[00:00:00] Welcome back, coaches. This is the Football Coaching Podcast. I'm Coach Daniel Chamberlain, here with Joe Daniel as always. What's up, coach? I forgot to say co-host. I screwed it up. Oh, well. That'll set the tone for the rest of the show, or we can be resilient and move on. It's gonna be fine. Power minute real quick before we get out the gate here.

Offensive line drills, this is the episode I've been waiting on. This is one of my favorite things to talk about is offensive line drills, so we're gonna have some great ones tonight, great conversation. I am excited to see the difference in things that Joe does and things that I do. So those are gonna be fun.

If you are listening on the computer, phone, whatever, this is going to be a drawing... Look, see, Joe just saved my head for you. Got ahead, got ahead of it. Yep. It's going to be a drawing episode. I might even script the thing in a minute while I load mine in the background while Joe talks. But that's what it is.

We're gonna be talking about drilling the blocks that you need, focusing on your first two steps, and then drill the communications, kind of that final piece. Last week we talked about group passing drills. Go back and listen to that if you're a guy that likes to wing the ball around a little bit.

Next week [00:01:00] we're off to defending the flex bone a question that we see a lot. Been seeing more and more of it, and I know that you know, my, my coach at the, the school that I was working for last few few years ago, couple years ago went to the flex bone and went to the guy out in Kansas, And every time I talk to a coach from Kansas, they are either running it or seeing a ton of it.

And it is expanding. Yeah. It's it's coming back, man. You get the, the gun T, which is, you know, the wing T variation. You get the flex bone, you get all those a lot of gap scheme football type stuff going on, so... Single wing's getting bigger around here. There's some teams that keep going to, like, the third round of the playoffs, so we're watching the, the an- antiquated offenses come back around.

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We greatly appreciate that. Joe, let's pay the bills and we'll jump in here. I have to look real quick because this is something that I have to update and get ready. Okay. But last year we put this together. It is the Offensive Line Quick Start Guide. It is a free guide that you can get access to, and I'm gonna tell you where to get access to it in a moment, but it is a three-video series on how to maximize the performance of your offensive line.

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It will match very well with the things that we're talking about tonight. So we talk about things like footwork and communication and, and all the things that are critical to offensive line play that y- most offensive line coaches are not focusing on. So you make those little changes, it'll make all the difference in the world.

Undersized offensive linemen you know, inexperienced offensive linemen, guys who wanna be a tight end, but they're just doing it for the team- this is the thing for you. If you, if you need to get your offensive line performing better, executing better even if they are not the biggest, strongest, fastest, most powerful group in the world the underlying, the, the Offensive Line Quick Start is going to be [00:04:00] the, what do we do there? There we go. The Offensive Line Quick Start is gonna be the place to go for you. Check it out, OL, JoeDanielfootball.com/OLquickstart, or go to the guides section. Love it. I want to remind you guys about Athletic Speed Movement. I know you're getting into that kind of, you know, you're in that middle third of the season right now.

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It's like once that first kickoff happens, man, it's a flash. It, it's just a blink of an eye. So, get in athleticspeedmovement.com, get the fastest you've ever been. All right, man, let's talk about it here, Joe. We're going into part [00:05:00] one. Talking O-line drills, and I, I get a lot of people want drills given to them.

"Coach, tell me what drills I should be getting with my D-line, my O-line." I had a question at my level the other day, you know, "What, what conditioning drills do you have?" Stop overthinking stuff, okay? First of all, You've heard us say it on the Football Coaching Podcast 100,000 times if you've heard it once, and that is your drills should look like football, they should look like the things you do, and they should solve problems that you're having.

Everyday drills, we are a mixed bag. Joe is anti-everyday drills. I, it ... And I'm right there with him, honestly. They sh- they need to develop and they need to evolve, and I agree to that. Just the concept of it ... and, and I guess we're not really a mixed bag. That's kind of what we both believe. Like, you need to work the things that matter every day, and they need to evolve to get where, meet your kids where they are and move them, right, and, and, and move them along.

So when we start asking about what blocks, or excuse me, what drills do we need for the offensive [00:06:00] line there's not... I could write a manual with every block you ever need, every drill you ever need to practice those blocks, but I don't know what you're do- I don't know what your kids- Yeah ... are gonna do.

I don't know what scheme you have. I don't know who's really good at some stuff already. And so the book would have to be thicker than all those on the thing you're reaching for put together. Yeah. Right? Like, that could get really, really complex. And so we're starting part one, and we're just calling it Drill the Blocks that You Need.

So, so Joe, I'm gonna turn it over to you here and just what does that even mean? How are we identifying what blocks we need? Like, what, what is, what are we talking about? So I was grabbing this one because I know that there is one offensive line, one wing T manual. This is Denny Crehan, former a, a early guest on the Football Coaching Podcast and a great offensive line excuse me, great wing T coach.

And the, the, I wasn't sure if it was this block. I think it is. [00:07:00] So Denny Kranz book for the wing T, I'll just run through it, and I'm not a wing T guy. On block, gap block, down block. I'm pretty much on with those. Fire block, reach block, and then he goes into combination blocks, cross block, gut block, scoop block over block, lead post, inside out block.

So that's, that's just a quick example like of... I don't know if it's too many because it's wing T and- ... and, you know, honestly Denny's wing T book the, the, that's, that's the blocks that are needed to install the system that is in volume one of the wing T from A to Z, which has, I think, four or five series in it, or there's a fifth series in here where the jet series kinda gets added in to it.

For me, in the pistol power offense system, we don't do quite that many, you know, I guess we do. [00:08:00] So we drill a a base block, we drill a reach block, we drill a zone block. We drill a zone block a base block, a reach block, a down block. Then we have our combos and our pulls and, you know, that's the things that you need.

If you were a coaching sixth graders and you took the offensive line drills that I have for my team that's running zone and gap scheme, power counter, inside zone, outside zone, truck toss, and we also have to work our horn pull and those are, you know, those types of things. If you took all of that and you were, you know, as you said, like, well, I said sixth graders, but a lot of sixth graders are still doing this, honestly, a lot of coaches are still doing this.

Right. And, you know, you've talked about your six-year-olds doing this. If you were blocking the T, that would be kind of ridiculous, right? It would be [00:09:00] like, number one, you would just be wasting a lot of time because they're like, they wouldn't know when to use those tools. And by the way, that is, when I say we, we have a base block, a down block a reach block and a zone block that's the start, but then I have pass protection and I have to be able to pass protect against an inside shade, a head up, an outside shade.

I have to be able to pass protect against a wide rusher, a speed rusher. So I have to be able to do all things and I have to combo my, my pass rush. So those things, you know, you might not be doing. You may be a vertical set team and your pass protect- protection's completely different. So there is, there is no way to say what blocks you should be drilling.

You have to look at your offensive playbook and it, chances are, guys, unless you're running a, unless you're not running a system, that information is very easy to gather. [00:10:00] If you're running the pistol power offense system, it is no problem to find out what blocks need to be drilled. If you're running gun T, pistol T, pistol wing T, if you're running Delaware wing T, if you're running flex bone, if you're running single wing that came from somebody and not just like bull crap you made up, if you're doing any of those things, you know what?

I gotta mirror it.

I got to mirror it. All right, podcast update. Tonight, Joe held up a book to talk about it. You'll see it later. And it was reversed on his screen, he couldn't read it. I held up mine, that I'm not gonna do, I just held up a random book, and I can read it on my screen, so he mirrored it so he could read the book in his display from Zoom.

I actually un-mirrored it. So this is the mirrored effect, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we knew- I didn't know it was un-mirrored ... we, he, we had this, we, we, we had a conversation about whether he could handle it or not, so. I ca- I ca- I'm just used to it- Okay ... I think, now. What was the thing? Huh? What was it? You just- [00:11:00] I don't know, it just looks, it just looks different.

It's- Okay ... I, I don't, I don't know a specific thing, but I was just like, "This is weird." Because I'm not used to it. I'm used to- Yeah ... seeing, you know, my right hand goes up and it's on the right side, I guess. It wasn't like I'm confused. It was just like, okay, I'm used to it being the other way.

Understood. So anyway, the, the, the thing about your offensive line drills, and I was looking for another one and if I see it I'll grab it real quick. This come from

I know this is fascinating podcasting to listen to me find books

I'm gonna have to fix all of this later. This is actually a very good book, Complete Offensive Line Run Blocking, Pass Blocking, Game Tra- it's a very good offensive line book. However [00:12:00] I still don't think that you can just grab this book sans system and- Sands, such a good looking name ... be a good offensive line coach.

I think it's a good offensive line book. I read through it, but you can see that it's, it's not like torn apart. Right. So

Though you've got to look at your scheme and drill what happens in your scheme. Now, here's what most offensive line coaches, many, I would say most, are doing. Sled Block on boards. Shoot. Now, here's the problem That never happens. You don't ever get on somebody and just drive them. If you do, they suck compared to your s- current skill [00:13:00] level.

And so you drive the sled straight on

And then you get in a game and you wonder why you can't make your blocks. Because you weren't drilling anything that actually happens in a game. Block on boards, shoots, none of that. One of the most overrated things in offensive line play, not completely irrelevant. Understand what I'm saying.

Overrated, not completely irrelevant, overrated. Meaning there's way too much emphasis put on it instead of other things that matter more. Pad level. Pad level matters if I stand straight up But I've had offensive linemen, I mean, I've watched NFL offensive linemen play with very high pad level, [00:14:00] right? Now granted, they are, you know, it's kinda like running backs, you know, like there's, you know, you don't look at Eric Dickerson and go, "Look, see, running backs don't have to run low."

Well, that was Eric Dickerson, right? It's different. But the key to offensive line play, and I'll just tell you the thing that you can... I, I'll just, I'll cut straight to the most important thing

Before we get into the drills, you as an offensive line coach, and this is a big part of that offensive line quick start in OL... JoeDanielfootball.com/OLquickstart. Q-U-I-C-K, no fancy spellings You as an offensive line coach The drills are important. You've gotta teach your guys the footwork. But I'll tell you that as an offensive line coach, and, and I, I've, I've coached offensive line most years that I've coached.

It is the thing that I love coaching the most, not defense. That's what I love coaching the most. You as an offensive line coach have a very special [00:15:00] job You are their advocate in a room full of people who don't care about them. And I'm not saying that your offense coordinator, your head coach, the other guys on staff don't care about them, but they love to draw up plays.

When they're drawing up plays- You know what I'm saying ... they're not thinking about your offensive lineman. You as an offensive line coach, your job is to advocate for your offensive lineman. The offense should be built around the offensive line, not the other way around, which is what most people are doing.

The offense should be built around what is best for the offensive line. The second thing, the most important thing that you can advocate for with your offensive coordinator, or if you are the offensive coordinator and the offensive line coach like I am, and I have to remind myself of this, and I have to talk to the quarterback coach, and I have to talk to the running back coach, and I have to talk to everybody, why do things like alignment, why do things like [00:16:00] timing matter?

The number one thing that you can do to help your offensive line, and this is why I don't give a crap about chutes and boards and sleds and, and all that sort of stuff

Minimize the amount of time your offensive linemen need to stay engaged in the block You can then win with smaller linemen, weaker linemen, which is what almost all of us are trying to do. Right. Because they've always got... Here's the thing. I have five offensive linemen. They have three or four defensive linemen, maybe they have five.

My five might match up with four of theirs, okay? Or maybe I've got four that match up with their other four, and I've got one who's really good, and they've got one who's really good. Here's the thing. My one who's really good always plays right or left tackle. He's always the left tackle, or he's always the center, he's always the guard, doesn't matter, but he's, let's say he's always the left [00:17:00] tackle.

They just take the one and they move him over to the other side, and from anywhere, the one guy who's better, if we just play block on boards, if we just play sled, if we just play block the T, if we just play man up, block somebody, one guy on their defense can ruin your offense. And so if you try to make it be a man up, block somebody deal, you won't win that, because one guy can ruin your entire offensive play.

So the key is design your plays so that all I need to do as a little offensive lineman, as an inexperienced offensive lineman, is take the right first two steps, which will be a part, big part of what we talk about. Take the right first two steps to get in his way and make sure that that ball [00:18:00] is either getting by him through the hole or getting in the air from the quarterback's hand very shortly after those first two steps, preferably as I make the third one.

If you can do that, you can have good offensive linemen. That's one of the things that makes double wing effective. It's one of the things that makes traditional under center wing T. It's one of the things that makes under center blocking w- under center run game more effective. It's also one of the things that makes under center passing, if you do it right, more effective because the quarterback is able to hit the third step on the same time and throw that third, that three-step drop or that five-step drop, but he hits that last step and he throws it if he can drop and read.

It's also one of the things that makes less efficient quarterbacks with their footwork better, gun better, because you have a little bit more room to snap the ball, read it, and get the ball out. If you can, you can miss a block and he's still gotta run four yards before he gets to the guy. So the key [00:19:00] to the offense, number one, you as an offensive line coach are the advocate.

Everything should be built around them. You say, "Well, my guy's gotta learn a lot to do that." "Coach, we're gonna install this brand-new play." "That's cool. What do we have to do? What do we have to learn?" Everything, ag- and you, you and I are both big advocates of this You can, you can do so much without changing a blocking scheme that you shouldn't be changing blocking schemes beyond your base install very much.

And so we can motion, we can shift, we can unbalance, we can do this, we can do that. We can change who's carrying the ball, how they're carrying the ball, where they're carrying the ball, and always use the same basic blocking scheme. And so that's the key is we want to have, we want to identify our core blocking schemes.

In the pistol power offense system, we have two base blocking schemes. We have gap and zone. Okay? Our, our, our power and counter, counter is just a tag. It's just a tag. All it does is change who's kicking out and who's [00:20:00] wrapping. Everybody else is doing the exact same blocking scheme as power. So we have one blocking scheme for gap scheme in the pistol power offense system A little more than that, it's not just a tag, but inside zone and outside zone or what we call zone and stretch or we call 22, 23 and 26, 27 when we use the numbering system changes the aiming point.

It changes the combo. It does not change who we block. It does not change that. And so we have to work the footwork of it, but as long as we can count and we can co- it doesn't change who we combo with, it doesn't change who we're responsible for, zero, one, two, three, we block, we, we zone count system. Okay?

Then we can we can know who we're blocking and we just have to adjust our footwork, our aiming point, first two steps, that kind of thing. And the combo changes, and so we have to drill that combo. That's what's in our system. Truck Toss, which is the outside run play. We talk about inside run, outside run, off tackle run and a counter.

Truck Toss is our outside run play from the play side guard back, [00:21:00] so four of the offensive linemen are blocking outside zone. One guy has to learn a pull, so it's essentially a tag for the offensive line. They tag, the, the, the tight end or the H-back will handle the number two and the tackle will pull to kick the corner.

And so that is and they'll bring in a third and, and an outside receiver to handle the the number three. So, in that way we essentially are teaching two blocking schemes and you can, y- you know, the, there's more to it than that, but it's two blocking schemes. We can count to three and we know our, our, our gap scheme combos.

So then we can look at that and we can go, "Okay, when I run power encounter, when I run power we have a down block and we have a combo." We have a a down block, a combo, we have a hinge block by the backside tackle which we drill but which doesn't take a ton of drilling, and then we have a skip pull by the guard and we have a kick out by the H-back.

There's our drills. Okay? Here's all the things we need to drill. H-backs need to drill power kick outs. You know, our [00:22:00] guards and tackles need to drill combos along with the tight ends. Our centers, guards, tackles, all, all the entire offensive line needs to drill down blocks because we may have a down down call across the board and our backside tackles and our, our, our guards need to work skip pulls and our tackles also need to work a hinge block.

Okay? Now early in the, in the season we don't know any of that so everybody's just running all the drills. We don't know how the five are gonna sort out. Then we go to our g- our zone scheme and we go, "Okay, we got a, a little simpler. We got a zone block He might be head up, he might be play side. I got a zone block if my guy is down and then if my guy is up, I've got a backside of the zone block.

I got a, a zone combo. So we got a zone block, you know, a, a, a solo zone block, and then we got our combos and then I've got my outside zone or my stretch play, and I've got a reach block, which is a solo outside zone block. I know that I've got him. There's nobody helping me. He's mine. I just gotta reach him.

And then there's my my stretch combos, and so you know, that's basically what we [00:23:00] work. And then you g- go through passing. So I go, "Okay, those are the things that I do," and then I look at that and I go, "All right. How much are we actually gonna do of each one of these?" I like to have a, a gap scheme day and a zone scheme day, but if I know that we're an outside zone team, then the zone scheme day is gonna trend towards 70% outside zone, 30% inside zone.

If I know that our base is power and we're just power, power, power, power, power, we're gonna be 50% power every single day and then we'll do, you know, counter and you know, like a s- let's say that we're a lot of our middle school teams, some of our varsity teams, some of our high school teams, a lot of our middle school and youth teams are gonna run power to the right, counter to the left, they're gonna run wedge, and they're gonna run reach just toss.

They're not gonna run truck toss. They're just gonna reach, reach, toss. In that case, they're probably gonna run power every single day 'cause everything's be built around the power and they're gonna work a little bit of zone, a little bit of wedge, a little bit... You know, it might be a focus on one of those, but power's gonna be every single day the focus 'cause we're gonna be great at that and then call the other plays based on how the defense adjusts to stop our power.[00:24:00]

So you identify what you're going to... I mean, you, you really need to work backwards. What does a game look like? Well, a game looks like gap scheme, gap scheme, gap scheme, zone scheme, gap scheme, gap scheme, zone scheme. Okay, we're gonna be in our gap scheme, you know, seven out of every 10 play calls, so we're gonna put 70% of our drill emphasis on the gap scheme stuff.

We're gonna be down blocking. We're gonna be combo blocking. We're gonna be kicking out. We're gonna be skip pulling. And it's what we drill. Our offensive line does not need, and, and you'll hear us, h- hear me say this over and over again your drill work, you identify the things that you need to work on, the levers.

If I needed to fix something, like I, I guess just... Nobody ever look... I mean, guys go to this and say, "This is the thing we're gonna do," but the, it, it shouldn't be the fix. Guys go, "We're not driving our blocks." Stop making him drive the block. If I push him [00:25:00] five yards down the field- That's where the ball's supposed to go.

Why do I wanna push him that way? We displace blocks. If he wants to go left, I'll let him go left, and the running back can go right. As long as the timing's right, the running back can make that cut. Okay? I wanna block him from the side. I don't wanna block him head on. I don't wanna drive the block. I wanna get him out of the way.

Now we have our block finishing drill. We don't really drill that much, we just ... It, it happens. Whether we talk about that at other ti- later on. You, you don't ever ... The sled is never the lever to pull It's, it's not. It's just your, your issue is not being able to drive guys five yards down the field.

That's hard. If, if I put a division one player, defensive lineman, defensive tackle across from your little offensive lineman who's a sophomore and he's 180 pounds, he can't win that. The sled won't help him. He can get on the sled all day every day, he won't [00:26:00] win that. I gotta have scheme that helps him, and then the, the, the levers is like, okay, how do we block him?

I gotta be a really good down blocker. I gotta hit him right in the side of the hip and just like w- hit him where he do- like if somebody hits you from the side and they hit you full go, full bore, and you're big, I can ... I'm not gonna ... Maybe not, not gonna knock you down, but I can displace you just enough to get by.

That's the lever to pull. So you look at the blocks that you need within your scheme, the levers that you would pull, and it's not the sled. It's rare- A- again, the chute is the ... The chutes are just like, we've talked about it before with the chutes, and we talked about it with the defensive line, is you've got your big

I've done, I've seen this, it's hilarious. You got your little chute and your little guy, your 5'8 guy. You got your 5'8, 190 pound center. He's a great kid. He's dirty. He'll cut knees and, and, you know, bite kids at the bottom of the pile, and that's why he's your center. He's down blocking all day. He's perfect.

He'll communicate. He never shuts up. He's your guy. He's, he [00:27:00] goes through that chute and you're like, "Man, look at him go through that chute." He could walk through that chute standing up. Then you've got your 6'7, 350 pound couch potato and you're like, "He's gonna be somebody." He's gonna be the guy that makes you look silly on Friday 'cause he's standing next to you, okay?

Because he can't move, and you're like, "We're gonna put him through the chute," and he goes through the chute like Lurch. He's like- Gr. And he's like trying, just not, trying not to hit his head. It's a football position he will never, ever on God's green earth be in. He's going to need weight room. He's going to need an off-season, he, probably two, to fix that.

He doesn't have the structure. So if you want to use him, get him, to teach him how to get in the way with his big butt and be tall, fine. Who cares? He's 350. Get in the way. Work on his footwork, otherwise he's just gonna be standing next to you. If you're trying to get him to fire off and drive down the sled, he can't do that.

He's so daggone slow. [00:28:00] He's so slow See, we've all seen that kid. So it, it's just, it's never the lever to pull. It's never the shoots, it's never this. And the block on boards thing is just, just crashing two skulls together and seeing who's tougher. What are we doing? It never happens. When does the defensive lineman line up and just d- forget everything else.

When does the defensive lineman line up directly across from you and just fire straight into you? Never. Nobody lines up head up and just tries to see if they can just crush you. They slant, they move, they shade. It's- Toughness. Okay. Concussion. Now he's not on the field. Great. Good drill. Never happens. And when you do that, like you can talk about, well, the board drills a wide base for him.

We have drills for that. We have drills for that, I promise [00:29:00] you. Get rid of the board There's my, there's my rant on offensive lineman I love it. We're gonna talk about some, some drills now for various blocks. Are you ready to get on the board or are you gonna save yours for later? I c- I can, I can...

You wanna go first? Yeah, I'll go first. Little bit, yeah. All right, let's see if this works. Oh, I just removed it. Add to stage. All right, so I'm gonna bring up my huddle, so I'm not gonna be looking at Joe right now. I'm looking at a huddle screen, okay? So, I'm gonna walk through a couple, and I- I've actually, if, if you're a JDFB member and using game film analysis, there's a, there's a pretty good chance you've seen some of these because I'll draw them up right there in the middle of your game film analysis.

Talk to Flo, Jason there's a few guys out there that are, that are working with us and they have received right in the middle of a breakdown, "Use this drill to fix this problem." So I try to be as useful as possible in there. But if you are a platinum member and you're not using your game film analysis do [00:30:00] that.

It is the season. 'Tis the season. So we're gonna start on the left over here. I had this drawn up and then it started messing up, and so I'm gonna have to reset it in the middle to, to finish out. But on the far left here where I think you can see my cursor, I hope. Oh man, it's super weird.

All right. I'm just gonna reset it again. That's stupid. We're gonna go through Stupid huddle. So our pass pro. So this is something I learned when I worked with- All right, I guess that's why I don't have the playbook feature ... yeah, obviously you really don't need it. When I was working with Justin Morrissey, who was the O line coach at Owasso the, the year that I was there, and he is now the head coach for the Verticus Car- Cardinals here in Oklahoma and doing a heck of a job with the turnaround there.

But these are the pass drills. And so I see people's pass pro, and some of the big issues I see, and I say a, a drill should always solve a problem. The problem I see is my left or right tackle [00:31:00] has a defensive end that's fast, and he's a w- he's out there in like a, a freaking wide nine versus when he only could be in a five.

And so what we get is I'll draw the issue here, I guess, since we have capabilities. Okay, we get this defensive end, and the first thing that my, my tackle does is, is try to get wide with that guy, right? Coach, he's already wide, he's really fast, he's going this way. I'm gonna go meet him out there, okay?

And so this is a problem we see over and over again, even if the guy's making contact. And what that opens you up to is any kind of an inside backer or stunt or anything else, you're immediately opening this seam. It's almost... I teach it almost no different than a, a force defender getting too wide, right?

Once you create that seam, you open yourself to this stuff, 'cause these guys are going straight back. So you start making seams in here where you really don't need seams, okay? So I know that may be a little confusing. Hopefully not too much. But the point is your pass set should be vertical, okay? And [00:32:00] so a way that we let our guys drill vertical pass sets so they don't reach out there to that, is we put them on a, a yard line on the field.

So this is the cor- this right here was Owasso's O lineman. They were on the goal line against the three-story building. It's beautiful down there. And you're literally putting their inside foot on that goal line, and they are doing their pass set three, four, five steps, whatever you want them to do, okay?

And they can go in two separate lines, so they get some work from the left, and then they get some work from the right. So their inside foot is running down that yard line. So it's impossible for them to go too far left or too far right, 'cause they have a, a freaking... There it's turf, but it might be paint or it might be chalk or whatever you're using telling them where to go, okay?

And then to finish the drill, they work either left or right. It doesn't have to be the side they're on, okay? They can work a little left, a little right. Either way. It's just what... They take turns essentially. Sometimes they'll all even use the exact same yard line. They're not split like this. [00:33:00] And so you get some right foots on the line, some left foots on the line.

Where do those guys generally play for your lineman? And then they finish. So you come out here, you work to the left shuffle, right? So it's backpedal, backpedal, or not backpedal, I'm sorry. Pass set, pass set, pass set Go left for a couple steps and then block a guy. Super easy, but it drills into those offensive linemen your pass set needs to be vertical.

I don't care if that guy's a wide nine, meet him by using the shorter route, right? So stay vertical, meet him, and then we can pick him up, and then you can let him, you know, worry about getting super, super wide, whatever. So that's how we work pass set, okay? They definitely, you know, you can do one-on-ones.

We do it a little bit different. We all, we all get out here, and Joe, I think this is... You use this in your system, too, right? So we have guys out here in some version of a defense, everyone starts the drill, okay, as in, in pass pro and then only one guy stays live. Or [00:34:00] you can just let one defensive lineman go at a time.

It doesn't matter. The point is your offensive linemen are getting that work, but we're all gonna get it and you should see people next to you because one-on-ones don't exist in pass pro, right? It's my five versus their four or five or six or seven, how many they're blitzing. So you can get that concept. I have a buddy to my left, I have a buddy to my right.

A nose guard is not going to run a big loop around and get to the quarterback. It's not gonna happen 'cause he has to go through the rest of the O line. So that final- That one brings up an- another, just on a side note, that brings up another bad offensive line drill is the one-on-one that we see at camps all the time.

It's a bad defensive line drill, too. Yeah. A lot of guys will say, "Well, it's a defensive lineman drill." Yeah, if you don't care about pass rush lanes and you want the quarterback to escape and go take off running. The one-on-ones are a, a terrible drill because again, like you said, there's guys there and you're like, "Well, he got beat by this inside shade."

What he, you know... That's fine, the quarterback should just roll [00:35:00] out and be, and run for days. But also, you know, we teach just down block him into the next guy. We turn it into a down block on the, on the inside release. I will make one note on that one-on-one pass pro drill. We do the same thing. I stand behind, I point to one defensive lineman, tell him he's live, but everybody's getting the first two steps which we talked about.

Yes. The, the c- you know, the critical thing is the first two steps in those drills. In all of these drills, the first two steps. And then the one who is live, I make him protect for seven seconds, which was a Bill Mountjoy thing. Y- and it's, it's drilling the mentality. You know, I don't know if you've ever seen this where the, of, of a guy who protect for three or four seconds and he, like, turns around to look to see why.

Look, just keep protecting. Yeah. And, and just, just keep protecting. Like a lot of guys will, you know, do I want the offensive lineman to follow the throw? Yeah, but if he's... But, but I also, you know, cool but I, I don't want them standing around. So, you know, following the throw is not as important to me as finishing the block, and we'll, we'll talk about finishing the block.

[00:36:00] But that pass pro really, really, really, th- that one-on-one pass pro is a great, great drill because you have, again Five guys on offense. F- I just put five defensive linemen across from them unless we're working on stunts and pick, you know, blitz pickups and stuff. We'll do blitz pickup the same style, but you have five guys on offense and five guys on defense working, and if you only have six offensive linemen to drill it with, then put three on offense and three- Half line

on defense and drill your right edge to half line, and nobody is standing around. And that is the, the beauty of that drill is the minimal number of people standing around that, that the traditional one-on-one pass pro just completely lacks. Yeah. Just completely lacks. It first of all- You don't, you don't get a concept of space-

lacks reality ... right? Yeah. People need to know where they're at in space. Yeah, and you always- ... wanna have, yeah, the other thing is the one-on-one pass, you always wanna have a, a quarterback. We put them at seven yards, so you always wanna have an aiming point for the pass rushers to get to and the pass...

But [00:37:00] more importantly, the pass protectors need to know where they're protecting, and you can move that. You can move it over and say, "Hey, this is a half roll," and, you know, or, "This is a rollout, and this is where they're trying to get to." And adjust the, the you know, as you adjust the launch angle of the quarterback, you adjust the protection angle for the...

Your, your linemen need to understand where the quarterback is going to be. If he's rolling out to the right, then I need to get the right side shoulder you know, my right, his left shoulder captured because that's how I protect him, not, not block him, driving him down the field or something. Yeah. Of course, you can't drive him down the field.

It's a pass. The second, the second problem I see a lot, and, and I'm kinda going off the GFA stuff here, and that is combo blocks, right? And, and I know that a lot of guys wanna run inside zone, they wanna run, and, and Joe, you just said a minute ago, I- there's no need to get a vertical push if you can just block a guy from the side and just down him.

So I'm a huge advocate for gap scheme, but Zone scheme exist. I don't combo in [00:38:00] my gap scheme. That's where I do differ from Joe. I just, it, it, it's just not in my blood, but some people can use this for that as well. Okay, so what we see with... Make sure I'm on the right screen. There we go. With our combo blocks, and I'm not sure even how this looks.

But the problem we run into is guys on different levels, they're coming from here, they're trying to block a guy. One guy gets there first, and then he ends up, like, just owning the block, and the other guy's standing there doing nothing. Okay? Or they get there at different times, and now we're driving this kid all over the place.

Bad combo blocks. What we do is we take them, put them hip to hip, and put a pad, like a, an arm shield, between their hips and make them hold it off the ground. Okay? You're gonna block a guy. Usually we just drive down the hash to start, and then we'll get a person there, and we'll continue getting... You know, this evolves.

You start with just those two guys and a pad, and they're gonna get in their stance, they're gonna start their down set hut, and they're gonna work forward. They're gonna work blocking down here, and you can see the column 'cause it's the hashes on the field. Once again, use a landmark to teach them, [00:39:00] and don't let one overpower the other.

And they learn how to walk or move with that we usually teach a lead foot and a, and a, and almost looks like a left tackle and a right tackle on pass set moving forward. Okay? And they're, and they're moving forward with their hip together. That's to teach how we want our double teams to start.

Okay? Then the next evolution is put a guy there and let them keep the pad. Now, when they can do that and then keep the pad up, now it goes to that next level, go block a guy. Not very, not very different. We take the pad out, we test their moxie, test if they've maybe moxie's the wrong word. Test if they've been listening and what they've learned, and we go drive this guy a few yards.

Nothing that you guys probably aren't already doing, but we start with the pad. Okay? But then that has to evolve too because I don't want two guys to set on one block the whole play. The whole point of combos is to come off and get to second level for most of us. If your guys can't do it, what was the Lynn Shackleford way?

RPO him. If your, if your guys can't get to second level, read him. But eventually you [00:40:00] do need to move on and practice that next step. Let it evolve. Okay? So we, and this is where combo blocks get really good. Okay? So you're moving in, you're, you're, you're blocking these combos up, we're on the guy, we're pushing him, and this is where we start communicating.

I know we're gonna talk communication the last piece but it's part of your drills. It's part of what you should be doing every single day. Okay? This guy is moving forward and generally we let them pick. If your guys aren't good at, at making football decisions, then tell them which direction to go.

But all they're gonna do is go one direction or the other, and we're gonna block the guy we're on with our hands, we're gonna block the second level with our eyes. Okay? So this becomes a knockoff by the backside guy. He literally takes his hip and drives it into his buddy and pushes him off, knocks him off and says, "You, you, you," and he knows that I'm headed that way Okay?

'Cause they both saw it with their eyes. Now, this guy isn't doing, he's also actively getting off this block. This isn't a passive thing. He takes his play side [00:41:00] hand, so the, his left hand in this case, or his block side, and he press, he crushes that guy's shoulder in. So he pushes the defender into his buddy so that that becomes a block, and he's using that momentum to get out and pick up that next block.

Okay, so what you end up with is a double team that turns into two solos. Okay, but we've got everyone blocked, so we're blocked up here, we're blocked up on the second guy, and we just drill this, right? This is actually an everyday drill. A good one if you're a, a, a guy that uses combo blocks, 'cause it doesn't matter which direction he wants to go.

If he wants to go this way, good. Okay, this guy's bumping him off with his hip. You, you, you, me, me, me, I'm going out here and picking up the block. We're still locked in here. We get locked in on the other block. It's that simple, guys. We like to use the hash mark as a kind of a column. We talk about wanting to get that vertical press.

We're wanting to... We don't want g- one guy pushing him and, and we end up moving it this way or moving it this way, right? Now you're putting where the running back might be. Build that, [00:42:00] block that that column or, or stack. I think a lot of times talking about blocking stacks, same thing. It's a great for s- a drill to block stacks Last one I wanna talk about, Joe, and then I'll hand it o- go ahead.

You, you had something. Yeah, let me just r- on that one real quick, couple of things that I've, that I've adjusted for the way that we do our combo drills. And let me switch the- Yep ... just, I'll draw them up real quick for mine. Sh- oh, you have ... We gotta remove that one, add this one. There we go.

Okay. Learning as we go. So- We are ... couple of things that, that I ... Now, again, you have to know what you do, so, a gap scheme, I might have a defender here, but for me, on the zone scheme, we would almost never, I wouldn't say never, but pretty much never be doing that. So we're either blocking a stack or we're blocking a shade.

So if we're, if we're going to the right I usually teach this from a, from a stack. So we, we stacked, you know, we're, we're zoning right, so I'll say zone right, and we block the stack there, and then the coach stands behind and [00:43:00] says, "You go this way, and you go that way," and they block the stack. The number one thing that, that I would add in here is a lot of coaches get really obsessed with that initial combo coming together.

I call it get hippo, hip to hip. So hippo, hippo, hippo is the keyword that we use, hip to, hip to hip. Same thing- I like it ... inside foot up, all of that stuff. We say, "Get hippo." But get hippo, you're not gonna stay hippo very long. So a lot of guys really get into we're gonna drive this combo down the field. So what happens is we drive the combo down the field, and we take this tackle and drive him back as the linebacker runs right by and makes the tackle for a two-yard loss.

Because we are so buried in the combo. So that is why one of the things that we do is with our zone count system you know, when we're counting the zone, I don't teach the combo initially. So if we're counting it up and we say that the tackle let's say that this is a guard and tackle combo, [00:44:00] and so the, the down tackle is the one, and the linebacker is the two, and we're gonna have a bear combo together, a B gap combo, and so we are going to do that.

The, the first day that we run it, we're gonna zone, we're gonna ... It doesn't work well with the stack, so the way I'm teaching it. We always start with a 4-2 because we run a 4-2. Yep. Or we run a 3-4, so, you know, the stack doesn't necessarily ... So let me, let me adjust that- Yeah ... just a little bit, and we might do it this way with the backer.

So we would call the backer the one and the two there, and stack kind of, you know, if we ran a base stack, we would have to do a little bit different But then the, you know, if the, if the one is the guard, the, the guard's guy is the one. The guard goes and blocks him. The, the tackle is the two, and so the, our offensive tackle goes and zone blocks him.

It's all solo blocks across the board, and we are just blocking those guys because the core of this is we are not trying to get into a kick butt combo. [00:45:00] We don't need that, and you mentioned it. You know, you said you like gap scheme because we, we're not trying to move those guys. Displacement is zone football, not...

And it's, it's gap football too. Displacement is offensive line play, run game, not driving guys down the field. So what we'll do is go back to, you know, if we go back to, say, working that stack in our combo, as we get into that combo What we are looking for is, and again, I'll stand behind and tell them which way to slant and go, and what we are looking for is whichever way they go, we're gonna be right.

If the linebacker comes off to the tackle side, then obviously the tackle vaults off. Now, I removed all the communication. I, I'm just, that's just me. I don't have ball calls while on the defense, I don't have pull calls from the linebackers, I don't have go calls, any of that stuff, because I think that it's nice reminders for the players, but I don't think that it ever gets heard or most of the time done on the field, and so I [00:46:00] just don't worry about it.

I want these things, I mentioned lock call. So I, I talk about this in our, in a, a split field coverage a lot, where, you know, do you lock it at five yards? Do you lock it at seven yards? Do you lock it at nine yards? How do you make the lock call in two-read coverage? And when you get good at two-read coverage, it just happens, and we'll see guys pass off a switch 16 yards down the field, because they just know.

Now, I don't... Initially, we're teaching, like, a seven yard, but the call isn't the thing. And then the other thing that I'll add is instead of hipping over and knocking that guy off in the zone combo, that backer comes out, we're gonna go ahead and kick him. So it's, we're actually gonna kick him, and I want the guy who was on the, on the side of the combo that he didn't come off, I want him to just now drive that guy over.

And so I want us to just create this lane driving both guys over rather than trying to... I think a lot of guys try to overtake the zone. It's too late. It's too late. I'd just, just go ahead, and he went that way. He's, he's already... We've, we've got him in position. Just go ahead and [00:47:00] accelerate the feet.

So what I tell him is, "When you feel him disengage, accelerate your feet," and that's where we try to get that knockdown block and a zone block. But just accelerate your feet. You're already in a good position. And again, a couple things that we teach is the squi- shoulders stay square, inside hand is on, outside hand is off, eyes, four eyes on the linebacker.

A lot of guys teach four hands on, four eyes on the four ha- hands on the down block. I don't want the shoulders turned. So my outside hand is not on. We're big surface. I say hand. Big surface. So my, if I'm, if I'm backside of the combo, then my play side number is on his backside number. If I'm play side of the combo, then my backside number is on his play side number.

We've got that big surface. We get hippo. We keep eyes on the linebacker, and then we come off and we just accelerate the feet and we come off both ways and catch that guy. So that's just some things that we've done on that one that like We're not gonna have time to do this on every single drill.

But I just, you know, I, I think that there's, there's such nuance to these things and different ways of doing it and different ways of running the schemes. Like you said that's the things that I do a little bit different and again, offensive line quick start, I talk about some of that footwork [00:48:00] stuff.

For sure. Oops. But yeah. Whoop, there we go. We both did it at the same time. Yep. All right, I'm gonna go through one more here and then- ... Joe, and then I'll you know, we'll, we'll, we'll have to, we'll get to you and then we'll move on. We're already almost at an hour and we haven't really got to the next piece.

Yeah, it's gotten out of hand. Yeah, and then that's what happens when you start drawing, guys. Football is one of those things, I, I told him earlier, my GFAs are always way longer than 20 minutes 'cause I'm terrible at timing myself for talking ball. Last thing we like to do is our, is our gap scheme stuff, and I know that you guys have seen this and that's okay.

It's, we're all doing it, okay? These are pretend little hoop, not hoops. We build them out of PVC, right? And they're, and it's, I guess you could call it a chute, but it's just one bar thick, and it's really just to replicate where a kick happens and where a, a swab happens or a r- whatever you wanna call it There.

Yeah, whatever. Anyway, those are little shapes like this that my players are gonna run through, okay? And so we'll go out and, and sometimes we do this with everybody, sometimes we get rid of everybody except the pullers. You can, if, if you're go over, talk with Kenny Simpson's type stuff, you get into [00:49:00] pods.

Pods are great here as well, okay? 'Cause these front guys are all just down blocking, okay? We're a big gap scheme. Now, we're a gap down backer all the way. I'm not worried about a double team. My center will work all the way back to a five, I don't care. We're a GT team, and we found that that five will follow a tackle all the way to your center and allow himself to be blocked, okay?

And if not, he usually ends up so far behind that he's never making the play anyway. So down blocks are down blocks. You can work that a million ways with just line up a person across from him. Okay, but what we really wanna talk here is our pulling guys. You can do this with an H-back out of the backfield if you want.

You can set one here. Okay, but the biggest thing is when we pull and kick, we wanna make sure we're getting inside, so we're gonna set this little shoot is what I'm gonna call it. It's actually almost beyond the line of scrimmage. I want him thinking about ... I'm gonna get rid of this H-back, we're not using him right now.

Okay, I want him to think about I need to pull through the hip of the center, and I'm running into the line of scrimmage, okay, so that I can get a good kick [00:50:00] out. That's probably one of the biggest things I see in GFAs is guys that are almost logging, is the term we use, okay, is, is capturing the upfield shoulder of that defensive player instead of capturing the downfield shoulder, okay?

So they end up kind of blocking him back into the gap we're trying to create, which doesn't do any good for us. And then whoever your, your swabber is, whether if you're a power guy, you know, and you're doing the front side with an H-back, your backside, your guard or your tackle if you're reading that, that's fine, okay?

Letting that swabber understand that he's following the guard, okay, and then he's gotta turn up, and so we give him that landmark. Because what our kids, and here's where maybe this would help us be able to double team, Joe, is we get those double teams on the front side, and this is why I don't like 'em necessarily, okay?

Where I get a, a three tech here And we're gonna double that to get him out of there, right? To really drive him out, which we just said the point of gap scheme is not worried about vertical displacement, but by God, we're gonna try to post and [00:51:00] knock this, is the terminology I've heard, right? But the fact is, I'm trying to get an outside shade, I'm trying to get a guard head up on him or, or to base him up, and then I'm gonna let this tackle kick.

Huddle's not gonna play nice. There it goes, right? So we're gonna get that double. My swabbers always end up going in this gap, 'cause I got a down, I got him going to kick. My swabber goes there, and then my back ends up hitting here, so we end up with an unblocked back ruining the play. That's the whole re- That's, that's the reason I don't like double plays.

Probably just 'cause I'm a terrible coach, but I don't like it, okay? So we really need to give that that swabber a landmark of where should this occur. Yes, it's the first chance you have to trade paint with whoever finishes a down block and then get into your backer. We teach all the things, so the evolution of this, we start putting backers over here that are just working towards that gap.

You can let them shuffle, you can let them kind of pick up some speed, whatever. That way they keep their eyes At Owasso, they did the keep your shoulders square when you pull, [00:52:00] right? And, and that worked really, really well because, you know, they, they did a really cool thing too where you didn't know who was pulling on power, okay?

The, it could be the tackle's kicking out this defensive end and the guard's gonna pull, or if it's a four eye then the guard's gonna kick him out and the tackle's gonna go wrap. So they had kind of a call to, to make the play right no matter what, make it easy. So there's another way you could do this.

You just get the chutes out, get it depth so i- inside the line of scrimmage to the guard, the pulling guy has to run through the line of scrimmage, run through the offensive line to get that kick out just to get that in his head. You're gonna have to dig a guy out sometimes. And then your swabber.

Once again, I'm a big GT guy, so that's why I'm drawing it up to GT. This can work on power, this can work on buck, okay? You can, you can do buck the same way. It doesn't matter whatever your gap scheme is. You can do pin pull, right? You can get a whole bunch of stuff out here and now you know, this is my kick and this is my wrap.

It doesn't matter if you run a gap scheme, the chutes [00:53:00] is a beautiful way just to give those kids a great idea of where do these blocks really belong, and you get to work and watch it without all the chaos. If you want shoulders square on your r- on your swabber, fine. You can see that here without all the other pieces going, but he has to still get out there to that, that chute.

If you're gonna let him turn and run and just really, you know, kind of make the corner and, and NASCAR it up in there, you can see him doing that as well. But I just like it for landmarks. I think that's one thing is we, we don't explain enough to our kids, I'm gonna go ahead and close mine out here. I feel like sometimes we forget to explain the landmarks.

We talk about that spatial recognition and, and some people need a mirrored screen and some people don't, right? Like, these kids don't know where they're at. They don't, may not understand, especially getting these lower levels, they may not understand that far tackle is trying to block a guy to me, essentially.

He's trying to get a good down block. It might be a shorter path this time or a longer path Yeah, the understanding on the, on the, on the pull. The big thing that we do on the, on [00:54:00] the combo is, like you mentioned, the post and the drive we call it post and drive. By the way, swabber is a wrapper for those of you who never heard that term before, 'cause that's me.

I forget. Football terminology. Yeah, football termin- wrapper, roll the hole, whatever it is. When we combo a let's say we're comboing a three technique, the post man never tries to push him. He's literally a post and we tell him, "You're a post. You let that guy rotate around you." And we essentially get a down block, big surface down block trying to, you know, like you said, knock him over.

We just say drive him over, and I actually don't let them come off, I don't let the outside guy ever come off of that combo unless his guy disappears. So let's say he slanted inside, or if he really just blew him up and knocked him over and that guy completely, that inside guy, the post man, and completely took him over, then he can go on and find somebody.

But really the only guy that ever comes off of our gap scheme combo is the inside guy. And this is why I like it, the, in, in our gap scheme combo, [00:55:00] the inside guy is the post and that allows him to just be the post, but keep his eyes on that backside linebacker. And I've talked before, in our power scheme, the guy that ruins the play more than anybody is the backside linebacker, and so if that backside linebacker sees the pull in that gap scheme and tries to shoot first open door past the center, we're doing the same thing, blocking back with the center.

He tries to shoot that A-gap, that's where I come off and I just down block him out of there. And we just condense that hole as best we can. The only place, and I talk about it all the time, the place where we have an issue is if we run power against a 3-3 stack and that guy slants out, it causes us a problem.

Yeah. Because we will have to wrap that inside and against the 3-4, that's fine. It's no problem. We move that guy, we down block that guy. Oh, excuse me. That's the center pulling. We down block the four, we down block the nose, and the wrap goes to that front side backer and it's no problem, except that we don't necessarily have someone for the backside [00:56:00] backer.

That can be the, the only problem with it but in the three-three we've got a, we've got, you know, they're, they're too close and it just causes problems and so we don't like it as much in that situation. If you slant inside though, and so what, what we have to do is we have to game plan it. Bill Mountjoy talked about, we've, we've talked before about red side and white side.

And, and, you know, red side and white side against slanting teams means which guy usually slants inside. So you want to chart their slants. They usually slant weak, then that means that you're gonna have a red side, a reduced, a B-gap defender on the strong side most of the time, and you're gonna have a white side, a white side in other words an open B-gap on the weak side most of the time.

And so then you want to call your power to the right and your counter to the left, which is what we're doing anyway. So, that's, we tend to get a lot of weak side slant, so that works. Strong side slant opens up some other stuff. So I'll just run through real quick our base blocking drills, 'cause Daniel's done some combos and different things.

A lot of it is similar to what we do. [00:57:00] But our base blocking so we line up, and this is, this is what we do early in the season and it is what we do in pre-game. It will rarely be something that we do in our individual time after the first couple weeks of camp. And so we line up, we s- just spread out, partner up, okay?

And everybody has a defensive lineman across from them. And we will all do the same drill, but for those of you watching on the YouTubes I will do one for each drill. So, and in fact I shouldn't have drawn all the defensive linemen up. So the first thing I'll say is, "Okay defensive linemen shade to the right."

And so they will line up in a shade to the right, and since we very rarely are in a true base block, I don't drill base block in our pregame, but we will do it in we will do it some in, in preseason. But so our, our... You know, if we did that, I would say shade to the left, base block left, and just because we don't have anything that does that.

So what I'll say is they'll, they'll line up, I'll say, "Shade to the right," and then I'll [00:58:00] just say, "22." Okay? 22 is our zone right. And so everybody is taking backside number to playside number, and we're focusing on those first two steps. It's pro wrestling, make it look good. Defensive lineman should move and not just stand there and we're gonna get to him.

So we're gonna run our zone right, and then we'll go shade to the left, and we'll zone, we'll... I'll say, "23," and they'll run zone left. Then I'll say, "Gap to the right," and so they'll get a wider alignment, and I s- we'll say, "26." Now he's gonna take his flat steps to get his reach block, and it's basically a three s- three-step pull to the right, and then we are going to Velcro on him and flip the hips because it's a solo block.

This is really, you know, this is not combo, this is just base reach block stuff. Yeah, yeah. And so we're gonna do our zone block, we're gonna do our base block, then we're gonna go and we're gonna do our down block. So when they do a down block I will say, "All right down block down block right."

Well, ac- actually what I'll say is... I don't know how to draw this. I'll do my best that I can. I will say, "Face the field house," or, "Face our sidelines," or, "Face the stan-" you know, [00:59:00] whatever it is. So they will have a guy lined up on their ear hole. Okay? On their ear hole. So I'll tell the defensive lineman to stand there.

A lot of times when we drill this early in the season, we do it with a pad. And we'll say, "Face the field house." Field house is to our left, so we turn and we face the field house. And then we'll say, "Down block right." And so all we do on a down block is, again, the technique is up to you and how you do it.

I stopped teaching to get the head in front because we had concussion issues. So what I do is I tell them to take the near shoulder to the near hip. Now of course, with our down blockers, they're just standing there because they're getting ready to take on the block. I'm not actually gonna drill them in the side of the hip.

But when we actually bird walk it, which we will take the near shoulder to the near hip. He is gonna step flat, and we tell him it's a flat back sprint. So it's a f- flat step with that first foot, straight like you're pulling, flat down the line of scrimmage, and then it's a flat back sprint. He's going to take that near shoulder to near hip so that his head, and then I'm gonna take the shoulder and I'm gonna take the chicken wing with the shoulder, and I'm gonna make a V between my helmet, my neck, [01:00:00] and my shoulder, and I'm gonna try to just hook his hip and just keep that...

But all you gotta do is just place him. And so we'll go down block right, down block right. Set, go, and he's gonna down block him to the right, and then we'll turn around, face the stands. Down block left, and we'll do that. So we've got a zone block, we've got a base block, we've got a, we've got a reach block, we've got a down block.

That's the basics of what we do on the, On the pregame, everybody goes, they get a down block right, down or zone block right, zone block left, reach block left, reach block right, down block left, down block right, flip it. Everybody gets, gets... That's our pregame, okay? That's, that's, that's basically our, our pregame drill.

Then for the, for the passing game we work, and I don't do this pregame, but for the passing game, we work on our initial footwork, first two steps. Now, for the run game, we use our bird walk drill mostly. For the passing game, I just use this footwork drill because I think that we can win it mostly by the first two steps.

So the first thing I have them do is I have them get in that stance, and we just, we just get pass pro demeanor. Okay, pass pro demeanor is they just take that outside foot and, and, and slide it [01:01:00] out to a little bit wider base, butt down, chest up, chin back. And so we'll get in our stance, we'll say, "Set, go," and I just wanna see them snap into that butt down, chest up, chin back position, okay?

And that's, that's all I want from them. And so that's like the first part of the drill. And then we start teaching them footwork. We say, "Okay, if you have a an outside shade," and I teach it all the time. We use the same words with the offensive line. "What's the fastest path to the quarterback? Inside.

What's the fastest path to the quarterback? Inside. Where do you protect? Inside." We wanna get our outside number to the guy that we are responsible for's inside number. We use zone count system in all of our pass pro, okay? Half slide, full slide. We use zone count system. And so, say, "All right, if the quarterback if the ball is to our right, we've got an outside shade, a shade to our left," okay?

Th- th- in this case, the d- the, the defensive guys don't do anything, okay? When we're teach- teaching this. And so we'll say, "Okay, if I've got an outside shade, what do I do?" We say, "Pick up, put down." That's just to drop into that pass pro demeanor. Pick up, put down, boom. I'm but- [01:02:00] butt down, chest up, chin back.

I'm in position. My outside number is on his inside number. No reason to overplay it. Just butt down, chest up, chin back, and then I'm there. And now my feet are ready. I always teach them to keep tilt that inside shoulder just a little bit, keep a little more weight on that in- inside foot because the fastest path to is to the inside.

We wanna be strong inside foot. Then we move him to a head up position Say, okay, if he's head up, where do I have to get to? I gotta get outside number to inside number. Okay, so what footwork am I gonna use? We only have two, two styles of footwork. Okay? A post is to s- to post down with the inside foot.

And so on set go, I'm gonna post down with the inside foot. That's just gonna move my ... That's gonna move me down so that now my inside number, my outside number is on his inside number when he's head up. Now, the next phase of that drill is we, we go to the next step. So I will drill just that first step for a while, but then we will actually have a separate drill when we're playing the 33 stacks and the three-fours that are slanting, where I, I post and then I [01:03:00] react to his first step.

So if he continues, if he slanted inside, I'm gonna keep posting. I'm gonna post, post, k- keep working on the inside. If he slants outside, I'm gonna post, then I'm gonna kick. And a kick is the outside foot stepping back stepping, ... Th- We have an A kick, a B kick, and a C kick. An A kick is just slightly back, a B kick is a 45-degree angle, and a C kick is our speed rusher straight back, out wide nine type of thing.

Most of the A kick ... The A kick and the B kick are almost entirely on the line of scrimmage or just slightly off. The C kick is getting depth. Okay, so we worked that footwork and we go, "Okay, now you got an inside shade." All right, if we got an inside shade, what's the footwork And they're all there and I make them say this, I make them use these words all the time.

I got an inside shade. What's my footwork? Post, post. I gotta get all the way down. That's the toughest block we have. The quarterback needs to know if I got a two I, he should flip the protection because that's a hard block. Yeah, just let the center handle it. Right? We want the center blocking that, not the guard.

That's right. And [01:04:00] if he wants that, if he, if he wants to live, that's his job. Come with me if you want to live. And, and a lot of times the guard will turn around and be like, "Hey, that's gonna be hard." But they got... That's the one thing the quarterback has to know, has to know in our protection, is that two I is a problem.

The guard needs to know it, the center needs to know it. They all need to be saying, "We got a two I." You know, let's flip it. Or a one as well, so it... And a shade, whatever. We don't, we very rarely have to protect a shade, but we will flip that as well. Anybody standing in the, in the place call side A gap, we have to flip it.

We want that, that one or that two I to be on the backside of our protection. But that's all in our scheme, pistol power offense. I went off on the pass protection scheme in our pistol power offense system. It is in-depth. And then we, then we go into, you know, okay, if you've got a gap, what do you have to do?

Well, now we're gonna B kick. Okay, if I've got a, if I've got a wide potential speed rusher, I've got a C kick. And we'll do the same thing. We'll put them on a line and C... Sometimes we just, we don't- sometimes we work a C kick drill, but it is really just learning to be in that pass pro demeanor, so where they're just [01:05:00] staying in that, that position and kick, kick, kick, kick all the way down the line.

It also sucks sprints or quads. So it's kinda like that'll, that'll... Sometimes I'll just take them away from a rusher- Oh, interesting ... and be like, "Just kick down the line." And the guys will be like, like they're not doing, they're not doing gassers running back and forth across the field. They're gonna kick down the line.

It'll take them just as long, it will suck way more but it'll be way more beneficial to them than than anything else. Everything is building. So I mean, that's just our really, really simple pass, pass pro and, and run blocking drills, the 101 stuff. That's where we start. And then I, I guess, I think we've talked about in other episodes, but the birdwalk drill that I got from Lou Johnson, I've been talking to, to k- Lou sent me a text the other day and it's, you know, I w- I wanna have Lou Johnson on the podcast soon.

But it is literally, it's bird dog, birdwalk, whatever you wanna call it, is we are, we are walking through the block, but it is beautiful. It is And if, we've talked about it in other places. I would spend more time in that than I would in anything else, and I'll just shorten the last part of this because we [01:06:00] don't, we just don't have time.

When you go to birdwalk, so I mentioned, you know- I'm talking and I'm communicating and I'm, and I wanna hear them tell me what's the fast path to the quarterback, what's the footwork, all of these things. They don't say it during a game, but I wanna hear them talk back to me. I ask the, I ask the offensive lineman the same questions over and over and over again.

Okay? Aiming point. All right, we're zoning right, what's your aiming point? Backside number, play side number. They need to be able to recite that to me all day long. Okay? When we do our combos, we talk about up and down. We don't do covered, uncovered. We talk about up and down. A lot of guys get into the d- I used to do all this.

I used to go the 90, 50, 10. Okay, if he's in, if he's in my, if he's in my zone, 90% of the time he's gonna be mine. If he's head up, 50% of the time he's gonna be mine. If he's backside of my zone, 10% of the time he's gonna be mine They don't like numbers that much, okay? They, then we would covered, uncovered, and w- well, is he covered if he's here or if he's

No, we count it. We go zero, one, two, three. If I'm the guard and my one is on the line of scrimmage, he is down. Usually he has his hand down, right? If my if we count it and [01:07:00] my my one is standing up because he's a linebacker off the ball, he's up. Usually he's standing up, right? So we just call it up or down.

Right. Okay? Now if you have a walk up who's standing up, he's still down, right? But that, we- they learn it pretty quick. It's up or down. So, and if, if my guy is down, I am blocking him. If my guy is up, I tell the guy next to me that I'm comboing with him, and if I'm a center, I combo to the right, it's a ram.

If I combo to the left, it's a lion, 'cause I only combo with the guard. If I'm ... That's the only call the s- the center has to make. If I'm the guard and my guy is up, then if I'm going to the right, I'm comboing to the right, I make a bear call with the tackle. If I'm comboing, if the play is going to the left, then I make a lion call, or I make a ram call, sorry, 'cause I'm the right guard.

That's, you know, the ram is the center and the right guard. So they have just a few calls that they have to make, and then of course we'll go to all those. But when we bird walk I make them make all those calls. When we scrimmage, when we run half line, when we run team run, [01:08:00] when we run anything, they are talking all the time.

When I get your film and game film analysis and you ask me to look at your offensive line and I don't see them talking and pointing and communicating before the snap ... Talked to a coach today who was like, who was like, "Yeah, our guys are just not executing the offensive line. They don't know to block.

They don't know how to execute it." I said, "Are they talking? Are they, you know, giving them time to talk up there?" He's like, "Oh, we were, we were doing like a sugar hole and trying to go fast." It's like, "No." Right. Mm-mm. Communication, especially with young guys. Young guys. And I understand the tempo thing. I love it, but no, I, I huddle and I take go slow not because I wanna take the air out of the ball and slow the game down, it's because I want my offensive lineman to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, and communication is more important than absolutely anything.

So when you run your drills, when you do your bird walk drill, which is in the Pistol Power offense system, we go in depth on it, you have film and everything. When you go to your team groups, when you go to anything, communication, communication, communication [01:09:00] is everything. If you, if you will, if you will build your o- if you will advocate for your offensive line, if you will build the offensive playbook around your offensive lineman and not the other way around, if you will focus on the first two steps in all of your blocks, fix the timing of your offense so that they stay engaged in the block for the shortest, shortest, shortest amount of time, and you will get your offensive line communicating.

We all know our offensive lines all have one, two, one or two guys who get it and two or three guys who don't get it. So we need the guys who get it to be talking to the guys who don't get it all the time. I had an H-back who was the one who got ... I had a left tackle who got it and an H-back who got it. I would put the H-back in hand motion every single play because he had to run across the offensive line and tell everybody...

Like, it was when we came into this program a few years ago, I had one offensive lineman who had started. The other four were all seniors that had graduated, and I think almost all of them, they were all good enough to play college. They graduated, okay? They were all like division III, division II but they all graduated.

The team had no JV program, so I had four offensive linemen who had [01:10:00] never played a snap since middle school on the offensive line, okay? The H-back was a senior. He understood the offense. He wanted to win. He would go across the line and tell every single one of them who they were blocking, and I would just put him in hand motion because it's better that.

And he's pointing and nobody cares. Defensive linemen are dumb. If you do those things, okay? Do, do those things. Advocate for your offensive linemen. Timing is everything. Build your offense around them. Focus on the first two steps. Communicate, communicate, communicate, communicate, communicate. You will have a decent offensive line even if they're undersized, even if they're dumb as rocks, okay?

Those are the things that you've gotta do. That's offensive line play. It's not chutes, it's not sleds, it's not boards. Cut all that crap out. Stop wasting your time. Or keep wasting your time and, you know, you get what you get I love it. Way to really finalize those last two points too. Got them in there.

Yeah, got them all. First two steps and communicate. Yep. All right I think that's it, man. I [01:11:00] think we kinda checked all the boxes tonight, guys. The, with a little... Like, tonight was kinda cool getting to see both, both drawings and how we both do things a little different and, and where they, they come from if you're a zone scheme guy, if you're a gap scheme guy.

And, and we go back to that first point, you have to drill the blocks that you need. Do not take the combo blocks and put a pad between their hips if all you're ever gonna do is down block. Yeah, if you don't combo, who cares? Don't do it. Don't waste your time. It's not a skill you need. Maybe it's a wrinkle later and you can start working things later, but don't, don't waste that foundational install time with crap you're not gonna use, okay?

How many, how many youth football coaches you've- you may have seen this in practice. How many youth football coaches have you seen do the one-on-one drills even though they don't throw the ball or ever pass that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you'd have, right? Because it's, that- that's when you Google- 'Cause-

football drills for O line- It's in the camps ... the first thing you get is- It should be on TV Yeah. It's combine or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. We don't- It's no ... we don't throw. And, and, and look, I've seen our guys do it, right? They want- They're like, I show up and they're, and they're running one-on-ones, and you don't...

Because you [01:12:00] don't think about as an offen- it- in their defense, they were thinking the offensive line needs to worry about a slanting defensive tackle. He needs to be able to get over there. But it's just, without that other reference, that, that other body there- Right. Yeah ... it, it does change things. So yeah, man, like it, we understand that, and that's why we wanna draw a few things up for you tonight.

These are very foundational. They can evolve. I gave you a few evolutions. Joe gave you a few evolutions. They should eventually evolve to, like, look like what your offense looks like all the time, right? So, so don't get caught in just having one drill. Don't get caught in TikTok drills. Like, but, but drill the things you need to drill.

Get the first two steps to communicate. And you do not need a sled. Your offensive line is not bad because you don't have a sled. I've heard that one so many times. "Our offensive line isn't very good, and we just don't have a sled." Not one time did either of us say anything- You want mine? ... about a sled tonight.

As we're getting outta here, man, you know, the, once... Remember, guys, once the season starts, the weeks have a way of kinda flying by, ticking off there really quick. Friday night becomes Saturday film. Saturday becomes game planning on Sundays, and before [01:13:00] you know it, you're back under the lights on Friday nights again.

That's why conversations like these matter. Sometimes you just need a new idea. Sometimes you need to rethink an old one. Sometimes you need to just hear another coach clarify or, or, or confirm what you've been thinking all along. And that's what these podcasts are so good for. So if today's episode did any of that for you, send it to somebody on your staff or another coach you respect.

Let's help each other get a little bit better before you get into that second game, or third game, or maybe you're going into district play right now. So, good time. Tonight we talked about- Traditional first week in Virginia, which we have completely gone away from, but some teams are still getting ready to play week one.

We're playing week zero in Oklahoma, so yeah, ours would, ours would actually, week one would be next week. Well, this will be the, this will be September 4th. There you go. Yeah. That is technically week one in Virginia, but almost everybody's playing a zero week so they can get a bye, I believe. Gotcha.

Yeah, 'cause the byes are valuable, right? Yeah. Tonight we talked about offensive line drills. We talked drilling the blocks you need, focus on the first two steps and drilling communication. We got all that in there at some point. Last week, we talked about group passing drills. Next week we're [01:14:00] on to defending the flex bones.

We'll get back into a more full scheme type episode. We've been away from those for, for just a little bit. Let's jump to our level up. Joe, you're first. Backwards to me, but it's the right direction for y'all. It, it's k- kind of funny. It's, it's kind of along the lines of some of the other ones that I've done lately.

This didn't blow me away, and it took me... You can probably read this in a sitting. It's called Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon who is an artist, an actual artist I think or a writer or something. I forget. You know, the idea of steal like an artist you know, the idea is a lot of what we do, borrowing from other people, not trying to invent all those kinds of things.

It's not plagiarism or anything like that. But it's 10 things nobody told you about being creative, and I love this for our football coaches. Now a lot of it is like one-liners. I mean, it's... First of all, it's... Here's the funny thing about this book. I would love to take this book. I might have to get like a second copy even though I don't care about it because it, it's very [01:15:00] nice on the inside.

Like, it's very, very cool looking. It's almost like a mini coffee table book. It's not very big. It's just, it's just a little square, you know, six inch on each side square. And but it's very nice looking, so I didn't highlight it up and ta- you know. But there's just a lot of I have a few little one-liners, and I've used a couple in emails that are from there that I really liked.

What I liked about it from a football coach standpoint is the idea that the, the creativity. We get so many coaches who come in, and a lot, some of them are new and some of them are not. We get coaches who want to invent create your playbook and that is a very bad idea, and we've talked about that before.

I will go as far as to say that it is coaching malpractice to use the players who have a very, very, very short window to play. If you're a high school coach, you've got a senior who's never going to play this game again, and you're out there experimenting with your new system, your new playbook that you're building.

Steal. [01:16:00] I say steal. Please don't steal my stuff. You can. I mean, you can probably do a trial somewhere. You can probably... but, you know, I'm not saying to go and steal my stuff or steal Kenny's stuff or steal anybody's stuff. What I'm saying is... And don't download the free stuff because most of it's not fleshed out.

What I'm saying is get a system from someone who's done it. Who's... Or if you know somebody, you don't have to pay for it. And if you know somebody who's run a system, go and sit in their office. Go meet them. Go talk to them. Learn it from them. I mean, B- Bill learned everything by just driving up 95 to the, to the Redskins facility and, and probably harassing Joe Gibbs and Joe Bugel and, and all those guys and, you know, until he learned it all.

And that's what, that's a big part of what became the Pistol Power offense, what was Bill's East Coast offense is, is, is, you, you know, just learning from those guys puts a lot of work into it. Now, if you don't have the opportunity to drive up and down 95 every day to harass the now commander staff, then I got something for you that could save you on gas, 'cause it'll cost you more [01:17:00] than in gas to do that now.

When available in, you know, at that time, the early '80s. But take the things that have already been done and learn from those. And, and I like this, this was a... Dan Sullivan had a quote that, that was along the same lines, but it's, it's, it's the last- the name of the last chapter is Creativity is Subtraction, but Dan Sullivan had a quote that was, "Creativity is connection, and it is not coming up with new things.

It is, it is combining existing things." And so that, I love that idea. But then the, the last chapter of, of Steal Like an Artist is Creativity is Subtraction, and I think that's a lot of what we do at JDFB is how can... And, and we talked about it already. How can I take two blocking schemes, cut out everything else, and make an entire offense out of it?

How can I do more with less? How can I... That's creativity. And again, you know, that's I love the message there. It's not a life-changing book. It's got some good one-liners. Some guys, some people really, really like it. It might [01:18:00] be a, a life-changing book for you, and if you don't like to read, it might be perfect for you.

This is one of those, like, leave it on the back of the toilet type books, 'cause it's, it's real little short chapters, real little sh- you, you're not gonna, you're not gonna run out of time, right? You, you can finish it finish a section. So maybe you might be able to finish the book. I don't know. Some of you guys eat different.

It depends on your diet. But the but it's a good book, Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon. And it's a good look at, you know, it does apply to football coaching, I think, in, in just building play- you know, thinking about putting together your playbook, putting together your practice plans, putting together the things that are important.

So it took me forever to read because, again, I just, I would, I would read a little bit, and you can read a little bit and put it, you can just pick it up and flip to a chapter and read it. But I just kinda fell off of it, and I just picked it up and finished it the other day basically. I like it. I'll have to pick it up and, and check it out.

My level up is is kind of a funny one. It's different. It's, it's off, off the target for football, but as a [01:19:00] coach any of you guys can do this, and it really is gonna save you time in life, therefore it saves you time for your family We obviously are fans of AI, Joe and I are. We both use it. We use it in business.

I use it in my personal life. I had a conversation with mine on the way home about politics and tried to make it guess my leanings, because it has hours of me talking to it now, and it couldn't. It was like, "You seem to be very Not ride the fence, but you stand on a few convictions, and you understand people's point of view from the other side."

So that was kinda cool to hear, 'cause that's how I try to live my life is, is being very open to hearing people out. Anyway, so we use AI a lot. So my family buys between a quarter or a half of beef just about every year. Some years we buy two quarters in different times, but anyway. We, we do different stuff.

We, we buy beef locally because it's cheaper, it's better. We're very worried about dyes, and we're worried about what's getting put in our food, and this is the best way we can do it. And we know the people at the butcher shop, so we like to support them as well. [01:20:00] So it lets us just support multiple people around, and at the end of the day, it's so much cheaper than buying Walmart beef, it's ridiculous.

So when you meet people that say it's so expensive, Jesus Christ, add it up. However, what I've ended up with was three freezers full of various cuts of meats from different years. Oh, and I'm a hunter, so I kill, kill one or two deer a year. So I got all this meat in the freezers, and I don't really know what's out there.

And so, like, if it's beef, yeah, we'll be like, "Hey, hand out some, you know, hang out some hamburger," or whatever. It's steaks, that's pretty easy, but I forget about all the auxiliary cuts of meats, the, the roasts, the- Yeah ... you know. Anyway tri-tips, the tongue, the heart, the... You know, all that stuff. I kinda forget what's out there.

So I took my AI and I said, "Let's do a running inventory." And I went out and emptied my freezers. It's 105, so I had to put it in ice chest while I counted it down, but I gave it to my AI what the cut was, how many, and by year, and then [01:21:00] told it, "Help me organize this so that I use things the most efficiently."

And it Not things that I wouldn't have done, but by God I wasn't doing it. So once again, I, I, this is where people, "Well, you're, you're not using your brain," or, "Humans can do that too." Yes, you can, but are you? Right. Because I was not. So now my s- my beef is stacked there by certain cuts, by certain years, in columns in my chest freezer.

My standup is better organized, and I know exactly what's in there. And we have two chest freezers. The other one I just gave my wife. She's doing the breast milk thing because we're... You know, we got a baby that has now started daycare, and we gotta have those bags of milk. And so she basically has a giant chest freezer of, of that with some view vegetables.

But the meat is by age, and so now I tell it in the, you know, "Hey, make me a schedule for the week." I never thought of that for- A menu ... our kid was on formula, I never thought of that. Yeah. Make me a menu of this, for this week. Keep it mixed up among cuts of meats that I have. I can go purchase chicken or [01:22:00] pork if I need to, and then make sure we're, you know, it makes sure I'm using the old stuff first.

It'll tell me what freezer it's in, where it's at, what day I should thaw it out. And then it immediately goes into a recipe. And so that got me thinking. So then I inventoried my entire pantry and reorganized it. So now my AI knows what's in my pantry, what's in my freezers, and it does all of it. Like, I tell it, "Hey, I want..."

You know, maybe you want something special tonight. I made ceviche a couple weeks ago. I'm currently back on carnivore, so that's what really got me into this, is like, I wanna know what's out there. So you can read the entire book in one sitting. Yeah, right. Well, I was g- I was actually gonna make a joke about that because you talk about it depends what your diet is, but my eight-year-old takes 45 minutes to, to go number two.

Oh, my four-year-old- My four-year-old takes 32 seconds. Oh. He is in. Before the door is closed, he's done. Like, it is- My four-year-old is more like your eight-year-old ... it's night and day difference. And they eat basically the same diet. Now he, now he's learned to, like, grab a book or grab a tablet. Anyway, so I put my A- AI together.

It, it's helping the [01:23:00] family. It's gonna help us save money. I can just go to Walmart and, "Hey, what do we need?" I don't have to say it anymore. "Hey, AI, what do I need?" It knows, and it's like, either I told it, "I'm getting low, put that on," or, "I wanna add this," or it's like, "Hey, you put a threshold of five of these items before it's on the list.

Now it's on the list." It has revolutionized my pitiful little kitchen in there. It's great. Yeah. I even inventoried what pots and pans I have and accessories that I have so it can make recipes based on it, but it tells me, "Get out your 12-inch cast iron. You need the Instant Pot. You need the grinder." You know, whatever.

I don't... It, it's just taken so much mental load off of me, and I, I can just go have fun. And I'm learning new ways to cook. It's taught me some things, so try new things with AI, guys. That's my level up. Inventoried- I did ... my entire house. I did. So when the robots come, they know exactly how much beef I have.

They can just wait me out. They can starve my whole family out. Or cut the power and my beef thaws out anyway. So many things that it can do [01:24:00] that you know, so many, like, there's so many very helpful things that you can get from AI, and I understand all of the fears and the concerns, and I understand all of the pushback against like, like in, in, in, in my actual job, not football coaching which is the marketing of the business and, and like that's a lot of what I do is the marketing and the I'm s- the one job that I still hold outside of being Joe Daniel and Joe Daniel Football and being the person who oversees everything, the one job that I do is the copywriting.

And there's a big thing that, you know, oh, it can write copy like this and that. It's like No, it can't. It can write copy like an idiot, like the worst copywriter in the world. But like, the things that actually are gonna be successful are still going to be human, and it can help with some of that stuff.

But you can't just be like, "Write me a sales page for toothpaste." And it's like, it'll write one. You won't sell nothing. You [01:25:00] know, that's- just to- ... that's the thing. It has its limits. To quell all your fears about whether your AI running your beef is gonna start the uprising of robots, Russia was caught today using AI pilots in their drones.

So they're not even controlling who the drones kill anymore. So guys, it's over. It doesn't matter. Either they're- Yeah, that- ... gonna have power or they're not. You're not changing it at this point. War is naturally gonna evolve it, and if the robots are gonna take over, you're not stopping it now, so. It is definitely very quickly fallen into the marketers ruin everything, and also the military ruins everything, so.

You're welcome. Like, any technology that you come up with, marketers are gonna ruin it, and the military's gonna weaponize it, and that's just- That's what it is ... just gonna happen. There we go. Like, that we get great things out of these, but also it's gonna be a weapon and it's gonna be really annoying. Yep All right, guys, let's Joe, let's get out of here, man.

Pay the bills. Look, go to JoeDanielfootball.com. What's, what's the thing that's [01:26:00] running right now? What if they go over there? It's, so we are the, the, again, the big thing, check out the Offensive Line Quickstart Guide. Go to OL Quickstart. JoeDanielfootball.com/olquickstart or go to our guides section.

A lot of things we talked about you're gonna see in there. That's really the focus. You wanna see that all expanded out and how you can use it and how you can apply it to your program. Free video series, you get a new video every two days. So you, the first one you get instant access to. You should just be able to, you know, implement the first one, then you'll get the second one, you'll be ready to implement that one.

And then, you know, if you start it on, on, you know, Sunday or Monday, and it, it'll impact your entire program on Friday. But we are opening up now for the month of September, basically for the entire month of September, we're gonna have a special offer on Game Film Masterclass. I'll mention it in our emails.

I'll be talking about it in, you know, with, with some different things. But Game Film Masterclass is gonna be opening up. You'll be able to go to JoeDanielfootball.com/gfmc for Game Film Masterclass. It is the step-by-step process for breaking down your game film, offense, defense, special teams. We have special teams, all, all six phases of special teams how [01:27:00] to prepare, how to plan for it, how to, how to break down your opponent, offense, offensive, you know, exchange film that you get from your opponent, defensive exchange film from your opponent.

But also most importantly, that I think is more important and more overlooked than anything, your self scout and how you break down your self scout, how you find that focus, how you find those leverage that you're going to pull. All of this in your Game Film Masterclass is going to go into building your game plan, and it's going to go into building your practice plans.

So, and it is, it is full, you know, video courses on how to use each piece, but also step-by-step workflows that if you don't have time to watch all the videos, you can go and start using those workflows right now in season for your next game and have all that information. It is the most important thing about Game Film Masterclass is that you have a start and a finish to your game planning.

And for me, it starts Friday night when I get home from the game. It's over Sunday night Before the first practice, before Monday. Got, got all my work done on Sunday. I don't work on Saturdays. Remember that? I do my self-scout on [01:28:00] Friday night after the game 'cause I'm hyped up and I can't go to sleep.

Saturday, no work, family. Sunday, get the work done, meet with the staff, make some adjustments to whatever I did, imp- you know, take all the, the input from the staff as a coordinator, finalize it, done. Done. No more, not, not watching film for little tricks. There's... You might watch, look for a little specific thing here and there, but your, your main work is done.

Love it. It's excellent. There you go. I, I still think the, the Platinum and getting the game film analysis has gotta be the best bang for your buck in, in Joe Daniel Football. So if you aren't part of that yet, go do that. And if you're paying for it and not using it, use it. We like film. Yep. We like watching film.

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If you see Platinum Perks, you're a Platinum member. Click on Platinum Perks, fill out that form on the game film analysis, and then send your one-way exchange in Hudl or Quick Cut. Too easy. Social media, I am @CoachChamboOK on Twitter/X. Not on there a lot anymore, but you can email me at chamberlainfootballconsulting@gmail.com.

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