Welcome back, coaches. This is the Football Coaching Podcast. I am Daniel Chamberlain, co-host here with Joe Daniel, as always. What's up, coach? Coach, I am glad to be back and to the intro of this. Welcome back. You guys will remember from last week, because I know you listened to it, Joe's 21 things people have disagreed with him on, and I got a late drop-in.

Yes. That was just due to some... I was like, "Hey, my meeting." I was in a meeting I guess kind of spill the beans, I may be officiating this fall. I'm, I'm kind of wanting to dabble in both sides. Oh ... anyway, so I went to an Officiation Association's first meetings, and it, it looks pretty fun so far.

I've been obviously working with Mike D, the referee, on his podcast, Whistle Talk. There's your shout-out, Mike D. And and, and learning about that the last two or three years I've been doing episodes with him anyway, so I was like, "Hey, I'll, I'll dabble. I'll- Let's see what's going on." Anyway, and it ended just in time for me to jump in, so.

So we go. Hold on. Hold on. Joe's kicking me out of the- I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get off the camera. My contact is, is Boom. Anyway, and so it's good to be back. It's good. I, I listened to your intro. I... We, we messed up the recording. So if you guys notice a weird little thing in there- Got it

It's because I tried to leave from my phone and get on the computer, and I ended the recording, and so we had to splice them together. I think one of them got a little short, but it'll be... It's, it's fine. The, the gist is there. Anyway. Yeah. So I listened to Joe's intro. It's good, man. I mean, you haven't done it in f- Five years?

Been a long time. Five years. Didn't know what to do. We've been doing this together for five years now. M- maybe like next month, but anyway. Yeah, been a long time. I did not know what to do. It sounds good though. You never really lost it. This is the Football Coaching Podcast. I am Joe Daniel, host of the Football Coaching Podcast.

Yeah. Which you're listening to. It's good stuff. Anyway, that's what's going on, Joe. Hey, tonight we're talking... Get through our power minute real fast because it, we haven't seen each other in a couple weeks- Yeah ... so it could, it could really spiral out of control here. We're talking about individual drills organization.

So getting the, the, your indie period, whether your coach gives you 15 minutes or 45 minutes or whatever amount of time you have, making sure that you're being efficient with that time and actually getting better solving problems. We're gonna talk about planning your drill periods, what needs to go into those, how you're pulling that from previous films or what you're seeing on game night, how you're gonna organize your indie periods for more reps.

Can't go out there with no plan, man. You'll spend a quarter of your time just setting up, and that's, that's hurting your organization. And then building out your practice to progress skills, not only your practice, but those indie periods and how do you add to day after day. We're obviously not big fans of the everyday drills.

You can do similar, but I think they do need to build. So I'm looking forward to talking about all of that. Last week we did talk about the 21 things that coaches have disagreed with Joe Daniel about which was a really good list. I, I think it all, it, it hits the nail on the head. Kind of gets into that, like, people pretend football being simplified is oversimplification.

You can't have elementary football. So I loved listening to all 21 of those points. You guys should go back and listen if you haven't already and see which ones you disagree with, 'cause it's okay. You don't have to be a 10 for 10 or 100 or 100 for, for things that we say. Next week we're on to quarterback drills.

Quarterback drills is a big one a lot of guys don't understand 'cause it's... For all the quarterback gurus out there, there's not a lot of places to go to get a good warm-up and good drills and how do you take care of their shoulders and, and all that. So I'm really looking forward to that. Yeah. Here's some Bill Mountjoy gospel there, so.

It's gonna be, it's gonna be... Yeah, I'm not, and, and you're not either, a quarterback gurus. And, you know, Coach Mountjoy passed away last year was a quarterback guru and shared lots and lots of information on quarterbacks, and loved to share, as you know, loved to share his knowledge and put it out there, and so I think it's gonna be an opportunity to...

you know, obviously whenever we talk offense we're usually talking about things that I learned from Coach Mountjoy. This one specifically I have no re- I mean it's gonna be we're gonna talk about mechanics, drills, warmups, and it's all very heavily going to be based on suggestions, resources, drills that I learned from Bill, and so this could be fun.

Love it. Hey guys, I know that a lot of you are just coming out of your dead week. I know here in Oklahoma we are. By the time this comes out we'll be out for about a week. I think it's... Or, or maybe right on the day. Anyway, so we hope you did enjoy that, because things are about to get super real now.

This is kind of where we hit the accelerator and get, jump right into season. If this podcast helps you get ready for that next step building out your practice shells, preparing in-depth periods, whatever, please do send it on to another coach. That's how we like to spread the word. Let's pay the bills, Joe, and then we will get started.

Yeah, the obviously we're talking about practice planning. We're moving into that time of year when we should be getting the practice plans done. I mean, we sh- we should not be planning practices on Tuesday night p- for Wednesday, or worse, Wednesday afternoon for Wednesday night. W- we should be planning our first week of practice now, or our first two weeks of practice.

We should be putting together a practice plan shell that we're going to be using for game weeks all throughout the season. So to that end, if you want to get my practice plan templates, which we'll talk a lot about probably in this episode my practice plan templates are available at JoeDanielFootball.com/practice for free download.

You can get those, you can edit, you can adjust them. They're in a f- you know, I think Excel, Excel format. You can jump in there and we talk about things like focus, install, how those practices are divided up, the periods and it's a full shell. It's a full week shell, it's not just one day. And, you know, you can use that, you can adjust it.

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Get started. Part one. So we wanna talk through how coaches and Joe, kinda how you do it, and I'll, I'll talk my piece a little bit at the end there, but how are you planning out your drill periods? So, and I do wanna mention one thing that we're gonna be doing a little bit different on this season 21 is putting a little bit more video.

Not today. Daniel and I are getting caught back up. Also, it's practice planning, so, maybe I'll pull something up and, and show it here in a minute 'cause we do have our practice plan templates, but it's a good idea. But the, the, the... We'll be having more Spotify video, YouTube video as we get that set up here in the coming weeks.

Also gonna be sharing more resources to go with each episode. So this episode, if you go to joedanielfootball.com/indie, you'll be able to watch the podcast, listen to the podcast. You'll be able to see the different resources that are available, including those practice plan templates. We'll put all those up as well.

And one more thing, the Coaches Edge this month, which is going to be in just a few days after this podcast drops, it'll be Tuesday, it's July 14th, will be the live hosting. All JDFP Gold and JD- JDFP Platinum coaches are invited and will have access, and also our new Coaches Edge membership that you can go to joedanielfootball.com/edge to check out.

We will be putting together your practice plan templates for your install based off of the install plan that we put together last month in our Coaches Edge work- our first Coaches Edge workshop. So that'll be coming up. As we look at, you know, planning your drill periods, last season, if you wanna go deeper into this, you know, into drills, the, the drills themselves, we're gonna be doing individual drills, but the drill philosophy, we did a podcast on drill philosophy last season talking about the one-on-one game and the importance of that.

We've talked about the concepts of the 90-minute practice plan and focus, and we talked about ASCA and the levers principle, and all of those things that were in season 20. All of those things go into planning, you know, which drills you want to use. But what I really want to focus on here is just organizing your individual drills and where you plug that in where you try to do that.

The first thing is you wanna have a flow to your practice. I think that we, we start to plug things in and not necessarily think about, I'm gonna pull up some practice plans here. Not necessarily think about, you know, what, what we're gonna do from day to day, week to week. We, we don't put all that thought in to the flow of the practice.

Like If, I'll give you an example, and this is something that happens a lot of times, like offensive line. We'll go to like, we'll warm up, and then we'll go to an indie period, and the offensive line goes to the offensive line circus area with all of the goofy offensive line equipment. And it, and it has to be, by nature of the sled, right, and the chutes, they cannot be on the 50-yard line of the practice field.

Right. So they are off in a corner far, far, far away. And so your biggest guys go take off jogging down, all the way down, and you finally get there with, you know, two minutes, three minutes of your indie time gone, and they're tired. And then we, you know, drill them for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, if you use, you know, 12 minutes is what we do, and then they've got to jog back because the defensive line is down there and they're all defensive linemen, or they've got to come back for pass pro or something that they've got to come back for.

Organize these indie periods for efficiency. Don't send everybody to the other end of the earth, Right ... that doesn't have to. One that happens all the time, and this is more f- this usually happens like during seven-on-seven and stuff, but like the kickers will leave. And if you're like almost every place that I've ever been, the practice field doesn't have uprights, so they leave to go to the game field or to go somewhere else where there's uprights and they can kick, or they just, you know, you can't punt when everybody's drill stations are all over the field and you're trying to, you gotta find a place to punt.

So the kickers, the punters, the specialists, they leave, and then they're off on the game field, and you're like, "Brr, brr, kickoff team." And then you look around and you go, "Where's..." They're all named Travis. "Where's Travis?" They're all named Travis. And- One of them. Or Taylor or something like that. I think Travis Taylor might have been our kicker one year.

All the kickers have a name with T in it And so then you're like, "Where's the kicker?" And they're like, "The kicker." And you're, you waste five minutes screaming to get the kicker's attention, and then he's gotta grab his little baggie of toys and fill them up and run back, and you're yelling at him, "Just leave it, let's go."

'Cause you don't care what he does after team starts. He can go back and clean up then. That's, that's his problem. Like that's the kind of organization that with individual drills you wanna think about where everybody is going to be and how they're going to move in and out of, of those different areas.

How they're gonna move from warmup to, From warm-up to individual drills to group drills, how is that progression? And if they're going to go from warm-up to offensive indies and then to defensive indies, or if they're gonna go from warm-up to offensive indies to offensive group to offensive team, and then all the way back to defensive group, or if you're gonna work special teams in like again, I, you know, going back to the offensive line example, like where's the best place to put your, your special teams sometimes?

A lot of times, like if you wanna work kickoff team and you have enough guys, like plug it in right after the offensive line so that they can stay down there, 'cause hopefully they're not on your kickoff team. Right. And, you know, they can stay down there, and then you can... You know, it doesn't always work out that way, but think about it and be intentional about the organization of where these drills are going to be in time and space what equipment you're gonna need.

This is another one that I think with the organization of your drills if you're, if you're an individual coach, I always wanna think about as an individual, as a, as a position gr- group coach, I wanna think about where my guys have to go next, 'cause a lot of times we don't have a designated like this is the safety's area for practice.

But I know I need this amount of space. I know we're gonna have to come back to this area pretty soon for seven-on-seven. And I know that I need these cones. I know that I need these bags. I know that I need these. And that's one of the things that I encourage our drills to have as little equipment needed as possible, like lines on the field, some cones that you can carry with you.

I always carry cones with me. I would go buy the... Go, go on Amazon and buy the stack of not the flat cones, but the, not the, not the flat discs that land but the, the kind of, what are the, the little nipple cones. Yeah. You know, something like that, that you can just put on the, on the laundry loop and either hook it to your bag, or I always have a bag and I, I put, you know, carry b- stuff in a bag of some sort with me that I need.

So I'll always have those. You know, it's usually wristbands, some cones the things that I... You know, as a coordinator I bring wristbands with me. So I wanna have that stuff with me, and if I can, like this is why I think one, you know, your warm-up should be player led. Don't have a coach-led warm-up, because if you have a coach-led warm-up, coaches can't Set up their drill station.

We don't have GAs. So warm up, pre-practice, as much of your pre-practice, which we'll talk in a, in another episode about pre-practice specifically, but your pre-practice can be coach or player led, a lot of it low impact so that coaches can be setting that stuff up. Don't, don't plan for some super complicated setup, but then don't set it up until the players get there.

It's just, you know, th- those things just waste time. I, well, sometimes it's unavoidable, but, like, we'll get down there and for example, I do, at the beginning of the year I do use some pads and stuff when we don't have, especially with offensive line when we don't have shoulder pads on, we'll use the arm shields or something.

And you know, we always gotta, if we're, if we're running late, gotta send the guys to go get it, you know, or something happened and, or, or I was doing speed training. Sometimes at the beginning of the year I'm doing speed training at the beginning of practice, and that is coach led, and, and, you know, I didn't get it set up, whatever, a- and that stuff just wastes time.

So think about the setup, try to avoid super complicated things, try to avoid things that need to be at the other end of the world. Try to avoid things that require, you know, a lot of explanation. That's why, like Daniel said, we'll, we'll get into it, but we don't like individual drills to be everyday drills.

There should be progression, but the progression should be quick, kinda like install. Yes. Like, if you can't, if you can't progress the drill and, you know, we have the rule of if you can't install something in one period, you don't install it. That's containers principle rule. If you can't progress the drill in about 30 seconds, you're progressing too far, right?

Today, we're gonna add in, ugh, and let's go. Like, that's, that's it. So those are just some things, you know, with the, with, when we talk about the organization of the drills, there's a lot of that, you like it, the logistics of these things- Yeah ... that too many coaches don't consider in going out there. I'm actually gonna just break right into the video portion here, so if you guys are listening, I'll walk through this verbally as well, but we're gonna do some videos, so I might as well just get started right now, and I'm just gonna show you, Joe, kind of what I set up this year to be the practice schedule.

If I can figure out how to... Hey, there it is. Make sure that it actually goes on the screen correctly here Give us just a minute to screw all this up, guys. I'm sure that will be. That look okay to you, Joe? It does. Okay, awesome. And so real quick, I, I'm sure we'll be going through many more practice schedules because that's always a hot topic, especially as we get into July, August.

We're July now, and as we come through August. But what Joe's talking about here, and first of all, the 90-minute practice plan, this is set up on 100... excuse me, an hour 55 minutes or hour 50, whatever. It's kind of the Tulsa region. This is what everybody does, 23 five-minute periods. I think this one says 24 'cause I stole one for year one.

But that's not really what you're looking at. What you mainly will look at is we talk a lot about how pre-practice doesn't have to count, does not have to count against your practice time, right? It's just the guys kind of getting warmed up on their own before you get into your, whatever your dynamic stuff is.

So that's where, number one, we're gonna do all of our offensive install. Big, little, big is the f- the way that I like to set this up, and what that does is, as a coach sticking with the, the indie here, it allows your indie period to already have a why. "Coach, why are we doing down blocks today?" Well, we just looked at the new install for offense, and it was power.

So obviously as an O lineman, we need to know how to down block, and some guys need to know how to pull and wrap, right? And so those are the two things I should be seeing in indie that day. So first of all, the big, little, big gives everybody on the team a why, then you get into the nitty-gritty, and then you come back together and make it look good.

So as you guys are looking through here we'll, we'll kind of get through that. And then you go do all your warmup stuff. Notice there's speed training already there. Work through all your special team stuff. Then you get into your indie. Offensively and defensively, I use two different period amount of time.

So defensive, you get full 20 minutes. Offensive, we steal air drill time here. And this is something I stole from Cameron Palmer, and that, and I, and I think he got it from the Bixby team. I, I would, I don't wanna say that out, you know, as for sure, but it may be something he installed. But essentially, you know that 10 minutes every day, your receivers indie is gonna be running routes and catching footballs, and your quarterbacks are gonna be taking a snap, taking their steps, and letting the football fly.

So it kind of gets rid of your wide receivers' coach's need to figure out how to run routes today. So if there's something else you need to work on, you get 10 minutes to do that, and then you get into the it's, it's guys, we throw the football down here. So you're getting your routes, you're catching footballs you know, and then you can...

Whatever else you need to add to that. If you're gonna be a, a saddle and get vertical like, the, the Leach era, fine, you can do that. Whatever you need to work on with your guys. And then O-line gets a little pass pro time in there as well. So we ensure the pass pro side of that. Now, this is once again is a, a team that passes a lot, so if you don't, take those out, and then you just get 20 minutes.

So this is how we set it in, and then, but you could always go in and modify these, and if you guys are watching and you're wanting this, I don't mind sending it out to anybody. But you can go in here as a coach, and if you're the O-line coach, the first thing you're working that day is down blocks and pull wrap, 'cause it's power day, fine.

You get that, and now those are organized for you. So you've put your drills in there. You can get in more description as you want and I'm sure Joe and I will work through that for the rest of this episode. But you don't have to have all the details here. Just put what the heck you're doing so you know.

There's a guy that I did some podcasting with just jumped on a show with them. I think they were in Maryland. And they talked about if you don't put your drills in that day, the head coach didn't print you a practice schedule. So if you didn't do your part, he, you, then you're going out there dumb and all your players know why.

So that's just kinda how we organize it, and you can see the big-little-big concept, which I love. Then you get back into your group, and you get back into your team. Yeah, so if you want any of that, by all means, reach out. Yeah. There you go, our first little video portion. Yeah, I will save mine. We'll, we'll split it up a little bit, so, I'll show some practice plan later.

So starting with just thinking about what you're going to, to do in your indies, and, and by the way, I, I'll tell you, I'll add one more thing on organizing before we get into organizing the drills themselves and drill philosophy and everything. As you're planning your drills, one of the things that we do, and then Daniel mentioned, you know, the ti- the length of time, I do four-minute periods.

So the 90-minute practice plan has the same number of periods basically as an hour, as a two-hour practice. It just shortens the n- the length of the periods. Now obviously if you, like- The intention is you don't have a lot of drills. You know, you've only got two or three different drills that you ever use, and if you've got a 12-minute period, you're gonna spend eight of it on one of those drills and four of it on the other one, and eventually you're gonna kind of meld those drills together.

So if you take our linebacker drills, it's like there's guard read drill, an in-out-out drill, and then eventually it kind of becomes linebacker drill. And what you're doing is you're practicing a piece of the game and you're, you're putting in the guard read with the backfield action for the top plays of the team that you're playing that week, and you're just reading.

You know, you're getting the read and then tracking the, you know, taking your eyes and working through that. And then you can do that for 12 minutes and, and you know, and then you've got seven-on-seven. Like, think about things that you need to do and things that you don't need to do. I think there's a feeling that we n- we have to do this all the time.

It's like, again, with the linebackers, linebacker drills early in the season I might have you read a ball up, which we don't even key a ball up with a linebacker, so everybody does that, like, ball up. But all you're really doing is working the, the drop, and I might do that as a drill early on, teaching you the drop.

I might do it as a drill fixing a problem later. But if we're running cover three 90% of the... Just say that we're running cover three 90% of the time. If we're pattern matching, I'm not drilling pattern matching as a linebacker coach because I don't have everybody else there that we're gonna match, right?

I don't, there's no communication happening. I can drill crossers and that's about it. Right. If I'm, you know, talking about cover three and we're dropping to the hash, I don't really need to drill... You know, guys like to do the, the drop, and he drop, he runs to the hash, and he sits there and co- coach goes, he moves his shoulder, and he shuffles, and he moves his shoulder, and he shuffles, and he throws the ball at him, and he goes and he catches it, and he goes, "Bingo," and he runs down with it.

And that's a fun drill. It's a waste of time. Go to seven on seven, run your coverage, he'll get plenty of drops. Like, that's enough. You don't need to drill that. Now, if they're screwing it up, again, initially I'm teaching that piece, I'm doing that. I don't need to work that drill. So that's where, like, I don't have to work every drill all the time.

Yeah. You know, just think about the things that you can, you can eliminate from your drill package because they are going to get plenty of work somewhere else. And once again, they, you should be answering or solving problems here as well, right? It should- Yeah. That, that's what this period is for.

Hey, your backers sucked at reading guard pulls this week, that's what this 10 minutes is for. Boys, we are going to read guard pulls until you can do it in your sleep. Right. Like, that's what indy's for. It's not ... A- as you get better, you get further on in the season, you solve those fun- those foundational or fundamental problems, those are gone.

Now it can get a little more advanced, right? Now you can start stacking. Like you said, Joe, you get 20 minutes or you get 12 minutes, instead of splitting it, now you're doing one more complex drill instead of trying to split it up into a whole bunch, teaching a whole bunch of little found fundamental things.

Let's jump into the second part here. And, and this is a really good one to, to understand as well because sometimes it is a limited amount of time. Y'all g- y'all just saw my practice schedule. On offense, every offensive position coach gets 10 minutes before we get into pass because that's how committed we are to wanting to throw the ball around, is we're going to get into that for 10 minutes.

We need the timing of stuff and all that to work out, so we're gonna force it for 10 minutes. So now that's all you get for indy each day on the offensive side. So you've got to be able to ensure that you aren't going to waste time and that you're gonna be efficient and you're gonna get more reps.

So Joe, why don't you kinda talk through the way that you are making sure that you're getting a lot of reps in these indy periods and not just standing around talking? One is you need to look at all of your drills. I go back to the one that I watched from the sideline. Years and years ago I watched this, and like it's stuck in my mind.

We were done with practice, there was a youth team practicing on the field. They only had two coaches. One coach is over there working with presumably the quarterback or the offensive line or something, I don't know. And the other coach has a line of like a dozen kids, and he is throwing them fade balls.

Yeah. Okay? So fade ball, the kid runs a f- you know, let's say 12. Let's be, let's be hopeful that it was only 12. It's probably like 17 yards, which is where, which is the depth that I would throw a fade. But I would have a quarterback and we... Four quarterbacks and whatever. And then the coach would throw the fade, and, and you know, I don't care how accurate he was, not that accurate.

Nobody's that accurate on a fade ball anyway. He's throwing it, and I want you to imagine how many of these 11-year-olds can actually catch a fade, even if it's perfectly thrown. Right. And so the ball drops to the ground, the kid chases it down, he gets it, and he runs it back or, God forbid, he throws it. And imagine how accurate he is because remember the quarterbacks are somewhere else.

Okay? So the ball flies off to the side and the coach runs it down, and then the next kid goes. Well, what do you think the 11th and 12th kid are doing in that line? They are standing around for minutes, multiple minutes, and what happens? They're screwing around, they're losing focus, they're getting in a fight.

They're doing everything but what should be happening, which is getting better at football. The end result is that that kid catches two c- catches, gets thrown two fade balls in a 10-minute period, and when mom, for the youth coaches, or when kid, for the high school coaches, or when adult, for the semi-pro coaches, when mom looks at that youth practice to decide whether she should schedule a haircut during practice or wait until they don't have practice on Sunday or Saturday.

I'm not gonna give up my Saturday because they're not really doing anything out there

We want maximum reps. We don't have to see everything, but we want maximum reps. So the first thing you do is look at any drill where multiple people are standing around and either get rid of the drill, or if it's a good drill, find a way to not have people standing around. You know, our, our in, out, out drill.

So we run the in, out, out drill. That's one person... Well, two people at a time. One's the running back and one's the, the tackler. Now, we can eventually add two ball carriers to, or two linebackers to that in a, in a 4-2 setting. We can, you know, it's a little difficult with the 33 to, to add three, but you could do it.

So we can eventually progress that drill to have more people involved, then you gotta teach the rotation of it and everything, which is a whole separate thing. But That one's very fast, right? They run through, tag hips, go to back of line, next guy's up, goes before they're even in the line. And you got two lines going in, so if you've got, you've got eight linebackers, they're going very fast.

We're doing a lot of reps in a two, three, four minute period. So everything else is essentially partner up, spread out type stuff. Guard read drill has four people going and one, four people involved at, at any given time. Tackling drills, everybody is partnered up and spread out. You know, all of these things.

And by the way, we should mention these indie drills, most of these indie drills, unless you're having a major, major problem, most of these indie drills are not tackling and block destruct. That all happens in pre-practice after the beginning of the season. So I just mentioned that this stuff is your get better at playing your position drills, not, not all of the things that you know should be doing.

So these are largely focused on key reads, on defense, on offense, they're focused on your footwork, and your, you know, it's not necessarily teaching the play, it's teaching the skill. Bird walk drill. Okay, bird walk drill, you'd think it was w- it's walking, okay? I have seven offensive linemen because there's a, there's an H and a Y, sometimes a running back, sometimes even a quarterback.

So we got, but let's just say seven offensive linemen there, and they need seven guys to block. So I have 14 people involved in that drill. And yes, we're walking, and there is a little bit of individual coaching, but you get faster at it. You get, because you're looking at a picture. And so you set go, and they step.

This is in the pistol power offense system, the bird walk drill, for those of you JDFB members. You should be using it. So you set go, and you look at the picture, and you go, "What's wrong with the picture?" Okay, do you know your system well enough to go, "What's wrong with the picture?" And see it and say, "Hey, fix that foot."

Reset, set go, and see everybody take the right step now. Go, everybody takes the next step. "Okay, hey, hip's over here." Okay, and I'm do, like sometimes I correct and reset and do it again. Sometimes we step back and do it again, but everybody's moving, and the defense has to move as they would on defense. So I tell the defensive guys, I want them in a position that they actually might play because I need them to react to the block or act, react to the movement as they would.

Everybody is involved. How many people can you get involved? It's simple with things like defensive line working our key read drill, right? Okay, everybody line up, coach stands behind the defensive lineman, looks at the offensive lineman, tells him, "Down block this way." Everybody down blocks that way, everybody goes, and we just look to see.

We can't see all of it. Right. You can't see all of it, and that's okay. Make sure you see everybody sometimes. And I would be lying if I said if I've got- Two starters over here and two guys who are great kids for the program over here, I'm gonna see two or three reps of the starters to one rep of them.

I'm gonna try to see it all, but like if they're not like... And, and I will very much when we have JV and varsity together, varsity's down here. So let's say we're doing offensive line drill, we're doing our offensive line block progression. So we're gonna go base block, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna work a, a zone we're gonna work zone block right, zone block left, reach block right, reach block left, down block right, down block left.

We're gonna work through all of those drills very quickly and, you know, the fact is I got me and then I got a, a young coach who's working with the JVs down here, and all the varsity guys are gonna be down here, and the JV guys are gonna be down here, and I'm gonna see mostly the varsity guys and I'm gonna help out the JV coach who's learning.

Like this is the beginning of the season, they're just learning this stuff. My focus is still here. And then, you know, and I sometimes I'll try to coach it all so the other coach can just watch, watch me coach especially as they're first learning. But you want everybody going. You want to accept you won't see it all.

Take, as we talk about everything else, take your phone out. The hardest thing for me to do this on is drills, because you've seen me coach drills, like I'm into drills, like there's no downtime in that. No. It's hard for me to remember to take the phone out for the drills. If I do, I don't turn it off. I, I, I shouldn't.

I should just let it run on like place. Like I should just record the whole four minutes, eight minutes. But th- that will help you see the drills, see what's happening. I will al- often, more often than anything I would film bird walk and I would always go back and you would always see the one guy who's not doing it.

"Hey dude." I mean, that's like, that's... You, you get to see what's happening y- where you missed the picture on bird walk. Just everything that you can do, like whenev- we do exchange drills with the running backs and the, and the quarterbacks, like e- every quarterback you have available is handing the ball off on those exchange drills.

Preferably, you know, starters work with starters more, but everybody needs to work, you know, everybody needs to get, again, three reps to one rep. If I'm, if I'm the starting running back, I want three exchange, three sets of exchanges with the starting quarterback and a set of exchanges with the backup quarterback.

I don't want the backup quarterback to be get used to only the slow running backs with bad footwork, right? 'Cause eventually he's gonna have to go in there and hand it off in a game, and the kid who knows what he's doing is gonna be there before he knew it happened. Yeah. And that's, you know, because that's when it's supposed to happen.

So organizing your drills, just think in terms of nobody standing around. And then the last thing with that is you won't see everything Allow your players, especially on drills where there are a few people standing around, teach your players to be coaches and give them license to coach each other, especially your veterans, your, your more experienced guys.

But everybody eventually should be able to look at the drill and say, "You did that wrong." Like, if you've been doing a drill for six weeks and they can't go run it on their own ... And again, if it's a full contact drill, that's one thing, but most of your non-con- And, and, and almost all of my drills are non-contact or very light contact.

They should be able to run those drills on their own. Like, if, if the, the guy, one guy can be the coach, right? Obviously, you know, but I got three guys, we can go run that drill. We, a- and they should be able to do that, and they should be able to point out to each other what you did right, what you did wrong, what you could do better all the things coach says, because you say the same things over and over again.

You're not making this up every day. That's... A- a- and I'll add another one for the, for the organization of your individual drills. Think about the handful... You mentioned the focus, like we're trying to fix a problem. That's obviously the focus, but there's only a handful of coaching points. Like in our defensive drill system, the, the drill sheets have the coaching points, and there's like three, four, five coaching points on each drill.

Get the wording down for those. I loved, one of the things we'll talk about next week with quarterback drills that, that I saw getting, getting ready for that, Coach Mountjoy said, "Every drill has a name." And when you go to ... And this is actually gonna take us into part three. When you go to the game, playing the game, remember, remember that those drills, go back and listen to the drill philosophy episode.

Remember that all of those drills are pieces of the game. They're one-on-one games. And so when you get to the game and something doesn't get done right, hey, in-out-out drill. Yep. What'd you do wrong? In-out-out drill. Like, how do you fix it? Go back to in-out-out drill. What'd you do? What do we, what do we teach in there?

What are the words that we say? Track the hip, eyes to the thigh, like all those things. The things that we say, those words, you don't, you don't need to make up words. If you're, if you're just learning, use a lot of words and find the ones that work or use the coaching points from whoever you're learning from.

But once you get them down and you got three, four, five things that you're saying ... And that's why I hate ... that's why I hate wrap up. For most teams, for most of the ... For most coaches, wrap up is not a coaching point, right? So our coaching points using hawk tackling, Pete Carroll hawk tackling, eyes to the thighs, squeeze the legs, drive for five.

Those, that was the coaching points, right? That's the, that's the coaching points. And then some coach goes, "Wrap up." It's like that's not a point. That's not a solution to the problem. That's just words. If your coaching points are whatever, whatever, wrap up and drive, fine, he didn't wrap up. But if that's not part of the coaching points, you know, and I, I've taught it as eyes to the thighs shoot the hands, squeeze the legs, drive for five, okay?

So you could say shoot the hands and squeeze the legs. Great. Squeeze the legs. Great. We don't coach wrap up- Right ... in, in our terminology. If you do in your terminology and somebody's yelling wrap up, that's great as long as it was the problem. A lot of times it's approach and things like that. Yes. Finish.

I would say it's usually not the wrap. Usually not the wrap. They, they're trying. They just can't. Yeah. So- They approach poorly ... so you get those words that you use, and you can use ... So, and that's how it goes to this stuff actually translating. If you don't have that and you're just doing drills that... My s- son is screaming right now not respecting the recording studio.

It's rude. We're at a, we're at a, a, a odd time right now. It's in the afternoon, and he's just gotten home from school, so. If, if you do that, these things can actually translate. If you, ... What was the, the, the hoop, the defensive end's like running the hoop, and actually defensive end's run the hoop, run the hoop, run the hoop, run the hoop.

We would say things like lean, lean, lean, and it's like he's supposed to lean so that he can run around that hoop. Which hardly ever happens for a high school defensive end, right? Very rarely do we even see drop back passing in a lot of cases. Some cases we do, but like we're talking about like leaning with

But usually he's getting held by an offensive lineman who's even less talented, and like he's tr- you know, or like, like it just doesn't translate that much, and there's like one word lean, and it's like that hardly ever happens, and the rest of this doesn't translate to 90% of what he does. So we're just kind of doing an agility drill.

Ladders. What can you say on a ladder that you can translate to actual, like maybe you have something I don't know. I don't really have a coaching point from ladders, and so I used to say, I used to tell Coach Basquette, who would always be like, "Burn the ladders," you know, "Well, it's an agility drill, and it doesn't hurt anything."

And eventually Coach Dale got me to understand it actually does because it ruins your running mechanics because you're looking down at the ladders when we're teaching a line sink strike and athletic speed of movement. If you don't know what that is, go to Athleticspeedmovement.com, download the free manual, you'll learn what line shrink- sink strike is all about.

But you know, the eyes are up, and the eyes are looking at the horizon, and then you do a ladder drill, and his eyes are down. Yep. And that's the kind of stuff that doesn't translate, and so you're wasting time well I, I'll mention one thing here and then get it, look I guess two things. One, don't be afraid to break out into Kenny often says, calls it pods.

I don't know that you necessarily have to get all the way into like formal pods, but if you're an O-line coach and you've got down blocks and pull wraps or pull kicks or whatever to go through, separate those into two different groups and let them go work so that my eyes can be witnessing one thing, right?

I can have three guys down blocking in front of me and I'm watching them and coaching them while my another coach is over there doing pull kicks. If you don't have that other coach, do you have a tight ends coach? Because you can all be pull kicking because I bet you got split zone or power and so, and, and, you know, if you're running power end counter, well, his H-back or tight end or what needs to be able to do the same thing as your guard.

So start working and, and that's where I use the word, the term pods is guys who are doing very similar things in your indie drills. Don't be afraid to pa- like, look, if you are if you're gonna flip your O-line, if you're a, a quick guard, go over there with the H-backs and learn how they're doing their stuff.

Send them with guys who are constantly same thing, tight ends can join in with your, your strong side guys and learn how to down block. If you don't flip, that's fine. Just give those guys equal reps on different days of pulls and downs and if all you're doing is zone blocking, then that's fine.

You're all doing the same crap anyway, right? So now don't be afraid to separate those into two groups so that you can get more eyes on the kids and expedite things that way. Get a lot more reps. The other thing, and I learned this one from Chris Cole he took a... and I say it's from him. When I asked him, "Hey, what did you use to build that?"

He said he stole it from somebody else. But take a 10-foot extendable pole, put a GoPro on the end of it, put a display screen there, you know, they make like a 10-inch or a 12-inch display screen, whatever. Work it all, hook it all up, connect it all together, and now you have a traveling drill recording device.

For O-line coaches, you will love this 'cause it gives you that drone-ish look, that aerial view. You can see all your guys, see their stances, see their footwork, even when they get in traffic, when they get in a little trash and they're tr- you can watch their doubles work to a guy and get on. So if that's what your indie drill is that day, you can work it.

But it really doesn't matter what your indie drill is. Joe, you mentioned a while ago, instead of having to whip your phone out, look, you're just literally holding a pole while you coach, okay? So go to where coach would stand and see it anyways, press the stinking button. You have a reminder in your hand to press the button, okay?

And you don't have to watch that drill, but you can coach there and that lets you coach later. And that's a big thing in indie is we already have a short amount of time. If I stop every kid and give him his three highlight spots that he needs to work on, buddy, you're getting three or four kids done. If you can go back later, Joe, you always talk about keep handy five minutes or seven minutes or 12, whatever your number is, right?

After practice, go ditch your pads, get in the coach's office. Or maybe don't even do that. Just get in here and let's watch film- we can quickly go back through that. With Hudl, guys, it's so easy to buy reps later 'cause you just send out a cutup with your text. If you get in something like Loom, which me and Joe use a lot, there's a thousand ways out there to record yourself to teach people things so you can buy back some time that way.

Sure, the kid's gonna have to watch a video 10 minutes tonight at home. If he's not willing to commit the 10 minutes, I, I don't know. You know, maybe he has to be up front and, and drill so he gets another rep or two, but that's another way to buy back some time. Let's jump to this last one talking about time here.

Obviously, we, we want to solve a problem. We already talked about that. You gotta get your install in the day done. That's early in the season, generally fine. We talked about that pi- point. But as the season goes on, your guys will be able to, not should, but will be able to take the things you're teaching them fundamentally and apply it in multiple ways.

So you teach a concept and, and then they can go on. Maybe it's, you know, a zone count system and we're gonna work doubles. Okay, all of these things should be able to progress. You shouldn't ever be stuck teaching day one stuff all season long. I understand, guys. I too, in my playbook, carry, like, five run plays, okay?

So I know there's different very simple rules, then you change them as little as possible, but there are different rules, and it's gonna take several days and several weeks to get through them all and get them down f- you know, concrete. But eventually you can start building on this stuff, okay? So your practice needs to be laid out so the, the skills that you're teaching these kids can actually get better.

We're not just working first two steps every day because it's the first two steps. Now we can work different angles, we can work depths, we can work how to, how do we gain a little ground? How do we give a little ground? That kid's really fast. What do I do on my outside zone step versus a chubby kid because they're hiding a kid at defensive end, right?

So there's a lot of ways that I can take these skills. First is just fundamentals, and then I can start to progress them. And I realize that may not be where you're going with it, Joe, but that's kind of what I'm thinking here. So why don't you tell me how you build out your practice to ensure that we're progressing skills?

So talking about within an individual practice first, like you said, the drills progress, and so for example, I might just be teaching the basics of a zone back number on play side number block early in the year. The next... We're not gonna do that again. We're gonna do that every week because it's our warm-up pregame.

Right. But other than that, you know, we're working, like you said, we're going into a pod and working a two on two inside zone combo drill. We're not working just the basics of footwork. We're working that, that pod group. You mentioned with the pods, we start to, to progress that to a more game-like situation, both from the beginning of season to the end where, like we said, some things at the beginning of the season, in, out, out drill is very basic and very simple and very easy to run.

We add in things like one cut, we let them cut back. We add in some different little looks there. We may add in the defensive line doing a read or a slant in front of them, so they have to start to look for the open door and f- and flow past the closed door. So adding, even adding position groups together.

Throughout the season, those drills can start to build and combine because multiple one-on-one games happen within a single play, both multiple players in a one-on-one game and players themselves Having multiple one-on-one games. You know, we have the backside linebacker being the easiest one is like, ball is snapped, I get my key read pull inside, I, I read the pull inside, one-on-one game number one.

The second thing is I rip through the block by the guard coming down to me and I rip through that. That's one-on-one game number two. I pick up the hip of the running back. It's an in, out, out drill. So I'm, now I've done a guard read drill, I've done a rip drill, I've done a in, out, out drill, and I track the near hip of the ball carrier, and then I finish with the, a hawk tackle.

And so I've worked through our hawk tackle progression as well. So I've done four number... Four one-on-one games and, I mean, you could even break down that, the hawk tackle further and say the approach, the, the shoot squeeze, and the drive. You know, I've done, I've done all of these one-on-one games together and you know, I'm building a play from that.

So from that respect, we are progressing throughout the season. And I'll also add, you mentioned, like, if one guy's pulling and one guy's downing you know, it's, and splitting the guys that are working down blocks up with guys that are pulling, but also, and this is a big wing T thing that I've, you know, d- d- done more and more of, and you...

But you'll see wing T guys and option guys, and they're basically drilling the entire play, but everybody's doing a, a drill. I like to do that as well. It's like have one guy down blocking and one guy pulling so that the guy pulling knows what it feels like to pull past a center that's down blocking.

Yes. Because if all he ever does is do it on air, he doesn't realize there's a down block happening. So I got a guy working a down block and I got a guy pulling, and they learn the depth, and he learned that I've got to pull with enough depth to get around the down block, but then I've got to get up into the line of scrimmage to get the kick out block.

And the visual of that as you're drilling it, you know, I can put cones out and I can say that, and they start to understand it, but it takes a lot of reps and, and this is a way to get more of a game-like rep going. So we can advance these drills in many, many different ways and into pods, but then the big thing to me is when I build a practice plan, and we're going to be talking throughout season 21 of all of the different pieces of a practice plan.

When I build a practice plan, I put that focus up at the top of each position group in our practice plan template, and now, now it's my turn. Share screen. I just picked a random, I assume it will let you. It will absolutely let me. Love it. Here we go. Banger So this is just a, a practice plan shell.

Doesn't have anything in it, but you'll see that we have up at the top the offensive focus, the defensive focus for each position, O-line, D-line, Hs and Ys, linebackers, quarterbacks, free safeties. You know, and then they're grouped together. A lot of times free safety and strong safety, weak safety are together.

Quarterbacks are together. So we can kind of group these things up. You can see here our pre-practice period, this was actually an 80-minute practice. But you can see here our pre-practice period team tackling technique is, is the first 10 minutes, so we're doing that in, in pre-practice. Warm-up, always steal time.

That warm-up is not gonna be four minutes most of the time. Sometimes it is if you do the alpha warm-up it is. But then we've got, you know, just eight minutes of D and D eight minutes of O and D in this case. And like I said, this was a shorter practice. We would have two more periods. They would probably be 12 and 12.

Water break's not gonna be four minutes. It's gonna be more like two. Steal time. Or i- I just want them on there for liability purposes more than anything. But if you can have water at the stations, that's gonna be a lot faster. Remember, we don't have breaks where, like if, you know, the, the guys aren't just standing around.

So we do have a little water break built in. You know, 707, 707, 99, 99. We'll talk about all this. But the key is This focus that's up here, so like you said, down blocks for the defense, defensive lineman squeezing down blocks. Okay, it was in our, our May film room. That was the focus of the May film room, was defensive lineman squeezing down blocks.

If you're a JDFB member, go to the courses page find film room master classes. May, you see tons and tons of videos, especially of defensive ends mainly squeezing down blocks. What's, what it's supposed to look like. You can show it to your players, all those things. But we're working on focusing down, on squeezing down blocks.

Well, that D end, that's gonna be a lot of defensive line key read drill. They're gonna be doing two down blocks for every base block, reach block, because that's the focus, right? We're still running the drill, but it's gonna be down block, down block, base block, down block, down block, reach block, down block, pass block, a pass set, down block.

We're getting three rep- for every three reps, two of them are gonna be on that focus. Then when we get here to defensive group well seven-on-seven they're gonna be working some pass rush stuff usually. But they could work more down blocks But we go to that nine v nine script, right? Nine v nine team run or half line or inside drill or whatever it is that we're working.

When we go to that group, which we'll be talking about in future episodes, I think in a few weeks, we'll be talking about run group indies, like nine v nine. Build a script where there is a lot of squeezing down blocks so that you can see it. So I'm gonna have a script, and I like to script seven plays in a four-minute period, okay?

Seven plays in a four-minute period, so it's about 30 seconds a play, plus enough time for you to you know, yell at them for a second if you need to. Make it quick. Again, have those words that you can use quickly. It's another thing is those, those words, those coaching points. I l- one of the things I love to do is when the, when you get the young guys over there and you've been working with this group for a year or two, you got your varsity guys there.

They know all the words. They know what you're saying. Maybe you've been working it during the off-season. And the young guy shows up, and he doesn't really know, and he's an eighth-grader, and he does it wrong, and he goes to the... My pull drill is the one that has a line, okay? And that's just, we go, I go super-duper fast.

Everybody's tired in the pull drill, me included, but there is a line. And so I'll, I'll, I'll recognize that I said something to a kid as he goes by, 'cause I'm const- I'm just constantly talking. I'm going set, go. And they go, and I'll, I'll, I'll say something as they go by, and I'll see that he doesn't know what he's doing.

And I say, "Hey, Matt, tell him what that means." And so the guy, they're in the back of the line, and I got one of my older guys explaining, teaching, teaching is the best way to learn, teaching one of the younger guys. And the younger guy is not always just hearing me. He's hearing the guys that he wants to be like teaching him.

And so th- being able to say those words fast, you can get seven plays because you don't have to stop and explain everything that just went wrong. You just say, "Hey skip pull drill." Like, you know, and you've heard me because we've done, been doing it for two weeks. You've heard me say 1,000 times, you know, "Lateral behind, lateral up the field," okay?

Skip pull drill. Up the field, all right? Let's real quick. But if you, if you build your practice so that they go from the individual one-on-one game to a pod, to running plays in a group situation, a nine v nine, a half drill. If you just go and you let the scout team O guy, hand him a stack of cards and say, "Run, run whatever the frick you want.

Who cares?" 'Cause we're really just out here to, to collect our $1,500 stipend He doesn't know- Right ... that you just spent, or that your defensive lineman just spent 12 minutes, 20 minutes, that their focus, that their whole purpose for being here today is to get better at squeezing down blocks. He doesn't know.

And so instead, I'm scripting seven play blocks with five or six of those plays having a down block to squeeze. Okay? Having, having a down block for my defensive end to squeeze or, or running an inside trap for my defensive tackle to squeeze if that's something we need to work on. So that is built. So I'm not gonna then go to nine V nine in this practice and run 14 reps of inside zone where nobody pulled and nobody down blocked the entire day.

So if we want this thing to progress, it has to be built throughout the entire practice with that in mind. As the coordinator, you need to be aware That if the defensive line's focus is squeezing down blocks and the linebacker's focus is like w- you know, scraping on outside zone, those are not aligned, and so we need to align our practice better there for the things that we need to do.

Like ideally, I got my defensive lineman working on squeezing down blocks. I got my, or my defensive ends working on squeezing down blocks. I might have my, my defensive tackles working on defeating a double team. I might have my which is defeating a base block by the way, I might have my linebackers focusing on following a puller, so that way I can just work a ton of power and so everybody's getting the work that they want one way or the other.

Build your practice plan. They can't do everything right, but like even if I can... And I can take this a step further because I'm a small team, and I know that half my defensive linemen are on the offensive line and the other half are backup offensive linemen. Right. And so where are they gonna be during offensive team?

They're gonna be playing defensive line. So what if I can coordinate this with my offense who's working on power, and now he's getting double the opportunity to work against that? It's like how much can you coordinate this practice so that the things that I worked on in individual and got as many reps as I could and spoke the words to them that they need to know, and I can start to add that into their group, add that into their team, and both sides of team if I can, and I can go very fast, like you said, record it as much as you can, whether you've got a drone, whether you've got a kid with a camera sit- sitting at the top of the stadium that overlooks your practice field, because that's what we have and a couple places I've been, and then I've had some that don't have stands.

And then like how do we build all of this together? How do we make this you know, see as much of it as we can, get as many reps as we can, and make it build the, the entire practice together to, to, to get better? And again, the focus, that ASCA, the levers. Go back and listen to those episodes If you have a focus, you, you can look back and you can say, man, you'll, you won't always nail it, but you'll look back- Right

and you'll be like, "We were doing so good." Like, you're the defensive line coach and you went in with the focus, and you're the defensive coordinator said, "We gotta get better at squeezing down blocks." And you went off and you worked down blocks for 15 minutes, and then you went to nine v. nine, and the defensive coordinator either didn't script or scripted stuff with no down blocks.

You're gonna go into that office and you say, "Hey man, like, we worked so hard on down blocks, but the progression, because of the way that the session was scripted, I'm just letting you know so that we can fix it next time, the progression died after indie." And so what we worked on the first half of the practice didn't match up with what we did the second half, and you get to fix that.

You won't get it right every single time, but you get to see it and you get to fix it, and it's because you had that focus and your position coach knew what the focus was. Super important. That is, that is really good, and it kind of goes back to that big little big I was talking about earlier, right?

But that it should follow that. I should know the why, get the why behind your indie, your indie builds a drill, and then you execute that drill in a real football mannerism. And then it goes back, Joe, if you do go back and listen to the the drill philosophy, a lot of times we talked about, you know, drill should be a piece of football.

It shouldn't be a new piece of gear that doesn't exist on a football field. You mentioned the hoops and D-linemen. Guys, I know what you're trying to do. The concept's there. It's the same thing with running through freaking ladders. Like, I know what you're trying to do, but we also know that it doesn't show up on game night the way that you think it's going to.

Is that a tool to get a kid started? Sure. Quickly, it runs out of usefulness though, right? And so, this is a way to go, "Here's the why, here's the indie. We're gonna, we're gonna show you what you're getting better at today, and then we're gonna go practice it in a game scenario where it is a little ugly."

Reads aren't perfect, right? Like, I'm telling them even linebackers, like if he pulls fall, if he doesn't fill. Well, what if it's a fold play and he moves one guy over? Like, do I follow or do I fill? I understand, man. Sometimes there's, there's other stuff that goes on. It isn't perfect, and they need to be able to see that in a chaotic situation.

But still, you've given them that tool to work through it, and then you're filming so you can go back and coach it. Look here, this was the same drill. It just looked a little ugly, so that's good. I don't really have anything to add to the, the build. You, I think you killed it, man. Make sure that whatever your focus is or whatever you're going in, it, you should be able to hammer it all day long and continue getting better at it.

And then the drills should progress throughout the season as well. Just let me just, just let me just kick a button, click a button. Okay. Does it... Oh, there we go

There's a nice... I'm just, hey, we're just learning here, guys. Yeah. We're, we're, we're learning. You got a real filled out one and everything. Yeah, there's a, there's a filled out one. This is from like 2022 maybe. I mean that's, yeah, that's a That's a roughly 90-minute practice plan, 80 or 90. Yeah. These were different because I promised them we were gonna go 7:00 to s- 6:00 to 7:30, and then I realized that that timing didn't work out.

With pre... So what I needed them to do was 5:50 to 7:30, but I couldn't go back on it, so. There you go. You know, stuck with it. But yeah- I love it ... that, that's an actual full... I mean, this is, this is, like, day one pre-practice. We just did some dr- some basic drills, warm up- Yeah ... tackling. There's zone block, 'cause we're installing zone block on day one.

There's pass pro on day one and seven on seven, 60-61, 56-67, cover first cover three. There's some defense, 'cause we're playing cover one on defense as our base coverage, and you know, there's nine v. nine, nine v. nine, team offense, team defense. There's a, there's a practice plan. I love it. I love it.

Wonderful. Guys, if you do want any of his product- Video practice. We are such technical guys. I know. We- I can't, I can't, like... Yes. I, I love how... Anyway, to get Joe's product, go to JoeDanielfootball.com and sign up. If you want mine I'll just, you know, you can go to Chamberlain Football Consulting @gmail.com- Yeah, go-

and let me know. Yeah. But my, my templates are at JoeDanielfootball.com/practice to get those. Obviously, get both and see which you like. Pe- see which- There you go. There you go. Which one you like. Mine's a little more confusing, a little more complex. We try to do two platooning at a one platoon-sized school.

It works incredibly well. It takes, you know, your coach has gotta be bought in it, but it's okay. Anyway that's it, man. We checked all the blocks there. Guys, dead week is all, you know, always does kinda feel like the last breath before the sprint, as I mentioned earlier. Pretty soon there's gonna be equipment check-outs, media days, fall camps before you know it, week one.

So if today's conversation helped you prepare for what's right there on the horizon, please do share it out with another coach who may be counting down the days just like the rest of us. So, today we talked about individual drill organization, planning your drill per- periods, organizing your dr- your indie periods for more reps, and then building out your practice to progress skills.

Last week we talked about 21 things coaches disagreed with Joe about. Next week we're on to quarterback drills, which can be a great one. Level ups, Joe, what do you got for a level up today? Oh, I had one for yesterday. I didn't share it and I forget what it was. Oh, no. I'll go while you think about it.

Go ahead. All right. So my level up back in 2017,

I was deployed to Kuwait. Yeah, '16, '17, I think. Anyway, I got deployed to Kuwait and, and any of you guys that are military that ever been there, you know it's a terrible... It's like the worst deployment you could possibly do. You would almost, almost rather have bullets flying at you than in Kuwait. It's- ridiculous.

But a cool thing that came out of it was I was able to go to Kuwait City and get scuba certified. So scuba has been a thing that I've loved doing. It's so cool, especially in the ocean. I've got to dive Grand Cayman, I got to dive Cancun, and outside of that it's... And, and of course the Arabian ocean where I got certified.

But outside of that, Oklahoma's the land of the lakes, so, we just dive muddy, nasty lakes. So today I went off and got certified in another course. So that's how scuba works. You just keep stacking certifications until you go on to become an instructor if you want to. But I went and gotten certified on search and recovery, which is not search and rescue.

That's the next one, which is like saving people's lives or finding dead bodies. Search and recovery is like people drop their keys or their boat cap, or they lose an anchor or their cell phone or, you know, sunglasses, wedding rings, all those things that are s- that are falling to the bottom of the lake and someone's gotta go down there and try to get it if it's worth enough money, which is gener- You know, that's why it's those high-end items.

Most people don't really care honestly about their sunglasses. But so that's what I spent my day was just learning the techniques and the concepts behind how do you go out and if you're from the shore or if you're dropping off a boat or off of a dock, like all the different techniques and going down to search and recovery.

It was a blast, honestly. I got called out in Oh, shoot. I can't remember if it was even this spring or last fall. We have friends that run a marina here at Grand Lake, and great people in, in Indian Point Marina, I think is what it's called. I could be misremembering. Anyways if you're in town, go over there and say hi.

It's a great place. Get lunch, whatever. But somebody had gotten fuel in their boat, dropped their boat lid, and from what I remember, it was like an antique boat, and the boat cap or the gasoline cap was like hard to find and very expensive. So I went down to try to find it, and that was my introduction to this, and I had no idea what I was doing.

Okay, it's like jumping into being the defensive coordinator your first year. You really don't know. And the Grand Lake is nasty, so when I got about four feet, it blacked out, and I was going to like 22 feet or 24 feet and just feeling around, and the silt and the mud was another six feet deep after I hit, got to bottom.

It was just chaos. But I was like, "Man, how cool it would've been to come up with that guy's boat cap," even though that was the conditions. It's almost that now it's a challenge, and then I combine that with my forever learning concepts. And so, yeah, jumped literally two feet in today, went and got another certification, search and recovery, and I'm, I'm gonna actually probably start a side hustle since we live so close to multiple lakes and just go out and, and recover things for people.

So if you're around the Grand Lake area, holler at me. Maybe I can find your wallet or your wife's wedding ring or whatever. I, I will give it back to you. I heard that there's like some guys do that, and then they just put the ring in their pocket and sorry we couldn't find it," because how are you gonna prove them wrong?

But so you know, a guy with character out there doing the job is always good. So that's my level up, is I got another certificate or another certification in my scuba career. I I was, I, in college I dated a girl who lived in West Virginia near the, the New River, and we went up there and they were into cliff jumping.

And I, we were on a, about I think like a 40-foot or something like that. It was way up there. And I just was like, "All right, I'm going." And I jumped. And about halfway down I was like, "Oh, I left my keys in my pocket." And so I hit the water and, you know, like of course my keys came out, and you don't cliff jump in shallow areas.

Right. Not for long. And so they were gone and I had to th- th- th- you know, that was a weekend, and then on Sunday I had to get a locksmith to come out. I was driving my parents' old Buick Roadmaster at the time in college which I loved that car. It was a '93, and this is like '99, so it wasn't that old, but I loved that car, and I drove it till 2009.

At that point it was an old car with 256,000 miles. Anyway, I lost the keys, had to get a locksmith to, to fix it, to, to, you know, make a key. Got back and, like, a year later my keys come in the mail at my college box. Somebody in the New River scuba team found them at the bottom of the lake, or bottom of the river, and they mailed them to Ukrops Grocery Store, which has since been bought by Martins and now is...

They make, they make food. They make great food, but they're not a grocery store anymore. It was a great grocery store, though. Virginia grocery sh- local store. And it had my Ukrops key tag on it, and so they had my address. And my keys showed up with a keychain from... I wish I'd kept that keychain, 'cause they had put their keychain on it.

Of course. That's awesome ... and so it was pretty cool. For, for the, to show up, for the keys to show up, and for somebody to pull the keys up and be like, "Mail this back." And of course the clicker didn't work anymore, but the keys all did. You know. Yeah. But- Those were the days, man, when cars didn't need computer chips in the key- Yeah

in order to get it to start right. The key worked fine. You just get a new one made. Yeah. We live just north of the, the Illinois River in, in, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Everybody goes and floats the Illinois River. It's what you do. You know, I mean, I did it when I was a kid. We don't now that I live up here very much, 'cause it's, it's just a great way to get a very deep sunburn for me, 'cause I'm so pasty.

So someday I will just start and just take my stuff and just start working and, and maybe a metal detector and see what I find. Oh, treasure, treasure's always- I have car keys in that river from a '04 Tahoe that I know... Like, I gave them to someone with a fanny pack, and she got drunk and opened her fanny pack, and away all the- There they go

everything went, right? So, yes, that would be a fun one, but that's cool. I'm glad they got them back to you. All right. What's in your- Your level up, boss ... I d- I, I had a couple to choose from, but I'll go with my kid level up. My son started soccer. Now, he's been doing soccer shots in his daycare for the last year or so.

But this was his first organized... Well, organized as it gets for three- and four-year-olds, team sport, YMCA soccer. The first day was a couple weeks ago. He did the warmup and everything, and then wanted no part of it because they wouldn't let him use his ball, right? So, you know, three-year-old stuff Excuse me.

But we talked him into it this past Saturday, and he went out and he participated, and he scored his first goal. We got a great picture of him turning around and doing, like, a full-on celebration scream. So it's our first goal. Shortly after scored our second goal, so it was great. And then one of the wonders of youth sports, like a six-year-old showed up and was just, like...

Like, for some reason they just let him go out there and just destroy these kids for the second- Ah ... for the second half. But it was super fun the first half. He had two goals and two assists. I know nobody's keeping score, but he was super excited because he did it with his, with his friend who he, you know, from school that he got on the team with and who's about a year older than him.

But they... You know, he had the assist with him which was super cool, and then got to score his goal, and was just really excited. And after the first week and me being like, "What are we gonna do?" Like, he, he literally, like, crying, hated it didn't wanna go. And then, like, after the- after this game... Now, it did end with that kid just destroying all of them, him crying because he couldn't get- couldn't do anything, and they kept taking the ball away from him, and all this sort of stuff.

But so he's gotta learn. He is bigger than all, every kid but the six-year-old, so he's gotta learn to just go body some kids, but we're working on it. That's right. But, like, he's doing super well with the drills that they do, and, and, and got the, the taste of the competition and loved it. Super excited about soccer now, so it's his fav- his favorite sport.

He has not watched any World Cup because he's not awake when I'm watching World Cup, so. Right. Well, that's... I haven't either, so it's fine. I do... I, I watch a decent amount of it, but not... You know, d- on the weekends and then I'll watch whatever the 9:00 or... Tonight we play at 8:00, so I'll watch that. I've watched all the US games.

I'm sure there's a, a bingo card of dads in youth sports that, that has a lot of these on there. But the next one in soccer is the guy who's a coach that coaches his own son on the team, and they do the where they just never let the ball leave their feet. They just kick it back ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch all the way down- 'cause you can't kick it out, and no one can get around them, and they just huddle and ch-ch-ch-ch-ch, and it takes 45 minutes to get to the goal, and then they score. And you're like, "What?" What soccer skill was that? Like- ... dribbling. Well, okay, get out of here with that crap. I'm anxious- Yeah ... to see if little Joe does little, little, little, little Joe does, you were little Joe at one point. How's that- I was ... i'd never call him that. The users- If he continues being- ... online are happy to call him that ... like successful, 'cause Beckett, you know, he started his soccer t- last year, two years ago, and he, he d- didn't do it this year, but I think he scored six goals in his first game and never sniffed another one.

Like- Really? N- not even close. Like, he, he digressed so bad, and I don't know, I don't know why. Yeah. But I was like, "Oh my God, I have... This is the next Messi right here." Yeah. "Chambo, we're in it, right?" And then- Yeah ... nope, he never sniffed a net again, so. I am, I am only I mean, you know, he doesn't really get the, the nuances of the game or anything, but- For sure

it, there's at least, like a, a, whether he wants to or not, there is some athletic ability there, so, like, he's not, not inept. Yeah. That's good. I love it. He can take some coaching too. He, he likes to put the ball on the spot, and then, like, that was one thing I was happy with was the coach would tell him to, tell all the kids to come up and line up here, and the kids were all scattered, and he's, like, standing next to the coach, and I'm like, "He's coachable.

He's gonna get the coach's award just like his old man." Bang. Hopefully it's from, from a better school, but yep. All right, guys. That's it, man. We've, we've punched- Yeah ... through this one. Real quick, pay the bills, Joe, and we'll close out. Yeah, go and download that practice plan template, free practice plan template.

Go to JoeDanielfootball.com/practice. I also mentioned the Coach's Edge. If you're a JDFB Premium Coaching Systems member, then you the Coach's Edge workshop's coming up July 14th here in just a few days after this podcast drops. We're gonna be putting together your install practice plans, whether it's 90 minutes, two hours, doesn't matter.

We're gonna be going through the step-by-step process. You are gonna walk out of that, it'll be about 90-minute workshop. You're gonna walk out of that with your first week of practice plans basically done. So we, we did the install plan. If you're already a member, go make sure you do the June install plans before install schedule with the June Coach's Edge workshop from your courses page before so that you can jump in.

But I'll, but either way, join us live on the 14th. Sending out emails for that. If you're not, obviously you can join JDFB if you need a system, if you need 4-2-5 defense system, pistol power offense system, 33 stack, 3-4, 4-3. They're all in there. Film room, masterclasses, everything is part of JDFB Premium Coaching Systems.

You can go to JoeDanielfootball.com/membership for that. But we've put together the Coach's Edge membership now, and the Coach's Edge membership is if you don't need the systems, you've already got your playbook, but you wanna get, start installing some of the JDFB principles. You're gonna get the Coach's Edge workshops.

You're gonna get the Quick Start, which is the principles of JDFB, and access to the chalkboard community forum, where you can ask questions anytime there, as well as the first modules of the system so that you can see kind of the basics and core of those as well if you're interested. That's, that's awesome.

I love it. That's a great way to do it if you, if you wanna get all that- And that's, by the way, JoeDanielfootball.com/edge for that one. Edge. Go there. Do the thing. Social media. I'm @CoachChamboOK on Twitter/X. You can email me at chamberlainfootballconsulting@gmail.com. Joe is joe@joedanielfootball.com.

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