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Post by bird0660 on Apr 16, 2021 8:55:00 GMT -6
Coaches,
Interested to know what verbiage you use to help players remember technique that may be interesting?
For instance, we use "turbulence" such as flight turbulence to describe the in phase hand fighting of a DB.
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"tail pipe" to describe following a WR across the middle (we want to get right behind his tail pipe) so we dont get picked.
Do you guys have anything like that for any positions? I found our kids remember them, and their technique, well that way.
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Post by fantom on Apr 16, 2021 12:30:18 GMT -6
These are a few that we used with DB's in man coverage:
"Sniffing butt"- Running directly behind, on the same track as, a receiver who has gotten behind you vertically. Nothing good comes of this. If you do happen to catch the guy all that you can do is commit PI.
The "Oh please, God" look- When a receiver gets behind you vertically and you stop or slow your feet and look back at the QB. We call it that because now only an act of God- a drop or a bad pass- can save you now.
"Cutoff"- The correct response to having a receiver run by you. Get inside leverage, get your eyes on the receiver, and sprint for the cutoff point a yard ahead of the receiver. Don't look back until you get there. You're not beaten until the receiver catches the ball. The ball may be underthrown. The receiver may bobble it. Even if he catches it running with the ball may slow him enough to let you catch him and save a TD.
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 16, 2021 16:21:35 GMT -6
We used to name our secondary coverages by a word that began with the same letter as the number of the coverage. One was Oiler, Two was Tampa, Three was Thyroid (a kid suggested it) and Four, or Quarters was an automatic check for us to a Trips set if we were in Three but I couldn't think of a Q word. I asked the kids at practice if they had any suggestions (we sort of came up with these at 7on7 practice one day as they were yelling the coverage number across the field and it was obvious what we were doing).
One kid goes "I know a good Q word." Oh really? What? Kwanzaa.
We all died, but from that day forward our quarter/quarter/half check was Kwanzaa. Some of the bigger teams with a more diverse roster used to look at us a little cross eyed for that.
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Post by carookie on Apr 16, 2021 18:05:10 GMT -6
I used to coach at a very conservative school where the vast majority of the kids were raised in extremely pro-republican anti-democrat households. The HC/OC was along those lines as well.
In game, if he had a play called to go one way, but due to the defenses alignment wanted to flip it the other way he would call "Obama". The premise being that Obama flip-flopped on the issues, so he was flip-flopping the play direction.
The more politically minded of the kids got a kick out of that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 18:36:50 GMT -6
My first coach got his offense terminology from UGA. He said he got it from uni. I suspect it was named liquor store.
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Post by mattharris75 on Apr 16, 2021 19:14:40 GMT -6
One of the ball security coaching points I used to use with running backs was the phrase, "Rub the nipp1e off"... No teenage boy ever forgot the word nipp1e!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 19:16:27 GMT -6
One of the ball security coaching points I used to use with running backs was the phrase, "Rub the nipp1e off"... No teenage boy ever forgot the word nipp1e! LOL!!!!! |
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Post by wolverine55 on Apr 16, 2021 19:42:25 GMT -6
"Wall of Ass" to refer to what the playside blocking should look like on power/counter. That's back when we emphasized horizontal push more than vertical push. We don't teach reach blocks this way anymore, but back when we bucket stepped on them a coaching point was "Lose ground to gain ground" meaning we could give up some penetration as long as we got the DL reached.
Not really a technique thing, but I played for a college coach who called a 4-4 defense "Flop." It stuck in my mind because I haven't heard anyone else refer to a 4-4 as that since.
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Post by aceback76 on Apr 17, 2021 5:10:48 GMT -6
Coaches, Interested to know what verbiage you use to help players remember technique that may be interesting? For instance, we use "turbulence" such as flight turbulence to describe the in phase hand fighting of a DB. OR "tail pipe" to describe following a WR across the middle (we want to get right behind his tail pipe) so we dont get picked. Do you guys have anything like that for any positions? I found our kids remember them, and their technique, well that way. We have a complete "dictionary" of offensive terms we use, but they are pretty standard, & not "catchy" by any means. |
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 17, 2021 7:39:54 GMT -6
I'm shocked.
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Post by bulldogsdc on Apr 19, 2021 7:51:28 GMT -6
We use the term "Bloody their nose", "Run it down their Face" and "Run your screws through his face" These terms signify that we want our players to play with an increased level of physicality.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Apr 19, 2021 9:38:15 GMT -6
I tell our kids on just about everything... to EXPECT A FAST BALL! This means to expect the guy to be on you ASAP and as close as can be. if you are ready for that you can adjust to him not being much easier than you can adjust if your not ready for it and he is.
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Post by pistolwhipped on Apr 19, 2021 9:51:12 GMT -6
"Instagram Model!"
butt back, chest out
-squats
-OL Pass pro
-LB stances
-whatever
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 10:54:08 GMT -6
“Get the clap”
In practice the kids would clap the hands as they are coming out stance. Re enforces hands inside and elbows tight.. almost impossible to get hand outside frame if you get the clap.
And kiss the breast. Taught head and eye placement.
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Post by carookie on Apr 19, 2021 13:38:51 GMT -6
"Instagram Model!" butt back, chest out -squats -OL Pass pro -LB stances -whatever I have used the names of actual models at various times to achieve that same goal. For the life of me I can't think of any that around today that the kids would know though. Plus, me being in my 40s now, it would probably come off as creepy if I were describing some model in her early 20s. |
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Post by pistolwhipped on Apr 19, 2021 14:45:48 GMT -6
"Instagram Model!" butt back, chest out -squats -OL Pass pro -LB stances -whatever I have used the names of actual models at various times to achieve that same goal. For the life of me I can't think of any that around today that the kids would know though. Plus, me being in my 40s now, it would probably come off as creepy if I were describing some model in her early 20s. Ive used Beyonce for hip hinging before. lol coaches are a weird breed for sure. |
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Post by carookie on Apr 19, 2021 15:38:22 GMT -6
I have used the names of actual models at various times to achieve that same goal. For the life of me I can't think of any that around today that the kids would know though. Plus, me being in my 40s now, it would probably come off as creepy if I were describing some model in her early 20s. Ive used Beyonce for hip hinging before. lol coaches are a weird breed for sure. As have I. I think she was one of the go to's for form description too |
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Post by kcbazooka on Apr 25, 2021 19:28:49 GMT -6
Verbiage - punt return team and the ball hits the ground - you want the kids to get away . I’ve heard coaches teach “ Peter”, “hot”, “poison”. After 40 years of coaching, we came up with a breakthrough innovation and yell “GET AWAY”
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 26, 2021 6:14:45 GMT -6
Verbiage - punt return team and the ball hits the ground - you want the kids to get away . I’ve heard coaches teach “ Peter”, “hot”, “poison”. After 40 years of coaching, we came up with a breakthrough innovation and yell “GET AWAY” No matter what you yell, it won't prevent them from getting closer to it. |
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Post by Down 'n Out on Apr 26, 2021 6:45:57 GMT -6
I used to coach at a very conservative school where the vast majority of the kids were raised in extremely pro-republican anti-democrat households. The HC/OC was along those lines as well. In game, if he had a play called to go one way, but due to the defenses alignment wanted to flip it the other way he would call "Obama". The premise being that Obama flip-flopped on the issues, so he was flip-flopping the play direction. The more politically minded of the kids got a kick out of that. 5 years ago we ran a Dive/Wedge play from Pistol to our TB and I told the line we were building a wall for the TB to run behind. We allowed the QB to check to that play at any time but couldn't come up with a good audible call, I think it was my suggestion but it ended up being "Trump" because we were building the wall. Kids loved it, mostly because it was silly. One of our coaches did not care for it lol but it stuck. kids took it farther and would make the same audible with "Twenty Sixteen" or "Wall". In my playing days (early 2000s) our drop back pass protection was line all down blocked and the backfield(Split Backs or I) would each take an edge, really hard for the DL to get any penetration. Our line call for that protection was "Brittany Spears". At that time was was our age and the big topic of discussion was whether or not she was a virgin with the general consensus being she was, so there was no penetration. Peter is my favorite for a punt that may hit one of your guys. Most of the kids dont know why the call is peter and they always get a kick out of it when I explain it |
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 26, 2021 6:49:30 GMT -6
I didn't know why it was Peter until I started coaching.
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Post by dbeck84 on Apr 26, 2021 7:08:26 GMT -6
Every staff I've been on as a player or coach previous to this one used Oskee as a call to let the defense know we have the ball off of a fumble or interception. First practice on my current staff, I called Oskee and everybody looked at me like I was sprouting a second head.
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Post by bluedevil4 on Apr 26, 2021 12:52:42 GMT -6
We used to name our secondary coverages by a word that began with the same letter as the number of the coverage. One was Oiler, Two was Tampa, Three was Thyroid (a kid suggested it) and Four, or Quarters was an automatic check for us to a Trips set if we were in Three but I couldn't think of a Q word. I asked the kids at practice if they had any suggestions (we sort of came up with these at 7on7 practice one day as they were yelling the coverage number across the field and it was obvious what we were doing). One kid goes "I know a good Q word." Oh really? What? Kwanzaa. We all died, but from that day forward our quarter/quarter/half check was Kwanzaa. Some of the bigger teams with a more diverse roster used to look at us a little cross eyed for that. When I was in high school, we used playing card suits + Joker. * Joker = 0 * Spades = 1 (1 point) * Hearts = 2 (2 humps) * Clubs = 3 (3 humps) * Diamonds = 4 (4 points) I never strayed from it personally, and love using playing card terminology for defensive calls. King/Queen/Jack/Ace, flush/full house/pair, Euchre/Cribbage/Poker, etc. |
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Post by Defcord on Apr 26, 2021 13:13:26 GMT -6
We used to name our secondary coverages by a word that began with the same letter as the number of the coverage. One was Oiler, Two was Tampa, Three was Thyroid (a kid suggested it) and Four, or Quarters was an automatic check for us to a Trips set if we were in Three but I couldn't think of a Q word. I asked the kids at practice if they had any suggestions (we sort of came up with these at 7on7 practice one day as they were yelling the coverage number across the field and it was obvious what we were doing). One kid goes "I know a good Q word." Oh really? What? Kwanzaa. We all died, but from that day forward our quarter/quarter/half check was Kwanzaa. Some of the bigger teams with a more diverse roster used to look at us a little cross eyed for that. When I was in high school, we used playing card suits + Joker. * Joker = 0 * Spades = 1 (1 point) * Hearts = 2 (2 humps) * Clubs = 3 (3 humps) * Diamonds = 4 (4 points) I never strayed from it personally, and love using playing card terminology for defensive calls. King/Queen/Jack/Ace, flush/full house/pair, Euchre/Cribbage/Poker, etc. I'm from the midwest so I played quite a bit of Euchre growing up. I have coached in NC, SC, GA and Florida and I don't know if any kids have ever known what Euchre was it has come up in conversation. Do kids know what cribbage and euchre are? |
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Post by tog on Apr 26, 2021 14:03:08 GMT -6
we used to yell out "peter" for the punt return team to get out of the way
one kid went over there and picked it up (his name was peter) "dang coach, thought yall wanted me to go get it
we then just used the term "grenade"---they got that better
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Post by blb on Apr 26, 2021 14:25:54 GMT -6
we used to yell out "peter" for the punt return team to get out of the way one kid went over there and picked it up (his name was peter) "dang coach, thought yall wanted me to go get it we then just used the term "grenade"---they got that better One syllable words are better, more easily vocalized-heard-understood. "HOT-HOT-HOT" as in "Hot potato, don't touch it!" A football is kind of shaped like a potato. |
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Post by silkyice on Apr 26, 2021 14:43:58 GMT -6
Every staff I've been on as a player or coach previous to this one used Oskee as a call to let the defense know we have the ball off of a fumble or interception. First practice on my current staff, I called Oskee and everybody looked at me like I was sprouting a second head. We are Bingo on interception. Peter on get away from a punt or field goal. Fire on mishandled snap on FG or extra point. Ball on fumble. |
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Post by coachcb on Apr 26, 2021 14:47:56 GMT -6
we used to yell out "peter" for the punt return team to get out of the way one kid went over there and picked it up (his name was peter) "dang coach, thought yall wanted me to go get it we then just used the term "grenade"---they got that better One syllable words are better, more easily vocalized-heard-understood. "HOT-HOT-HOT" as in "Hot potato, don't touch it!" A football is kind of shaped like a potato.
We had a special teams coordinator who had the kids making a "fire" call to tell the kids to avoid the ball on PR. However, we also tagged a blitz as "fire". We were repping PR for the first time in August, the punt is shanked, and everyone is yelling "FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!". Two peeled off of their PR protection and sprinted back towards the punter.
The ST coordinator flips his lid and one of the kids tells him "Everyone was yelling fire so I turned around and blitzed, coach!". Needless to say, he went with "hot" from there on out.
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Post by larrymoe on Apr 26, 2021 18:08:55 GMT -6
When I was in high school, we used playing card suits + Joker. * Joker = 0 * Spades = 1 (1 point) * Hearts = 2 (2 humps) * Clubs = 3 (3 humps) * Diamonds = 4 (4 points) I never strayed from it personally, and love using playing card terminology for defensive calls. King/Queen/Jack/Ace, flush/full house/pair, Euchre/Cribbage/Poker, etc. I'm from the midwest so I played quite a bit of Euchre growing up. I have coached in NC, SC, GA and Florida and I don't know if any kids have ever known what Euchre was it has come up in conversation. Do kids know what cribbage and euchre are? I love euchre. My kids know what it is, but I don't think others do. I'm trying to raise mine right. |
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Post by blb on Apr 27, 2021 5:16:49 GMT -6
Friend of mine used cards to call RB motions.
"Ace" = Left RB motion out to left
"King" = Left RB motion across to right
"Queen" = Right RB motion across to left
"Joker" = Right RB motion out to right
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