On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by founder of dailydiscipline.com and former CEO of Focus 3 Brian Kight. Having been on the show previously for the “Leadership Journey” series, Kight rejoins the show to speak on how principle and style differentiate in conflict.

4:05 The difference between principle and style

12:15 How styles can contradict each other

17:35 Overcoming attachment to your own style

25:00 When you attack someone else’s style

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This is the weekly breakdown of USA Football's Coach and Coordinator Podcast Series by Keith Grabowski. These short clips highlight snippets of what the episodes from the week feature and the different guests on the show.

Highlights from this week on Coach and Coordinator:

Leadership Journey Week 5 - Developing Leaders in-season

The Edge Week - Improving your tackling in-season

Trends Day - 4 strong passing, Unbalanced & tempo, 2nd level screens, coffee house stunt, time

Deliberate Practice 5 - Preparing for the Dude

Friday Reflection: Making sure your culture is executed in practice to get game day outcomes

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On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, our host Keith Grabowski takes an article from friend of the show Rob Pomazak and details how you review your week of practice. Pomazak is the head coach at St. Charles North High School (Illinois) and is a perennial state playoff contender. Prior to coming to St. Charles, Pomazak spent 10 seasons at Elk Gove High School (Illinois), including the last two years as the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach.

1:05 Reviewing the week at Coach and Coordinator

5:51 Rob Pomazak’s article

6:54 Keeping the foundation consistent

8:03 Unit leaders instead of assistant coaches

9:04 Overall belief, behavior, and outcome in practices

14:34 Evaluation, modification, remediation

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Today’s guest on the Coach and Coordinator podcast is Andy Ryland, senior manager in education and training at USA Football. While working at USA Football, he has helpeddevelop the Heads Up Football and Master Trainer programs as well as worked in improving tackling techniques. Before coming to USA Football, Ryland spent time playing for the USA Men’s National Rugby team. He played linebacker in college at Penn State University.Ryland and host Keith Grabowski discuss preparing for the opposing team’s “dude” in practice.

3:07 Coach Grabowski’s first coaching experience against a dude

4:55 Preparing a tackling plan

7:44 Level two tackles

9:35 Making individual period not stagnant

12:15 Different positions working together

19:40 Using the special team’s period

21:12 Different body types you’ll run into

23:55 Manipulating the scout team

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For today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by Charlie Coiner, former NFL coach and founder of FirstDown PlayBook, and Zach Dunn, content coordinator at USA Football, to continue the “Trends-Day” series. The trio continues to analyze different plays and concepts throughout the collegiate and professional landscape so you may add them to your playbook.

1:05 Four strong concepts

6:53 Auburn’s use of the unbalanced formation

12:15 Getting receivers downfield to block defenders for a lower route

20:22 Second-level screens on third down

22:35 The coffeehouse stunt

26:25 Time management

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Every team and coach is trying to gain an edge over their opponents. Rob Everett, formerly the tight ends coach of the AAF’s Memphis Express and defensive coordinator at Bridgewater (Va.) College, joins host Keith Grabowski on today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast for The Edge series to share his philosophies and ideas to give your team that edge. In today’s episode, Everett and Grabowski discuss evaluating your teams tackling capabilities.

1:40 Understanding of the analytics of the tackle

5:40 Starting to evaluate the tackle

8:25 Yards after contact

14:55 Evaluating the primary tackles

17:05 Handling the five fights

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Brian Kight will be joining the Coach and Coordinator podcast for the Leadership Journey series. Kight and our host Keith Grabowski, will share ways coaches can change their mindsets and improve as leaders. On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, our host Keith Grabowski is joined by founder of dailydiscipline.com and former CEO of Focus 3, Brian Kight. Having been on the show previously for the Leadership Journey series, Kight rejoins the show to speak on developing leadership within your team during the season.

0:40 In-season versus off-season leadership

3:20 Learning by doing instead of observing

7:02 In-season availability to improve leadership

9:25 How are coaches giving leadership reps

10:40 Why does a leader exist

15:30 Giving young players bits of leadership experience

19:00 Leading = Responsibility

25:50 Weight of responsibility

32:20 Players being vocal

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This is the weekly breakdown of USA Football's Coach and Coordinator Podcast Series by Keith Grabowski. These short clips highlight snippets of what the episodes from the week feature and the different guests on the show.

Highlights from this week on Coach and Coordinator:

Leadership Journey with Brian Kight Week 4 - Player led team vs coach led

The Edge Week 4 - Handling the bye week

Trends Day 5: Under center O, mesh variations and pick plays, perimeter attack, power read variation

Deliberate Practice Week 4 - Teaching Players to take advantage of opportunity

Building Game Day Confidence

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For this episode of the Coach and Coordinator podcast, our host Keith Grabowski details several ways for you to instill game-day confidence into your players. We also pulled audio from a previous podcast with Coach Chuck Kyle for his thoughts onpregame speeches.

1:02 Provide positive feedback

1:53 Teach them to provide feedback to their teammates

2:57 Teach them to call out a teammate when effort isn’t given

3:28 Deliberate practice

4:24 Positive environment on game-day

5:33 Let your players know they’re prepared

6:34 Coach Chuck Kyle’s thoughts on the pregame speech

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Today’s guest on the USA Football Coach and Coordinator podcast is Andy Ryland, senior manager in education and training at USA Football. While working at USA Football, he has helped develop the Heads Up Football and Master Trainer programs aswell as worked in improving tackling techniques. Before coming to USA Football, Rylandspent time playing for the USA Men’s National Rugby team. He played linebacker in college at Penn State University.Ryland and host Keith Grabowski discuss taking advantage of opportunities in multiple scenarios on the field.

1:50 Offensive opportunities

5:40 Communicating with the scout team to improve

9:50 Defensive opportunities

15:08 Set up of the defensive drill

20:46 Drills for special teams

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