Helping Football Coaches build your Program and Succeed

Champions are Built in the Weight Room, so check out these tips for better football strength training!

It’s great to come back from the winter holidays and see your guys again. Ready to get after in the weight room and start building for the next season.

But don’t waste their time. Check out these 10 football strength training tips to get more out of your weight room this off-season!

Helping Football Coaches build your Program and Succeed

Your football team’s defensive playbook just didn’t get the job done last season. Is it time for a change?

I’ve been spending a lot of time focusing on the reasons you should NOT change your defensive playbook. Way too many coaches jumping from shiny object to shiny object.

But there are reasons why you SHOULD make a change. Remember, only a Sith deal in absolutes. 

This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast shares the 8 reasons why you might want to change that defensive playbook for the 2020 season… and hopefully for the last time!

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The Wishbone Offense might not be as popular as it once was. But we can still learn a lot from a 1970s Arkansas Playbook.

Download the Arkansas Wishbone Offense Playbook

The Miami 4-3 Defense was originally developed to shut down the Wishbone Offense that Barry Switzer was running at Oklahoma in the 1980s. But we’re going to go a little further back. 

Today’s playbook breakdown is on the 1970s Arkansas Wishbone Offense. It’s a really well laid out playbook from the Lou Holtz era (that’s the claim anyway). Plenty to learn from any football coach, whether you run the Option or not!

Show Links

• Download the Arkansas Wishbone Offense Playbook
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Quarters Coverage is the perfect fit for your 4-3 Defense. But you can’t let Pattern Matching slow your defense down.

Quarters Coverage can mean a lot of things to a lot of different coaches. Cover 4? 2-Read? Palms? Hey who knows… but here’s how we do Quarters Coverage as of now, in 2019. 

A lot has changed over the last 12 years since I started running Quarters Coverage. It’s a pattern match coverage that requires you to have some pretty good Safeties. But if you’ve got the horses, and the time to teach it… this is a great way to coach a winning football defense!

Check out the episode for an in-depth look at updating Quarters Coverage for the 2020 Season.

Show Links

• Get the 4-3 Defense Video Series here: http://joedanielfootball.com/43videos
• Learn the Umbrella Principle, the most important concept I’ve learned for defense
• Fritz Shurmur’s Coaching Team Defense at https://amzn.to/2Z0DEmf, for which I wrote the foreword.
• My interview with Shap Boyd, author of Quarters Coverage Made Simple from several years back is at https://joedanielfootball.com/shapboyd/. 
• The original Quarters Coverage Made Simple that I learned the 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage system from  is at https://coacheschoice.com/quarters-coverage-made-simple/
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Helping Football Coaches build your Program and Succeed

Let’s get outside the box for leveling up your football team’s off-season in a new way. Coach McKie joins us on this episode!

Coach McKie from The Talking Football podcast and the Football Coaching Podcast Network joins the show as we run down our Top 5 Ways to Level Up Your Football Program. This is a little more ‘out of the box’ thinking on ways to make your team better this off-season.

You’re going to get some tricks that we’ve used throughout our coaching careers, plus some ideas we’ve taken from other walks of life to apply to coaching. This is a good one!

Show Links

• Check out Coach McKie’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/rsmckie
• The best strength training program I’ve ever used is available at http://joedanielfootball.com/weightroom.
• For your speed program, Dale Baskett is at godfatherofspeed.com.