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Post by utchuckd on Sept 9, 2010 7:40:25 GMT -6
Do any of you talk about goals or situational type things or do you focus mainly on individual jobs and techniques? Things like being stout on first down defense so you get them behind the chains. Or trying to get 4 yards every play on offense to keep the chains moving. Or do you just drill down their fundamentals and let the big stuff take care of itself. Just looking for ways to tie in their individual jobs to how it helps the overall team effort.
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Post by los on Sept 9, 2010 20:50:36 GMT -6
We did this in some phases of team play ut.....offense mostly.....I liked to have the kids go part speed to their blocks/assignments......then stop everyone.....let them all turn around.....see what the guy on his right and his left was doing, and watch, as the ball carrier jogged thru the los, at the poa for that particular play.....then we'd talk about the importance of each individuals job, to the outcome of the play.....we tried to do this with our 5-6 basic run plays......kinda gave them all an idea about what was going on around them and where the ball was supposeed to go, in relation to their blocking assignment........another place we did "walk thru's,freeze and look around" was for run fits on defense, vs different play flows....... another place we did this was on kickoff team......you know, while they're running down the field ,just blow the whistle, make them freeze in place......show them what they look like if they bunch up or do it wrong......then when they do it right and converge properly in their lanes.....thats about it....we didn't do this or reinforce it, as much as I'd have liked, for obvious lack of practice time reasons, but it is a good idea I think......kinda helps answer some of the "why am I doing this?" questions and lets the kids see just how important every individuals job is, to the success of the total package.
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Post by mhcoach on Sept 10, 2010 6:12:46 GMT -6
Chuck
Team psychology is vastly important to a team's over all performance. It maybe the single most important thing a HC brings to his team. I start from day 1 trying to develop this. I always want our team to be a team first, & have a killer instinct My wife swears I could be a cult leader because I get the players to buy in. Over the years I have learned many tricks from better coaches then me that help achieve this. We have silly expressions that we use. All to promote an attitude. " Kill a mosquito with an Axe" is an example. Joe Paterno talks about having a team buy into the team mindset. We want them to be confident in the team.
Hope that helps.
Joe
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Post by coachbrek on Sept 10, 2010 6:18:23 GMT -6
Do any of you talk about goals or situational type things or do you focus mainly on individual jobs and techniques? Things like being stout on first down defense so you get them behind the chains. Or trying to get 4 yards every play on offense to keep the chains moving. Or do you just drill down their fundamentals and let the big stuff take care of itself. Just looking for ways to tie in their individual jobs to how it helps the overall team effort. On defense we work on technique, intensity, pursuit, contain and trying to get 11 men to the ball. That is the same on every down. On offense I am very particular about down and distance, we do not punt, so we need yards and need to get into the right plays for what the defense is giving us. |
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Post by tiger46 on Sept 10, 2010 8:17:44 GMT -6
We emphasize technique more than big picture on both sides of the ball. But, as far as 'big picture' goes... Defensively, we coach up attitude and aggressiveness. I stole some things about attitude from a link that I saw here some time in the past. Some HS team really coached up their WR's on taking pride in blocking. Their WR's don't just stalk block. They crush people. I try to transfer that attitude to all aspects of my team- but, especially to the defense. My players hold up their hands with crossed forearms and scream, "X 'em OUT!" They're highly encouraged to bring the pain when they tackle. Obviously, not every player on my team really is a big hitter. But, most of them think that they are.  For the offense, I concentrate more on the O-Line to carry the 'big picture'. I have two pieces of garden hose. The hoses are marked at 3yrd, 5yrds & 10yrds. The O-line is taught that they haven't even started blocking until after they've moved their opponent back 3yrds. Anything less than 3yrds is failure. 3yrds is adequate. They get no praise for that. 3+yrds, and they get to watch me go berserk cheering and congratulating them. The O-line is also responsible for team unity. If any RB is slacking, hitting the wrong holes, whines about blocking or, just has a bad attitude in general, the O-line is authorized (and, expected) to have that RB removed and replaced. No questions asked. There are no appeals to the coaches, either. If a RB wants to participate again he has to bring his appeal to the O-line. And, he has to tell them specifically what it is that he's going to do to perform better. That has served us well in getting rid of any feeling of inferiority from the O-line and any prima donna BS from the backfield players. RB's are required to be enthusiastic blockers when they're not carrying the ball. They are taught to be downhill runners. They don't juke much. They don't dance around. They hit the holes hard and they try to punish anybody who tries to tackle them. If they fail at any of these things, they're replaced. Those are the 'big picture' things that we work on. We're not totally there, yet. We have a lot of work ahead of us. We're far from a team of all-stars. But, we keep at it. |
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 10, 2010 8:44:00 GMT -6
Good stuff! Because we have young guys with bad habits or new guys with no habits I get focused on fundamentals and don't tie it back in to how it helps the team. I love some of these ideas.
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