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Post by breakerdog on Apr 22, 2024 13:36:53 GMT -6
I have used Chat GPT to create a play calling simulation game.
Have it react to your play calls and give down and distance, ball location, etc. Its pretty nerdy, but there aren't too many other places where you can get randomized results on your play calls.
It takes a while to set up the correct template. You can ask it to blitz you a certain % based on a specific D&D. Have randomized penalties, dropped balls etc. You can suggest certain position groups are better or worse than your group. Basically make it as detailed as you want it to be. You can teach it your play calls as well.
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Post by breakerdog on Mar 8, 2024 12:24:43 GMT -6
HC bought one. I will let you know when we get on it.
Seems like we can get lot's of reps of tracking and making contact. No great for finishing as already pointed out.
Fun way to condition for a position group.
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 5, 2023 9:59:07 GMT -6
Was at a D3 game on Saturday night. Back and forth, high-scoring contest. With about 3:30 left in regulation, the visiting team rips off a 70-yard TD run and takes the lead 41-35. However, they miss the extra point but still have 1 timeout remaining. Home team gets the ball back and drives down to the goal line. They have 1st and goal from the 1-yard line with all three timeouts. There is less than a minute left. They punch it in and kick the PAT to take the lead 42-41 with :48 left in regulation. Here's my question...would it have been crazy for the home team to have taken a knee on 1st down to bleed time off the clock or at least force the visiting team to use their final timeout? Considering the home team had all 3 timeouts remaining, they would still have 3 downs to get the ball in the endzone. If they take a knee on 1st down and then score on 2nd, 3rd, or 4th down and then kick the PAT, the visiting team would get the ball back but with very little time on the clock and no timeouts. My thinking is that the home team was not playing great defense and the visiting team only needed a FG to win the game. Any thoughts? I hear you, but just couldn't live with myself if we f'd up and didn't score there somehow. In the end I would call run plays, try to use the full clock and just get it in without being too cute. I would rather give the kids a chance to win than being too cute and letting the football gods strike us down.
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 5, 2023 9:53:35 GMT -6
I, for one, was thinking it was going to be a trainwreck. In fact you could say that I was hoping it would be a trainwreck. It's only one game, and all possibilities are still out there, but they looked miles better than I would have ever given them credit for. It's a long season, but right now, Colorado is the hottest team in the sport.
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Post by breakerdog on Aug 24, 2023 12:15:52 GMT -6
What I am seeing is a greater variety of scheme. With the ease of access to film and social media football coaches showing the inner workings of NFL/NCAA teams, the coordinators are getting more comfortable with doing more stuff. Pre Covid we got pretty much generic spread football from most opponents.
On the other hand, I am seeing less focus and worse fundamentally sound football. Just basic stuff like stance & start, back pedal, route running, blocking and tackling.
My guess is that there are less position coach craftsmen out there who really grind on basics and get the repetitious minutia correct. The running joke around here is the visor wearing OC with the facemelter offensive wizardry, but the truth is scheme is what is getting glorified in football and the people who create football content are pushing their products. You will get more hits on your Youtube page showing the new way to run Mesh that you will showing WR blocking drills.
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Post by breakerdog on Aug 21, 2023 7:26:09 GMT -6
9 guys on our starting defense are in their 2nd or 1st year of playing football. This is the key phrase here. It just takes time! I have zero expectations for any new to football kid.
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Post by breakerdog on Jun 22, 2023 10:02:04 GMT -6
My son started tackle football at 8. In retrospect that was too early. He was/is a big kid but wasn't mentally ready for it and it turned him off the game for a while. I don't think there is one answer for this question. Every kid is different. I see some kids signing up to play HS football for the first time who are not ready for contact sports and some kids that are killing it at 9 years old.
If I was going to make a general statement, I would let them join flag whenever they wanted join. Tackle not until at least 10-11 years old, if not older.
As far as coaching question goes, if you aren't happy get involved. Youth organizations are always begging for help. You won't regret time spent with your son.
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Post by breakerdog on Jun 13, 2023 10:16:00 GMT -6
- Flexed arm hang off the goal post. - 3 man FG competition where each kid has to take a turn as kicker/holder/long snapper. - O vs D rock/paper/scissors. Whoever wins stays at the front of the line, loser is out. Keep going until the last guy standing. - heavy plyo ball throwing races - Big man high jump competition using stacked coffin bags and a crash mat - 3 point shooting contest using footballs and trash cans
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Post by breakerdog on Jan 26, 2023 8:53:52 GMT -6
Got a few
- Have posted this one before. I was the JV HC at a previous school about 20 years ago. I had a kid come out for our JV team named Herbert. He was a natural #1 tech with a huge body and all kinds of athleticism. He had been kicked out of school a few times and had a bad rep. He had pulled a knife on a teacher once. Long track record of fighting, bullying and anger issues. I had a few teachers come by and warn me about him. He was big, fast, mean and nasty. He scared the other kids on my team.
Turns out the kids Dad had died a few years back and his mom was a train wreck with addiction issues. His need for structure and authority was blindingly obvious to me. We had a few head banging episodes the first few weeks but he got on board. He was yes sir-ing and no sir-ing in no time. He turned into a beast on the field. Got all kinds of positive re-enforcement from football and loved the team/family message we preached. Became a captain on our Varsity team. Got a scholarship and a degree. Haven't seen him in quite a while, but he wrote me a few years back saying he had a job, a wife and a new baby. I felt like my influence had something to with his turn around and that I impacted more than one life. Still gives me warm fuzzies.
- Had an exchange student from the UK. Terrible athlete, but wanted the football experience. Great kid. Funny as hell. I gave him a position on the KO team. We were essentially a man down, but that was his gig and he loved being a part of it. His parents came to visit and got to come to a game. He made his first and only special teams tackle. He essentially fell down on the field and the ball carrier tripped over him when he tried to hurdle him. He got up and ran off the field, through the opposing teams bench into the stands. Yelling "Dad, Dad, I made a tackle!" He was hugging his Dad in full gear and he was crying he was so happy.
- Coaching my sons 10 year old basketball team. Had a tiny kid named Liam that may be the worst athlete I have ever seen. Like every pass to him was off his face because he couldn't catch. Had him out there on a regular shift and he had no idea what was going on for most of the season.
Our last regular season game before playoffs. Didn't matter if we won or lost. Liam hasn't scored a basket all year, so we are determined. All of the other kids are dishing him the ball at all times. They were excited too. Setting triple picks for him because the other team was on to our plan. He got off multiple shots, most not even hitting the back board. He had a few that agonizingly rolled around the rim. The parents and crowd were all groaning and actively cheering for this kid to get it. Finally, near the end of the game, he bounced one in. Crowd goes crazy. Me and the whole team leave the bench and charge the floor. I pick him up and carry him around on my shoulder while the whole team of 10 year olds go crazy and jump around. Mom crying in the stands. Ref gives us a technical.
Mom wrote me an email about how much confidence he gained from the experience. My son tells me that he trys out for the school team each year and never makes it. Keeps coming back.
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Post by breakerdog on Nov 18, 2022 12:08:53 GMT -6
Every once in while you start to think that you have seen it all, and then something comes along.
Play off game. We are behind by 1 score, last play of the half. They have the ball on our ten.
They call a run play and we stop them. However.....
Our CB had lined up off side. Now, I am not talking about "in the neutral zone" or "foot over the line". He was fully behind the WR that was spread out and on the LOS. He was about 4-5 yards on the other side of the ball, looking 90 yards downfield into nothingness. He had played the entire first half up to this point lining up correctly.
It's on our side of the field and I am about 20 yards away from him. Didn't fully comprehend what I was seeing at first, then yelling at him to get back to the other side of the LOS. Looked at me with the blank stare and lifted his hands in the shrug pose.
Penalty. Can't end the half on a penalty. Of course they score on the free play. We go on to lose the game.
He had no response as to why he lined up like that.
Proper stance at least, I can give him credit for that.
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Post by breakerdog on Oct 25, 2022 7:57:43 GMT -6
After coaching my son for many years in football, I made a commitment last year to start coaching my daughter as well in whatever capacity I could find. I somehow ended up coaching a middle school girls basketball team. I told my wife I wouldn't do it unless she was my assistant, so we took it on as a family. Honestly one of the best experiences of my life.
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Post by breakerdog on Feb 4, 2022 9:35:17 GMT -6
There are some people who share great content. There are some people who share great content and sell a product that has great content. There are some people who sell a product.
I think the proliferation of other coaching resources out there, and some negative behavior in here has kind of lead to a slow down of these boards and many solid contributors no longer posting.
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 23, 2021 13:37:51 GMT -6
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 22, 2021 10:05:24 GMT -6
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Post by breakerdog on Feb 2, 2021 9:07:17 GMT -6
www.instructables.com/DIY-Glass-Dry-Erase-Board/This is a big winner for me. I have mounted them at work and at home. You can even paint the surface behind the glass black and use white/colored pens for writing. Easy, cheap and replaceable. Do these erase well? Any problems with not erasing completely? No issues. It's just glass. Worst case scenario is when some dummy (me) uses permanent marker without looking. You can always just take the windex to it. I would say the two biggest issues are breakage and lack of contrast. I am thinking about replacing mine with plexiglass. I have also found that painting the back of the glass gives the best results. Might want to switch to wine glass markers for better results over the typical dry erase.
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Post by breakerdog on Jan 30, 2021 9:54:42 GMT -6
www.instructables.com/DIY-Glass-Dry-Erase-Board/This is a big winner for me. I have mounted them at work and at home. You can even paint the surface behind the glass black and use white/colored pens for writing. Easy, cheap and replaceable.
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Post by breakerdog on Oct 7, 2020 8:06:38 GMT -6
I had a parent meeting last night. I was thinking of this thread the whole time.
After a win against a cross town rival, I got an email from a parent complaining about playing time. I thought it was odd, because although the kid wasn't a starter, he played quite a bit. Anyway, we meet to talk about it and the parent was upset that their child was on the sidelines the whole time with their helmet off and never got in the game. I explained that wasn't true and offered to show them the game film. They were adamant that they watched #11 the whole time and he didn't go in.
Their son wears #11 practice jersey and we have just randomly given out practice jerseys. They were watching the wrong kid the whole time. When they realized their mistake it got real quiet.
Three things that really make this awesome.
1- When they went to their kid after the game they asked him why he didn't play. He agreed with them that he didn't.
2- The kid who wears #11 game jersey is a short skinny Asian kid who was injured and was just hanging out on the sidelines during the game with a hat on. Their son is a tall white DL.
3- It was the third game of the season.
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Post by breakerdog on Oct 1, 2020 8:26:01 GMT -6
Assuming there aren't any logistical concerns, like a shortage of coaches to keep the sideline organized or something like that, when I'm calling plays I want the solitude to make my decisions with the best process I can. I don't want 500 people making suggestions. I have all the information I need arrayed just the way I want, I have my most trusted lieutenant on the radio, I might have a second, and I shut out all the chaos of the sideline where people let emotions take over and read deep narratives into every random event. Give me the booth. ^^^^^This^^^^ Another benefit to being in the box is that I liked to take notes and use a sheet to keep track of what the opponent did on certain D&D during a game (I was the DC), so I needed some desk space. You can't efficiently do that on the sideline imo. If I need tot alk to a kid, I had an assistant get him on the headset between series. I LOVED being on the sidelines during games as a position coach, but to be the coordinator I needed the solitude. Also, sometimes there is food up there! One thing that was a huge game changer for me was having a second in the booth filming each snap with an iPad. When the defense is on the field, you can review the drive and see what's really going on. It's a semi low tech version of Hudl sidelines.
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 28, 2020 11:20:06 GMT -6
#1- Weight Room #2- Staff #3- Recruit athletes #4- Be different scheme wise
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 28, 2020 8:51:05 GMT -6
This is the line that caught my eye. Adding to the question marks swirling around this story: the AD that fired Sanchez, Patrick Turner, is also Menendez’s offensive coordinator.
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 23, 2020 8:53:56 GMT -6
One local school goes out of their way to make new players feel comfortable and give them a safe place to start. The HC's reasoning is that the kids who have played minor football their whole lives are coming no matter what, you already have them, so how do you give the new starters a good experience.
They have a week of new players only in the spring. Kids get to come out and wear equipment, do some fundamentals and learn how to practice. They get the weight room introduction and some basic scheme installed. It gives the kids a way to get started without getting destroyed by your more experienced players. It takes a lot of resources to go through this, but by all accounts they get most of the new kids to stay and commit to a season.
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 22, 2020 16:21:46 GMT -6
I had a question. I'm a first-time OC at the HS level. In a no-huddle, higher-tempo offense, do you prefer the box or the sidelines? Any advice would be appreciated. If you are in a cold weather state, take the booth.
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Post by breakerdog on Sept 27, 2019 8:34:45 GMT -6
Great story coach. We would love to hear how it turns out. Keep us updated.
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Post by breakerdog on Jul 25, 2019 14:48:32 GMT -6
Urban Meyer - Above the Line
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Post by breakerdog on Jun 19, 2019 8:22:19 GMT -6
Ultimate with a football. Two teams in a defined area, with opposing end zones. The only rule is you can't run or move with the ball. You can forward or backwards lateral. Got to get into the end zone with possession to score. If the ball hits the ground, possession goes to the other team. Young kids start out with short hand offs and tosses, eventually they figure out long passes. Fun to watch them evolve.
Great for COD, getting open, high pointing the ball, catching the ball in traffic, playing defense etc.
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Post by breakerdog on Mar 25, 2019 14:05:59 GMT -6
I thought my favorite part of being a coach would be watching my great athletes make plays on the field. It's actually watching my average athletes make plays on the field and seeing my gifted athletes have success off the field.
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Post by breakerdog on Mar 12, 2019 10:36:30 GMT -6
My belief is that a team consists of 3 equal sides of a triangle. The three sides are Technical, Culture and Personnel. The goal for your team is to have the area of the triangle as large as possible. It's possible to have a very short technical line (scheme + fundamentals) and still win if you have a really long Personnel line (Genetically gifted athletes) or vice versa. The sides of these triangles are equal in value to your success. I don't believe that culture beats scheme or personnel beats culture etc. They are all valuable and need to be addressed.
When your team goes into a competition with another, you are generally just comparing the area of your triangles with a little bit of luck factor thrown in.
If you use this to evaluate your team, you can make decisions about where to put more resources. Most of us are limited in the personnel area to what comes in the door. We, as coaches can affect scheme/fundies as well as culture pretty much everyday.
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Post by breakerdog on Mar 8, 2019 8:55:47 GMT -6
One of the best things about this board is when coaches who maybe aren't at the high end of the technological skill set use the search function and then respond to threads from over a decade ago. Then all the currently active posters come piling on and continue the conversation from 12 years ago without missing a beat.
The subject of this post and most other things about coaching football are as relevant today as it was in 2007 and probably was in 1987.
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Post by breakerdog on Mar 6, 2019 11:57:36 GMT -6
Would definitely recommend a Rocketbook for the future. So easy to set up and use. Take notes, upload instantly and erase. I also like it for doodling and sending things to coaches as it can be sent to multiple people via text as well. As for past notes from before the Rocketbook I have scanned them within ScanPro. All are now in Drive which I can access from anywhere and are separated by year. I also have a “Thoughts for ___” doc that I’ve done the past four years that takes the little nuggets I get each year and want to incorporate the next season. Another vote for Rocketbook. Really easy to use and organize into your Google drive. Still get to take hand written notes and scribbles, play diagrams etc. Best of both worlds.
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Post by breakerdog on Apr 12, 2018 12:19:32 GMT -6
Thinking out of the box here. Bring Fortnite to your lifting session a few times a week. Rotate position groups through, make it a team bonding thingy. It's not exactly in the Woody Hayes playbook, but worth thinking about.
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