Mike Westhoff’s career in the NFL spanned thirty-two seasons with Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, and New Orleans Saints. He is considered to be the foremost expert on special teams in NFL.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said of Coach Westhoff, "We called Mike Westhoff the mad scientist. He changed the game."

Coach Westhoff was an innovator who was constantly figuring out new ways to develop players' individual skills and the schemes he put them in. All of it started though with him having to figure it out.

He joins us in part two of a two-part series to discuss players like Taysom Hill, finding advantages, musts for game planning, the role of assistant head coach, the future of the game, and more.

-Taysom Hill - from never dressing to getting a game ball

-Teaching - talk to them in a manner in which you see them becoming

-These students need to be “A” students and you better figure out a way to make it happen

-A job worth having is a job worth doing well

-Don't be afraid to change - Bear Bryant

-Charting punt snap locations

-Punt Block vs. the Bears

-2 things to look at when designing a game plan

-Deion Sanders

-Where are they very weak? Where are they very strong?

-Evolution as the assistant head coach

-Rex Ryan

-Four down territory

-Understanding officiating and clock management

-Dealing with fewer variables with which you can win

-The future of the game - keeping special teams in the game and exciting

Related:

Part 1 with Mike Westhoff

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/figure-it-out-mike-westhoff-retired-nfl-special-teams-coach-part-1?si=b51e4e1d97274227bb62723c127bcea5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Alex Mirabal

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/coaching-is-teaching-part-3-with-alex-mirabal-offensive-line-coach-miami

Special Teams Coach Playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/special-teams

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Mike Westhoff’s career in the NFL spanned thirty-two seasons with Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, and New Orleans Saints. He is considered to be the foremost expert on special teams in NFL.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said of Coach Westhoff, "We called Mike Westhoff the mad scientist. He changed the game."

Coach Westhoff was an innovator who was constantly figuring out new ways to develop players' individual skills and the schemes he put them in. All of it started though with him having to figure it out.

He joins us in part one of a two-part series to discuss his influences, what he learned over his career, how he developed his philosophies, and the detail he put into coaching the game.

-The influence of Don Shula

-The impact of his father and high school coach

-The opportunity of Frank Cush

-Seeing through the glasses of a coach

-The high bar set by Don Shula

-Learning the game

-How criticizing can ruin a player

-Finding a place in the game

-The role of the coach in making the game safe

-Changes in the rules - 22 plays a game down to 7

-The decrease in special teams plays in a game

-Building off a simple scheme

-Being creative

-Figuring out the philosophies of each unit

-Three parts to the game - Jimmy Johnson

-Figure out what you have

-Being aggressive and physical

-The fastest 12 minutes in football

-An exactness to everything

Twitter:

@STCoachMike

Link to book:

https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Out-Thirty-Two-Year-Revolutionizing-Footballs/dp/1637552718

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Steve Hauser, former Iowa State and Oklahoma State Special Teams Assistant is back for another week of our in-season series "Teach Tapes" where we point out where technique is good or could be better and offer tips and drills to work on these techniques.

Week 1 offered plenty of teachable moments with 26 punts blocked, 23 FG/PAT blocks/misses, and 20 muffed punts in FBS games. Only a handful happened because of being out schemed. The rest can be improved with attention to correcting technique, and Steve and Keith discuss ideas for improvement.

Shownotes:

-Statistics on week 1

-Stance on punt

-Walk up by punter and snap

-Sugar huddle example

-Punting from own end zone

-PAT/FG blocks

-Shoring up weak points - the “go at guy”

-Inside jumps - 3 over 2

-Muffed punts

-Pacman Jones

-Double bounces

-Punt catch technique coaching points

-Drills for developing a punt returner

-Musical chairs with jugs machine

-Eric Mele punt coverage drill

-Kick off/Kick Return

-Miami KOR

-K State KOR

-Alabama and Ohio State kick off

-UNC knowing when not to score

-Teachable moments “no mas”

-Excessive celebration

-Get back on the ride

Teach Tapes Clip of the Week:

https://twitter.com/TeachTapes/status/1567166261448134657

Marwan Malouf - Miami Special Teams:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/building-a-special-teams-culture-marwan-maalouf-assistant-coach-miami

Eric Mele - Mississippi State:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/special-teams-air-raid-running-backs-eric-mele-running-backs-coach-at-mississippi-state-univer

Week 0 Teach Tapes - Last Minute Prep:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/teachtapes-week-1-last-minute-prep-for-the-season

Week 1 Teach Tapes - Mayhem Moments:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/teachtapes-mayhem-moments

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USFL Michigan Panthers Defensive Coordinator Dan Carrel is back for another week of talking defense and sharing ideas to make your defense better in-season. This week we pull ideas from OSU-Michigan and Delaware-Navy.

Shownotes:

-Intsalling a pass rush lanes system

-7 possible lanes

-How to practice and game plan lanes

-OSU sims and disguise on 3rd down

-Delaware vs. Navy option offense

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Today Keith is joined on our OC Office Hour by Eric Marty, Offensive Coordinator of the USFL Michigan Panthers.

Shownotes:

-The smooth operator QB

-Attributes of a smooth operator at QB

-Getting a talented #2 ready

-Don’t know what you have until the lights come on

-Value of playing multiple QB early

-Building confidence in him as a play caller

- Help him get the ball out

-Factoring I what your OL is capable of

-QB/OL friendly concepts

-Tony DeMeo Quick/Naked

-Screens & screen and go

-Test defense’s discipline early

-Coaching the go runner

-Using unusual formations

-starting with the knowns

-Strategy of when to use unusual formations in a game

-3rd and short

-22 Personnel fly

-Creating misdirection with motion

-Mark Speckman

-Pin & Pull

-Thoughts on run game to relieve pressure on your OL early season

-2 minute

-Repping two min

-Last play snap on whistle

Eric Marty Resources:

https://bit.ly/3Bg7M1D

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Leadership Journey Next Man Up Show Notes:

This week on the leadership journey series Keith and Brian talk about the idea of the next man up. They talk about the importance of how you get there. What kind of preparation do you need for that to be true for your team? They use E+R= O (Events+Respones+Outcome) on how coaches and players are to be scaled in their possibility to be the next man up. Explaining ideas of how to give and receive feedback so the players can know where they’re at and where they need to be.

02:44 You can’t give what you don’t have

03:05 Teaching E+R=O

04:00 Coaches help level players up

05:40 You have to train like a starter every day

07:00 Use E+R=O where you are

07:45 Train what if your number never gets called

09:39 Bill Walsh contingency plans idea

11:00 There’s a team and there’s an individual

13:10 Roles must be clarified and their importance

14:45 Show your skillset

15:25 Discipline is the shortcut

18:00 You can’t be totally prepared

19:00 Getting into the mechanics of E+R=O

19:30 R factor limit

20:20 E what players are good at or need to get better at

26:20 You have your own E+R=O

28:20 Daily Discipline

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Today we have a guest joining us and our topic, in general, is safety through superior performance.

Mike Pollak was a 2nd Round NFL Draft pick out of Arizona State and played Guard and Center for 7 seasons in the NFL (Colts, Panthers & Bengals). After retiring from the NFL in 2015, Mike started his coaching career at Corona del Sol in Tempe, AZ as the Offensive Line coach and was promoted to Offensive Coordinator in 2016. Mike turned down a head coaching position to pursue this new adventure with Tip of the Spear Football in 2016. He goes around the country now teaching players of all levels this technique.

Much of what he has learned has been from Scott Peters who now is Bill Callahan’s assistant for the Cleveland Browns.

Coach Callahan and Coach Peters were speakers at the 2022 COOL CLinic and definitely impressed with their presentation on their striking system and outside zone technique.

Today we are going to talk about some ideas that are important to keep an eye on during the season as well as how safety in our game is achieved through superior performance.

Related resources and content :

Wide Zone Pendulum Strike and Pass Pro Strike System

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/wide-zone-pendulum-strike-pass-pro-strike-system-bill-callahan-and-scott-peters-cleveland-browns

Mushroom Society - Transition into the Season

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/mushroom-society-with-bob-wylie-week-0-transition-into-season

Scott Peters - Creating a Better Safer Game

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/creating-a-better-safer-game-part-1-scott-peters-assistant-ol-coach-clevland-browns

Scott Peters - What is Leverage?

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/what-is-leverage-contact-for-every-position-part-2-scott-peters-assistant-ol-coach-cleveland-browns

Tip of the Spear Football:

tipofthespearfootball.com/

Free Course - Mike Pollak - Force Deflection

https://bit.ly/3KGFL6v

Bill Callahan and Scott Peters COOL Clinic Presentation:

https://bit.ly/3q2ycgP

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Teach Tapes - Week 1 - Mayhem Moments

Coach Steve Hauser joins us for the Week 1 episode of the Teach Tapes series designed to give you tips, ideas, and adjustments focused on special teams and offense and defense. This week’s topic is “mayhem moments,” and how to create and limit them. We talk about games from the past week as examples of how to develop and limit game-changing plays.

Shownotes:

-Create or limit Mayhem

-Nebraska's onside kick scheme

-How a call like this is made

-Fake punts

-Schemed up weekly or set plan

-Using to counter deficiencies in the scheme

- ”Woody” punt fake

-Iron Bowl punt situation to end the game

- ”hiding” personnel

-Being sure the situation is right/calling it off

-Jared Goff's example

-Northwestern QB sneak

-Covering a pooch kick

-Return/Cover responsibilities and thoughts on a fair catch

- ”Clear” call by returner

-Watching the coaches on the sideline for a tell

-Florida-Miami game example

-Have a “plan B” ready

-Teach Tapes Clip of the Week: Tips and overthrows

-Simulating the real situations in practice

-Teaching things that will make a difference that is not in the play diagram

TeachTapes Clip of the Week - Tips & Overthrows:

https://twitter.com/teachtapes/status/1563693415417741313?s=12&t=XWcOxH4aMOfOwYl62DvjTQ

Related:

Week 0 - Last Minute Prep for the Season

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/teachtapes-week-1-last-minute-prep-for-the-season

Coaching the Why - Steve Hauser

User-804678956 – Special-teams-coaching-the-why-and-teach-tapes-steve-hauser-former-fbsnfl-coach

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USFL Michigan Panters Defensive Coordinator Dan Carrel is back for another week of talking defense and sharing ideas to make your defense better in-season.

Shownotes:

-Learning by observing

-Making small changes

-Tackling

-Power foot

-How do you drill tackling with limited time?

-Year round tackling plan

-Building drills

-Profile and angle tackles

-Keeping cues simple and building drills around them

-Nebraska vs. Northwestern

-Northwestern Adjustment vs. Glance RPO

-Holding disguise

-Effect on QB

-Playing against Mark Whipple - horizontal passing game

-Teaching to re-route

-Holding disguise - Fire Zone & 3 rotations

-Coaching to hold disguise properly

-Giving away disguise by cheating alignment

-Having a system for disguise

-What the offense is looking at

-The QB needs to look out there and not be sure

-Difference in coaching with USFL rules and systems

-Briles system for QB read

-Cornhuskers’ defense

-Unbalanced double posts

-Covering double posts in Quarters

-Difference in college and NFL quarters

-Curl-Dig-Post

Three tips on defending option:

1. It’s the scout team’s Super Bowl

2. Focus breakdown, viewing film and planning vs. what you run

3. Short yardage situations will win you the game

Related

Erik Chinander:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/from-the-archives-erik-chinander-defensive-coordinator-nebraska

Cody Alexander:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/defensive-trends-at-all-levels-in-2022-cody-alexander-match-quarters

Vince DiGaetano:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/coach-dig-playlist

Defense with DC Week 0:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/defense-with-dc-week-0-removing-the-unknowns

Resources:

DiGaetano Courses:

https://bit.ly/3AZJBoc

Mark Whipple Course:

https://bit.ly/3TtIrII

Cody Alexander Courses:

https://bit.ly/3cwyAB2

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Jeff Mullen joins Keith today on our weekly in-season series The OC Office Hour.

Coach Mullen is the former OC at West Virginia University and UNC-Charlotte. He served as RB the OT and TE coach at Ohio University from 1995-2000. From there he moved on to Wake Forest as OT & TE and the QB coach. At WVU he served as QB coach and OC and did the same at UNC-Charlotte. Mullen has had success at every stop in his career.

Shownotes:

-Nebraska vs. Northwestern

-Play calling anticipation

-Charting

-Identifying the type of pressure

-It’s not where they line-up it’s where they wind up

-Using empty

-12 Personnel and it’s effect on the QB

-Key in tempo - mix it up

-Developing and coaching 12 personnel

-Big personnel skelly

-Bigger personnel the easier for QB

-Creating consistency through concept set-up

-Black zone strategy

-Giving the center an out with block back

-Black zone week-to-week carryover

-4 Minute offense

-Taking timeouts on defense

-If it’s working run it again

-The sugar huddle

-Teaching the sugar huddle

-Counter - ability to save the Center

-Counter Bounce as answer to wrong arm

-Receiver learning conversions vs. taking decision off of him

-Stressing a defender by game plan

-Keeping it simple to get in a rhythm as a player caller

-Scripting openers - 15 plays

Related:

Jeff Mullen - Numbers, Angles, Grass

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/numbers-angles-and-grass-jeff-mullen-former-oc-wvu-and-unc-charlotte

Jeff Mullen - Game Planning Field Zones

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/game-planning-field-zones-jeff-mullen-former-fbs-oc

OC Office Hour Week 0

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/oc-office-hour-uptempo-qb-movement-ot-procedure-finish

Learn more from Coach Mullen:

https://coachtube.com/jeffmullen

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