With out a QB coach?

Have to coach up those QBs...what I would say to do is have a "QB Clinic" where you get together with your QBs 2-3 times a week at night...have to find time to do it! If you can't spare a coach in practice during indivual time, those guys have to get it somewhere else.

Also, I was a little confused...is there no one on your staff who knows how to coach QBs or is it just a problem of not having enough coaches?

I guess it also depends on your offense...if you are QB-intensive and plan on throwing the ball a lot, you had better find someone who can work with those guys every day. If, on the other hand, your offense is more RB-oriented, you can probably do a lot with working the QBs and the RBs together.

Personally, I would make sure that the QBs had a coach...too important of a position to not get attention...in fact, the two positions I would make darn sure were covered by quality coaches on the offensive side are QB and the OL...if you are bad in those two spots, everything else is going to crumble.

granted I am inexperienced but how many coaches are we talking about?

Are you two platooning?..with offensive and defensive coaches?..or working all together?..how many players are you working with and what offense are you running?

In the position i am in we will only have 3 coaches next year for about 50-60 kids
One of the things we have talked about doing next year is during individual time, have the rbs go with qbs first working on hand-offs mesh points and pitch relationships. then the second half of individual the backs will go with recievers working on hand drills. While the Qbs work on footwork drills, with midline, rollouts and 3-5 step drops.

The second part of practice will be a group type session working on route tree with rb's and rec's while qb's go over passing concepts and reads, then the rb's will come back with the qb's to work on concepts before going to inside 7 or pass scale depending on the day.

not sure if this helps at all I am only a 2nd year coach. Maybe someone can provide some insite that could make this more effecient.

I think you can coach the QB's and RB's together on the running game, mesh, etc. However, you shouldn't teach a QB mechanics unless you know the mechanics yourself. Its amazing what some QB's are taught when you work QB camps and you see them and you ask them where they learned what they know. "My coach read it on the internet", "my coach saw it at a clinic", etc. You can do a lot of harm if you teach players to do something that you don't know in and out yourself. I think that goes beyond QB's too and really applys to all positions.

LOL brophy! I am not that unwilling to help...

Coach murdock,
Feel free to e-mail me with your concerns, and I will be happy to help in any way I can. I am also happy to speak with you anytime about things you can do.

Just offering, no obligation.

Coach Darin Slack

You need to do everything you can to work with the QB's. We had this problem last year and I thought that the QB's could get work with the RB's and still do fine. I was wrong. Big time. They need individual coaching and instruction.

I have run the spread without a QB coach for 2 years. My entrie staff is made up of old Lineman. I work with the QB's. Part of the reason I went to the gun was that as i studied everything I decided that the footwork was easier from the gun than underneath. We have been pretty successful with the spread with out a QB coach. One of the old guys from JCFb told me that if you don't have the knowledge to break down a QB's mechanics, spend most of your time just throwing routes on air and find out what your Qb can do best.

I would love a QB coach, but this works for us.

Coach -

I have to disagree with you...if you want to be a well-rounded coach, you need to be able to coach every position. If you didn't play a particular position, you need to learn it. If that means learning it from the Internet, clinics, videos, whatever...you do what you have to do.

I played on the offensive line in high school and college and have coached the offensive line the last six years. I will be at a new school this fall and still primarily working with the OL, but will also be working with receivers. Didn't know anything about receivers until I started going to clinics, asking questions, and watching videos.

You have to learn somewhere.

Quick check with the QB. You don't have to overload him with info. At the end of each series, ask him what he saw, tell him what you're thinking, answer any questions. I'm a fulltime OC/QB coach and that's all I do with my QB. I really try not to put too much in his head cause I want him reacting and not thinking too much.