JOE DANIEL / NOVEMBER 13, 2025
How to Adjust to Shifts and Motions | FBCP S19E15
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
How to Adjust to Shifts and Motions
JOE DANIEL / NOVEMBER 13, 2025
How to Adjust to Shifts and Motions | FBCP S19E15
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
How to Adjust to Shifts and Motions
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
We Cant Stop Dual-Threat QBs
The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel
We Cant Stop Dual-Threat QBs
Shifts and motions are a great tool for offenses to use, but that doesn’t mean they have to leave you stumped on the defensive side. You need to have adjustments ready for your kids to use when the offense starts moving around.
In this episode Joe and Daniel discuss the keys to keeping a shifts and motions in check by using a complete defensive system, installing your adjustments early in the season, and Drilling players on adjustment communication.
Complete Defensive System
- The base response needs to be cooked into your system from Day 1
- The pillars or fundamentals of your system should have the answers here
Install Your Adjustments
- Day 1 installs should cover your adjustments to base motions. For more complex or multiple shifts/motions, you can get deeper into the details later in the install
- When you are good enough at your base calls, you can "do what we do".
- Adjustments are baked in, so you can control the mental chaos.
Drill Players on Adjustment Communication
- How many times are you going to check?
- Work your communication with your 2-deep roster, and then some. You need to make sure someone knows how, when, what to check to.
- Situational adjustments (Red Zone)
- Multiple shift, see the field.
Related Links
- Listen to "How to Coach Your Team to Handle Adversity" from The Football Coaching Podcast Season 19, Episode 11.
- Coaching the Fundamentals of Cover 3
- Our Tackling is Inconsistent
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