Coach and Coordinator Podcast

From Season 2 of the Leadership Journey Show This week in the Leadership Journey series, Keith Grabowski and Brian Kight talk about the variation of effort and commitment in a team. They discuss how coaches get the effort desired from their players. Throughout the course of a season, coaches gain an idea of who is giving maximum effort and who is committed as well as those who are not. Keith and B...

On this week's Mushroom Society Series installment, retired NFL and college coach Steve Szabo joins us to discuss his development as a coach, developing in the profession, and we get his perspective on preparing and playing against the offense, in particular, the offensive line. Shownotes: -From the Naval Academy to Viet Nam to coaching -Learning the game -Insight gained from Earl Bruce, Tom Cough...

This week on the Teach Tapes, Steve Hauser and Keith begin a "walk down the field" highlighting situations that occur and the techniques that are showcased in each area. They begin with the backed-up area of the field and view this situation from an offense, defense, and special teams perspective. Shownotes: -Walking the field Jay Bilas style -The game is always played in context -Josh McDaniels -...

On this week's Defense with DC installment, Keith and guest host Dan Carrel discuss Alabama-Tennessee, Kentucky-Mississippi State, and SMU-Navy games o different aspects of defense. Shownotes: -Alabama-Tennessee -Split manipulation -Defending stacks -Delineating how to play different stacks -Max splits becomes man -What to prepare for with stacks -Motion into stacks -Mesh from condensed splits -Me...

Game Plan Show Notes: This week in the Game Plan series, Coach Keith Grabowski and Coach Charlie coiner talk to former FBS Coach Jim Hueber, about the importance of short yardage play on offense. He talks about the difference in game-play from personnel and detail. He also gave tips and tools of what he did that were helpful and how to add those tips into game-play. He laid out very precise coachi...

On today's episode of the Mushroom Society Series, Joe Thomas joins Keith and Bob Wylie to discuss what great coaches do. Bob shares his perspective on successful coaching and how player ownership is a big part of it. Shownotes: -What is good coaching? -Knowing when you are being coached well -Creating player ownership -The meeting room -Learning styles -Reaching all players -The Validator -The pa...

From Season 1 of the Leadership Journey – “Win by Don’t” Show Notes: This week on the Leadership Journey podcast, Keith and Brian get in-depth on behavior. Brian calls this “Win by Don’t,” by painting a picture of how behavior is core to a program’s success. He gives us the five “Don’ts” that are pivotal not only to football but life. The hosts give real-life examples of how this works and how the...

Steve Hauser identifies the techniques required for avoiding penalties and finding the little edges necessary to win games decided by smaller and smaller margins. Set up your program with an appreciation for preparation, focus, and football IQ. Follow Steve Hauser on Twitter @HauserFootball. Show Notes: (1:29) Offensive Pre-Snap Penalties >Must Have Team Buy-In >Must Have Sideline Engaged >Close Y...

On this episode, we discuss how one of the top FBS defenses is getting it done with fundamentals. Dan gives his three musts for successful red zone defense, and he shares his thoughts on defending the option with Bear. Shownotes: -Illinois defense -Fixing the defense by excelling at the fundamentals -Tite Front/Defensive Line Play -2 Trap -Exotics on 3rd -Red zone musts -Don't let them run it in -...

Eger On this week’s OC Office Hours are joined by Charlie Eger who will be the TE coach for the XFL Vegas team. The topic today is focused on find a way to get a first down when the match-ups are particularly tough. Coach Eger served most recently as the running backs coach for the Ottawa Red Blacks with extensive coaching experience at the collegiate level, including serving as the Interim Offens...

Today’s guest on the Mushroom Society Series on the Coach and Coordinator Podcast is with retired NFL Coach Al Saunders. Coach Saunders began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at USC under John McKay from 1970–71 and served as receivers coach for the University of Missouri's Fiesta Bowl team in 1972. Saunders spent 1973 through 1975 as a play-caller and offensive backfield coach at Utah...

From our archives: On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by the founder of dailydiscipline.com and former CEO of Focus 3 Brian Kight. Having been on the show previously for the “Leadership Journey” series, Kight rejoins the show to speak on how and when coaches should use “their gut.” 3:15 Information versus trusting your gut 10:20 What does ‘Trust your gut’ mean...

On this week's episode of TeachTapes we discuss techniques and drills to create explosive passing plays. Detailed shownotes and links to follow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of our in-season defensive series "Defense with DC," USFL Michigan Panthers Defensive Coordinator Dan Carrel focuses on some things we can learn from the Ole Miss defense, situational end of the game, and defending the option. Shownotes: -Desert Swarm -Using unique fronts to reduce from -Coaching movement -Drills and technique -Defending condensed formation -Coaching the "bu...

Our guest on our in-season OC Office Hour series is Jaime Elizondo, Offensive Coordinator for XFL San Antonio. He discusses an approach to situational football, especially in regard to how it affects the game in the 4th quarter. Shownotes: -Early game decisions are not black and white -Finding the Hidden Momentum in decision making -Two thought processes - every drive ends in a kick or by in-game...

In this episode, Keith pulls from the chapters of the book The Run and Shoot: The Offense of the Future by Glenn "Tiger" Ellison, creator of the Run and Shoot. The lesson written by Coach Ellison is about the platform we have as coaches to build young men and how we have that opportunity by winning. He defines winning and the purpose of coaching as well as discusses why winning allows us to have t...

In this episode from Season 2 of the Leadership Journey, Brian Kight joins the Coach and Coordinator podcast to share insight on building a culture and the leadership necessary for it to thrive. Leadership development is not just an off-season activity. It is an ongoing process that presents new opportunities to strengthen leadership during the season. That's what BK and discuss in this episode. 0...

In this week's episode of Teach Tapes, we put the focus on explosive runs and the drills and techniques to create and stop them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MTSU -DL is getting vertical -Creating pass rush on RPO -Penetration kills the play -Spilling the run -Safety fitting inside - opening the glance window -Double squeeze double out into trap coverage -3 Under - 2 Deep pressure -Building a library of critical situations -Defending 2-minute -The work you did in August won’t be enough in October -Working against specifics rather than generalities -The...

On this week's installment of the OC Office Hour, Tony Franklin joins Keith to discuss what a coordinator should do at this point in the season to take a look at how things are going, admit mistakes, take ownership for adjustments, and plan for disasters. Related: Developing as an Offensive Coordinator https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/from-the-archives-tony-franklin-developing-as-an-offensive...

Leadership Journey Show Notes In this episode from the archives of the Leadership Journey Keith and Brian talk to coaches about the gap between average and elite coaches. They go past the Xs and Os to find deeper reasoning of why so many coaches even with success miss the mark of elite. They express how having behavioral skills is what pushes coaches to the elite level and give examples of those w...

On this week's episode of The Mushroom Society Series, Kyle Caskey joins Keith and Bob Wylie to discuss blitz pick-up, help systems, coaching the offensive line and QB on protection, the player-coach relationship, and more. Bob and Kyle share stories from their NFL experiences in regard to the topics. Shownotes: -Sacks and hits matter more than pressures -Handling who calls the protection -Tampa B...

In this episode of TeachTapes, Keith and guest Host Steve Hauser discuss the ideas of teaching security and teaching takeaways. Steve shares some of the innovative drills he's seen across the different levels of football as well as the situations in which those techniques take place in the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of the Defense with DC Series, Dan Carrel, DC, Michigan Panthers joins us again, this time to talk about self-scouting the defensive game plan. Shownotes: -Self-scout the game plan -Distributions, not just formations -work against motions early in the week -Trends -Birmingham example -Splits - What do they tell you? -Spacing -Use of practice video -Prepare the right way -Don't w...

Our guest today on OC Office Hour is AJ Smith, OC for the XFL Team Houston. Coach Smith shares some things he's seeing this season in college football as well as the NFL and how it all relates historically. Shownotes: -Trends developing in the college game -All offenses are similar -No more naming offenses -11 Tempo RPO Offense -Historically how offenses change -Trends on defense - single high cov...