop it, most of the time the opponents keep running it, keep running it, keep running.

We are going to have the iso of play against the 4-3 defense here. With the Iso play we changed some of the things that we did with the iso in the past. Even if you look in our 4-3 eBook I’m going to show some different things that we’re doing now in defending the Iso play. But a long time ago we defended the iso plays.

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How to Be Smart in a World of Dumb Football Coaches

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Football coaches spend countless hours every off-season working on our schemes. We buy books, DVDs, clinic passes, and anything else we think might help us win.

Then there are the staff meetings where coaches hammer out every detail. One guy plays Devil’s Advocate for a half hour on some minute detail that probably will never come up. But when the meetings are over, the weather starts to turn warmer, and Spring finally arrives – many of us have a playbook to be proud of.And then the season gets here. And we get stupid. [Read more...]

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5 Football Coaching Phrases We Don’t Say Enough

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“You gotta wrap up!”

“The low man wins!”

“Be an Athlete!”

“Catch the #^*%ing BALL!”

We have a lot of thing say. By the time our kids have been playing for a couple of years, they are immune to this sort of thing. They will listen to coaching, of course. But none of the things coaches seem to yell the most are really “coaching.”And we know that. We know that “CATCH THE BALL!” does not actually help the kid catch the ball. We know how ridiculous “BE AN ATHLETE!” sounds. If he wasn’t an athlete, he would not be out there. And if he was the athlete we wished he was, we would have no reason to yell ridiculous crap at him all the time. [Read more...]

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Football-Defense Mailbag #3

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Before the questions…

As I mentioned to our subscribers today, our staff has made the switch to Hudl for our video editing. While we are working on the Trial period right now, we are nearing the end of our first 30 Days and love it. Not only can the entire staff help break down film (before, we had three computers that could be used for breakdown – now anyone can do it from anywhere), but the kids can watch the film at home. We can even telestrate, add notes, and narrate a play and then notify the kids who need to see it by e-mail.Hudl has a lot of options, right now we’re looking at the lowest package, and it seems like it will fit our needs just fine. There are also packages for Youth coaches as well. If you want to give Hudl a try you can get a 30 Day free trial at Hudl.com, and if you use the Promo Code: joedaniel you’ll get 10% off when you make your purchase. [Read more...]

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The 10 Pieces of Coaching Equipment You Need to Buy

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The new football season is almost upon us. Whether you have already started or still have some time, you need to make sure you have the right equipment.

This is not about fashion, but instead functionality. Do you have enough cones for drills? Did you chew your whistle up last year? Are you prepared to spend hours out in the blistering hot sun?Lets take a look at some (affordable) necessities for the 2011 football season. [Read more...]

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