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Joe Daniel / MAY 29, 2025

Our Defense is too Undisciplined | FBCP S18E12

Our Defense is too Undisciplined | FBCP S18E12

The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

Our Defense is too Undisciplined

The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

Our Defense is too Undisciplined

An undisciplined defense can bring even the best program to its knees. But, as schemes become more and more complex to try to match the offenses running all over the field, the byproduct is often undisciplined chaos.

On this episode Joe and Daniel discuss fixing tackling and executing through ASKA, fixing alignments, and ensuring players are doing their job and not their neigbors’ jobs through the umbrella principles.

Using ASKA to fix your tackling and execution

• Sometimes you’ve done everything you can do with the Xs and Os, but the offense just wins a down.
• The first thing you have to address is what’s simple, organized, and makes sense to you, isn’t being understood by the players.
• You should know what type of defense you are, and it has nothing to do with numbers on the line, at LB, or in the backfield. Your rules for run fits, like spill, force, and alley, should be well understood by your defense.

Using Alignment to Get Players in Position to Make Plays

• Lynn Shackleford opened our eyes to the “70% off all TDs against my team were due to incorrect pre-snap alignment.” We’ve since checked our own film and have confirmed it to be a fairly common problem.
• Alignment is one of the easiest levers to change for the ASKA principle, and it’s can have immediate results

Using Umbrella Teaching Players to Do Their Job

• The Umbrella run fit system allows you to show an easy to understand diagram that simplifies football for your players
• Every player has a role, and if they do someone else’s job then no one does theirs.

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