Coach and Coordinator Podcast

For today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by Charlie Coiner, former NFL coach and founder of FirstDown PlayBook, and Zach Dunn, content coordinator at USA Football, to continue the “Trends-Day” series. The trio continues to analyze different plays and concepts throughout the collegiate and professional landscape so you may add them to your playbook. 1:05 Four strong concepts 6:53 Auburn’s use of the unbalanced formation 12:15 Getting receivers downfield to block defenders for a lower route 20:22 Second-level screens on third down 22:35 The coffeehouse stunt 26:25 Time management Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-5-under-center-o-mesh-variations-and-pick-plays-perimeter-attack-power-read-variation https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-4-unbalanced-and-2nd-level-screens-bunch-formations-sprintout-and-simulated-blitz https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-week-3-unbalanced-answers-for-the-tite-front-sprint-out-and-ideas-from-broken-plays https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-stressing-the-de-wr-screen-variation-pin-pull-rpo-delay-blitz https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-series-early-game-play-calling-for-qb-success

Every team and coach is trying to gain an edge over their opponents. Rob Everett, formerly the tight ends coach of the AAF’s Memphis Express and defensive coordinator at Bridgewater (Va.) College, joins host Keith Grabowski on today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast for The Edge series to share his philosophies and ideas to give your team that edge. In today’s episode, Everett and Grabowski discuss evaluating your teams tackling capabilities. 1:40 Understanding of the analytics of the tackle 5:40 Starting to evaluate the tackle 8:25 Yards after contact 14:55 Evaluating the primary tackles 17:05 Handling the five fights Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/training-camp-series-trends-in-teaching-tackling-with-vince-digaetano https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-week-4-handling-the-bye-week https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-week-3-self-scout https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-week-2-evaluating-players-units-team-and-scheme-throughout-the-season https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-weed-1-prepare-to-adapt-and-adjust

Brian Kight will be joining the Coach and Coordinator podcast for the Leadership Journey series. Kight and our host Keith Grabowski, will share ways coaches can change their mindsets and improve as leaders. On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, our host Keith Grabowski is joined by founder of dailydiscipline.com and former CEO of Focus 3, Brian Kight. Having been on the show previously for the Leadership Journey series, Kight rejoins the show to speak on developing leadership within your team during the season. 0:40 In-season versus off-season leadership 3:20 Learning by doing instead of observing 7:02 In-season availability to improve leadership 9:25 How are coaches giving leadership reps 10:40 Why does a leader exist 15:30 Giving young players bits of leadership experience 19:00 Leading = Responsibility 25:50 Weight of responsibility 32:20 Players being vocal Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-with-brian-kight-week-4-player-led-team-vs-coach-led https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-with-brian-kight-week-4-player-led-team-vs-coach-led https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-entitlement https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-living-the-standard-we-set

This is the weekly breakdown of USA Football's Coach and Coordinator Podcast Series by Keith Grabowski. These short clips highlight snippets of what the episodes from the week feature and the different guests on the show. Highlights from this week on Coach and Coordinator: Leadership Journey with Brian Kight Week 4 - Player led team vs coach led The Edge Week 4 - Handling the bye week Trends Day 5: Under center O, mesh variations and pick plays, perimeter attack, power read variation Deliberate Practice Week 4 - Teaching Players to take advantage of opportunity Building Game Day Confidence Check out our systems for skill development in blocking, defeating blocks, and tackling at footballdevelopment.com Follow us daily on Twitter for content and interaction @FBDevCoach Checkout X's and O's analysis at USA Football Blogs blogs.usafootball.com

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. 1:02 Provide positive feedback 1:53 Teach them to provide feedback to their teammates 2:57 Teach them to call out a teammate when effort isn’t given 3:28 Deliberate practice 4:24 Positive environment on game-day 5:33 Let your players know they’re prepared 6:34 Coach Chuck Kyle’s thoughts on the pregame speech Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deliberate-practice-week-4-teaching-players-to-take-advantage-of-opportunity https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deliberate-practice-3-creating-situations-in-practice-comm-handling-the-late-step-option-o https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/lessons-from-2017-chuck-kyle-cleveland-st-ignatius-high-school-coach https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/building-a-championship-winning-tradition-chuck-smith-head-coach-boyle-county-high-school https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/coach-grabowskis-notebook-tips-for-a-successful-pregame-speech

Today’s guest on the USA Football Coach and Coordinator podcast is Andy Ryland, senior manager in education and training at USA Football. While working at USA Football, he has helped develop the Heads Up Football and Master Trainer programs aswell as worked in improving tackling techniques. Before coming to USA Football, Rylandspent time playing for the USA Men’s National Rugby team. He played linebacker in college at Penn State University.Ryland and host Keith Grabowski discuss taking advantage of opportunities in multiple scenarios on the field. 1:50 Offensive opportunities 5:40 Communicating with the scout team to improve 9:50 Defensive opportunities 15:08 Set up of the defensive drill 20:46 Drills for special teams Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deliberate-practice-3-creating-situations-in-practice-comm-handling-the-late-step-option-o https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deliberate-practice-week-2-train-away-penalties https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deliberate-practice-week-1-early-season-psychology https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/deliberate-practice https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/vision-decision-action-andy-ryland-senior-manager-of-education-and-training-usa-football

For today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by Charlie Coiner, former NFL coach and founder of FirstDown PlayBook, and Zach Dunn, content coordinator at USA Football, to continue the “Trends-Day” series. The trio analyzes plays by Indiana, Alabama and Notre Dame. 1:21 Brown’s bunch formation 3:10 Advantages of going under center 8:27 The argument against going under center 11:45 IU dart/swing read 13:05 Mesh with a second shallow to pick LB with Iowa State and Alabama 20:35 ND Sweep/Pin and pull multiple perimeter attack 24:55 Clemson variation of the Power Read Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-4-unbalanced-and-2nd-level-screens-bunch-formations-sprintout-and-simulated-blitz https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-week-3-unbalanced-answers-for-the-tite-front-sprint-out-and-ideas-from-broken-plays https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-stressing-the-de-wr-screen-variation-pin-pull-rpo-delay-blitz https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-series-early-game-play-calling-for-qb-success

Every team and coach is trying to gain an edge over their opponents. Rob Everett, formerly the tight ends coach of the AAF’s Memphis Express and defensive coordinator at Bridgewater (Va.) College, joins host Keith Grabowski on today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast for The Edge series to share his philosophies and ideas to give your team that edge. For today’s show, CoachEverett and Grabowski address the bye week. 1:48 Using the bye week 4:46 Utilizing a day off in the bye week 5:53 Situational awareness 7:40 Self-Scout 8:27 Tackling 10:52 Individual work 13:40 Evening the reps out between the 1s and 2s 17:20 Using tech, especially Google Forms 22:52 The coaches Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-week-3-self-scout https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-week-2-evaluating-players-units-team-and-scheme-throughout-the-season https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-week-2-evaluating-players-units-team-and-scheme-throughout-the-season https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/coach-coordinator-rob-everett-bridgewater-college-1418 https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/rob-everett-bridgewater-va

Brian Kight will be joining the Coach and Coordinator podcast for the Leadership Journey series. Kight and our host Keith Grabowski, will share ways coaches can change their mindsets and improve as leaders. On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, our host Keith Grabowski is joined by founder of dailydiscipline.com and former CEO of Focus 3, Brian Kight. Having been on the show previously for the Leadership Journey series, Kight rejoins the show to speak on how to establish leadership of your team. 3:50 Getting leadership 7:40 Guiding through the process of establishing leadership 16:25 Knowing how much coaches need to lead 24:20 Senior leadership 27:00 Let leaders lead 30:20 Are you ready to have a player led team? Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-week-3-overused-words-with-underused-actions https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-entitlement https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-living-the-standard-we-set https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/the-leadership-journey-with-1 https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/the-leadership-journey-with

This week Kevin Kelley and Keith Grabowski discuss Pulaski’s 88% scoring rate achieved when there are no sacks, penalties, or drops. Coach Kelley also details approaches penalties with his players, self-scout, and handling a long trip. 3:30 Examples of determining how to approach ridding your team of penalties 8:25 Spending time making sure players understand what causes penalties 9:52 How Kelley uses self-scout 13:20 Using film versus the data 15:27 Improving your travel Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/kevin-kelley-final https://blogs.usafootball.com/blog/7286/podcast-building-your-strategy-off-analytics-with-kevin-kelley-head-coach-pulasksi-academy https://blogs.usafootball.com/blog/5430/usa-football-2018-national-conference-see-how-kevin-kelley-uses-data-to-utilize-his-unconventional-special-teams-strategy https://blogs.usafootball.com/blog/5140/usa-football-national-conference-speaker-spotlight-pulaski-academy-arkansas-high-school-coach-kevin-kelley

Today’s guest on the USA Football Coach and Coordinator podcast is Andy Ryland, senior manager in education and training at USA Football. While working at USA Football, he has helped develop the Heads Up Football and Master Trainer programs as well as worked in improving tackling techniques. Before coming to USA Football, Ryland spent time playing for the USA Men’s National Rugby team. He played linebacker in college at Penn State University. Ryland and host Keith Grabowski detail preparing for mid-play situations with your team. 2:00 Corner containing situations 7:55 Drills for QBs running up the middle 16:00 Seeing things like they are on gameday 18:06 Creating situations to prepare players for shifting fronts/Communicating pre-snap 24:11 Self corrective learning 27:50 Shifts and motions 32:25 Recreating an offense you don’t run Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deliberate-practice-week-2-train-away-penalties https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deliberate-practice-week-1-early-season-psychology https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/deliberate-practice https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/vision-decision-action-andy-ryland-senior-manager-of-education-and-training-usa-football

For today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, our host Keith Grabowski is joined by Charlie Coiner, former NFL coach and founder of First-Down Playbook and Zach Dunn, content coordinator at USA Football, moving forward in the Trends-Day series. The trio analyzes use of the bunch formations, quarterbacks back under center and more. 1:24 The use of bunch at the collegiate and pro-level 6:40 Bunch play action by LSU 9:30 Teams using the unbalanced set 13:55 Variations of the shallow screen 15:55 Tight end delay 20:05 Going under center 22:00 Simulated pressures/Trends in Defense 24:45 Moving around players in the scheme Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-week-3-unbalanced-answers-for-the-tite-front-sprint-out-and-ideas-from-broken-plays https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-stressing-the-de-wr-screen-variation-pin-pull-rpo-delay-blitz https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/trends-day-series-early-game-play-calling-for-qb-success https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/coiner-final-1-9-17-9-56-pm

Every team and coach is trying to gain an edge over their opponents. For The Edge series, Rob Everett joins the Coach and Coordinator podcast to share his philosophies and ideas to give your team that edge. Rob Everett, formerly the tight ends coach of the AAF Memphis Express and defensive coordinator at Bridgewater (Va.) College, joins us the Coach and Coordinator podcast once again. For today’s show, Everett and our host, Keith Grabowski address how self-scouting can improve your team. 1:15 Why we should analytically self-evaluate 4:10 Self Scout for defensive coordinators 9:55 Using your tendencies as opportunities 13:20 Stepping out of self into your opponent 17:50 Using Self Scout to progress throughout the season 21:35 Everett’s work with the GoArmy Edge App Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-week-2-evaluating-players-units-team-and-scheme-throughout-the-season https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/the-edge-weed-1-prepare-to-adapt-and-adjust https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deep-dive-on-defense-playing-the-tite-front-to-all-personnel-groupings-with-rob-everett-01 https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deep-dive-on-defense-playing-the-tite-front-to-all-personnel-groupings-with-rob-everett-01 https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/rob-everett-bridgewater-va

Brian Kight will be joining the Coach and Coordinator podcast for the Leadership Journey series. Kight and our host Keith Grabowski, will share ways coaches can change their mindsets and improve as leaders. On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, our host Keith Grabowski is joined by founder of dailydiscipline.com and former CEO of Focus 3, Brian Kight. Having been on the show previously for the Leadership Journey series, Kight rejoins the show to speak on words that are overused in a majority of football programs. 2:35 Coaches’ defensiveness 10:05 Coaches taking criticism 13:48 More things today than before, words mean less 19:40 Integrity 25:00 What integrity looks like 31:45 How using the word integrity can be detrimental 33:50 Culture 39:40 Mental Toughness 45:35 Want it Related Content https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-entitlement https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/leadership-journey-living-the-standard-we-set soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/the-leadership-journey-with soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/the-leadership-journey-with-1 https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/brian-kight-focus3 https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/brian-kight-focus-3-ceo

This is the weekly breakdown of USA Football's Coach and Coordinator Podcast Series by Keith Grabowski. These short clips highlight snippets of what the episodes from the week feature and the different guests on the show. Highlights from this week on Coach and Coordinator: Ideas for Better Coaching Cues Deliberate Practice Week 2 - Train Away Penalties Trends-day Week 3 - Unbalanced, answers for the tite front, sprint out and ideas from broken plays The Edge: Week 2 Evaluating players, units, team, and scheme throughout the season Leadership Journey: Entitlement Check out our systems for skill development in blocking, defeating blocks, and tackling at footballdevelopment.com Follow us daily on Twitter for content and interaction @FBDevCoach Checkout X's and O's analysis at USA Football Blogs blogs.usafootball.com