[00:00:00] Welcome back, coaches. This is the Football Coaching Podcast. I'm Daniel Chamberlain. Co-host here with Joe Daniel, as always. What's up, coach? I still miss the countdown. I know. I was just thinking, like, "Where's the countdown?" And then it's like, "Recording." I know we don't talk about the other show, but it, for s- the same...

Look, we are on the same platform. Yeah. And it countdown, so I've just screwed something up here. We're allowed to talk about the other show. Yeah. Does Kenny ban you from talking about his show on this show? No, not at all. Does he think it's- In fact, I think it's great that they cross over sometimes ... Kenny, Kenny's an evil dictator, I think.

I just, it feels weird. I don't know where the... No, I get it. I tend to think that we've talked about this many times before. W- b- going way back. You know, I have always been under the feeling that there, there's a few people who will pick one and, like, loyally stick to it, and then there's people who are just, like, interested in whatever Kenny has to talk about, not interested in what I have to talk about.

But in general, it's better for the entire [00:01:00] market, and I've always been confused by coaches who don't feel this way, 'cause they are, they exist, too. Even though there's only a handful of podcasts that actually regularly publish. It's generally better for the entire market if people are like, "Oh, I, I listen to football coaching podcasts."

And- So a, a, a couple things. One- There's weirdly some people out there that have never heard of the Coaching 101 podcast- Sure ... listen to this show. Yeah. And they're like, "You do another show?" Yeah. Yeah, there's like a whole other one. Which is funny. Or, or the- Yeah ... or I'm sorry, which is, it's crazy how the algorithm is that it still won't let you find sometimes stuff.

If you guys like this show, you should give us reviews because it helps other people find it. Anyway, two, I have had people tell me that they won't listen to this one because they don't like what you talk about. Or the way that you present it. Okay. I've had people tell me, "I don't like the, Kenny's attitude.

I don't like the way... I don't like Kenny." And I'm like, "Who the [00:02:00] hell doesn't like Joe or Kenny?" People can actually not like me. I don't see why anyone doesn't like me. Yeah, I'm pretty rough around the edges. I get that. Yeah. I mean, I, I have- I, I've probably cost you listeners, and I probably cost Kenny listeners.

But to not like Kenny? Like, that's the nicest guy on earth, I think. Yeah. So that's kinda weird. I'm fine with not many people liking me. But it's always coaches that are haters that are still, just like I've said before, they're in that sphere of, "Who the hell is... Why does he have the audacity to talk ball online?"

Like, who is this- Sure. Yeah ... guy? That's fine. He probably catches flack 'cause he's got like, you know, the decoder ring, and then he's talking about it publicly with his version of Wing T. So. Yeah. I, I mean, it's, it's like, I don't, I don't have any problem with somebody not... I can understand somebody not liking me.

Sometimes I'm not that sure about me. But like I can, I can absolutely understand Not meshing with somebody's personality, I can [00:03:00] absolutely certainly understand, like I'm just not interested in the topics or like, you know, it just doesn't, doesn't do it for me. I don't like the way it's presented.

None of that bothers me at all. I think it's interesting when somebody is actively like mad at someone else for podcasting, talking about things. Yeah. And that, that goes for every realm of everything in the world. It's like, just don't listen. It's fine. It's- Yeah ... I'm okay with that. Like I, I think it's a mistake, but- Yeah

you know, that's because I, I believe in what we do. But you know, if you, if you, if you, if you don't... But if you don't like... If, if it doesn't like... Like if you listen to five episodes and not a single thing did you feel like you meshed with or that you could apply or that you wanted to use. Like I'll just tell you, and I've said it many, many times, I don't listen to any of the interview shows [00:04:00] where it's like this is our, this is the big time coach talking about this and that, 'cause I just don't, not interested.

Yeah. Doesn't mesh... Most of, most of the podcasts that have been around have been interview shows and I just haven't been interested in them, and very few of the podcasts that have been, that have been out there, that have been have lasted for any sort of time. I'll just... You know, the ones that, the ones that I got into I like Kenny and I've listened to some of Kenny's podcasts.

But mostly I just know Kenny. I like Kenny. And his podcasts don't always interest me. Sure. I have nothing against Kenny. The things that are in his podcast just generally don't always interest me No problem. Same thing with Ron Mackie, who doesn't do this anymore, but Ron's podcast genuinely didn't interest me, but I enjoyed listening to Ron.

Right. And like, that's... So that's, that's my Shane Sams year- These are... I'm going back years and years and years. I loved listening to, to Shane's podcast. We were, we were friends, and Shane does something completely different [00:05:00] now. And I can't think of the name. I would, I would tell you what it is if I could think of the name of his website, because I still get his emails.

But he's usually the Coach XO podcast, and I... And it was, you know... He did some interviews and stuff, but I genuinely enjoyed listening to Shane. Shane's a very engaging person. And I talk about when I go to a clinic now I don't look for... Number one, if I go to... And I, I think in terms of football clinics.

I don't go to a football clinic to... I hated the clinics that would have, like, an hour of this guy, an hour of this guy, an hour of this guy, especially when it was like... Nike used to be this way, and I haven't done, been... Nike would have, like, one hour from this celebrity football coach and one hour from this celebrity football coach.

And Glazier would occasionally do that, where they would bring in Nick Saban for an hour. Not interested in Nick Saban for an hour, right? But and I'll tell you the one that did it the most, and you and I didn't even go to anything when we were there, but the, you know what? AFCA is the worst. AFCA would just have, like, a guy...

You know, "This guy is from Alabama and he's talking for 45 minutes." It's like, what am I gonna get from this guy in 45 minutes? Like, I might get one little thing maybe, and that's cool. But here's this guy [00:06:00] who coaches at a nowhere school in the middle of Nebraska, and he's talking for nine hours on the single wing.

It's foreshadowing. I'm there. Like, do I wanna run the single wing? I mean, I want to, but I can't run all the offenses. Right. But I'm there f- like, I'm there for that. But when I go to a clinic, when I go to a Glazier, when I go to a... I'm really truly looking for, at this point, the guy... Because I've, there's not a lot of new football.

There's always the you know, there's always the nugget. There's always that one thing that you can get. But I want to enjoy the next hour, two hours, three hours, and if I be... I- i- in part because if I'm sitting in the back of the room thinking about whether or not it's possible for me to drive my finger through my skull right now, I'm not gonna learn anything.

But when I've been in a room with somebody who... Not, they don't have to be an entertainer. They don't have to be... Some guys are really good speakers. Rick's a super, Rick Stewart a super good speaker. Very, very fun to go watch. There's some guys that are super good you know, entertaining speakers that are, that, that have it down, and [00:07:00] there's some guys who are you know, like Pat Fox was fantastic.

You know, just the delivery. And there's some other guys that are super charged. The defensive line guys are always super charged. Jerry Campbell's always been incredible. But there's some guys who just have a kind of... You know, they're not- they're a little more low-key, but they're engaging. Yeah. And some of them have been completely unknown guys, didn't expect it to be anything, but was like, "Well, you know, this is what's going on, this, this topic," and, and I just enjoy it.

And that's what I think of with podcasts is like our best listeners don't really care, and, and if you, if you pick and choose, that's just fine. I think some of our best listeners don't really care what the topic is. They're just gonna listen. And then, like, I have a lot of podcasts where, like, especially my video game podcasts, where I don't listen to it if you're talking about some Japanese import that I just don't care about.

Yeah, it needs to be something you also, like, are probably into. But it's something I al- that I do wanna learn about. But I do enjoy listening to those people as long as they're talking about... And even sometimes there's some of them that I will listen to them [00:08:00] talk about... You know, I li- I listen to one podcast, and they have panels of people.

Yeah. And sometimes the people that are on the panel, I'm like, "Oh, it's this guy." But, like, sometimes it's like, it's like, okay, they're talking about B- some British ZX Spectrum game that n- I've never played, will never play, but they got a panel of three people that I like, and it's like, "I'm in. I'm gonna find out about this game."

And sometimes I've even gone and, like, found them on an online emulator just 'cause I'm like, "I wanna see it." So the, the last piece I was gonna talk about is, is when I was getting into craft beer, and I was turning to al- alcohol here for a minute. Yeah, it's all- America is the worst at trying to take two or three of a version of something and make it the American standard.

And beer is one of those, right? But American beers are, they're kinda nasty. Like, they're really watered down. They're not beer in a traditional form. They're like this commercial... I know. I'm sorry, Joe. They're this [00:09:00] commercialized... I'm fired. I may never be back on Football Coaching Podcast. I hope Katie's paying you well, you son of a bitch.

I hope Katie's podcast is going well. But, like, okay, so I just sat down tonight with a Tatty Porter from Britain, and then another one from theirs, which is an oatmeal stout. And then- I've had that one. A cr- huh? I've had that one. Yeah, they're delicious. But my point is, America, we're really big about Bud Light, Coors Light.

Like, we took and made six versions of the worst beer, and then that was the American standard. That's the commercial beer. But I found when I got into craft beer, it was this theory of, like, a telephone. If you're the only person that has a telephone, it's useless. The more people that have telephones, the more useful it is as a tool because now I can call more people, right?

Sure. And so craft beer was the same thing. The more craft beers there are... 'Cause this was the, just like podcast, everyone was opening a craft beer brewery. Yeah. Everybody, right? Everybody and their dog had a brewery. And it was like, yeah, the market gets a little watered down, but also the cream will rise to the top.

And if more people are trying more craft beers, then more people are trying more [00:10:00] craft beers. Yeah. And so they're gonna d- it's gonna increase your sales because you're get- and now it's like five years ago I went to a coaching clinic, and they were kinda like you, Joe. Like, "No, give me my Natty Light or my Coors Light."

Or, you know, they were a, an American. Now you go and people are, like, drinking IPAs and trying an amber, and that guy's got a stout and a porter. And you're like, "Oh, whoa, what happened?" So it is spreading. Podcast is the same thing. Football clinics the same way. Everyone has a clinic. There's a Nike, there's a, a- glazer, there's, there's 1,000. Well, if there was one, how many people would get to go to that every year? Not very many, right? Right. And then what if the speakers suck? You wouldn't go anyway. So now it's like regionally you can get some guys, and then you can pick ... Now we fly as a staff across the country to go to a different, to go watch a guy we like.

Yeah. And then what else is there? So I think podcasts are the same way. Like, yes, there is a bunch of them. Yes, they're- Nothing. I don't even think there's any ... every episode isn't interesting. I'm a Joe Rogan guy, and I don't even, I can't listen to all of him. There's a lot of podcasts. There's a lot of football coaching podcasts.

No. There's a lot of podcasts. [00:11:00] But it's like you, you go out until you find something you like, like you said. And I think if there was 200 good football coaching podcasts, coaching football podcasts, not, not of this one, but that'd be even better for us because then- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah ... more people are looking for podcasts.

Yeah. Absolutely. Anyway. Yeah. It's like the telephone, it's more useful if you use it. Tell your friends. Tell your friends there's a thing called- Tell your friends. Leave a review ... football, football coaching podcasts. You don't have to listen to this one. But- And go- ... I mean, you know, and this is the one if you search for football coaching podcasts you're probably gonna find first And go try good craft beer.

Power minute. Tonight we're talking about defending the single wing. We're gonna talk about applying your ASCA, planning your unbalanced adjustment, adjustments, excuse me, and then how to combat the misdirection, AKA the spinner series. Last week's topic, we were talking about corner drills, so if you're a defensive guy, maybe you're a corners coach, go back and check that out and, and see how they fit as a piece of the pie into making your defense run elite.

Next week it's on to pre-practice and warmups, which is always a fun one 'cause it's the piece that we kind of forget about. You gotta get the kids ready to play. [00:12:00] Guys, we do appreciate you spending time. It's playoff time just about here in Oklahoma. When this comes out, we will be off to play the number one seed in our state, in our whatever, our class, so, matter of fact, they're number one in the state in III-A, which is gonna be a blast. Thought we were gonna be the three, ended up being the four due to some, a team knocking off another team, which was super cool to see and sucked at the same time. Yeah ... so we know playoffs is upon us, and we know that you probably have everything in you're gonna put in, and that's great, and I, I'm glad you're coming back to keep learning ball or at least stay entertained, keep listening to us combat- all the things that we talk about.

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Single wing is, you know, it, it is almost a specialty offense anymore. It is one of the older I almost wanna say antiquated. Not quite. It's making a comeback, Joe. I've seen a lot more single wing, a lot more flexbone, a lot more wing [00:18:00] T in these last few years, and I, and I, and I wonder if we won't continue to see an uprise in those because numbers are getting worse and worse and worse.

We had a record number of programs cancel their seasons due to lack of participation this year. We're gonna start having to, like, consolidate football teams, I think, in Oklahoma, and football runs pretty deep around here. So I, I'm sure as the rest of the nation kind of follows suit, it makes you wonder if coaches won't continue to buy into the, "Well, I don't have any skills.

I'm going to block everybody down and add some misdirection." So it is one of those misdirection, not quite three-back offenses that we talked about a few weeks ago But there, it does have some, some key pieces, right? The spinner series we're gonna talk about in the last part tonight is a, a pretty big factor.

Something I loved about the single wing when I started studying a little bit was, like, there is a quarterback, but he wasn't even called a quarterback in, like, the base series, right? I think it was a halfback and a, a slot [00:19:00] back or something. I don't know. He was just the guy that caught the ball to hand it to another guy, right?

There was no, no confusion that this guy is a quarterback. And so, you know, there's a... And, and, and they set off center. Not, none of, nobody's sitting right behind the center in the original form. Now, there are lots of versions out there- Sure ... just like every other offense. And so when you see the single wing, you know, right?

A lot of unbalanced, a lot of this misdirection-y stuff. It's pretty cool. And I got to see it. There's, there's a team called Holdenville here in Oklahoma who runs the oldest version to perfection. It is pretty sweet to go watch them. I, I got to watch Brady Bradbury beat them last year, I think it was the semifinals, and it looks like it might be headed back there again, semifinals or finals, however they end up matching up.

But yeah, so the single wing's a lot of fun to go watch. But if you have to go out and defend it, like, it does carry its own bag of, of problems that you have to handle because it isn't a standard two by two or, or pro style or [00:20:00] whatever offense, right? So, but it doesn't mean you have to break your defense to defend it, right?

In fact, once again, just like every other defense out there, sure you can make some changeups and give them some things to think about and communicate, but realistically just lining up in your base defense continues to carry that, that relevant, like, the ability to just stop kind of whatever you wanna throw in front of it with, with proper coaching.

So I know part one here we're gonna talk about applying ASCA. So how is, how is ASCA allowing our base 4-2-5 or 3-4 or whatever we're gonna line up in, how is applying ASCA gonna allow us to better line up to stop the single wing? I think it's important first the, you know, the single wing Years and years and years ago, I did a podcast on the, the evolution of the wing T and it was, you know, if you wanna know how far these things go back, the, the two things that, that evolved into the wing T is the straight T or the dead T [00:21:00] and the single wing.

So it predates the, the double wing and I think it goes back to the Notre Dame box and, you know, back in the '20s and, and kind of evolves from there. I've never done the history of the single wing necessarily, but the single wing is the, the one that I focus on. So when you say single wing, when I say single wing, I'm primarily talking about the unbalanced single wing.

Yeah. And specifically like the Rick Darlington, Apopka you know, single wing and unbalanced single wing, and that, that's really where my knowledge of the system comes from although there are different, obviously different variations. When we run the single wing inside the pistol power offense system, it's loosely...

Not, I wouldn't say loosely, I would say that sitting [00:22:00] there having been running the, the, having already run the pistol power offense system for a few years and then knowing about the single wing, but nobody was really running it here. I think maybe Louisa was years and years ago and they were like the only team in the state that was doing it here in Virginia.

And that's not true. New Kent was running it for a little while and I remember playing against them but not understanding because this was like 2002 when I first started coaching and I was completely lost as a JV coach, and I was just- ... like the film guy on the varsity and they were running and I'll never forget they ran it and they stuck, they had two guys, you know, like two guys' hands sticking out under center and it's like, "What is happening?"

One of the running backs was named George Jones, so I'll never forget any of that- Let's go ... from New Kent. Possum. But you know, they, they were doing some sort of variation along those lines. But, So it wasn't something that I had a lot of experience with, but I, I remember one of those situations where at a Glazier Clinic, [00:23:00] there was just nothing that was like specifically 4-2-5 or something, and I'm like, you know, specifically what I wanted to look at, and this was, you know, a few years before I knew any of the speakers or anything like that and, and Rick Darlington was speaking about the Apopka single wing and, and speaking about it for several hours, and I went...

It might have... I think it was only three hours, but I remember just sitting there watching him draw this thing up and one of the things I'll mention is we are going to talk a little bit about Spinner Series, but one of the important things to note is, and Rick said this, you know, everybody asking about Spinner Series, Spinner Series, Spinner Series, and he's like, "Spinner Series is 20% of the offense, but it's the thing that everybody thinks about."

It's a, it's not a major part of his offense. It's a, you almost, you know, we think of it as like a constraint play or something like that, and he talks about some of the advantages and [00:24:00] disadvantages of the Spinner Series, but basically it's... So I never used the Spinner Series, but as watching him draw it up and, you know, he's drawing up, you know, power and counter and stuff like that, and I'm like, "Right, we can run this."

And essentially took it, lined up in the formation, and then built an offense, but not built an offense applied the plays that we already had in place to it and and started running a single wing series that had been really, really good to us over the years both in two-point conversions and also a lot of middle of the field.

But there's been years where we've been 80 to 90% conversion in two-point conversions with this, with this offense. So I have some experience running it and seeing how teams adjust to it. And one of the things that I can say without question is when you... And, and we talked about, we, we talked back in the junk offenses, we talked about Roger Holmes and the five ways to defend unbalanced, and we'll be talking more about that.

But when you run an offense [00:25:00] and, When you, excuse me, when you run a yeah, when you run an offense like this and you go to line up against somebody, the thing that gets you excited more than anything is that they are in a junk defense, and guys are playing out of position, and guys are doing things that they don't normally do or shouldn't be doing.

The thing that gets you the most excited is maybe when they don't recognize that it's unbalanced, because that's obviously a numbers advantage. For sure. But it's when guys are just out of position or they, they, they don't look comfortable. So when you go to defend a team like this, the first thing you need to look at is how can we maintain the ASCA, and obviously you're going to have to adjust your alignment, especially to an unbalance, and we're gonna talk about that.

But how can we use the same key reads? How can we use the same assignments? So how can we use spill force alley, stay in coverage and keep that applied? How can we squeeze down blocks and fight reach [00:26:00] blocks on the defensive line like we've done all year long and not invent something else? How can we key guards for if he pulls follow, if he doesn't fill, and not reinvent the wheel for my, my linebackers?

How can we line five by five, key the quarterback and, or whatever we wanna call it, 'cause that's one of the m- one of the hardest things to figure out is how can we still key quarterback and and you know, force from a five-by-five position without changing everything that these guys are doing?

So that's what we wanna look at with this, is how can you maintain the assignments, somewhat maintain the alignment stance key read, obviously we wanna maintain the key read and the assignments that these guys have been taught all year and the things that they've been taught all year, so that we can go into the week against this team and not run a junk- defense, not run a flavor-of-the-week defense, [00:27:00] not have to install something on Monday, but just say, "Okay, when you see this, apply this rule, and then this is how we line up."

And that's really the first step. Now, I think there's always a good argument for having a secondary change upfront call something that is a little more drastic and that maybe breaks some of the rules. And, and, you know, you mentioned lining up in your base. I don't think necessarily the game plan is always line up in your base.

I think I want us to know how to line up in our base to it. I want us to have our primary adjustment that still keeps our core rules in place. And then maybe we have something that's a little more drastic. I was watching a team today, and they were really... You know, when the game started, I was like, "Okay, you don't have anybody in position to force."

Right. [00:28:00] And then I watched the game go on, and I said, "Okay, they don't have anybody capable of getting an edge." They were just a, you know, they, they were... Now, they got an edge a couple times, and they got four yards, right? But they were, they were an A-gap, B-gap pounded team. And it was like, well, you know, that's a, that's a calculated risk.

And so I think you have a calculated risk front that you get into with these teams sometimes that you go, "If they get me, they get me," and I always know I can fall back to something that's a little less risky. But I, I think the first thing is you want your guys doing the things that they've drilled and they've worked all year long.

And when you start getting into the, the stuff of we're gonna try to win on a napkin, and you start playing it like Madden where, you know, all of your guys, you know, can move around anywhere, and you can run any playbook that you want, and it's gonna be fine. And, you know, it, it just [00:29:00] doesn't w- you know, the NCAA football, it's like, well, I've got Georgia, but I wanna run, you know, flex bone option from Air Force, and all I gotta do is just put it in there and stick an athlete under center, and we can run flex bone option.

It's like that's not how it works. No. Like that's, that's not how it works with this, and it's the same thing when you're, when you're talking defense. You know, the defensive playbooks there have like 19 different fronts. And it's like that's not how it works for us. So, I, I think that's the number one thing we look at is you wanna be doing the things that you've practiced all year long, even if it's from a little bit different look.

Yeah, I- I've experienced this, right, even just trying to, to move a kid around within the same defensive scheme, right? And, and when things aren't changing that much, we forget sometimes that it just freaks kids out. And for whatever reason. For you it is just changing a line on paper, but for them it's like I have 500 reps this year at [00:30:00] if he pulls, follow, if he doesn't, fill, and now you're telling me to read a guy in the backfield and if he goes a certain direction, then I do this, and if he comes at me, I do that, right?

And so they especially when you've kind of bought into this Coach Simple philosophy and you've made every- Your kids get used to that. They get used to things that make sense, things that are logical, and they understand that dra- you know, these drastic changes aren't coming down the pipeline.

So when you hit them with something crazy, it is kind of a shock to the ecosystem. More so because it already fits the run fits and the umbrella run fits. Already fits so well together. Everything marries, so if you adjust his, it means you're probably adjusting the guy in front of him 'cause d- somebody's gotta do his job, right?

I'm just talking inside backers here 'cause that's what I've been coaching recently. But what if it is- Sure ... your outside backer, right? Now who's, who is doing his job if I take him out? If he's not forcing, a defensive end has to. [00:31:00] Now he's not squeezing a down block and now he's getting kicked out right?

And so on and on and on you can see the waterfall effect, which is... Look, we tried it this year just switching, and I don't mind admitting this, I was part of the problem. I gave them the playbook. We are a 4-2-5 team. We had a 3-4 front just to have kind of an off front, right? And, and we are, you know, we, we're still digging into our 3-4 history.

And then we decided to go 3-3 stack to try to give some guys some problems because they were, they were blocking up 4-2-5 and 3-4 really well and we thought, "Let's see how they'll block stack." Hell, we couldn't run stack. Right. So it didn't matter what they could or couldn't block. Our kids, I mean my Mike backer is all of a sudden standing over a center and he's like, "Coach, I don't, I've been in a 30 on top of a guard for six weeks."

Eight weeks, 10 weeks if you count au- you know, fall ball. Like, how the heck what am I reading here? It was ... He was four feet out of [00:32:00] position and it blew his mind. And you may think that's crazy. He's ... Well, he's a first-year football player. He's a senior. He's built like a brick shithouse. He's exactly what you want as a Mike backer.

He stuffs the run. He can kinda get into pass coverage, you know, not great, but he's there. And the last thing we wanna do is try to add in a, a Madden playbook where we throw in this new playbook. Going down, sure. But we did it to him, and we watched our kids crumble. That was with a front that we offer in the JDFB system as an off co- an off front, but it needs more time to practice.

You can't do this stuff mid-season. So- And you have to know your kids and what they can handle. And, and sometimes you make an experiment, and the, the, the thing about that is sometimes you make that experiment, and that's okay as long as you go to them afterwards and you say, "Guys, it ain't working. We made a mistake."

We went to halftime and just said, "It's a- this is our fault." Yeah. "Don't fret. It ain't you, it's us. We, we tried something." Thought it was gonna work. It ain't working. It ain't working. We're going back. And we were 4-2-5 in the second half, and I don't know if we shut them out, but I think we shut them out in the [00:33:00] second half.

It didn't matter. They whipped our tails up until then. But ... Right, and we went back, which it actually just proved our point for our, our players- Right ... that like 4-2-5's great. Yeah, obviously. Right. Why don't we just do what we do? Is the best thing. Yeah, and it's always frustrating when you, you outcoach yourself and you outthink yourself.

And I've talked for years, we had a coach that could've just ... We never beat them, so it always turned out okay. But just as an example, we had a coach that was on our schedule when, when I was at a different school for years and years and years, and every year he was more talented than us. 300-pound lineman across the board, kids that could run, kids that could throw.

Th- but, but I mean, well, I say kids that could run, kids that could throw. Every year he had a great running back, and he had five 300-pound lineman, right? And every year he came out against us, and would do it to other teams too, come out and run spread. Like air raid style. And there was more than once where we get to halftime, we get to the third quarter, and we're like, "We're in this [00:34:00] thing."

And finally he just, like, gives in and lines up in power I and beats the snot out of us, and we're like- Right ... dang. He had just- You know. But, but it's like, why did you, why did you just beat the snot out of us with... Because it, and I'm saying their identity was that. Like, to just beat the snot out of people and it'd be like, "Let's see what we can do against this team."

That is something, he, he might have just been trying to get something on film. Like, just to beat- Maybe ... the next guy, you know? Maybe. It would cut it a little close a couple times. Right. You know, closer than I was, 16 to 12 or something like that is not, you know- That's not putting stuff on film ... a little close.

Should sort of, you know, put it on film for a series. So you know, but you always kinda, like, you, you sometimes you try those things and you're just like, "Ah, that was a mistake." And you and a lot of times, sometimes they work out, but a lot of times they don't. You know, that's, that's the thing with, with making these adjustments and everything and installing things is you gotta know who your guys are.

And I'll, I'll just, I wanted to mention [00:35:00] You always, not always, but there's, there's usually that guy or two or three that we've talked over and over again about the Swiss Army knife. They don't do anything great. Like, there, there's nothing that they're just, like, the best. But they do everything at about...

Like, you can throw something at them, give them two, two, three days of practice, and they can go out and do it at 80%. And so those are the guys that you make some of the adjustments with for these games, and then you make sure that your other, you know, nine, 10 guys are doing pretty much the thing they always do or you take somebody off the field and put somebody else in to do a, a different job.

Right. But, like, the Swiss Army knife's like I mean, if somebody, you, you're familiar with too, like, in baseball it's Mauricio Dubón for the Braves, was just like plug him in at any position, whatever. Is he the best shortstop? No. Is he the [00:36:00] best left fielder? No. But is he the guy who can play left field and shortstop the best?

Outside of Mookie Betts, yes. I mean, you know, it's like that's... Yeah, I know. I know. It, it hurts, but, but it's like, yeah, that's, you know, that's kind of like, that's, that's the guy that can just, you can plug him in anywhere and be okay. And you have to know who that guy is and when you start moving people around, who is it affecting that is gonna just melt down with it, and it's like- For sure

you gotta figure that out. Yeah. Now we said all that. Still use your ASCO. Align your people- Yes ... moving into the second part here where you have to have an answer to unbalance, because that's realistically most of the time the core of this offense, right? Is a quick side, a strong side. Rick Darlington's got both tackles.

They're literally called inside and outside tackle because- ... they're on the right or the left. There's no left-right tackle. It's the guy that's inside by the guards and the guy that's outside by the end, right? So it's th-th- that's [00:37:00] just what it is. You're gonna get unbalanced, so you're gonna have to apply your ASCO in that situation as well, and you have to have that adjustment.

Now, we've talked on here many, many times, there's like the five ways, like do nothing, slide a full man, slide back- ... or slide the... There's all these ways to adjust to unbalance, but they all are a pot of that, part of that ASCO. So what are some plans we should be carrying in, Joe? And, and do you carry more than one or you just are going in with one?

How do you k- how are you planning that unbalanced problem solving? Yeah, if you're playing somebody like us who just lines up in it in special situations, you probably just have your one adjustment. And then if you're playing somebody who's like Rick Darlington, lining up in it, you know, an, an un- unbalanced single wing team then you're probably bringing, you're, you're probably going with the standard and you know, it's always the number is three, but Jim Reed was always the one who would say, you know, "You have three adjustments for trips.

You have three adjustments for zone read. You have three, you have three ways to stop zone read, three ways to stop [00:38:00] trips." And that's not to say that there's only three ways, but it's in your game plan there's three ways that we can do it. So like when we talk about trips adjustments, we talk about, you know, we have our check roll, which is a quarter, quarter, half.

Maybe we have a solo check for the backside so that we get man coverage on the single receiver side. Then we have a cover zero or we have a match or we have, you know, something. We have three, three different ways. Four is too much. Three is like one that we're, one that's gonna be... You know, I always think of it as there's one that's the main thing that we're expecting to work.

One that's the we're gonna throw it in as the change up. You know, 10, 20% of the time we're gonna run this so that we're not always in the same spot and we're gonna try it out. And one that's the, the you know, the next thing that we try. If the first two don't work, try the third one type of thing.

It's like maybe this one will work. So there's always that like a if, if... And you, and you try to look at this is our primary adjustment, this is our secondary adjustment, and the third [00:39:00] adjustment that we game plan, we don't spend as much time on it in practice, but the thought process is We think we can do this thing with adjustment A or adjustment B, but if we're wrong or if they come out and do something different than we expected, it'll be the thing that adjustment C will stop and we'll be ready for it there.

So, and that's kind of how we think about those three adjustments. And then again, like you said, there's the, the five ways to defend unbalanced just to go through them because it feels like we talk about them all the time, but it was actually I think six weeks ago, so in podcast land. Wow. So, we, we talk about these things a lot, but it was the junk offense play junk, defending junk offense is back in episode 13.

We are now in episode 19, so, it has not been that recent. So as we, as we look at that five ways to defend unbalanced, number one is to do nothing. And again, I wanna remind everybody where this came from, Roger Holmes, Buford High School in Georgia. Roger runs a lot of unbalanced stuff [00:40:00] in his wing T offense, and so in order to figure out, you know, seeing all of these junk defenses that he would see, he couldn't wait to see what they did and then formulate a response for it.

He had to be able to boom, look, see whatever they installed that week, whatever junk they found you know, back in the day, whatever they just came up with on their own and then later, you know, what they found on Twitter or a forum on Coach Huey or something like that, or some fool on a chalk talk Q&A gave them although none of my teams have ever played Buford as far as I know.

And so he compartmentalized them. He put them into containers, like we talk about containers principle, and said there's five different things that they can do, and once I identify which one of those five ways they can do it, I immediately go to the adjustment that we have for that, that, you know, the adjustment to their adjustment if we need it.

So one is to do nothing, which essentially means not recognize the unbalance, but there are times, I have been in situations where that was a legitimate thing, was just don't adjust to it. Like, [00:41:00] they are desperately wanting you to over-adjust to it so that they can run a counter or something like that, and just don't adjust to it.

We'll be fine. They don't have anything to get you. It's been a handful of times, mostly against the same team strangely enough, that do nothing was the correct answer. But usually that was from Roger's point of view that they didn't recognize the unbalance. And from our point of view as a defense, we have to recognize the unbalance.

And by the way, I should mention now, the Mike Backer's job is to find the center of the five fat guys to recognize the unbalance. He needs to know who the unbalance, who the un- ineligible receivers are the 50s, 60s, 70s that are on the offensive line. There's five of them. The one that is the quote unquote "center" that we're gonna line up on as the center is not the guy with the ball.

He's the guy that's the center of the five fat guys. Right. So he's gonna have two other ineligible numbers to the left and right of him. That makes him the middle of those five guys. And he becomes the guy that we line up on in, for a lot of our purposes. So but first thing, we don't adjust anybody, we don't adjust.

Occasionally the right thing, but usually not. [00:42:00] The second thing that Roger identified is when they flip one guy, when they move one guy. So this could be, you know, we see this with a three by one and they we, we do this with a three by one nub. So a nub trips where we can flip check the corner over to go play man on the number one or number two receiver in the trips because you don't have a split receiver on the single side.

Trips is an unbalance and s- and that allows us to do that adjustment. You probably have seen it, done it against a quads formation, where people take the weak safety and run them all the way across to the quads and now they have no force defender on the weak side. That is a move one man adjustment to match the quads.

It's not a good one because you now have no force defender. But that's a common thing. We've even seen that against trips too, by the way. Yes. To move, to move the w- weak safety over and now have no force defender against trips. So that's a, that's one. We've also done it like taking somebody, taking the free safety out of the middle of the field and just moved him down to sit in the, so for [00:43:00] example, against a single wing, sometimes you could just, the only adjustment you need to make, because they have a very good counter game, they have this, they have that, we just take the free safety out of the middle field and we run him down to sit on the outside shoulder. Let's say you're a 4-2-5 base and you're just gonna play your, your, your normal alignment with a six eye, and you're just gonna take him and stick him on the outside shoulder of the tight end or on the outside shoulder of the wing to strengthen that off tackle or off tight end area.

And you just, that's all you did. And so that's, that's a move one man adjustment. So you look at who's the guy that moved, how do we attack it? Then the core adjustments. The base adjustment, the one that we teach from day one as this is our adjustment to empty, is you play you move everybody over one man.

So assuming that we just have a, a standard unbalance where there is a guard to one side, then the center, then a guard, then a tackle, then the other tackle from the other side, that's, that's your that's your unbalance. So the standard single wing formation [00:44:00] is the weak side has a tight end, a offensive lineman, and then there's the center, and then you have the...

And I don't remember Rick's terms for them, but you have the the guard and then the tackle, and then the tackle, and then the sometimes you have a, a, sometimes you have a tight end there, sometimes you have a wing back and then like a nasty split tight end or something like that. Right. And then so that's where, that's where your unbalanced element of it comes from.

So that's, that's the main adjustment for that, is we move everybody over one man. And so what we do with that is we say, "Okay, the guy with the ball Is not the center. And so the, the Mike backer identifies that, okay, there's number 56, then there's the guy with the ball, number 57, then there's the guy number 58, and then there's the guy number 59, and then there's the guy number 60.

And so 58, 59 and 60 are all to the right of the guy with the ball. And so he says, "Hey, 57's not the center, [00:45:00] even though he's got the ball. 58 is the center." And so he calls out, "Unbalanced right, 58's the center." Move over one man. Everybody just changes their alignment to match if 58 had the ball. Okay? If, as if the left guard on the offense, the guy to our right, had the ball.

And so now if you're in a 3-4 front, let's say, the nose guard is not lined up on the center, on the guy with the ball, he's lined up on number 58. And everybody just moves over one man and that's it. When you do that The only adjustment that you have to make is we may still key the guards, depending on s- on scout and everything, because usually they don't pull the center.

Right. So you may still want to key off of... Even though I might be lined up in a weak side 10 technique as the will linebacker, I may still want to key the guard because he [00:46:00] might pull in their scheme. Or I might key the far side guard. I might key the guard opposite of, if I, if I wanna really get crazy.

But usually we just key the, still key that same guard. And same thing from the 50 technique, we still key the guard just for the pull, matching the puller. So that's, that's the main adjustment that we use, and that's the primary number one adjustment. So that means your defensive end now has to play, you know, he doesn't play outside.

The, the big thing that happens there is if, let's say, the nose moves over from outside shade of the center to outside shade of that far guard, and he's gotta know that, okay, I'm a... This is a tight end now, like a real tight end. I can't just line up in a five technique. I can line up in a six or line up in a six eye.

So we, we... Everybody's gotta understand how this has changed, because he's gotta understand this is not a five technique. This is a nine technique. You know, and we'll have open gaps. So that's the primary thing, and then the other two are basically variations on that. One is we identify the center of the five fat guys, and, but our adjustment is to just slide the [00:47:00] defensive line.

And so, you know, you make a call, you make your adjustment call, give it a name, whatever you do. And you, you know, we call it, like, bump, and it means just the linebackers, or we called it slide, and it means just the defensive line. Or we, I think we've... Slide check has been our defensive line check, so I think it was bump and slide.

So bump would move the defensive lineman down. Slide would move the linebackers. Slide's the one we've used the most, just moving the linebackers, leaving the defensive line. So the way that these work is one is to say, "Okay, we're just gonna move the defensive lineman. The linebackers are gonna stay home And the other one is to say we're just going to move the, Linebackers

linebackers and the defensive line's going to stay lined up as if the guy with the ball was the center. So those are the five ways, and then you combine those with some different things that we mentioned. J- so for our purposes, we'll come into that game with a plan of especially if you are a, a primary team that's gonna run this a lot and you don't [00:48:00] really pass, we're probably gonna also, we're probably gonna combine a couple.

So we're gonna take so those five, you know, again, the, the move, move everybody over one man, that's like the, we didn't expect to see unbalanced, we saw unbalanced, unbalanced right, everybody moves over. Unbalanced right, 58's the center, everybody moves over. But you'll start to combine things like we're gonna take the free safety, or in our situation the free safety's the best player on the field, we're not taking him off the field.

We're gonna take a corner off the field because why have both corners out there when they're your worst tacklers? Take a corner off the field, add an extra defensive lineman. Take the corner off the field, add an extra linebacker and put them over there. So we might be sliding and adding an extra player, or you could also think of it as if we, if we didn't slide, we would just take the corner off and put an extra defensive lineman, let's say, down there.

That's essentially moving one man. But a lot of times we combine them. We're going to, because it's run heavy, we're gonna take a DB off and put an extra defensive lineman or an extra linebacker down, and then because it's unbalanced, we're also gonna slide [00:49:00] everybody over a half man or one man One thing I will say about these adjustments if you're trying to s- to stop this offense is y- it can't be this big complex lots of calls because like a lot of these older offenses, they are muddle huddle.

They're calling it in the huddle, and you have two seconds from the time they break the huddle to the time the ball's snapped. The one that I saw, I'm not so sure they weren't getting flags for not everyone being set for a second before the ball was snapped- Absolutely, yeah. ... Because they are so fast.

So, what Joe's talking about, identifying a center and calling it and sli- there's none of that. You don't have time, so this has to be a preplanned, maybe you're figuring out in your first series- Yeah ... okay, whatever. Yeah, a lot of that is gonna come out in it. Like, you know, they- Yeah ... i- if you, if you know it and it's game planned, yeah, you're on, you're not doing all that.

Maybe 58 is the, the strong guard, so we know he's the downing side. So we're gonna slide to him expecting the quick guard is gonna pull over here, so we need those numbers to match up, right? So that's something you'd have practiced all [00:50:00] week. Yep ... and then you're coming out in those by call. You're already tagging that to your defense.

No one gets to make a decision on field 'cause there's just- No ... not enough time. And so your big men are, are aligned about where they wanna be, and then they see the guy, and then boom, they're on him, wherever. They're inside tech, outside tech, head up, whatever. Backers the same thing. They see the football.

They, they kinda have to stay in the middle, but I mean, they're watching the huddle to see where, where's the strong guard going 'cause I'm, I know we're sliding to his side, right? So these are things that y- you're not pre-snap shifting and calling. There's not time. So you have to come in with a plan, and you can have multiple.

You c- you can identify who that new center, I'm air quoting if you're not watching, you're listening, the new center is, but you're doing it on Sunday when you watch film, and then on Monday, those kids are already identifying, "I'm just looking for him to come out of the huddle so I can know that's the strong side-" Yeah

and the other side'll be the quick side." Yeah,[00:51:00]

any tell that you can get. Yeah ... sometimes the field too, but I mean, yeah, it's, it's it's any tell that you can get that you're using. And the you're right. What we'll do is if we want to use that changeup a lot of times we will go out for a series and run that changeup, and the plan might be we're going to run the changeup for You know, as long as we can.

So the goal is run the changeup three and out, get you to punt, and then we'll come back out in the base thing. Yeah, so that's another thing, and it goes a little- But if we go out and run it two plays and now it's, you know, they've, they've gashed us for eight and 10, it's like, "All right, go back." Like go back.

Right, right, right. You know? And you've worked on that, like we don't wanna be out there stuck for a 19-play drive in the changeup that's really not our best deal. It's not working. Another thing about these as you're, as you're working this adjustment and Joe's telling you to carry multiple, you need to be able to swap them out on the fly because what tho- they're looking for is the bubble.

They're looking [00:52:00] for the weakness, so if you're gonna give them the same front six plays in a row, on play two they're confirming, and on play three they're probably coming out in ... If you're leaving B-gap bubble, they're coming out and hitting B-gap, right? So, just like a lot of these, I, I'm gonna continue using the word antiquated 'cause you all know what I mean, but those, those flex bones and wing Ts and they're looking to read the guy that they thinks the weakest.

They're looking to go to the bubble, so changing up that front is imperative. It doesn't have to be much. It doesn't have to be much for you. Like Joe was saying, y- the slide the lineman this time. Go a few plays, now lineman stay home and the backers slide. It's just making sure that when they call their ultimate supreme play from the decoder ring to go where you aren't, all of a sudden you are there.

So just, just something to consider as well. Let's jump to this last part here, Joe, and it's- Well, hold on. One, one thing- Oh ... that I wanna mention before we go to the last part because I wanna just focus on the, on the spinner then. That's one reason you don't hear us talking a- about a lot of [00:53:00] blitzing and like here's the blitz you run or the stunt you run.

You don't get the opportunity. Right. You just don't have the opportunity. Number one, you don't have the opportunity to call it and run it, and you gotta change the alignment. You gotta identify the alignment, move the alignment, and then somehow run a blitz from there. So we don't do a lot of that. And number two, most of these schemes are heavy gap block schemes where your linebacker's walking up there and getting down blocked and they're, they're hitting the thing so fast.

You know, sometimes you can put in, sometimes one of your changeup fronts, and I see teams have some success with, you know, one of your changeup fronts is just having one of your linebackers walk up there and blitz, but it's like that's the, that's the call, right? It's not, we're not w- like we have three calls and one of them is a linebacker walks up and blitzes A-gap just based off of what's, what they see or something like that, and it's like that can be built in, but- There's not a lot of, like, exotic blitzing or [00:54:00] anything here.

If you, you know, really when we ... Really the blitzes that I've seen even r- I don't like to blitz it a whole lot. Really the blitzes even that I've seen, it's like really the linebacker's just walking up as an extra defensive lineman more than anything else. Right. And getting down with everybody else.

Yeah, sometimes getting down. Yeah. He's part of the wall now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Congratulations, you are a D lineman. That's, that's a really good point. Just that time is of the essence on these. You don't ... You- Yes ... pre-snap calls and crap aren't happening. You're not auto checking much. Well, you better have some big tell tell.

It's like fine motor skills, right? You get into combat and those fine motor skills go out the window. Same thing. You don't, you're not making fine tune- fine adjustments, so. All right. Let's, let's jump to the last part, talking about combating the misdirection. So the spinner series is the primary one here, but just like all of these, you have

You've got a wing back that's back there. You've got an inside wing back. You've got no quarterback, so now the, the f- if you look at Rick Darlington's, he calls it tell back and fullback, [00:55:00] either of them could snag the snap and go- Mm ... either direction. Maybe they're lead blocking. Maybe it's to throw you off, like they can

You know, it's almost a, a counter. There's all sorts of chaos going on. And so you're gonna have to combat that. And, and one of the ways that I was taught this early, Joe, was if they're complex, beat them with simplicity. And so it doesn't ... Giving, giving your linebackers, your linemen 14 if thens because, you know, based on the reads, well, if you get down block but the wing back goes out, then this.

If the wing back goes in, then this. Now it's a reach block and the wing back steps back and the ... No. He ain't got time. Once again, just as fast as we're talking about them aligning, they're off to the races. Like, he's not gonna have the mental capacity to read and react to 14 if thens. So you've gotta keep things fairly simple, which is why we talk about the ASCA and moving alignment so much because assignments can't change and key reads can't change.

You've gotta, you've gotta just, you've gotta iron some of those out early [00:56:00] and keep things simple. Otherwise the misdirection alone will eat you up when your lineman thinks he's chasing where he's ... And all of a sudden he's out of the play or he's upfield or whatever. So, talk to me, Joe. Walk me through how we're combating you know, primarily the spinner series but, but all of the misdirection that comes with this offense.

Yeah. I mean it's, it's not anything phenomenal. L- You know, here's one of the things that that Darlington talked about when I, when I ... he's not somebody I know personally. I've talked to him a little bit. One of his points on the spinner series was everybody talks about the spinner series, but the problem with the spinner series is that misdirection costs you blockers. And the great thing about, you know, the single wing is it's a direct snap play. So you can have 10 guys blocking the direction you're going And, you know, that's one of the things that makes Wildcat so hard.

And it is, I, I think one thing to mention that the reason that the wing [00:57:00] T evolved from the single wing was the problem... And just talking about identification, the problem with the single wing was that there was always a primary ball carrier. There was always the guy, and I think it's usually the guy that's to the left of the center on the, you know, or to, to the, to the unbalanced side of the center, but where, how...

But there was always a primary ball carrier, and everyone had specific things that they did, and if there was an injury in the single wing, it kinda screwed everything up. Yeah. So whereas in the straight T, it was a little simpler. There were three backs in the backfield, but it didn't have the misdirection, and so what the wing T wanted was the misdirection with the ability to use three backs.

And that's where the wing T and the single wing got [00:58:00] meshed you know, going back to actually before Tubby Raymond. So- The attempt to add a little more misdirection into the y- you know, in, in, get some different things going is the spinner series where the, the quarterback kind of s- you know, spins and fakes behind him and then hands it off underneath or however it works.

I don't... There's not as much out there. The funny thing is my, my old head coach who's now an athletic director, but before he came to the school that I worked with, he had a season where he lost six quarterbacks. And by the way, this is kind of how Darlington ended up in the single wing was just out of like survival.

Right. Rules ba- you know, obviously being in Florida and just so many great athletes and stuff, and it's like you, you know, you gotta figure out how to survive. And but he was on his sixth quarterback, who was obviously not a quarterback 'cause he was at a single A school in Virginia, and just trying to survive, and so he finds like single wing stuff [00:59:00] and goes or s- finds like the, the spinner series and goes out and runs the spinner series and survived.

I think they finished like five and five or something like that, six and four maybe. Survived. And he became known as like the spinner series guy for a, for the longest time. People would call up and ask him about the spinner series and he's like, "I don't know. Ran it just because we had to. I don't, I didn't wanna run it."

The thing that, that Darlington talked about was like, it's great, but you can only block with eight because the other two are faking. At least two are faking. They're going the wrong direction. To whereas you can block with 10, direct snap to a guy and block with 10. You know, the limitation of traditional offenses is quarterback's gonna hand it off, maybe carry out a fake, but you can block with nine.

Single wing you can block with 10. And I know double wing will pull the quarterback to go block the corner. You guys are nuts. Whatever. And most of them don't ever get there anyway, but and don't, don't even do that anymore as much. But so that's the idea. [01:00:00] And his, one of his points on it, and I could be getting this all wrong, so I'm just gonna kind of para- what I think one of his points was, and if I remember, I don't, I d- I didn't look at the notes before this or anything, I can go back and find it.

If a team is really disciplined in some of their reads, like say their, their, their line keys, and they're not hung up in the backfield action, the spinner series is crappy Because I'm blocking with less guys. And if you didn't run with the misdirection I'm in trouble. It's like how, you know, how often do you see, for as many times as you see a reverse bust wide open, I feel like you see a lot more, and that's why it's a risk-reward play, you see a lot more get tackled for a five-yard loss or something because somebody stayed home, two guys stayed home, and oh crap, we only brought one guy around to block the guy that might [01:01:00] not be completely undisciplined, but here they are, and, you know, if we...

I- I- we're in trouble now. Those things, those misdirections rely on... It's no different than a double pass. It's no different than a, a... It's no different than, you know, an al- we, we run the alley and go screen, and it relies on the corner jumping the screen when he's... Instead of being a stay in coverage player.

And it's kind of a crappy play if he stays in coverage because we just have on- we have the one route deal. We have one guy running down the field, and he's covered. Like, well, crap, just throw it out of bounds over his head. So if you can play disciplined football Easier said than done, but don't get me wrong.

Easier said than done. If you can play disciplined football where you rely on your line keys, and I'm sure there's some people doing false keys and things like that, false, you know, false pulls and things like that, too which added an element. But if you can play [01:02:00] disciplined football in general, you really add, you really make this a very difficult thing for teams to run against you if your guys can, you know, as wing T coach have been saying f- or, or guys defending the wing T have been saying for years and years and years to their players, "Keep your eyes out of the backfield."

Easier said than done with a 16-year-old kid, but if you stick to, you know... And, and of course, if you have straight backfield key reads, which is not wrong. I mean, I, let me... If you have backfield primary key reads, which is what we do in the 4-3 system because it just works better, but there's a lot of checks and balances in place.

But it's not wrong to go primary backfield, secondary line keys. You must have secondary line keys. Yeah. And it's easier for us, I've found, to have primary line [01:03:00] keys with secondary backfield keys. And so if you are, if you are running a JDFB 3-4, 3-3, 4-2-5 or calling it whatever you want and calling them birds and bats and bees and dogs and so forth, whatever, doesn't matter.

If you are using primary line keys, keep your guys focused on those primary line keys. It will help you not be so afflicted by the misdirection. If you have your backside safeties who are aware of... 'Cause there's counterplays and everything in here. If you have your safeties who are aware of, "Okay, just because the ball looks like it's going way over there, I'm gonna stay here."

You know, one of the hardest things, and I didn't mention it before, one of the hardest things for the safeties is to figure out who got the ball He's now the quarterback, but again, there's usually a primary and then what they wanna learn to do is read out of the mesh. Ball down stays down in the mesh, read out of the mesh, what comes to me, what goes away from me.

So [01:04:00] like a quarterback, if I'm reading out of the mesh, if a quarterback comes into the mesh and he can spin around or he can hand it off in front or he can hand off behind or whatever it is, but let's say that it's a play action, what really matters to me is, okay, the, the what's coming out of the mesh looks like a run, but the quarterback is rolling out away from me, well, that's not gonna affect me.

Right. If, if the quarterback is booting toward me, that's where I'm looking for the ball upgrade. But- Yeah ... again, the big thing is we stay true to our key reads and s- and that's where our ASCA becomes huge. We can adjust alignment and we almost have to. Stances generally wanna stay pretty consistent, but those key reads really, if the more consistent your key reads stay, and we've talked to all, all podcast about putting guys who to do key reads that they understand how to do you know, m- minimizing the amount of change for them, then you'll be okay with the misdirection with the, with the spinner series and all that sort of stuff.

So the, the misdirection here doesn't... I, I guess it might be spookier because it has a cooler [01:05:00] name- It does, yeah ... talking spinner series. But it's all the same. And I mean, you can get to a point where this quarterback has three or four plays out of that spinner series, like any of those guys can be getting the ball.

But it, it, it goes back to last week or, or two weeks ago, we played a team that ran Bash. You know, Bash is the new, the new zone read, right? But it's ag- the backside of everything. We're just gonna read and see if you kept anybody home- ... and if not, we're gonna hand the ball off. Okay? And my linebackers were struggling because we're getting buck sweep away Well, they're getting buck sweep, but then the backside of it, they're bashing with the tailback.

And I, my, my backside inside backer continuously wanted to, like, forego his pulling guard read, which is taking him, say, to his left, and go play the bash on the right. And I'm like, "You have to understand, they aren't sending those guards [01:06:00] places that they aren't gonna block with them- ... most of the time.

And if they hand off the bash, we have an entire guy out there, his entire job is stay home for that. So he's just happy to finally get some work when he stays home. Like, he's glad that patience is finally gonna pay off. "You mean they're gonna hand off a play and I get to make a tackle when it's play away?

That's glorious." Right. So it comes back to, like, just do your job. The, those guards are pulling for a reason, and it... If you go back and watch the single wing, which I helped them, I helped Bradbury kind of break those guys down last year just to see what it looked like. The guards never lie, Joe. Yeah.

The hat that I want made is, "Girlfriends lie, guards don't," and it's the greatest linebacker high school coaching hat of all time because- The guards don't lie, they just can't Right. We finally played a team who pulled guards opposite directions. They ran like split G. But one of them was still going to the play side.

So as long as both [01:07:00] backers followed, we still had hats, right? Right. So even when they lie, they're ... They suck at it. They c- they can't because those guys are going to block someone in a, in one way or the other. Which is why we don't like cross-reading guards and all that crap, 'cause now, God, you're running into each other or whatever, right?

There's a lot of- No, I really avoid cross-reading guards- But- ... or trying to read wings or even, you know, a lot of guys will try to read in the single wing, you know, you, you have the one up back, the B back or the whatever the, whatever you call him. And sometimes he's the counter guy, sometimes he's not.

But he's usually over the B gap area. Yeah. And guys will try to key him instead of the guards. And I generally think it's a mistake because he's, like you said, all I gotta do is run him across opposite the formation. Yeah. And, and, and I generally do. So if, if you're looking at mine, if you're looking at my version of the single wing, then again it's just it

I'm not a single wing coach, I'm just a guy who uses it as a wacky formation to run our normal plays out of. For sure. But [01:08:00] many times I will have that guy go the opposite because that's where a lot of people try to key on. For sure. And then the last piece is just your alley player just cannot overcommit one way or the other.

He's gotta stay home. This ab- ab- above all weekends is not a split the number ones for free safety alignment. It is over the ball. Offset a little bit if you wanna go to the unbalanced side, but be able to see the backfield and go when you know, but don't go till you know, because if you do get one of those backside counter-ish plays from

And, and a backer does read it wrong, he may be your saving grace, so- Yeah ... he has to be very patient. I, I- Can't, can't say enough how fast this offense hits when you see it live. Zoom well, yeah. If you, if you have the guy and all you have is his huddle clips, and it's like from snap to what... One, you're probably already seeing a lot of movement, because huddle clips it where you can usually see some form of sh- or some much of the huddle.

But go watch a live game. Guys, all I've done all [01:09:00] season is steal people's film because I'm just a thief. Everyone has their film live-streamed now. Everyone. So go check out their live stream and get that timing down so you'll have an understanding. Or if you aren't gonna face this team at all for the next 10 years and you're just interested what the heck we're talking about, go look up the Holdenville, I think they're the Wolverines.

They have a live stream and it's good. They're really, really good at it. They'll make you want to go find the playbook and like, "How can I dabble in..." Don't dabble, but Yeah, use formation, I do. But it is fun. But it's not the o- Anyway, it does hit fast, so ... yeah, not the offense, yeah. Tonight we're talking about- Not that we, even when we used it, like the best, the best year that we ever had was we basically ran we had multiple calls, but I don't know that we used them.

We had... So we named them after our plays, so again, we used numbers and this is one of the advantages of using numbers. So the five plays that we had were were outside zone to the right a, basically outside zone to the left with the, with the other back and then we would [01:10:00] pull some guys to help with it to the...

We always lined up with the off, unbalanced to the right. Yeah. So we ran outside zone to the, to the unbalanced side. We ran outside zone the other way, but then pulled, I think we pulled our backside tackle and the B back to get around there. And then we ran, Four we, we ran power to the right Power And then we ran counter to the left.

So we basically had... And I don't, I think at some point we put in just like a, like a inside zone or a wedge or something like that off of it just to have an inside run play. But- Yeah ... we didn't, we ne- we hardly ever used it. And then we had what originally was called seven. So we would show the counter look and then pass.

And so what these came down to was, again, the numbers didn't matter. We only had those five run plays. So our quarterback understood, he was a receiver, but he understood gaps, he understood football, he understood where's the weakness, where's the numbers. And so we, he would talk to him, tell him that stuff, and said, "What do you like?

Always if you're not, if you're not sure, if they're balanced, then the play that we run is the outside zone to the [01:11:00] unbalanced side. That's our best look." So that was six, right? 26 and our, for the backs running it. So he would call six. So most of the time we would get up there and he would go, of course he just l- loved saying, he goes, "Six, six, six."

And then, "Set, go." And we were just running. So our offensive linemen are up there and they almost know, like, we're running outside zone until, until we're not. That's right. And I'd always tell him, like, "If you wanna go six, call six and snap it and let's go." And we probably, it was probably 80% of the snaps.

"And if you wanna do something else, wait a minute." And so then he would go up there and he would, if we wanted to run the outside zone to the left, he would go, "Seven." And then he would let everybody coordinate a little bit and make the offensive line... You know, I told the offensive line, "You, you don't get to do the full, like, count and combo and everything.

It's just set and go and just run." Just student body. And yeah. And you know, reach left and, you know, on a moo cow basically we would block it. Man on or over, capture the outside wing, Jerry Campbell teaching. I love it. And he would call f- you know, five if we wanted to run the power, [01:12:00] and four if we wanted to run the counter, but we almost never were gonna.

We might've done it a couple of... Four if we wanted to run the power, five if we were gonna run the counter. And so, you know, we almost never did that. And then the, the play call was 27, wa- was seven pass. But he would just go, "Pew pew." And so when he'd get up there and we wanted to run the pass, ba- basically we would only do that if the receiver on the outside was basically uncovered or if the corner had been making tackles on the outside zone.

And he would come up there and go, "Pew pew." And then he would... You know, I think we threw it, like, once or twice, and he I think most of the time he tried to do it, he would end up running it. But that was the entire offense. But the key was, you're right, we're, we were lining up in it and they're going...

And, you know, everybody knew that was what we were doing on the two-point conversion, but when we went to in the middle of the field, the key was to get out there, and we would call it over and we would have to run out there. We ran straight to the ball. There was no huddle when we ran it. We ran straight to the ball, and they would get out there and he would go, "Six.

Set, go." And we're, we're gone. And that was really one of the keys [01:13:00] to, to it really being a problem, was being able to get out there and run it fast before you could recognize it and make adjustments. And teams that are really good at it you know, they run the entire offense that way. Obviously for us it was mostly just run out on the field, try to get it before they recognize it, and, and run it.

You know, do a quick personnel change and run it. But it, that does make it... For anybody who's thinking about doing it we teach it in the Pistol Power Offense system, the way that we do it as part of our offense. But it is that is a big key to it. I think that's it, man. I think we checked all the boxes.

Tonight we talked about defending the single wing, how to apply your ASCA, planning your unbalance adjustments and the lack of time to do much there, and then combating the misdirection, including the spirit spinner series, but all, all the misdirection that's available. And that really, this episode fits every offense you'll ever have to stop, so it's really good.

Last week we talked about quarterback drills. Next week it's onto pre-practice and warmups, and now it is time for the level up Cool. Oh you know, the, it'll be a week [01:14:00] later or 10 days later when this comes out, but we have just finished up, we're actually finishing up tonight the promotion for Athletic Speed and Movement.

The price is going up, and we had a promotion with a, with basically $100 off, so you can still get it. We're not gonna close it down. We're gonna make it... Some of those things, like Athletic Speed and Movement, JDFB Weight Room, we always make those available, because when you need it, when you're ready to start it, we want it to be there for you.

Some of the other stuff is, you know, we have enrollment periods, and it closes, and it's open, and that's it. So like in November, we'll be doing Football Coaching 101 Football Coaching Mastery, Coordinator Masterclass, which is the basically football coaching, you know, academy. It is the, the gigantic football coaching education that is the fast track.

That's gonna be at the end of November. That's always a Black Friday special Cyber Monday, but that's only available then. Athletics Speed and Movement's still available. Go to the store, JoeDanielfootball.com/store. You just pay a little more if you miss the promotion. But [01:15:00] I think we, we had a very successful promotion of it and I think that the, the thing, the level up for me is taking some time, and we talked about it.

I took some time to go back and look at all of those. Daniel did a lot of interviews with some of Dale's most, you know, successful clients, and, you know, cha- state champions and national champions college national champions, like, like legitimately just, you know, NFL players who came from... You know, we talked about 5'9", 180, playing in the NFL.

These unbelievable stories of, of guys that Dale changed. And I'm not trying to sell Dale Baskette right now. What I'm trying to do is just say we... The successful promotion of this, it's never been about getting rich for me. It's never been about getting rich for Dale, and I can promise you neither one of us is.

But Dale's legacy is very important, and he is his, his promo-his, his system of teaching speed, he is the most knowledgeable. He is, [01:16:00] he has the best progression of teaching speed. He's been doing it for 40, 47 going on 48 years. And just to know that, that, you know, however many football coaches got in here and will get in, you know, this year and next year and, you know, every time we do this but also just taking the time just to, just really this promotion means more because I spent so much time looking at what it's done for so many teams and the impact that it has had, It's pretty amazing.

Yeah. So just excited that more teams have this in their hands for, for the 2027 season and the opportunity to go out and run this and that, you know, we, we continue to make this available. We continue to be there to support it, and Dale's there to support it and, you know, make sure we got your questions answered, and you get it installed, and you get the most out of it.

But yeah, I mean that for me, just y- I, I think Some things will be, you know, maybe changing in the way that I f- follow up on it, 'cause I just wanna... I just, I need to [01:17:00] know more. Like, it's so good. It's so good. It's so, it's, it's so easy to follow, but there's so many coaches who just have, have just had raves about it, and I think it sucks when guys are...

I hate when guys are inventing their defensive fronts. I hate when guys are downloading playbooks off the internet, but I think what I hate even more when guys are, And again, it's not to bash any other system or anything like that, but the guys who are, like, just running random drills off of the, off of YouTube or the guys who are, like, not doing any speed training, like, you're doing your players a disservice.

You really are, and this is not a break-the-bank thing. And it's not a, it's not a time, it's not a, you know, it's not a time killer. You can't afford not to, really. Right. So I mean, that's my thing. I, I just... I'm happy that so many coaches got it. I hope so many more coaches got it and will continue to get it and will continue to...

[01:18:00] You know, Dale's just- Just the legacy that Dale has and the things that Dale does, more people need to see it, more people use it, more people need to do it. They really do. It's not flashy. It just, it's, it just works. Yeah. Yep. Those interviews were all a ton of fun, and luckily some of the guys were close by, and then I got to have conversations with...

Like, getting to talk to Ron Roberts. Right. He's a, he's a dude, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, the, he's at Arkansas this year and they're not having a great year, but, you know, he's under a, a, a rookie head coach. Yeah. I mean, he's been at Auburn, Florida. He's got a national championship. He's- Yeah, but- ... won, I think, six conference championships.

You know, I mean, it's incredible. And, and just getting to see, you know, his love for Dale and Dale's system was so cool. And Kenny Main, getting to talk to him, and, like, these are people that, like, you see them on the TV. Like, that's weird- Yeah ... right? Like, I know this day and age, like, you guys are watching us maybe on a TV or on a, a...

But no, we're talking, like, old school- TV guys. Famous guys ... real, real famous [01:19:00] TV guys, right? Like, I mean, it was so cool. Anyway, there's just a lot of guys out there that, that were doing it and, and, and Dale gave them a path that they may or may not have had to whatever success, right? For Ron, it's winning the national championship as a coach.

That was not necessarily as a player, but he used it for his whole school. Just, man, those guys are everywhere. So it's really cool to see different levels and different philosophies and coaches and players and, and hearing their stories. Go check out those testimonials. My level up, and I have two, Joe, I added two while we were talking.

My first one's a, a, a pretty cool one. It's, I got to, I got to kind of... This is casting shade at myself. We beat a team by 50 this week. And, and this is not to poke fun at that team. They're down, right? Like Jimmies and Joes is all it was. The, the coach was scheming up what he could. He had a great scheme.

Even breaking it down, I was like, "Guys, this is nothing less than we've seen all year." Unfortunately, they've just won a game or two. And, and, and honestly We've-- There's more than one of these games on our schedule this year where it's [01:20:00] like the teams have just been beaten. I talked earlier about numbers being down in Oklahoma.

I think the game we're going into Friday this, like in a few days at the time of this recording, the coach said he started with 15, he's down to 22 kids. Like kids have just given up. It's... And it, it's just, I don't know how much is the him or program, whatever. It's just, it is what it is right now.

Anyway, we've never been up by 50 before. I've never been up by 50. I've been down by 82, but I've never been up. And so we didn't go in as a coaching staff with a plan for that situation. We practice situations all the time. Know where the sticks are, don't jump when it's third or fourth and short. Understand, you know, like situations out the wazoo.

Never do you think about rotations when you're up 50. When you're down, it's easy. You're already giving up everything, so just throw kids out there and let them get some... Have them have fun, play loose. Yeah. But when you're up, we came to the situation where we're really wanting to pitch the shutout for a mor- you know, it's like, it's morale for our kids.

We- [01:21:00] we're, we're going into this game three and five. We've beat some damn good teams. We beat the number four team in the state, and then we've lost to some teams we maybe shouldn't have. It's been one of those years. It's just up and down. And so really getting to pitch the shutout meant a lot. It's senior night, trying to get our seniors out.

We ran into a situation where it was like our starters are in maybe too long, if I'm being honest, and Coach may not agree with me, and that's okay. We- that's, that's what it is. And then when we start trying to sub in our guys that are a step down, well, now they're gonna give up the shutout, so we get the starters back out there.

And then the defense does its job and the offense drops a ball in the end zone and they pick it up for a touchdown, so we lose our shutout But then we still don't run our second string out there because now it's to get all the seniors that, you know, aren't real ballplayers and, and, and they need... It's just senior night.

Hmm. And the freshmen. So it's like we, we skipped a whole developmental [01:22:00] time- ... for these second-stringers and third-stringers that legit need reps because we're, we're so in it to go get this shutout, and then all of a sudden the shutout don't matter, so now it's just, "Let's get out of here." Yeah. So it's such a weird play.

We d- we, we were discombobulated on the sideline who's in, who's out. Mm. We're... We've just never been up like that. We're run- I mean, our, our... And Cam may get mad at me saying it, I don't care, but our quarterback is out there and it's, we're literally, it's 56 to six. We're trying to clo- And he's taking a ball, like he's running Q outside zone, and it wasn't called.

It's like he pulled something and just ran. Right. Or maybe it's a pass play, he brought it down. Kids don't always, yeah. Kids don't always, yeah. No. Yeah. And you're like, one, just, just go down, and two, why are you running the ball? Like, hand it o- Why- We can't handle you getting out. But yeah, it was just one- I had that one, yeah

of those that we weren't ready. I definitely had that one. And so if you're a coach, be ready for, I mean, have that. And I, I don't know how often you work it, but This week is another week that's probably gonna be very [01:23:00] similar, and I h- you know, we're going into it with a better plan. I'm gonna say I hope 'cause I'm not there every day, but we've had the conversation.

Like, we're on the same page now, and so I think it'll be better. So kind of a crazy situation you gotta practice for, but it happens. We had a kid, by the way, who our, our primary run was zone read. I mean, that was, that was just what we ran. It was, that was, that was the offense. And the... We were in the same situation.

We were up, and the backup quarterback, who was a receiver, starting receiver, had gotten hurt. We really didn't have... You know, I think the, the, you know, the JV quarterback was, like, in eighth grade or something like that, and we really didn't have, like, somebody to go to. And we're just like... You know, we had an emergency, but he, you know, fumbled the ball, that kind of stuff.

Like, we just wanna get the game over with. Yeah. So we're like, "We're gonna call zone read, but you do not keep the ball." There's no, there's no read. And sh- you know what happens. One time he's just like, it's so open that everything just takes over in his [01:24:00] body and he pulls it, and you're like, "Why?" Yeah.

'Cause you look, you look like bad people. You know, you're risking your quarterback that you can't, obviously cannot afford to lose- Yeah ... and you look like bad people, and it's just like, "Ah." As you're trying to run it up. We, we, we had a, a running back that a few years, like two years, three years ago that was really, really good.

And we got up by 14. Like, we n- we, we definitely could have still lost the game. Sure. But to seal it, we needed a first down, and our backup wasn't getting it done, so we put the starter back out there, and then he got hurt on the one play- Yeah ... to go get the third down, right? To seal the game. So man, you never know.

It just happens. But my other one is a less happy level up, and it, and I wanna start with this. 20 years in the military, and I understand that I'm part of a group of guys who is very high risk for suicide. And so along the way, I learned... They called it ACE Suicide Prevention Program. I don't, I don't know what the civilian version is or if you can get into it, but my, my number one point here is find a [01:25:00] suicide prevention program and learn it.

Go get the education because you never know when it'll show up. So I've been lucky. I don't think I've... I can't remember ever having to talk... It might've been one soldier overseas I had to kind of take care of. Anyway, so obviously it's been used more than once. But last Monday or Tuesday, whatever it was, Wednesday, I don't know, I was going to my barber to go schedule my sons, and I'd, I'd called and he didn't answer, so I went in to scedu- schedule my sons' haircuts for the day, and he just was not happy.

He just seemed sa- almost looked pissed that I was there. And when I asked him if he was okay, he just said, "No." And he said, "I'm alone in the world." And I was like, "Oh, shit. What happened?" He just started crying. I gave him a big hug. And it turns out his wife had left him in the middle of the night for his best friend and taken the h- everything in the house and their kids, and like every guy's worst nightmare.

Yeah. And it, it, it ruined him. Like, he's, he's distraught, and it's been a couple weeks. And I had to sit there and talk to him, and I had [01:26:00] stuff to go do with my kids, and I just had to kind of, you know, put it on the back shelf. Like, he was the most important person in the world at that time. And, but that suicide prevention training helps.

Number one, learning to have the hard conversation. I had to ask him, "Are you planning on killing yourself?" And hearing him say, like, "N- no, I've thought about it," because he'd already mentioned he'd thought about it and, and that he didn't wanna wake up tomorrow, so that's why we went there. I didn't just take it there.

But then, like, he even had a, a brainstorming of a plan and like... But I've been taught to deal with that. And even though I immediately called professionals too, 'cause I'm not a professional. But, like, I was kind of that intermediary. And now helping... It helped, you know... I, I'd scheduled a couple haircuts within the day, so I got to check on him multiple times throughout the day.

But that's the thing, you never know when you're gonna run into it, the weirdest times. And so it's almost like situational football. Like, it's something you want to practice. Like, go out and get an education 'cause you never know whose life you're gonna save, and it's, it's the crazy... Like, I got it because military people were [01:27:00] very fond of hurting ourselves for some reason.

22 a day I think is still the statistic, which I'm hoping it goes down. But the, you know, just stopping to schedule a haircut and, like, I immediately recognized the symptoms and then a, a few flags went up and like, "Okay. Let's, let's have this." So- Yeah ... please do go better yourself and that- that's, that's a training I never...

I, when I t- took it, I probably didn't even take it seriously because I was young and dumb, but it's paid out multiple times. So go, go find something. Army calls it ACE Suicide Prevention program. I'm sure there's some other ones, but may- maybe, maybe plan that with your staff in the off-season and, and you might be able to help a kid or their parents or one of your coaches or somebody, help them deal with- Yeah

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