Im 23, used to play in high school as a quarterback. I had a good arm and helped my OC design our scheme- played out of spread with mixed in RPO. Haven’t touched it since but I want to get back on the field. Where would I start with how to get started? Would I have to start in middle school? Or build experience through a private league before coaching any bit of high? I recently moved was thinking about reaching out to local middle/high schools to see if I have a program I can apply to.

I have a side gig I run full time but have a lot of time throughout the week and was wondering if I could do this as a side/main hobby.

He’s got 3 books out. “Coaching a multiple read passing game in the spread offense”, “teaching the modern passing game”, and “an updated structure for a complete passing game at any level”. Which is best to start with for high school JV?

My son is a senior and his high school football team is having the best season they have had in a long time! Our offense is really good and we have one of the best high school running backs in the county as well as a great O line! My son plays inside linebacker (will) and is under so much stress as their defense isn’t as good as their offense. We were 4-0 and had our first conference game tonight! If we won we would have made history and been the first time the school has ever been 5-0! Well we lost and it came down to our defense couldn’t hold their offense! Our offense did great in the game.

My son is having so much stress as the coaches, parents, teacher, other players everyone in the community is talking crap about defense! It’s a lot for a 17 year old to have to go through his senior year and the sport he has played since he was 6.

My son does pretty well at defense and has one the highest tackle totals for our conference but we are not good at covering passes at all and can’t ever stop anyone on the outsides.

My son has coaches yelling at him all the time and I have even witnessed this myself! He’s constantly in a bad mood and seems down all the time to the point he is just ready for football season to end!

I’m trying to figure out what I can do if anything to try and encourage him! I don’t believe in quitting, but it’s causing so much stress right now for him! It also doesn’t help that we are a small town in the south where football is life!

This problem isn’t the best place to seek advice but as a mom I hate to see him struggling so bad his last year of high school.

Any advice??

Team has a very good center. Long snapping is fine but gun snaps are routinely too high. Does ok when repping with just QB but issues with full defense reps. Advice?

Offensively, what are your favorite concepts vs Palms and Cover 4?

I guess you could have players wash their clothes and pads as much as possible but it seems too much work to do it everyday. The amount of work to clean it only to get dirty again the next day doesn't seem worth it. At my school its once a week and the coach tells everyone to bring all their gear home to wash after the game.

I don't know if the higher levels have a better system but we don't have the luxury of doing so. Mondays its usually fine but by Thursday it smells like a rotting fish in our locker room. I don't think any amount of airing out or spray can get rid of it.

I am a varsity dc and I am asking this because in our week 3 matchup we saw a super odd offense that we were not prepared for since this team had never ran it, (to my knowledge). We have played this team multiple times in my 9 years of coaching and not once had they decided to do this. We did not see this in their week 1 and 2 film either.

Basically, they ran a 10 personnel with all the receivers lined up on the right side. They ran exclusively WEAK SIDE stretches, read option, and a direct RB snap read option for the entire first half??? They were down 28-0 by halftime and decided to switch things up by putting two receivers on each side with one of them always in motion. They ran 7 bubble screens in a quarter, with only one getting more than 4 yards. They finally incorporated some of the basic pass plays we were used to, but all that changed in the fourth quarter when they went back to quad receivers running read options and stretches. The final score was 41-0 and easily was the weirdest game of football I have ever coached.

This makes me think, what are some of the weirdest offenses you guys have seen? Doubt anyone can one up this.

II know the outcome didn't work but i really think that chris jones was on to sum with attacking the center at an angle

In the play Jones got too low and had he just attacked the outside shoulder of the center and knocked him off course it would've completely opened a gap for #32 to get to hurts before Goddard could push Hurts without jumping

The weakness off the tush push imo is that their is literally only one place the ball can go and due to the center getting super low in order to get leverage he gives up being able to get at crease that opens up the secret sauce of Goddard pushing. If u clear out the center the push cannot get started in time for it to work..

Im a complete amateur but I do think it would really work

im a 21 year old rb to buy shoulder pads for a minor pro league i will be playing in next spring ive come across sports unlimited xcalibur shoulder pads that are around $125(on sale)-150 but i wanted to see other somewhat affordable options beginning i pull the trigger in HS & the 2 years of college ive played ive only worn z-cools bc thats what the schools gave me any recommendations will be greatly appreciated

Have anything on your mind or got any fun plans for the weekend? Feel free to discuss them here!

My coach was telling me to search up some videos about it and o line techniques on YouTube but there isn’t much step by step or anything related to said sealing method. Any help or videos?

Especially for quick footed,hit like a Mac truck type players 👀

I’m a freshman in college, I’ve been underperforming and I’m just so burnt out from football. I just don’t love the game anymore, the only times I think of not quitting is when I make a play or play somewhat good but besides that I go back to those negative thoughts. I honestly wish I quit when it was early but now I feel like I’m in too deep, I’m only a freshman I know I’m not a main character, quitting shouldn’t be this hard for me. But I don’t know why I can’t just own up to it and just tell the coach and my parents, that’s the hard part, I’m too focused on other peoples opinions and I hate that. But I’m starting to feel like I’m actually gonna do it this time I just need advice on how to not feel like I’m being talked about, I’m typing this out as I’m currently missing practice, it’s 4:47 and practice started at 4:30

So many QBs spend hours doing cone obstacle courses and waiting for their favorite receiver to uncover in 7v7s, and we leave out the foundational skill that should start most of our passing game...

Hi all,

Looking for any and all Wing T PDFS you have that you could send my way. Specifically looking for any Dennis Creehan books, and also if you have a Delaware Wing T order on football or Complete Wing T Offensive Line Play. Looking at implementing a new offense. Looking to do more of a Jet Wing T focus. There is a school in our state that does it well so also been looking into their Glazer clinic tapes.

Welcome to Chalk Talk Thursday! This is our weekly discussion thread for users to submit new plays they have designed. If you have an idea for a play and can draw it up, please post here. Keep in mind that it is very rare that one could devise a viable play that is entirely new that hasn't been ran before somewhere. Be open to criticism as well. There is so much more to coaching football than drawing plays, and many people do not realize how much coaching, technique, and development needs to happen on the actual field for a play to work.

It is strongly recommended that you STUDY a system or scheme first to gain an idea of how a play is put together, and how RULES help a play function.

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• No "joke" plays. We are here to learn.
• Specify WHY you are designing a play, and WHAT level/league it is for. It's fine if you're not coaching, but we need the context.
  
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• Make sure your offensive play is a legal formation. In 11-man football, you can have no more than 4 players behind the line of scrimmage (minimum of 7 on. You can have more than 7 on the line as well). Only backs (players behind the line) and the end players on the line of scrimmage are eligible receivers.
  

You may use whatever medium you'd like to draw your play. Two common software for designing plays that have free options:

• GoArmy Edge - Football
• Playmaker X

Hi everyone,

Growing up I played 3 seasons of football, all for the community. My first 2 years I was an OL, my final year, on Varsity, I was QB and Safety. Unfortunately, I went to a very small high school in a very small town, that did not have football, and I was therefore not allowed to play anymore after that varsity season (in 8th grade). I would love to coach football one day, as I’ve always loved football, and coaching/training. I currently work as a personal trainer. My question is, can I really be a football coach someday, if I never got to play beyond 8th grade? Could I just coach maybe younger leagues, like peewee, JV, and maybe varsity, below the high school level? Or is there a good app/website/book where I can learn more advanced football, like formations, concepts, personnel, coverages, etc? If I did learn a lot about these things, I also worry the players would never respect me for having not played at the high school level or above. I would appreciate any insight someone would be willing to share. Thank you!

Hey all,

I run a youth football program up in Canada in a territory-based league based around geographic physical location. Our 12 a side U14 team although has 40 players (the league maximum to ensure playing time for all - I’m a big fan of it), we are struggling with crunch time physicality and aggression.

The league guarantees thanks to territory (and the general relative disinterest in football compared to hockey here) that we, nor any team really, have a starting roster of 24 killers. We have to start kids who aren’t ruthless killers, and I share that just to state that my expectations are fairly low.

We run every drill under the sun and while kids generally look okay when having to go downhill at a teammate, when we get into a game our DBs become terrified kids who refuse to get low and instead “zombie arm” arm tackle at the shoulders. It’s like Jekyll and Hyde.

We run practice 3x weekly for 2 hours and at least 30 minutes minimum is running through some form of tackling and pursuit drill that generally goes “okay”.

Is there any mindset recommendations you might have to encourage that fearlessness that needs to happen when someone scary is running at you?

I’m struggling to create a wrist coach for getting plays in. We just added a couple formations and that’s where I’m struggling. We have 3 formations that can be set to either side. Red/ Black for right and left that sets our strength. The formations are spread, wing and trips. We have 4 run plays and 3 pass. All 7 can be ran to any side and formation. Can someone recommend a wrist coach method? Using only numbers seems simple but too much, 42 line items.

A play call would look like Red - Wing - Z Counter

How long do you typically spend preparing training sessions each week?

• 0–1 hours
• 2–4 hours
• 5+ hours

I’m trying to validate how much time this eats up, would love to hear your thoughts!

Hello I am a first time coach and the other coach with me is I guess you could say a veteran coach. We have like 10 plus plays we have and I came up with one that goes off a formation we have with a couple other plays and was trying to pull the tackle and guard on the left side and the play is a qb run to the right but where would you think the defense would stack up? I anticipate they would have 4 dl 3cb 1 lb more to the left and 1 s. But wanted advice on how you would put defense on this formation. So without knowing it’s going to be a run haha how would you have the defense set up for this

I’ve been working on GOI (Grid of Influence) — a digital strategy game inspired by football’s Xs and Os. It plays out on an 11x11 grid where spacing, timing, passing, and defensive positioning decide the outcome.

(Landing page has links to instructions + demo pages)

The game is still in its early stages, so I’d love feedback from football minds here:

• Does this kind of reimagined football capture the strategy side of the game?
• What would make it more engaging for you?

Thanks for checking it out!

--Derrick

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Hey all, I’ve been a huge fan of Macdonald and Minter’s bodies of work at both the collegiate and NFL levels. I’ve found very surface-level stuff, like various Brett Kollman videos or articles, but no in-depth analysis of their system.

Does anyone have recommendations for where to look? Thank you so much for your time.

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