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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Nov 14, 2019 6:16:51 GMT -6
Any advice or recommendations on programs, drills, activities to help train some young, inexperienced kids on mental toughness?
I don't like using the term toughness but...Bottom line, we are going to be a young team next year with some good potential but in the past we have struggled with getting our kids to
a.) believe they can win b.) compete at a high level every day c.) have the toughness to compete with the big dogs in our conference
Have heard of some programs focused on developing mental strength, but not real familiar with what all is out there.
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Jul 23, 2019 5:01:29 GMT -6
There's 2 reasons why they only won 2 games. 1.) Other teams had their playbook! 2.) Bobby Bruce got cut!
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Feb 4, 2019 7:28:01 GMT -6
Both defensive game plans were excellent and very well executed. At the end of the game, a brilliant move by McDaniels to play with their big personnel but go empty to get the Rams to have to stay in their base defense made the difference.
I'm still a big time believer in McVay and think he will win his fair share of big games, but Belichick just proved once again that he is the best ever and was a step ahead most of the night.
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Jan 10, 2019 6:50:11 GMT -6
Glazier VA Tech coaches clinic Maybe a NIKE COY clinic Do you have any details on the VA Tech coaches clinic? Can't find anything online as far as dates, registration info, etc..
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Nov 7, 2018 11:35:07 GMT -6
Kids just now understanding how to block veer.... our rule is first thing to the left or right (there’s a more advanced rule, but we don’t play any stacked teams). We randomly block the wrong way and get people killed in the backfield. Finished 3-6 with a low seed playoff bid, but now that we understand our rules idkkk what could happen. Glad it took 12 weeks for someone to understand the first thing to their left or right. Please tell me you are using terms like "Ram" and "Lion" because that's what we do and it absolutely baffles me how difficult some kids make it LOL
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Mar 12, 2018 10:20:05 GMT -6
The lineup at the Georgia clinic looks awfully hard to pass up!
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Jun 28, 2017 6:42:38 GMT -6
Not sure if this falls under "Weird Kids" or "Stupid Kids" but here we go..
Warming up for a game last season we notice one of our backup LB's and full time Special Teams guys is sitting in the bleachers with his parents eating a hot dog and drinking a Mountain Dew. In full gear. With his helmet sitting on the bleacher next to him. While the other 60 guys on the team are all out stretching and running thru pre-game indy drills...so, after we yell at him to get on the field he carries the hot dog with him and is eating it as he walks right thru my O-Line indy drill.
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Jun 5, 2017 6:35:24 GMT -6
That's true. I don't know if "Daddy-ball" is to blame but kids don't want to wait and work for an opportunity to play. I think that parents are partly to blame because they'll let, even encourage, kids to quit. Last school I was at, we had a pretty large group of kids that would play as freshmen but quit as soph only to come back as jrs or srs. Shockingly, most of them never caught back up. Had the same thing last year. Kids played as freshmen and were successful; then decided to play baseball year round and didn't come back out for football until their senior year. Didn't know the offense, didn't want to play defense, got mad when they didn't start at "their" position, then showed very low effort when they were on the field. Then we got to hear from their parents about how great they were as freshmen and that if we had used them right we would have won infinitely more games...
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on May 11, 2017 6:37:52 GMT -6
We are having a Thursday walkthrough in no gear last season and I have an OL that didn't bring extra clothes; just brought his full gear and the clothes he wore to school (khaki shorts and a t-shirt. Of course, instead of wearing his practice pants he decides to practice in his khaki shorts. One of the first plays of the day he gets knocked down (yes, I said walkthrough) and immediately starts crying that his nice shorts were ruined and heads to the locker room. Never saw him again...
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on May 5, 2017 7:55:33 GMT -6
Love the Tic Tac Toe drill; I tried doing something similar this winter indoors but I had a lineman break an ankle when another kid dove to get his cone down...our kids are dumb lol
Will definitely look to use the farmer carry races though! Good Stuff!
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Mar 17, 2017 8:10:34 GMT -6
One other note I will make, from an X's and O's standpoint one of the things BB does well is constantly vary the looks he gives on defense. You rarely ever see him stay in the same defense for an entire game, even going back to the Super Bowl against Buffalo when he was with the Giants and showed a different look every possession to slow down Jim Kelly and Marchibroda. Even this year, especially late in the season, the Patriots would constantly rotate between a 3-4 and a 4-2 look and move guys like Sheard and Hightower all over the place to keep the QB thinking.
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Mar 16, 2017 7:19:57 GMT -6
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Mar 14, 2017 9:20:33 GMT -6
Meats and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, no sugar.
To me it seems the biggest thing to teach high school kids would be how to prepare their meals and how to shop for healthy foods. Teach them how to grill a chicken breast, or how to brown ground beef, as well as how to shop correctly. Helping them get the 90 second pouches of brown rice that they can just throw in the microwave, the microwavable bags of veggies (or fresh ones that they can just slice up), and then maybe just going over the monthly school lunch menu with them and showing them acceptable foods that they could eat (if there are any lol)
If you could get a kid to fix a bag of chicken breasts, a couple pouches of rice, and a couple bags of vegetables to throw in with apples or bananas they could have a full week of healthy meals ready for themselves for a week in very little time. Then you throw in some whey protein shakes or something of that sort occasionally and they should be on the right path.
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Post by trenchwarfare58 on Feb 15, 2017 8:51:14 GMT -6
Listened to a HC from a big high school talk about his offensive "philosophy", which was more or less that he had 8 very fast, very big wide receivers he could run on go routes. So their offense was a spread with everybody running deep. QB was taught to throw it as far as he could in the direction of the guy with 1 on 1 coverage. After each play 4 receivers would run off the field and 4 new ones would come on...was fun to watch for a minute or two until you realized that was all he was going to show; don't get much of that in the cornfields of Indiana LOL
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