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Post by coachklee on Dec 7, 2023 6:04:40 GMT -6
For 4 of our guys…100+ pre-season reps & close to 20 reps per week in season made them proficient as JV Football players. Even by week 9, our 5th guy never had enough reps!!! That's 100+ reps pre-season/20 reps a week for each assignment, or total reps they got across all assignments? I was mainly talking about the OL & for each assignment / blocking scheme. By time you add up Indy, any Half-Line & Team they are probably working our big 4 of Inside Zone, Outside Zone, Power, Counter & Half/Full Slide 20+ times each week in season. So that’s 100+ total reps per week in season with 500+ pre-season (before our 1st game week). Now I’m curious & want an exact count next year.
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Post by coachklee on Jun 8, 2023 13:52:52 GMT -6
For 4 of our guys…100+ pre-season reps & close to 20 reps per week in season made them proficient as JV Football players. Even by week 9, our 5th guy never had enough reps!!!
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Post by coachklee on May 18, 2023 20:48:41 GMT -6
We want to run more than we throw as a former Flexbone program transitioning into a 21 P Gun Offense. The main purpose for us in 7-on-7 is definitely coaching up the coverage scheme & coverage skills.
I PISS opposing coaches off & encourage our Qs to run if they don’t like a definite throw. One of our Q’s best gains last year in real 11-on-11 was 17 yards on 3rd & 14 when HE tucked it & ran after I called Verts!
I’ll blow a whistle when they hit the LOS & harp on them good job. 7-on-7s are NOT perfect, but when coached with the appropriate mindset, the learning that can happen is INVALUABLE IMO!!!
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Post by coachklee on Mar 27, 2023 10:52:52 GMT -6
There's been discussion on here before about how the coaching community has by and large migrated from blogs and here to Twitter. I was just on Blitzology's Twitter, and it's got tons of posts with coverages, pressures, playbook pages, etc, but it's next to impossible to post an in-depth article on Twitter explaining how different pieces fit together, the thinking/logic behind different stuff, and the philosophy behind it. Why did people get away from blogs, as those are the primary method of doing the above? I was fortunate enough to come along back in the day when blogs were "lit" everywhere, and learned a crap load from them, but any new developments/material that has emerged since the blogosphere died, it's a lot tougher to learn something as a unified idea when one has to do try to do so working with a bunch of cool, but disjointed pieces... I get that it makes it a lot easier to communicate and get clarification on material than it is with blogs, but with that being the case, seems like the optimal model would be Twitter + blog, where the blog author could post a link in the article to a specific Twitter post on their account for discussion of material in that article. I don’t blog much, but utilize YouTube to share material almost as if it was a blog. youtube.com/@coachingfootballwithbriankleeDefinitely a bummer that blogs & activity on here ended up decreasing over time. Use to check in on CoachHuey daily. Now it is monthly. No way Twitter on its own can get as in depth as here on Huey. However, I’ve been able to network & schedule way more Zoom Meetings / Clinics via Twitter to get comparable depth on topics I wanted to learn more about. Best part is many of those Zooms have been impromptu on a random snow day or evening.
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Post by coachklee on Nov 18, 2022 20:50:40 GMT -6
An overrated 4 Tech DL & underrated OT at 6’3” a very strong 195 pounds. Benched 255, Squatted 365 & Deadlifted 400. Never had a timed 40, but I am likely the biggest 2:05 800 meter runner ever. At a Class C team at a school of 300 students I was no more than the 8th best player (9 of us played both ways) as a junior & maybe 5th best player as a senior (8 of us played both ways). Earned 2nd Team All-Conference DL as a Jr & 2nd Team All-Conference OL as a Sr. I made one play when I was completely UNBLOCKED at the 19:01 mark of the video as a DL & it sparked the turning point of the 1st playoff win in school history. I think everyone including my coaches thought I was a better playing DL than O actually was. Really cool knowing I made a big play that played a small part in an amazingly historic season for a small HS in rural Michigan! My cousin's son is a 3 year starter at running back for Ubly right now. Hoping they go on another run. Really?!? Where are you from?
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Post by coachklee on Nov 18, 2022 20:49:09 GMT -6
What format do you use to grade players? What do you do if a player is under performing, but you don't have depth behind him? Thanks in advance. Coach him up & MAKE him believe how important his improvement is to the success of the team!!!
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Post by coachklee on Nov 2, 2022 18:13:03 GMT -6
The old run and shoot. Only played 2 teams ever in college or HS that ran it. They were both horrendous. We were actually pretty good but as an olinman, it would have been nice to hear the word Dive or something from that family in the huddle once and a while. Like anything in “family” of run the damn ball?!?
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Post by coachklee on Nov 2, 2022 18:05:37 GMT -6
An overrated 4 Tech DL & underrated OT at 6’3” a very strong 195 pounds. Benched 255, Squatted 365 & Deadlifted 400. Never had a timed 40, but I am likely the biggest 2:05 800 meter runner ever. At a Class C team at a school of 300 students I was no more than the 8th best player (9 of us played both ways) as a junior & maybe 5th best player as a senior (8 of us played both ways). Earned 2nd Team All-Conference DL as a Jr & 2nd Team All-Conference OL as a Sr.
I made one play when I was completely UNBLOCKED at the 19:01 mark of the video as a DL & it sparked the turning point of the 1st playoff win in school history. I think everyone including my coaches thought I was a better playing DL than O actually was. Really cool knowing I made a big play that played a small part in an amazingly historic season for a small HS in rural Michigan!
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Post by coachklee on Jun 24, 2022 5:40:16 GMT -6
I was planning to make a post about twitter on here and then saw this. People have contended one of the main reasons this board is a ghost-town shell of its former self is that "twitter is the happening place these days", but every time I try to get on twitter, i dont have much luck finding the kind of discussions had in the past (and occasionally now) on here. Plus, I cant stand the format of twitter for football coaching discussion, it's basically like trying to have a discussion through post-it notes......Here it is organized, searching is decent, etc. Anyone know of any decent places on twitter they can point me to where these great discussions are supposedly being had? #HogFBChat #ALFBChat #TXHSFBChat #NoFlyZoneChat #FLHSFBChat Those are good places to start, i like following people who post content (Images/Film/Playbook sheets, etc) which is why I try and do the same. Real good discussions with those at different times!
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Post by coachklee on Feb 15, 2022 19:56:14 GMT -6
We shut down last week because we had too many teachers out and not enough subs. We had tons of kids just sitting in the cafe and gym. Luckily our admin were busy watching the kids instead of doing observations 😂 I think most of the drama comes from the fact that teachers are finally getting some sympathy after years of being the scapegoat for the lack of success in our public school system. I also think a great deal of the current strife comes from the fact that the last 2 years have shown that the academic role of the public school system in the U.S. has taken a back seat to the child care/social welfare role. In the last 45 years, the lack of stay at home parents has exponentially increased this role. The public doesn't really care about academic growth, student learning targets, etc, being on level, proficiency etc. The public cares about having to stay home with their child because they are in a financial situation where it is not easy to handle shutdowns. But, the system is still monitored and judged by the academic role. One of my co-workers echoes this EVERYDAY. If teaching actually mattered we would be doing X, Y & Z. We aren’t doing these things so once again here is more evidence we are just unionized daycare employees.
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Post by coachklee on Feb 15, 2022 19:52:10 GMT -6
Look...we aren't working in a coal mine. This crap is ridiculous. Suck it up. Get your a$$ to work, and do your job: ibb.co/n8y2XDxWhat has been done endlessly in the name of “science” while unscientifically in the absence of data to start & later in denial of new data is an absolute shame & verges on the edge of being criminal the past 2 years…
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Post by coachklee on Sept 28, 2021 17:46:03 GMT -6
That sucks…it is so surreal having played at the turn of the century in football programs with 40+ from a school of about 300…
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Post by coachklee on Sept 14, 2021 18:46:40 GMT -6
This stuff sucks. Hope all (certainly nobody here on Huey) who cheered for the disintegration of football & especially HS football are happy that they have consciously destroyed a big part of the cultural identity of small/smaller towns. HS sports & HS football in particular is one thing that brings people together regardless of all that separates those people. Disheartening to see so many places struggling to even put together a Varsity let alone a program… I will be honest though, assuming you are talking about head injuries and the head injury / safety campaign, I do not think those things are as strongly correlated as some believe. I think a major factor is that kids just don't want to play HS football anymore. Not talking about head injuries or concussion concerns at all…talking about how a small, but loud group of people seem to hate local culture & a sense of community pride can’t stand how football & especially HS football being a community together 9 or 10 Friday’s a year. I put this in the same category of local churches not being allowed to have services. Last year’s regulations on attendance for certain events showed everything that some people seem to hate anything that gives people a sense of belonging & identity. Top that off with minimum wages not being federally required to increase yet being artificially inflated because of government policies that have reduced the actual employment pool which in turn increased the demand for labor & resulting increase in wages leading to a perfect storm where working a 4-6 hour shift is in the short term worth way more than participating in HS sports & we are where we are with programs everywhere struggling to field teams.
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Post by coachklee on Sept 14, 2021 18:37:36 GMT -6
I'm not delving into the political side of this stuff, but I've been intrigued by how differing school districts handle the contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of students (and teams). In SC the Dept. of Health and Environmental (DHEC) has established 'guidelines'. We have had a significant number of teams shut down/quarantine for up to 2 weeks. But there have been some areas that haven't had as much closure. DHEC has put in place these 'guidelines'. A 'cohort' that has 3 positives COVID tests are recommended to to shut down/quarantine for 2 weeks. Now a 'cohort' is NOT defined in specific number nor as a ratio of people, but just as an association of grouped people. So, at my school the girls golf team of 9 girls is a cohort. The football program of 140+ is also a cohort. My classroom of 24 kids that are wall to wall is not a cohort. Nor is our cafeteria in a school that is close to 70% free and reduced lunch, plus the federal subsidized 'lunch for all' is not a cohort as well. Way to be unpolitically political. Not sure if it is really any particular party, but the fact a classroom or the school lunchroom isn’t a “cohort” while all the sports teams are tells you everything about how the powers that be see school & especially extracurriculars…
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Post by coachklee on Sept 14, 2021 18:07:31 GMT -6
This stuff sucks. Hope all (certainly nobody here on Huey) who cheered for the disintegration of football & especially HS football are happy that they have consciously destroyed a big part of the cultural identity of small/smaller towns. HS sports & HS football in particular is one thing that brings people together regardless of all that separates those people. Disheartening to see so many places struggling to even put together a Varsity let alone a program…
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Post by coachklee on Aug 30, 2021 21:59:55 GMT -6
It’s weird. I just googled something last night and the only threads that came up were from 05-08. 👍 Pre 2008-2009 Huey “Search” was a mess. The man, the myth, the legend @coachhuey made some SWEET upgrades circa 2010 or 2011!
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Post by coachklee on Aug 30, 2021 2:34:25 GMT -6
Supposedly, Google search is better for searching Coach Huey than Coach Huey's own search function, but honestly, I have gotten much better results from Coach Huey's own search function. Anything I might be doing wrong? When I 1st joined in 2008-2009 or somewhere around there this was completely true. Can’t remember when, but the Huey search improved greatly at some point.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 19, 2021 19:24:47 GMT -6
16 kids at practice yesterday. Of those 16 five were in street clothes and 1 showed up for the last 15 minutes when soccer was over. That is rough. Best of luck in making the best decisions in a bad situation where few things can be done right.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 19, 2021 19:22:08 GMT -6
Low. I think one school on our schedule has 50+ 9-12…as little as 6 years ago in the same league with a very similar schedule it was all but 1 school had less than 50 9-12.
We are making it work with 22 9-12 & that includes about 3 kids who absolutely should never see the field on Friday night.
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Post by coachklee on May 21, 2021 4:11:38 GMT -6
I call the The Chosen Ones. I give the skinnies cramp all the time saying things like “Don’t blame me God didn’t bless you with the body and skills to be with us. “ things like that. I’m the HC/OC and OL coach. Skinnies aren’t allowed to complain about the OL or talk negative to/about them. I handle any corrections that need to happen and I make that clear to the lettuce eaters. I’m with them in the weight room. When I recruit kids I make sure they know they will be with me. I’m the HC and I’m recruiting them to play in my position group. I make sure they understand I’m not going to run them to death or beat them up. We do some heavy package stuff where I bring in extra guys. We just run away or hide the bad guys up front. We use a H which is really just a G in the backfield. They were 99 and we’ll sneak a pass in to them once a year. I talk my guys up. When a kid isn’t big on OL I point to the little guys. I ask who are you going to start over or explain that those kids over there can’t play anywhere else. They are to small and weak. Block down, kick out and wrap is fun. Doubling and down blocking poor souls can really get them excited. I send them clips of OL guys being physical and nasty. “The lettuce eaters!” Haha
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Post by coachklee on May 20, 2021 19:31:35 GMT -6
Give the big guys the ball every once in a while. Do it in a game and those guys will run through walls for you. If all of your games are too competitive and you can't risk it in a game, do it in practice. One school I was at if we rushed for over 300 yards in a game an offensive lineman got the ball the next game. It was fun for everyone and our offensive line was that much more intent on running the football. I am pretty sure if I am ever a head coach again I am going to tell the linemen if they play four years for me I will get them the ball in a game at some point. I was an offensive linemen and I always dreamed of that one big game when I got to carry it, even just once. I think it could be extremely motivating for the big guys. Yep! This guy started 37 varsity games at GUARD for us. Love how the rest of the OL was PUMPED!
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Post by coachklee on May 18, 2021 22:12:39 GMT -6
Coaches, Without trying to sound like those guys that are saying “this generation of kids”, we Have more and more Incoming freshman who want to be fullbacks and TE’s and are pushing to NOT be offensive lineman. To be fair, they have not played football in nearly a year And a half due to Covid so I’m sure lots of them have just been playing throw and catch. Though I am not an OL coach, the OL is the most important unit on the team. What are the conversations you have with these kids to help them understand the value? I’d ask if they realized that the other 5 TEs on the team for just 1 or 2 starting spots means if they want on the field they should maybe become tackles...
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Post by coachklee on Apr 16, 2021 4:03:02 GMT -6
Disagree. 1st and 20 is plenty incentive to not hold. 1st and 27 is just to punitive. I understand what you are saying, but that is after the fact thinking. You get sacked, man, we should have held. Just because you hold, does not mean that you would have given up a sack for sure anyways. Another example is the wing t on buck sweep. Pulling lead guard gets called for holding (of course he really didn't - dang ref - ha). Let's say he is 4 yards in the backfield. It is now 1st and 24. If he doesn't even touch the guy, the hb most likely could have cut up for a 1 yard gain anyways. so 2nd and 9 vs 1st and 24. 2nd and 9 - fine in the wing t. 1st and 24, you aren't converting unless you are just better or get lucky. I would add that the biggest reason holding should be LOS or spot downfield is because 99% of the time the guy throwing the flag for holding doesn't hit his mark with the flag. I've seen countless holdings occur on the line of scrimmage, but the umpire rips a flag 4-5 yards deep into the backfield and then not replace the flag to the spot. Gotta show off the arm!
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Post by coachklee on Apr 16, 2021 3:59:02 GMT -6
here is one you can only throw it 4 times a quarter will go hide behind a wall............ If you go 3 & out throwing the ball 3 times so we can maybe finish the game sometime before 10:00 PM. I really like this one!
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Post by coachklee on Apr 8, 2021 16:26:48 GMT -6
College Hashes Can throw ball away outside the box - college and NFL rule minimum of 6 refs Loss of down with ineligible downfield I would have changed the cutting rule to immediate cutting in the box, but that is a new rule. Offensive holding is 10 from LOS or downfield. Maybe eliminate kickoff Kickers can't advance a blocked punt or fg If a ball is touched beyond the neutral zone by the returners and is recovered by the kickers (punt or fg), it has to get past the first down marker for the kickers to get a first down. Otherwise, it is still the returners ball. 4th and 30 and you kick a crappy punt that accidentally hits a returner 10 yards down field. Returners still get the ball. Overtime from the 25. Much better than the 10 in high school. I would move the college ot back to the 40 or 50. Offensive Holding being a 10 yd penalty from the LOS when it's committed in the backfield is the one I was going to add to the list. I've seen too many ticky-tack calls behind the play take us from 3rd & 7 to 2nd & 25. It's an absolute drive killer. Meanwhile a hold on a passing play is only 10 yards from the LOS...without that hold 5 yards in the backfield the play would sometimes be a loss of 12+ yards.
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Post by coachklee on Jan 28, 2021 11:51:52 GMT -6
I'm from the state(my pic is actually in their stadium) and PA has many advantages that go into being successful with these "gimmicks." 1) year in year out they have great talent. they are a private school so i'm sure you guys know the advantage to that 2) Their conference is terrible! Seriously though it's one of the worst in the state. 3) They have a feeder system that most in the country don't have. Some rich guy has a sports complex that would rival any youth program in the country as far as facilities go and they start on his stuff real early. I had the opportunity to watch their semi-final game last year against Morrilton and I feel like they lost the game because of not punting. He gave a very good team field position inside the +30 twice which resulted in 2 TD's and threw a pic on a 4th down that got ran back into their territory that also resulted in a TD. Good for Morrilton!
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Post by coachklee on Jan 28, 2021 11:49:36 GMT -6
Not sure what stats he's looking at. You see this quoted sometimes from NFL stats or FBS schools. The conventional=acceptable vs. unconventional=unacceptable thing is huge here. People in SEC country still make fun of Hal Mumme a and look down on him, even though he's been one of the most influential coaches in the last 50 years. You tell people you're running West Virginia's offense and you're cool. Tell them you're running Mumme's offense from UK and they look at you cross-eyed. They just remember him as being so unconventional, especially in terms of not punting and kicking inside, that he's considered a fool. The coach from the OP has a ton of talent at his disposal. He was Gus Malzahn's successor, IIRC, so he not only came into a great program, but also came into a program that was conditioned to accept doing things differently and has been very successful with it. Most of us don't have that. Still, I've coached on teams who were lucky to get the punt past the LOS at times and usually only got off 20-yard punts, at best. If you're only walking away with 15 yards net on punts, it makes sense to take more shots. I completely buy the concept of always attempt some version of an onside kick. 1-Coaching up coverage for kick off is a PITA but necessary if you are kicking deep & the ball doesn’t go into the EZ. 2-Quite often the 1-2 of the guys back deep can be the fastest guys on the field. Kick off is the one place you can make sure they don’t touch the ball via squib or onside with onside giving you a chance to recover the ball in exchange for about 10 yards if field position. 3-To make a kick off coverage team legitimate at many smaller schools it needs to include starters and running 15-20 yards with a shot at the ball on a 3-4 second play takes less energy than running further downfield to a ball that is changing directions for 5+ seconds. 4-Sometimes your kick coverage just sucks for a variety of reasons. Why continue to do it when you regularly let the other team get back to mid field with opportunities to score? Take a chance at getting the ball back! 5-Forces opponents to waste practice time preparing for something different especially of your kicker(s) can execute a few different types of directional onside kicks or drop it into dead spots while the other 10 guys on the kick off team are just doing the same thing of basically run to recover the ball. Punting meanwhile is something I’d never walk away from completely. Some nights it has been the best way to move the ball. Additionally there are certain spots where a punt just makes so much more sense (end of half or end of game backed up deep in your own territory or really anywhere before the 50 & especially with a lead).
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Post by coachklee on Jan 6, 2021 17:13:41 GMT -6
Nail meet head my friend. I feel like younger guys are less likely to "listen" due to social media influence nowadays. I never spoke a peep in a meeting for about 2 years & when i did it was nothing grandiose. More asking to learn. Now w/ social media at the fingertips I think more guys think they are more "educated" than they actually are. Or they have theory that they believe as fact before they have actually tried it. Don't get me wrong, not slamming all the "young guns" but there does seem to be a lot more "voice" and a lot less "ear" nowadays than when i first started. JME. Still a TON of great ones out there but a little more entitlement than i remember coming up. We had a young staff when i 1st started w/ the only notable experience coming from the HFC, and most of us just sat & listened and learned. Both for good or bad. I think I'm way better for it.
Agreed... I hate to be the crotchety ol' coach pointing fingers at the youngins' but I'll do so. It's been tough to find quality ACs over the years and I'll lay the blame at the Internet's feet. We're seeing more and more chalkboard heroes and fewer "teachers". This becomes problematic when you run an "outdated" system like the Wing-T..
I had an AC draw up a bunch of Air Raid concepts from the 100/900 formation and "present" them to me (i.e. he saved them to our HUDL account and then shot me a message..). They were sound concept and I imagine he snagged them from the web. I pulled him aside and thanked him for the time he put in but we wouldn't be running those schemes. He pressed the issue so I told him I'd consider running two of them (Dig and Mesh) if he could do lay out the following;
1. The skills he would need to teach the QBs, backs and SE for each concept. 2. What the QB's read progressions were for each concept and how he would teach them.
3. The drills he would use to teach those skills and the progression and how they'd fit into our typical practice plan.
Needless to say, he couldn't do so and there were words behind closed doors (i.e. "You don't know what you don't know and you can either accept that or you can learn, coach.")
To be fair, you gave him an impossible task on 3b “and how’d they fit into our typical practice plan”. Ours is already full unless we extended past 2 hours which at times already feels too long. Doesn’t change the fact though that if he could answer 1, 2 & 3a that meant he wasn’t really ready to coach it!
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Post by coachklee on Jan 6, 2021 15:30:24 GMT -6
I highly doubt it... I'm surprised the social media platforms haven't been nailed for that.
The guy I am thinking of takes clips from all-22 film, comments on it, and like sells it in an e-book or something. It's actually pretty cool but not sure if its legal and kinda weird because its not his team Pretty sure earning $$$ off it would violate the whole "This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited." Just posting it is likely not going to draw any attention unless they can prove you are earning $$$ from it and here’s how you ignore it until they actually take you to court: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/02/challenging-copyright-at-the-nfl/
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Post by coachklee on Jan 5, 2021 19:59:52 GMT -6
I follow a few football pages on Facebook (don't use Twitter) and my only issue is the "dressed-up" misinformation. There are guys on there that post up some fantastically detailed videos and diagrams but it's obvious that they're keyboard coaches. There's some pretty obvious flaws within the scheme that they won't address. Everything is going to look pretty when you're running the Wing-T against a 4-3 Over C2.. Oh...you were talking from an offensive perspective! Still same idea I posted, but yeah...
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