Joe Daniel / JUNE 12, 2025
Our Offense is Stagnant | FBCP S18E14
Our Offense is Stagnant | FBCP S18E14
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Our Offense is Stagnant
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
Our Offense is Stagnant
A stagnant offense can stall an entire season — even with the right athletes on the field. But constantly adding new plays without structure usually leads to confusion, not results.
On this episode of the Football Coaching Podcast, Daniel Chamberlain and Joe Daniel share how to build a dynamic offense the right way — starting with mastery of a base play and layering in variation through motions, shifts, unbalanced formations, and tags. They also introduce the containers principle — a smart way to install new ideas without overwhelming your players or your practice time.
Add Variation into Your Offense
• Before you add variation, you must have a foundation in place
• When you add wrinkles, ensure they their to improve your base plays, not complicate them
• Use tendency breakers, tag anything and everything
Create New Looks with What Your Have
• Stay with your base stuff at the core
• Start with pre-snap adjustments. Move players, shifts, trades, motions… make the defense communicate
• Post-snap tags can be the last straw that breaks a defense, but you can’t add them too quickly
• Players, Formations, Plays
Teach Your Players New Variations in Under 5 Minutes
• 5-Min Install needs to be your cap
• Find a way to alter what 1 or 2 players are doing, and let everyone else run the base play
• If it can’t be installed in a single period (5 minute rule) it may be changing too much.
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• Daniel
• Twitter: @CoachChamboOK
• Email: ChamberlainFootballCoaching@gmail.com
• Joe
•Twitter: @FOOTBALLINFO
•Email: Joe@JoeDanielFootball.com
•Podcast
•Twitter: @TheFBCP
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