The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

You don't have to be an Offensive Line guru to coach great Pass Protection. You just need the first two steps. The biggest difference maker in the success of your offense, and maybe your football team, is how good your Offensive Line plays. For most offenses, that includes great Pass Protection. Today's episode of The Football Coaching Podcast focuses on Offensive Line footwork for blocking defend...

Is your Goal Line Defense ready to make the critical, game winning stop? Probably not. Your opponent drove the ball the length of the field. They're inside your 5 yard line. It's time to make the big stop. Defensive Coordinators need to take a big step forward right now - and accept that getting the stop is not very likely. After all, you couldn't stop them up til now. But if you CAN make that big...

How can you have better practice planning in significantly less time? Here's how to plan efficient and effective practices. We've all been through those long practices that seem to drag on forever. It's not productive, no matter how long you spend out on the field. What if you could get twice as much accomplished, in just a fraction of the time on the field? Higher energy practices. Consistent eff...

Does your team sputter in your Goal Line Offense? Here's how to turn your base offense into a Short Yardage Machine. You drive the length of the field. But when it really counts, your goal line offense has a tough time punching the ball across the finish line. This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast is all about turning your offense into a high powered short yardage machine. Find out how you...

Scheme doesn't matter if you don't have great tackling technique. We're taking a deep dive into teaching safe and effective tackling for your football team! Player safety is the single most important aspect of coaching football today. But it doesn't mean you have to sacrifice effective blocking and tackling. We started using the Hawk Tackle method before it was even a thing (though we had no idea...

Coach Safety Reads that tell your force and alley players if it's a run or a pass. And never have to change those reads again. With the defensive philosophy that I subscribe to, the 'umbrella' is critical to the success of the defense. That means your Safety reads must be fast and accurate. You can't have a lot of confusion or hesitation. And you can't give up long passes on play action because of...

Brent Dearmon talks about installing RPOs into your offense and how he's turning around Bethel University with an explosive offensive style. Coach Brent Dearmon has a pretty impressive resume including most recently working as Offensive Coordinator at Arkansas Tech. Now he's turning around his alma mater at Bethel University in Tennessee. In this Football Coaching Podcast interview, Coach Dearmon...

The Outside Zone Play is one of the best plays in football, no matter what level you coach. Here's the deep dive details on how to run it precision for big gains on the ground. The Outside Zone Play is one of the best offensive plays in football. In the NFL, it may be the most frequently called run in the entire league. But you don't care about the NFL. You care about your football team, and how t...

From the early days of the Pistol Power Offense System, let's take a deep dive into the run game of the 1986 Washington Redskins Playbook. The Pistol Power Offense System has a lot of roots with the Washington Redskins playbooks from the 1980s. Today we're taking a look at one of those playbooks. Be warned… this playbook was a mess. There's no way any Redskins player ever received the playbook in...

Shut down the run with your 4-4 Defense. Or whatever you want to call it... Time to shut down the run. Get serious. You don't defend spread teams every week! Better be ready to play it tough! This week, we're talking about running that powerhouse 4-4 Defense against all of the most popular offensive run schemes in football today. Okay, time for true confessions. This is how we teach defending the...

Wasting your entire weekend watching film, trying to find the secret for your Defensive Game Plan? Here's how to stop. You can spend hours and hours watching Hudl, hoping to find some little secret nugget that makes you a genius on your defensive game plan. Truth is, you're wasting a lot of time. Learn how to watch film efficiently and take care of the things that matter in your life. Listen to to...

What pass protection scheme is best for keeping your Quarterback safe? Take a look at the Half-Slide Pass Protection scheme. In the Pistol Power Offense System, we use Half-Slide Pass Protection as our drop back protection scheme. If you want a scheme that works great and adapts to any front, this is the place to start. Listen to this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast to get the basics of H...

Think your Offensive Line isn't good enough? Make their job easier using these critical Offensive Line Run Blocking tips. There's a few myths in coaching offensive line run blocking that we need to break through. Then we can start to build a better run game. In this episode, we'll talk about why you don't need your Offensive Linemen to sustain blocks longer. Or drive their man down the field. And...

What's the simplest, most effective coverage you can teach? Let's take a look at coaching Cover 3 Coverage in the 4-2-5 Defense. Coaches love to over-complicate things. In a lot of situations, the less complicated answer would be the better one. That's often the case with coverage packages. Aside from trying to run every coverage, many coaches are running a coverage that is much more complicated t...

What are the critical keys to great Offensive Line Play? Arizona State Offensive Line Coach Dave Christensen has your answers.   https://joedanielfootball.com/upfront Dave Christensen has been coaching football for 36 years. Mostly working with the Offensive Line. And I had a great time talking OL play with him on this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast. Listen to this episode to hear Coach...

Every offensive playbook needs a foundation. The Power Series is that foundation for the Pistol Power Offense System. [create optin box for the Pistol Power Offense PLC content]   It's nice to do a podcast where you don't need any notes. You've talked about something so many times that it just flows. That's the Power Series for me. It's the foundation of our offense, and has been for a number of y...

Tired of watching a great defensive series fall apart on a poor job defending a screen pass? Here's how to get your 33 Stack Defense ready to stop the Screen Pass.   Download the Huskies '92 Defense Playbook Here   The 1992 Washington Huskies 4-4 Defense Playbook is the subject a deep dive look on this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast. And it's an interesting look. We'll investigate the si...

Does your Defense need to tighten up? The 4-2-5 Defense can be a simple a system to let your players play fast. You need a defense that can easily adapt to any offensive attack. If you're changing everything from week to week, you'll be in trouble when your players get confused. The 4-2-5 Defense System has been built around the Joe Daniel Football motto of Coach Simple, Play Fast, Win. In this ep...

There's a lot to be done this season! This is a guide to planning your football year.   Running a top notch program doesn't just happen. It requires a lot of planning to have a great football year. In this week's Football Coaching Podcast, I'll walk you through planning the entire year. Fundraising, parents, building the culture, and planning scheme install is all discussed here. Everything you ne...

What are your favorite football video games of all time? Here's a look at the games we used to play.   There is no great football coaching insight in today's episode of The Football Coaching Podcast. I'll be back with more of that, next episode. Today is just about doing something fun. A little different. A walk down memory lane with the football video games I grew up with.

What are your favorite football video games of all time? Here's a look at the games we used to play. There is no great football coaching insight in today's episode of The Football Coaching Podcast. I'll be back with more of that, next episode. Today is just about doing something fun. A little different. A walk down memory lane with the football video games I grew up with.

What's the Secret to Defending RPOs with the 4-3 Defense? It's not really a secret. Season 2 of The Football Coaching Podcast wraps up with defending RPOs with the 4-3 Defense and Quarters Coverage. We're using the defense as drawn up in The 4-3 Defense System that is part of JDFB Insiders. Quarters Coverage offers some special flexibility that you might not have in other coverages and with other...

You don't have to create an entire RPO Playbook. It's easy to incorporate RPO's into the offensive system you're running right now. Run-Pass Options (RPOs) are the hot topic for offensive football coaches across the country over the last few seasons. The schemes have made their way down from the College level down to the High School ranks in a hurry. Many coaches have been abandoning what they've...

How do you Coach Simple so your players can Play Fast? Triggers are the answer to your problem.   Triggers are a stimulus, or event, that happens on the field that tell your player to initiate a response, or reaction. For every action on the field, there is a reaction by your player. (but this is not physics and we do not want the response to be equal! ) In this episode of The Football Coaching Po...

Coaching 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage gives you great pass coverage. Plus you get 9 defenders against the run! I love coaching 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage. It's incredibly effective if you know how to teach and adjust the package. And if you have the right guys. There's a ton of advantages, but there are also a few difficulties you need to be aware of. We'll discuss all of that on this week's e...