Coach and Coordinator Podcast

Brian Kight and Keith Grabowski team up for this special Leadership Journey edition of the Coach and Coordinator podcast. This podcast will occurred weekly throughout the 2017 season, the first year of the podcast. The series focused on issues that teams face during the season. Show notes -The future episodes for the Leadership Journey podcast -An overview of the performance pathway -Leadership is...

Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, The Game Plan, features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. Shea was offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coaches and teams once the se...

Coach DJ Eliot joins us on the fifth episode of our Defensive Series to discuss the #1 ranked defense in the FBS, the Wisconsin Badgers. Coach Eliot has 20+ years of coaching experience in the collegiate rankings. Coach Eliot’s pedigree includes coaching stops at Kansas, Florida State, Miami, Colorado and Kentucky, as well as time with proven winners and program builders Jimbo Fisher and Mark Stoo...

On this week's installment of "In the NZone" with long time offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone, Keith and Noel continue their discussion and brainstroming in exploring different ideas of how to structure an offense, use picture boards and code workds, sequenced plays and more. -an uptempo system structured differently -colors/numbers meaning default plays -using boards and signals -building 2 and...

St. Xavier (OH) offensive coordinator Andrew Coverdale sits down with Keith in this episode of the Coach and Coordinator podcast. Coverdale dishes on how the high school power house transitions their summer install into the season, the practice process on Monday and Saturday, and QB live pass periods. He also shares key offensive concepts that paved the way for Trinity’s 15-0, state title-winning...

Brian Kight and Keith Grabowski team up for this special Leadership Journey edition of the Coach and Coordinator podcast. This podcast will occur weekly throughout the season, focusing on issues that teams face during the season. Keith and Brian discuss the how to handle stress in today’s podcast. Show notes -The “survival” mentality -Viewing “just get through it” mindset as a weakness -Acknowledg...

Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, The Game Plan, features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. Shea was offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coaches and teams once the se...

Coach DJ Eliot joins us on the fifth episode of our Defensive Series to discuss the #1 ranked defense in the FBS, the Wisconsin Badgers. Coach Eliot has 20+ years of coaching experience in the collegiate rankings. Coach Eliot’s pedigree includes coaching stops at Kansas, Florida State, Miami, Colorado and Kentucky, as well as time with proven winners and program builders Jimbo Fisher and Mark Stoo...

This was Brennan Marion's first interview on Coach and Coordinator. At the time he was at Howard University as the offensive coordinator. He moved on to William and Mary and then Hawaii and is now the receivers coach at Pitt. Pitt is one of the top performing offenses in 2021 in total offense, scoring offense, and passing offense. Coach Marion discusses his philosophy, strategy, concepts and more...

On this week's installment of "In the NZone" with long time offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone, Keith and Noel discuss the use of terminology in structuring an offense and how that is done with consideration of being an uptempo offense as well as a huddle team. Starbucks orders and the need for one word calls Learning terminology structures A study in shortening calls Using families to structure c...

Brian Kight and Keith Grabowski team up for this special Leadership Journey edition of the Coach and Coordinator podcast. This podcast will occur weekly throughout the season, focusing on issues that teams face during the season. Today the co-hosts discuss the importance of humility for a leader. Show notes -Humility is important for leaders -The power of culture change -Adults struggling with ins...

Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, The Game Plan, features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. Shea was offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coaches and teams once the se...

Coach DJ Eliot joins us on the fourth episode of our Defensive Series. Coach Eliot has 20+ years of coaching experience in the collegiate rankings. Coach Eliot’s pedigree includes coaching stops at Kansas, Florida State, Miami, Colorado and Kentucky, as well as time with proven winners and program builders Jimbo Fisher and Mark Stoops. Additionally, Coach Eliot is among a select group of defensive...

On this week's installment of "In the NZone" with long time offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone, Keith and Noel discuss building a game plan to neutralize a defender who can ruin the game, but also finding the player who is the weak link and attacking him. The episode concludes with a discussion on trick plays. -Story from Texas A&M vs. Tennessee -Finding the Ruin the Day Guy or the Fish -Helping o...

On this week's installment of our adjustment series, host Keith Grabowski shares ideas on adjustments and use of the quick game especially at the beginning of the game. On defense the focus is on how line stems can cause the offensive line to false start especially on 3rd and 4th and short situations. An explanation of how adjusting the rush at times can help contain a running quarterback in the p...

Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, The Game Plan, features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. He’s served as the Chicago Bears offensive coordinator as well as quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coaches and teams once...

In this episode from the archives, host Keith Grabowski was joined by in-season guest host Brian Kight to discuss performing under pressure and succeeding in high pressure situations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coach DJ Eliot joins us on the third episode of our Defensive Series. Coach Eliot has 20+ years of coaching experience in the collegiate rankings. Coach Eliot’s pedigree includes coaching stops at Kansas, Florida State, Miami, Colorado and Kentucky, as well as time with proven winners and program builders Jimbo Fisher and Mark Stoops. Additionally, Coach Eliot is among a select group of defensive...

On this episode of "In the NZone," Coach Noel Mazzone discusses the details to his approach to making half-time adjustments. -What really matters -P&10 -How much do we talk about drive starters? -Taking the ball first -Game Planning Drive Starters/P&10 -Gathering info and planning at half -Negative plays Holding onto calls for 2nd half -Make their sideline work -Explosives -Getting on track -Addre...

On today's podcast we focus on the special situations. A favorite quote is from "Any Given Sunday"... “The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second.” Today we help define where some of those inches are and how you win them. We will focus on situations on offense, defense and special teams. -Backed-Up; Win the drill -End of Game; Can't...

The Game Plan- Traditions Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, The Game Plan, features former coach Terry Shea, who does consulting work for future NFL Draft prospects. Shea was offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams. The Game Plan is a weekly in-season feature that shares thematic ideas that can help coach...

Today’s guest on the Coach and Coordinator podcast is Grant Caserta. Caserta is the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Illinois Wesleyan. He was a finalist for Football Scoop’s Division III Coordinator of the Year following a 2016 season in which his defense held opponents to under 200 yards per game. He dives into designing game plans, prepping scout teams and game day communication. Sh...

This week we talk with longtime FBS defensive coordinator DJ Eliot about the defenses of Kentucky, Texas A&M, and Iowa and Penn State. We share what those defenses do well and how to incorporate some of their concepts and strategies from game planning to practice to in-game adjustments. Kentucky: -Cloud to a receiver -Star vs top receiver -What are you looking for in game plan -What can hurt cloud...

On this episode of our in season series "In the NZone" with Coach Noel Mazzone we discuss some of the big games from that past week and what we can take away from them. Today we focus on: -Creating space for shot plays -Using motion and building a game plan -Defensive stems and movement -Plays protecting plays -Two point decisions and installing and planning two point plays Learn more about your a...

On this week's installment of our Adjustment Series we focus on creating and taking away big plays in all phases of the game and ways to practice in that regard. Offense: Isolating receivers plus creating field space Carrying out fakes Find work to spring someone for a touchdown. Defense: 5 yard fence technique for counter, reverse, naked Changing angles of pursuit in a play Taking away space in t...