Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Teaching Videos

Something I highly recommend doing is creating teaching videos for your position group.  These clips are from the 2007 season when I coached WRs for a team that did not throw the ball that much, but we took a lot of pride in our blocking (most of our passing highlights weren't even from our WRs, they were from our TE).  It takes a bit of work to create a highlight video for your position but the task is made easier with programs like Hudl.  You tag the plays you want and then you can add some music if you like.  It helps to reinforce the effort and performance we are looking for and it gives younger players entering into your football program something to reference and strive for.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Slant Route - Getting Leverage on the Defender

This film is from 2003 Norm Chow era USC TV cut-ups, which is all I had to study before access to coaches film became more prevalent.  These are the best examples of the right and wrong way to run the Slant route that I have ever seen.  Both examples are from the same game and both were 3rd Down plays.  I coach my WRs running the Slant route to attack the inside # of the defender with their three steps.  I have heard coaches before tell their WRs to attack the outside # to open the DB's hips and then come inside.  That works in theory, but as you will see in the cut-ups, it does not always work in practice.  Mike Williams was a Freshman running the Slant route in the first cut-up.  He doesn't attack the inside # of the defender to gain leverage (position) and he ends up running into the CB.  It's a sloppy route by an inexperienced player that lead to a Punt on that possession.