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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 19, 2018 15:00:41 GMT -6
Our OC had a helmet fire and called freeze four times in our two-minute drill. To expand on this, OC acknowledged it was not his finest moment. His thinking was that he was worried that our offense, with three completed passes all game, and with 2:30 left and 75 yards to go while down three, would score too quickly and leave the opponent too much time to score. Oh and our best receiver is no longer with us after getting into it with a coach postgame. Kid was a turd but it was nice having a bit of a deep threat.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 16, 2018 9:16:31 GMT -6
So it’s also arbitrary in its application? And shouldn’t that reasoning apply to other sports? Coach begs me to play football, I give it a try for two weeks, don’t like it, now I’m screwed?
Beside that, it means that if you’re 6-1 and lanky you can quit a sport and it’s an inconvenience. If you’re 5-8 and hefty you can never play another sport if you quit.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 16, 2018 9:09:55 GMT -6
25 miles? That seems arbitrary.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 13, 2018 20:53:57 GMT -6
Our OC had a helmet fire and called freeze four times in our two-minute drill.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 8, 2018 9:59:09 GMT -6
Assuming I get the film promptly, i.e. not Sunday at 10pm, I can prescout and break down in under an hour each. With an assistant we can work in parallel so there’s no reason not to. It may not get my full attention for the stuff that doesn’t go into the breakdown columns but it’s better than nothing and it helps smooth out the averages a bit. If you’re playing Friday then I feel the gameplan needs to be ready in a usable form Sunday evening and in its final form for Monday’s practice.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 6, 2018 17:25:41 GMT -6
I had a 12 year old girl, maybe 5'2" and 115, good-not-great speed, good-not-great overall athleticism but she didn't tackle kids or hit kids, she went THROUGH kids. She just ran, full speed, and if the ballcarrier happened to be in her line of travel then so be it. Assignment-wise she was always sound, which was good, but in pursuit she was deadly. I sent her off the edge once and they tossed it outside. She T-Boned their little waterbug of a back and I think he nearly died. She just ended kids. It got to a point in practice where in drills she was only allowed to go against the 3-4 best athletes because she had broken too many of the other kids and the rest didn't want to go against her.
She played a couple years in HS but, genetics being what they are, she kept getting hurt so her parents made her quit and take up boxing.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 25, 2018 11:14:36 GMT -6
Is there any evidence that this is more dangerous than other legal ways of tackling?
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 23, 2018 11:55:24 GMT -6
Because the other team definitely didn’t see it coming.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 20, 2018 22:21:49 GMT -6
Ideally you have a gunner, a loader, and the rest are running the balls back. If you have a decent-sized group and enough balls you can be firing 20 balls a minute indefinitely. It’s particularly good for offseason work or for downtime like during special teams when you have just a partial group. In just a few minutes you can throw as many balls as a QB could manage in a whole day before wearing out his arm.
And don’t indulge your players when they start getting stupid. They’ll want to turn it up to ridiculous speeds and get dangerously close. I had to get a bit snippy when they were trying to catch balls on their way out of the machine. Good way to permanently mangle a finger and no training value.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 14, 2018 7:48:04 GMT -6
I’m often torn between the dichotomy of “we should do what we do best” vs “we stink at what we do, there’s literally nothing to lose.”
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 11, 2018 20:16:25 GMT -6
In his defense, it IS hilarious.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 11, 2018 11:52:13 GMT -6
Try using google with “site: coachhuey.com”
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 10, 2018 19:36:06 GMT -6
Lock washers and proper torquing of the bolts should solve the problem going forward. Welding it shut seems like it’s going to bite you in the ass down the line at some point.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 10, 2018 9:23:54 GMT -6
We use the rubber ones and they wear out but who cares. I’ve hear that I you use old leather ones they don’t wear as fast but I’ve never tried it. Obviously don’t use new leather balls.
Helmets are a non-negotiable. Don’t let coaches dink around in front of it either. And nobody crosses the firing line while the machine is running. It’s a great tool but it can be a a downright dangerous machine if you’re not careful.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 10, 2018 5:58:55 GMT -6
Positional coaches handle positional subs, coordinators handle personnel subs. I handle special teams subs and I’m fanatical. I mark out a little territory on the sideline as the special teams box and so help you god if you step foot in there if you’re not on the unit currently on alert, or if you’re not there and you should be.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 27, 2018 11:03:23 GMT -6
So if we run with larrymoe ’s argument, then the question is who are these kids that would have come out n the past but no longer do? My first guess is that it’s a lot of kids who would not have played significant roles and the increased options means they can have their cake and eat it too; they can enjoy football casually while participating in an activity they’re actually somewhat good at.
Kids are no longer willing to work so hard (especially Off-Season) just to sit the bench.
Can you blame them?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 27, 2018 8:36:59 GMT -6
So if we run with larrymoe’s argument, then the question is who are these kids that would have come out n the past but no longer do? My first guess is that it’s a lot of kids who would not have played significant roles and the increased options means they can have their cake and eat it too; they can enjoy football casually while participating in an activity they’re actually somewhat good at.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 20, 2018 7:20:56 GMT -6
I feel like there’s a need for balance. A lot of coaches are unwittingly way too slow, and a number of coaches go way too fast intentionally. If you have good meetings beforehand and you film practice and you can review said film you can go a lot faster, but you definitely don’t want a drill done fast but wrong.
He may have too many drills? If you only have ten drills for a group they can learn all the drills in the first three days and then it moves a lot faster. If he’s constantly introducing new drills he’s going to lose time with every new thing.
Is his group young? Maybe he needs to slow down to get them going properly?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 18, 2018 17:19:15 GMT -6
I’ve always advocated for shorter pregames. My dream walkthrough is a warmup, a five-play walkthrough, let’s go.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 16, 2018 17:35:37 GMT -6
What warranty? The helmets only promise to protect against skull fractures to begin with, so what injury could a kid have where you’d otherwise be able to go after the helmet manufacturer?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 15, 2018 20:57:44 GMT -6
Or maybe they were just tired of the hassle of being different for no reason. Or maybe they're planning a Pan-New England league, Jackman to New London.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 15, 2018 20:53:40 GMT -6
Yes but that doesn't mean that this is a Title IX issue.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 15, 2018 16:50:42 GMT -6
Divots from when you push or from when you store it? The OSB might just need to be left in one place as a parking spot.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 14, 2018 9:34:58 GMT -6
The flippant answer is: It works for us... We value speed above all things. The timed 40 serves multiple purposes for us. The first being an exercise that makes us faster. That 40 trend gives us an indicator. One of many that helps us decide how he will practice on Monday/Wednesday. M/W is a max effort day for us. Those are full contact days/max speed/lift. And if they fail it depends. What is a fail? A fail would be viewed differently depending on the kid. Again the 40/Fly 10 is just one thing we are looking at. Can't really explain it any better than that. You don't have to or need to get it. Do what you do. That is a good post. Do you not worry though, that is “too much” during the season? Not being a butt, real question. Is your position that you feel doing this keeps your team faster or makes them faster throughout the season? Now that, I can buy. Just let’s make them do a max effort so we can test whether or not they are tired becaue the CNS can only do so many max efforts, is what doesn’t make sense to me. I have often wondered about whether we should still do a max 40 or 20 or something during the season to make sure we stay at top speed. For RBs especially. Obviously top speed is very important but they rarely hit top speed, so running a 40 or 2 per week will keep their top speed up where it should be.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 11, 2018 21:01:55 GMT -6
It’s also not a title IX issue because nobody is being denied access on the basis of sex.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 11, 2018 20:14:48 GMT -6
For all the concern that outside forces are trying to “destroy football,” this kind of thing is way more damaging.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 11, 2018 20:11:03 GMT -6
There will be much wringing of the hands, and then people will move one.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 11, 2018 19:56:42 GMT -6
I would like to see a study done in which we could get football enrollments pre & post year round activities. I have a sneaking suspicion the 24/7 football culture has SOME to do w/ declining Fb numbers. just a hunch If so it's because it increases the ratio of preparation to play. It's been pointed out that football has about the highest ratio of practice to play of team sports. For instance, it's been written that in baseball one might play twice as many hours as practice. Football's expanding to more of the calendar wouldn't bother me, if that meant more actual games of tackle football. It wasn't long ago that I learned that baseball season used to go from the first thaw of spring thru Thanksgiving -- and that if they had an extended thaw in winter they might get up games then too. Rugby and soccer are played most of the year too, and when intercollegiate football began, it was fall and spring. Basketball, indoors & out -- year round. Know why football got to be a fall-only game? That was a result of an effort by people who wanted to do away with the game entirely, and figured they could eventually phase it out by cutting it back by degrees. How were Ivy Leaguers supposed to start the season in June?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 11, 2018 19:53:52 GMT -6
How does it measure metabolism?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 11, 2018 14:44:15 GMT -6
That’s because League is shite.
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