The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

Indy period is the one place where you as a non-head coach or coordinator get the most say. You can develop drills to best service the players in your own group. But, many of us forget how simple this should be and start looking to be internet all-star indy coaches. In this episode Joe and Daniel discuss how to get the most out of practice planning your indy periods by planning your drills to have...

You don't need more practice time. In fact, you're probably using too much right now if you're honest with yourself. Practice shouldn't be a thing that your coaches and players despise. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss the benefits of moving towards a 90-minute practice schedule. They talk through how to plan the practice with the new constraint, how you can get more in wi...

Your run fits are everything. Your run fits are everything. Your run fits are everything. Okay, you get the point. Your defense has to be built around your run fits. If you can't stop the run game, nothing else will matter. On this episode, Joe and Daniel discuss the Umbrella Run Fits System, how to teach it to your entire defense in 10 minutes, and how to fit any run play without changing your de...

Your team's culture, your team's character, doing what's right, making great decisions… it all starts somewhere. It takes time to build, and to build it you need the right tools. The priorities pyramid is that tool. On this episode Joe and Daniel talk through what it means to build character, how the Priorities Pyramid helps, and how to teach your players to make decisions on the fly without outsi...

Your Week 1 Opponent may be a week away, or 12 weeks away, but it's never too early to start planning for them. As your working through your summer schedule, the 7-on-7s, Team Camps, Fall Install… It all should be guiding you to the same place, your Week 1 Game Plan. On this episode Coaches Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss preparing for your Week 1 Opponent by Beginning with the end in mi...

If the internet and Social Media have made football worse anywhere, it's given coaches the false understanding of what a good football drill looks like and why we use them. Too many whistle-bearers are turning to Tik-Tok and X to find their next day's drill, when they should be turning to their game film. On this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain talk through Better Football Drills by star...

Once you know a system like the back of your hand, it's nearly impossible to change the way you think about the game. Changing systems just because you have players that don't fit it perfectly is similarly almost an impossible task. On this episode, Joe and Daniel discuss how to fit any defense to the players you have. They talk through player-Centric Coaching, fitting the defense to your players,...

Building a culture takes a long time. "Rome wasn't built in a day," is such a comparable phrase, because you can't change things overnight. But, with the right tools, you can expedite your turn around time. On this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain talk through Building a Culture with the Players' Creed, how to establish the team's identity, and getting you players to buy into your culture...

Coaches are constantly looking for ways to get better at making adjustments. It's game night, the opposing offense is driving, you need to make changes but you can't install a whole new front right now. What's the quickest way to make adjustments on the fly, and where do you start anyway? On this episode Joe and Daniel discuss the Levers Principal, how to pull them for improvement, identifying whi...

Building out your Run Plays for your system doesn't have to be complicated. You get a few base plays, you make them look as similar as possible, you add some wrinkles… bingo, bango, bongo, your offensive run game is born. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss what it takes to build out your run game, keeping the blocking simple for the linemen, designing your core to minimize b...

Designing Defensive Plays generally isn't the big thing amongst football coaches. We always see the offensive guys putting their newest play design on a napkin at the local watering hole, but defensive guys "draw the field upside down" and don't get the same freedom to break traditional rules. In this episode, Joe and Daniel walk through the fundamentals of Defensive Play Design, run fits being th...

Everything is YOUR FAULT! No, seriously, everything is your fault. What You choose to do with that information is often the make or break point in any endeavor. But, there's more to Extreme Ownership than that. In this episode Joe and Daniel discuss the Extreme Ownership Principle, how you can take control of problem solving with extreme ownership, and how you can develop player leaders using the...

Giving your linebackers the perfect gameplan for Friday nights is difficult. We've simplified it to nearly elementary coaching points, but the pressures of the game can take a toll on a young player's mind to the point of failure. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss the ASKA principle for your linebackers, what makes it operate, how you can use it with your current playbook,...

Coaches across the nation are on a mission to build the "perfect" playbook. How do I carry the right amount of tools into a game without overloading my players? Here's the deal, most of us are getting it wrong and we're less efficient with the loads of plays we carry, rather than being surgical with a few great ones. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss limiting your playbook...

Building a practice schedule doesn't have to be a big complex thing. Sure, you make a ridiculously nice one on a spreadsheet, add photos, some color… or just scribble it on paper (don't do this, you coaches deserve better)… but the most important thing is the content. To decide what goes into your practice, you need to compartmentalize your coaching.  On this episode, Joe and Daniel discuss how to...

On The Football Coaching Podcast, hosts Daniel Chamberlain and Joe Daniel record live at Milton Academy in Massachusetts with guests Brady Bradbury and Kahn Chace, discussing what they wish they'd known before becoming head coaches. Bradbury says he initially assumed he'd run a complex 4-2-5 college system, but learned to tailor schemes to players and staff capabilities, simplify to help coaches t...

"Nothing new under the sun," is a statement that's truer than we like to admit. It also gives you the "okay," to stop pretending you're going to do anything different than any other coach out there. You don't have to build a brand new football idea from the ground up. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain jump into system stealing, system matching, and system evolution. Learn how to fi...

As Spring Ball gets closer, 7-on-7 is looming, and season seems just around the corner, you're probably looking through your defensive install plan, scratching your head, wondering how to get it all in the most efficient way this season. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain talk through the best defensive install plan for the 425 defense, and likely any defense, for this upcoming seas...

Calling plays for your team's offense on game day doesn't have to be super complicated, but it does need to be methodical. Your plan to take advantage of the defense has to involve finding their weaknesses and exploiting them. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss the four weaknesses of a Defense, how to build your playbook to attack those weaknesses, and how to identify the we...

Building your playbook from year to year is one of the most important things you do to ensure success for that season. It is also important to remember that no two years are going to be the exact same.  In this episode Joe and Daniel discuss how many plays to carry, how to build around your best play, how to execute that play at the highest level, and how to attack your opponents weaknesses.

As long as football has been around, there have been winners and there have been losers. Some teams find a way to win more than lose… and some teams get stuck in the losing column. It becomes their culture.  In this episode Joe and Daniel discuss how to break out of that losing cycle by building confidence, getting your players to buy-in, and setting expectations that you already understand will h...

Being a teacher doesn't stop when the last bell rings and you don your whistle. ""You're not so different, you and I." - Austin Powers" - Football Coaches to teachers everywhere. The skills you master to be a great teacher in the classroom can help your players on the field as well. In this episode Joe and Daniel are joined by Ryan Moshak, a former Army Officer, athlete at Army at Westpoint, and c...

Coach, you really don't need to recreate the wheel every season. There is a whole world of guys who are using the same plays recycled in a new playbook from year to year. We live in an amazing of SYSTEMS. In this episode, Joe and Daniel discuss what a system is, why you need to build one you can believe in, and how to adapt it year after year to fit your personnel.

"There's levels to this, man." That is true, there are levels to calling a defense. Every play in your playbook fits a certain level of play calling, and has a specific task. Calling defense isn't hard, if you have an understanding to your system, and use the tools to solve problems. In this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss the finer details to defensive play calling. They talk ab...