On this episode of our in season series "In the NZone" with Coach Noel Mazzone we discuss some of the big games from that past week and what we can take away from them.

Today we focus on:

-Creating space for shot plays

-Using motion and building a game plan

-Defensive stems and movement

-Plays protecting plays

-Two point decisions and installing and planning two point plays

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On this week's installment of our Adjustment Series we focus on creating and taking away big plays in all phases of the game and ways to practice in that regard.

Offense:

Isolating receivers plus creating field space

Carrying out fakes

Find work to spring someone for a touchdown.

Defense:

5 yard fence technique for counter, reverse, naked

Changing angles of pursuit in a play

Taking away space in the secondary

Special teams:

-3 whistle kick return drill

-2 whistle kick off drill

Related:

5 yard fence:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/woody-hayes-5-yard-fence-rule-for-better-run-fits?si=9ed5a2036e9e48d4a17d24dbf527401a

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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. Provide positive feedback

2. Teach them to provide feedback to their teammates

3. Teach them to call out a teammate when effort isn’t given

4. Deliberate practice

5. Positive environment on game-day

6. Let your players know they’re prepared

7. Coach Chuck Kyle’s thoughts on the pregame speech

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Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, The Game Plan, features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. He’s served as the Chicago Bears offensive coordinator as well as quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coaches and teams once the season begins. Today’s focus will be on how to approach the last part of the season.

Show notes

-How to approach the last quarter of the season

-Going back to old material

-Maintaining focus

-Determining when to practice without gear

-Tony Dungy's Practice Smart course

-Keeping the mental edge

-Changing the coaching staff routine

-Discuss film with the whole staff

-How to boost team morale

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Coach DJ Eliot joins us on the first episode of our Defensive Series. Coach Eliot has 20+ years of coaching experience in the collegiate rankings.

Coach Eliot’s pedigree includes coaching stops at Kansas, Florida State, Miami, Colorado and Kentucky, as well as time with proven winners and program builders Jimbo Fisher and Mark Stoops. Additionally, Coach Eliot is among a select group of defensive thought-leaders that regularly clinic around the principles of the 3-4 defense.

Today we talk about:

-The Evolution of Georgia and Alabama Defenses

-The Dave Aranda/Vic Fangio tree

-Stems, how to do them , calling them, practicing them

-Creepers and common offensive answers

-Suggestions for offenses on how to best handle creepers

-RPO and how a defensive coordinator looks at them

-Complimentary football between offense and defense

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Ohio high school football coaching veteran Mark Solis is today’s guest on the Coach and Coordinator podcast. Now the head coach at Olentangy High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, Solis sits down with host Keith Grabowski to discuss maintaining a work-life balance for his coaching staff. He also breaks down his philosophy behind building a Football Operations team.

Show notes

- Weight room philosophy during the season

- Giving the coaching staff weekends off

- Continuity is important in building a successful program

- Building a football operations team

- The winning edge

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On this week's edition of our Adjustments Series we focus on how to stress an opponent in multiple ways.

The strategy discussed will be explained from both an offensive and defensive perspective.

Offense:

-Stressing a single defender

-Expand and contract formation philosophy

-Unusual fomartions

Defense:

-Stressing a line

-Bringing pressure from unexpected places

-Stemming the front

Special teams:

-Adding reverse at teams that place the ball consistently on their kicks

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Mike Rowe is today’s guest on the Coach and Coordinator podcast. A college football assistant-turned high school head coach, Rowe currently serves as the head coach at ROCORI High School in Minnesota, where he’s earned a berth to the state playoffs each of the last three seasons. Rowe opens up about character, pregame speeches and adding trick plays in today’s podcast.

Show notes

-Teaching character throughout the season

-Players response to character building

- Tying character into game day

-Rowe’s pregame speech philosophy

-Creating competition during practice

-Taking pressure off the team

-Halftime adjustments

-Adding trick plays

Coach Rocori on CoachTube:

https://bit.ly/3oom6Pz

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Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, The Game Plan, features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. He’s served as the Chicago Bears offensive coordinator as well as quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coaches and teams once the season begins. Today’s focus will be on how to handle distractions that occur during the season.

-Dealing with the media

-Setting media rules for players

-Initiating contact with the media

-Handling Homecoming week events

-Rivalry games

-What to do when a key player gets injured

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On today's episode of the Coach and Coordinator podcast, Mike Emendorfer joins the show. Emendorfer is the head coach at Wisconsin-Platteville, where he's coached for the past 19 years, breaking numerous offensive records in the process. Emendorfer's teams at Wisconsin-Platteville routinely appear in national rankings and he's taken home Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors twice.

Show notes

-How Emendorfer adds wrinkles to the game-plan

-Creativity sparked by opponents’ film

- Weighing pros and cons when adding concepts to playbook

- Method for beginning a game

-Breaking down game-day communication

-Keeping simple concepts

-Changes made in practice throughout the season

-How to mentally prepare players

-The winning edge

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