Today's guest on the podcast is Eddy Morrissey, Offensive Line Coach at Marshall. Coach Morrissey shares his teaching concept of using the meeting room as the lab and getting players to feel the fundamentals. He explains the lifestyle of "Five Strong" and shares how he sets up drills and evaluates players.

Shownotes:

-Started with idea of being a HS coach\

-Don Brown hired as HC at Plymouth

-A desire to mentor and teach

-Learning from mentors - accountability

-Being honest

-You have to be able to feel the fundamentals

-Efficiently coaching through technology

-Turn the film room into a lab

-Repetition - teaching players to feel the fundamentals

-Breaking it down in the meeting

-Making meetings interactive

-Maximizing space for demo/interactive

-It’s great if you know it but you are judged on whether your players know it

-Evaluating players - practice and game

-What he looks for in an OL

-Twitch and mentality

-What he looks for in a prospect

-Mindset - coaching it

-Demand without being demeaning

-5 strong as a way of life

-A teacher is a leader

-You can’t demand respect

-Hard coaching

-What makes a good drill?

-Using walk through

-Consistent drills - film should bring it back to the drills

-Coaching cues and understanding which to use

-Each guys is a little different - EDD plus language focus make it prescriptive

-The winning edge - Five Strong

Twitter:

@CoachEMorrissey

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Coaching Is Teaching - Part 1 With Alex Mirabal, Offensive Line Coach, Miami

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/coaching-is-teaching-part-1-with-alex-mirabal-offensive-line-coach-miami

Coaching Is Teaching - Part 2 With Alex Mirabal, Offensive Line Coach, Miami

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Coaching Is Teaching - Part 1 With Alex Mirabal, Offensive Line Coach, Miami

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