Football practice is the only time of the day that some of your players are going to think about football, so you better make the best of it. With the increase of items to steal our attention, i.e. Social Media, we now have to compete against shortened attention spans too, which means we’d better be efficient when we lace ‘em up throughout the week. 

On this episode we discuss how to organize your practice plan to get the most out of your coaches, your players, and still get fundamentals and situational work in throughout the week.

What goes into your practice organization?

• Individual - thinking of skills not players
• POD Work - putting groups together by concepts
• Group - 7-on-7 / Inside Run
• Team - All 3rd Down, time management and field zone - teach simulations

What makes a good drill?

• Build a drill book - teach the why
• Feed the Cats - move your full speed drills to an early point of practice, or allow maximum recovery
• How does this show up in a game

What is POD work?

• Putting the player with the coach that can teach the skill
  • Down blocking Y’s and H’s can spend time with the OL coach to learn the proper technique
• Force a common language on offense, every coach must speak the same words
• Cohesion of staff by cross training players

How are you managing Team practice?

• How do you communicate plays
• How game-like can we make this
• How structured does it need to be, without being too structured
• Finish with a scenario (not just on Thursday)

What NOT to do as a Coach

• Today’s Lesson: “Run drills because you see them on twitter:”

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