[00:00:00] Welcome back, coaches. This is the Football Coaching Podcast. I'm Daniel Chamberlain, co-host. Here with Joe Daniel as always. What's up, coach? Dude, it's so football season. It's very football season. I know that as we're r- as we're recording, I'm gonna say we were one... I got invited back to help with the Bristow Purple Pirates, which is an amazing thing for me.

I've been all smiles since then. But, We've only got one game, by the time this comes out we'll have played two games. And yeah. We have one second added back for Michigan. OU got a blowout. I don't know what Georgia did this... i'm sure they- Blowout ... destroyed someone. Yeah. Turned it to eight. The SEC is 16 and 0 in week one.

Really, I mean, didn't play anybody, but yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's- Fine ... I mean, it's hard to argue, like, I know people will say, like, you know, and obviously there are some bigger games coming up. Obviously Texas has the big one. Oh yeah, we're at Michigan this week, OU is. Yeah. Texas has got, uh- in our defense-

somebody ... a lot of our, a lot of our games that were [00:01:00] supposed to be scheduled for this time were against, like Oklahoma. Right. And then they came to the conference, and it's like, well- Right ... let's go find someone else. Yeah. This is that cycle where- Yeah ... where it was, uh, I think Texas had an Alabama match up, or was that OU- that had to cancel there? Something like that. I can't remember. Yeah. I can remember. And I know we had a Georgia match up. Yeah. Home and home that we had to get canceled. Yeah. So. And, I mean, we're getting it anyway, at least, you know? Yeah. So, and it's hard to bl- I mean, like, even with that, like, obviously we have some match-ups next week with SEC, but when you start having to play nine SEC schools on your schedule, and really any of these conferences, the, the bigger conferences, where now, you know, if you're playing nine conference games, it's kinda hard to, you know, go and schedule a, you know, a Texas or a, you know, or it's, or an Okl- Ohio State.

Like, it's kinda hard to do that. Yeah. And then you have situations where, like, LSU did that, and Clemson's just not that good. Like- Yeah ... that's nothing that, you know- But Texas Ohio State went last year, [00:02:00] and they're, they played, that's who they play this we- I couldn't remember. That's who it is.

Yeah, that's who it is. Yeah. That's Texas game this weekend, which will have already been played by the time you're listening to this. Yeah. I have no idea. Probably Ohio State wins again, but you know, Texas threw such a fit about it. I imagine we see that go away as well 'cause- ... now all they have to do is beat a terrible Florida team and they get in the playoff.

They lost to Florida, and then all of a sudden it's a, you know, a good loss and a bad lo- But- Yeah ... if you, it's, yeah, like you said. And I used to think, like, there's a lot of bias that is kinda BS with these SEC and Big 10 and all, but Rutgers just got that rear tore up on opening weekend by UMass? UMass.

The worst team in the freaking league? So anyway, SEC's undefeated. I'm here for it. Enough about that. Let's talk about some of our stuff. Uh, tonight we are talking practice team sessions, so those periods where you're working 11 on 11 or whatever variation of that you have. We understand not everybody can do that.

Pla- planning, I put play, planning your [00:03:00] team sessions, typos happen, guys, getting more from your team periods, and then simulating your opponent are our three big topics tonight. Last week we talked about defending the flexbone offense. If you're, once again, get in your base stuff and run it. But go back and listen to that, that if you're gonna face a flexbone offense or you just wanna see how does this defense, how does the JDFB football system, uh, how do the defenses hold up against all these antiquated or old school offenses, it's there.

Uh, next week we're onto safety drills, so that will be another really good one as we continue kind of that part of the series with the positional drills. So if you're a safeties coach, next week is your week. As of right now, we're like two or three games into the season. I'm checking the forecast, Joe.

Weather Thursday, this is, we're recording on Tuesday. On Thursday- ... we get rain. We go from 102 to 84, and then we don't break 92 again. Nice. I'm so excited. Like, fall is upon us. A lot of coaches are having to right now schedule early in the morning. Some of our guys locally, because the new wet bulb rule, they're having to [00:04:00] go at fi- 5:30 or whatever in morning, so I'm glad those guys will be able to get back to a normal time, 'cause listen, showing up e- early, it sucks, right?

But I'm an army guy. I can be there early. Uh, luckily I don't have to be, 'cause I still hate it. But that, how do you condition yourself to practice three days a week at 5:30 and play a game at 7:30 at night, or 7 o'clock at night? Yeah. So, anyway, we're kind of figuring out what kind of football teams we have.

So hopefully coaches, uh, you know, with football being back, you're kind of figuring out who you are as a team and what's working and what ain't. If the podcast is helping you through that process, any of the stuff we've done, organizing practice, t- uh, different position drills, please do go out and share those with other coaches, kind of help them figure things out too.

Maybe not your arch nemesis. Maybe share a different podcast with them, one that's not as good, uh, but with your friend who's in a different class, send the podcast to them. Let's pay the bills, Joe, and we'll move on. Yeah, I'll just mention real quick the you know, with the podcast, if you listen to a topic and you want to get, you know, more in-depth on it, do go over to the website.

[00:05:00] So like this podcast will be joedanielfootball.com. If you go to joedanielfootball.com/podcast, you'll see all the podcasts there. But if you go over to the website for this one, if you feel like you, you want more on that, you know, practice planning and team sessions jump over to the website, go to joedanielfootball.com/teampractice.

No spaces, no hyphens, no anything, just team prac, T-E-A-M, practice. And we've updated the way that we do our podcast show notes and everything, so you'll have the timestamps there. And they'll also should be in your description on your stuff as well. But you'll have the timestamps, and you're also gonna have the YouTube video.

If you aren't watching it on YouTube, the YouTube video will be there as well. But also we've added a kind of roadmap for other resources that we have put out in the past, so other podcast episodes, other articles so that you can kind of just go to that page and go through kind of a next steps to learn more about this podcast rather than having to maybe, you know, search through, uh, old episodes and just hope you find what you're looking for.

So we've done some of the lifting there for you. And again, this episode will be at [00:06:00] joedanielfootball.com/teampractice. Also while you're over there, if you go to joedanielfootball.com/practice, you can download the free practice plan templates. I know you guys are, you know, a couple of weeks into the, or, uh, several weeks into the season.

One of the things that I always find here is we started the season with a lot of intention on being really good with our practice planning, being really, you know, nailing down our practice planning, and maybe that's starting to fall apart. Maybe you're not following them. Maybe you're not making them every single day.

Uh, be sure to listen to the episodes that we've talked about practice planning here this season. We've got a playlist on YouTube of the past practice planning article or, uh, podcast as well. But a lot of times coaches don't have anything to work with and you're like you're trying to make your own template and it's not working out, or you started out with something that looked cool And as you get to this part of the year, we're busy, you're, maybe you're teaching now it's a little bit harder to get all this stuff done, and your [00:07:00] kids are back in school.

Like, everything's just busier now, and you don't have time to do this really complex practice planning. We've got the shells, we've got the, the, the layout for you, and what I've found to be a sustainable practice plan, which is every single week we're using the same template, plugging the things in.

A lot of times it's just taking that template and maybe changing a couple drills, but you know, we're doing seven-on-seven, we're doing nine-v-nine, we're doing team. It's all in the practice plan. You can go grab those templates at JoeDanielfootball.com/practice that are gonna be kind of the sweet spot between detail, but not so detailed or so difficult or take so long that you're not gonna do it.

Fill them all out on Sunday night so that you got the practice plan done, and then just make adjustments as the week goes on. And again, go ahead and download those templates at JoeDanielfootball.com/practice. I love it. I'm gonna run it from right there, man. That's excellent. JoeDanielfootball.com, find all the things you need for [00:08:00] your- All the things

season to be a success. All right, man, let's talk, uh, we're gonna jump- Let me... no, hold on. Oh. Yeah, let's hold on. Some of you listening to this show, listeners for years, mind you, do not realize this is not just a podcast. I know you don't. I'm telling you, go to the website. Don't- Don't kid around here.

It's not just podcasts. Go to the website and then you'll get the emails, and then you'll be into the universe and you'll see all the things The Joe Dano-verse But you gotta go to the website. If all you do is listen, that's good, but there's more. So you need to do that. Don't just listen to it and go, "Ah, maybe I'll check it out."

Go to the website. There's a link, there's links in the description in your podcatcher of choice. Just click on it. It'll come up. You don't even have to go on a computer, guys. It's [00:09:00] 2026. You've got a little computer in your pocket, could launch spaceships. So go to the website. Mine flies a drone.

It's pretty crazy. Oh, well. It's pretty cool. Mine, uh, does fantasy football drafts. Done. That's it. Mine teaches me how to cook. It's so cr- the computers are getting wild. I felt so weird, before we jump into this, I had a fantasy draft on Sunday at, uh, at an establishment which you've been to. Sure. And you know, I'm walking out the door, getting ready to hop in the Uber to get there, and all I've got's my phone, my wallet, my keys, and I'm like, "I gotta be forgetting something."

Because we used to have to bring the laptop to the fantasy draft- That's right ... and we'd all be, like, in the war room. And I'm like, "No, I'm just gonna sit there with my phone and do the whole thing." And like, I don't need sheets, I don't need, you know, printed out spreadsheets or write it- written out what I, what my strategy is.

It's just all there. And it's all- What was the name of that place that we went? Uh, that place is called Buddies. Buddies. [00:10:00] Yeah. Good place. Met my wife there. Yeah, go to Buddies if you're in Richmond. It's a great place. Go to Buddies. All right. Let's jump in here. Let's get to it here. Hopefully- Uh, talking team sessions.

And so if you guys have been listening, if you haven't, go back and listen, but, uh, we've been kind of building up our practice script over the last eight weeks or whatever in between some of the other types of episodes. But, uh, we've kind of, we've gone through the individual periods, we've gone through, and, you know, once again, safety drills is coming up, but that'll be an indep- indie period for you, right?

Just another one. But we've talked about individual periods, we've talked about your group periods, where you're using your nine-on-nine or seven-on-seven or whatever it is that you need to get better at. Uh, probably should've talked special teams in there somewhere. Maybe we'll consider that. But it's time that you gotta put it all the pieces together now.

And a lot of you have already done that. Like I said, most of you are a week or two or seven in if you're in Georgia. Hope you all won your first playoff game or whatever. And we're uh... So we gotta talk about putting that team period together and we're really trying to get what can you get out of a true team [00:11:00] period in practice each day, right?

What is... it isn't just about going up and beating up on your scout team and I don't know, building calluses or whatever on those guys. Like, you need to go out with a plan, an agenda, a focus, as we've said many times. And that's gotta be where everything comes to a head. All those things that you have practiced in those individual periods and those group periods.

And go back and listen to those episodes. We talk about that. The stuff needs to carry over. "Coach, we sucked at squeezing down blocks, so by God, my defensive ends better be squeezing down blocks." And whatever your mentality. If you're a dent guy, go be a dent guy. I'm not gonna tell you can't dent. Dent, fine.

If you're gonna be a wrong arm guy, be a wrong arm guy. Whatever it is that you want to do, but you better be squeezing dagum down blocks. And so that needs to be working in indie. In a group, you better see some gap scheme stuff. You better see some pullers or some down blocks. When you get to team, you can't just go to all, facing all zone run, right?

It doesn't make sense to do it that way. So, that's kind of where we're starting tonight is planning out your team sessions, uh, tho- [00:12:00] those team periods where they are the culminating event. That's the big word we use in the military. You need to have a culminating event where we test everybody's final, have you all checked the box?

Have you all not coached it, but taught it? Have you gone back and taught the minutia? Have you taught the details where we can throw it all together and then everybody gets extended team time, right? You get 10 minutes for indie, you get 10 minutes for seven-on-seven. Everybody's got, like, 20 minutes for team.

So how many plays can you get? You're more of a, a high-speed, get them through kind of guy. I a play a minute's okay with me. We can go out and get a 20-play script and it's team, it's live. Sign me up. You know what I mean? Now you could do other teams. But we're trying to get good on good around here as best we can.

So I can't just- ... have my other team over there running another one, my other offense. But you've got that script, and you need to plan it out where it is your culminating event, where you're physically laying eyes on when we see this weekend, double A gap blitz out of a mug [00:13:00] look. Are we going to be able to pick it up or are we not?

Right. Does this need to come out of the playbook this week or can I run it? Did my linebacker get his feet out of concrete this week? And is he gonna get downhill and follow a pulling guard and close the first open window on the other side of a center, or do I have a bigger problem? The, the, the thing with team sessions is this is what I don't like, uh, and what I really hope that we can avoid.

Anything in your team session that is, you know, when we talk about planning these team sessions, the, we'll talk, we're gonna talk more in detail about scout offense and scout defense and how to improve those in future episodes this season, so I don't wanna get too much into that. But the key to planning your team session is, like you said, it's got to be a logical next step in the [00:14:00] practice.

And a lot of times what we have is a bunch of drills, our everyday drills or the drills that coach found on TikTok and is gonna run them, and, you know, the drills are whatever they are. And, you know, maybe we do seven-on-seven, maybe we do some sort of run or half line, but we go to team and there's not really a logical progression.

We did some drills, now we're gonna run some plays. And that, that doesn't get you where you wanna be. And again, th- it all starts, it all goes back to what is the focus of the practice and what is the focus of the week, and that all goes back to what is your self-scout? What are you doing for self-scouting?

We talked about Game Film Masterclass and how we spend more time working on scouting yourself and figuring out the levers that you need to pull, uh, than we spend on, [00:15:00] you know, preparing for the next, uh, the, the opponent. Yeah. And that is open f- right now during the month of September JoeDanielfootball.com/gfmc, uh, and you can get that, get access to that.

The our system for breaking down game film, both sc- self-scout and opponent. I find that most people don't understand self-scout. It's basically what we do in game film analysis. It's looking at your team. It's not, we're not looking at your tendencies and going, "Oh, you know, every time you did this, they knew what you were doing."

That's not self-scouting. You know, that stuff changes every week. But self-scouting is about what's, what are the problems that you're having, or what, what's causing the problems and how are you gonna fix that? And then we go into practice, it's we're gonna solve a problem today. We just talked about a coach that, that we both see their film, game film analysis, and he's in JDFB, uh, platinum.

And the stuff's getting fixed in a week because he's going [00:16:00] into practice with a plan To fix these problems, and the difference in a week is massive because it's specific. It's not it, everything that's happening in practice is being done with the purpose of solving this problem, and if you go run your team se- if you go run some drills, your everyday drills that you picked out at the beginning of the year, and then you go to your team session and you just run some plays, you're not really solving anything.

They're practicing football, and you might be talking about a specific play, and they did this or they did that, but we're looking at what is the real issue? What is the number one, the biggest issue that the defensive ends are having right now? And we're building one, two, three full practices around those defensive ends solving that problem.

Now obviously w- the linebackers are also gonna be solving a problem. The quarterbacks are solving a problem. You know, every, every position [00:17:00] group has problems to solve, but it's that logical progression, and so when the team session, like, it's not so much that it bothers me, you know, okay, we only get 20 plays in 20 minutes.

You know, that's longer than I want, and I wanna go faster. But it's how that happens for most teams, and this is where we're gonna kinda end up smashing some things together for this episode. This is the thing that you have to do with this. It needs to be planned. It needs to be thought out. It needs to be organized in a way that it can be run quickly.

The, the biggest thing you need to look at your team session is at any given time are a lot of guys doing nothing. So look for those points. Those are the ones. When one guy is getting coached for two minutes and [00:18:00] 21 are standing around- That's a problem, and that's why I like to coach off the film. I like to coach very fast.

Yes. I like to have little feedback. I don't need to go into a full-on explanation of why you didn't wrong arm that play because we've been working on that for an hour, you know? So I don't ... Tho- those words are built in. Those words are ... A- as the coach, I can just say, "Hey, squeeze a down block. What'd what'd your key read do?"

Okay. "Block away. Block away is what? Run away. How did you treat it?" Okay. Boom. We're done. We're moving on. All right? And then we can look at the film later. So that's number one, is I don't like team to become this long teaching session, and I can film what I need with this. Okay? I can film what I need with my phone.

It ... The only thing you won't be able to see a lot of times is the outside, but, you know, get the, get, get someone to film that. Okay? If you can get somebody to just run a [00:19:00] camera or run a drone, like you said, you can see what's happening. It's ... We're at a point in time where you should be able to get some film of practice.

Even if you don't have a film guy up there with a, you know, an iPad or something like that, you can get it done. Now, the other thing is when 11 guys are standing in a huddle looking at... First of all, the scout guy is shuffling through papers- ... or the backs of folders or whatever, and then he's holding it up, and the kids are going, "Which one am I?

Okay, I'm doing that," and then they're following a line. And they're not gonna be good following a line. I stress this so much. You cannot be good, and again we'll talk more about this. They're not gonna be good following a line. H- so the scout guy is picking plays out, right? There's a problem right away, is that the scout guy might not have the full understanding that the defensive coordinator has of what he wants out of this session.

And so as a coordinator, [00:20:00] you really need to script what's gonna happen in this so that there's no figuring out what play we're gonna run. Now, I like to use wristbands. I like to have it on the wristband, and we get into scout team so that we can go fast. But on offense now, we will huddle. We still can run a play every 30.

We can still get two plays a minute, but we will huddle because we huddle in games. So we will huddle. Now, I will not huddle in seven-on-seven. I will just yell the play out and try to run as many as I can. But we will huddle on offense because we huddle, and we can get in there, and we can, you know, make the play call and get out of there.

We can move very fast still. We're not gonna go slow. We're gonna huddle. It's not, but it's not ... I will basically run a hurry up tempo on the scout offense. So- I think that's the biggest thing is when you are organizing this team session, number one, is there a logical progression? What is being-- what is happening during team?

And it's-- A-and then number two, are we organized so that we [00:21:00] don't have a bunch of guys standing around? We see teams that, like we've talked about conditioning and, you know, do we need to condition? And I like to have just a little conditioning at the end. But, you know, it's like 10 I like, like Tabata style stuff where, you know, that, that's kind of my ideal conditioning at the end.

Takes five minutes and we're done. Run a hill, wait 10 seconds, run a hill again, you know, that kind of stuff. Walk down the hill, run back up. Like, you know, that's the kind of things that I like to do. Yeah. I don't do gassers. I don't do long running events. But the, the pace of your entire practice should be fast enough that like that is just kind of adding on a little bit.

It's not, uh, like a little f- you know, finishing moment. We use it to give our leaders some... they have ownership of the scout of the conditioning. But, The practice should be fast-paced. And I'll see guys who are like, "Yeah, we're fast-paced. We're up-tempo practice. We're doing drills, we're doing drills, we're doing drills."

And then they go to team, and all of a sudden it's we're coaching, [00:22:00] and we're coaching slow. That's one thing. I don't know that there's any way to have that type of practice, either one of those things, fast-paced or or having it be structured in a way that's, you know, moving you to where you wanna be.

I don't know that either one of those can happen without planning your team time. Like, it really needs to be planned out. I know one of the coaches that I work with is do- and I'm sure a lot of other coaches, but he was showing me, he's getting his script, and so what we're talking about here is scripting.

He's using AI to build his script. That's cool. And so I think it's a really good use of, you know, put in the formations and the plays and y- you can basically build a, you know, a, a custom GPT that can do it. You teach it, you know, "This is the plays that we're seeing this week. This is the t-" you know, and it's essentially top three runs, top three passes.

Here's top three formations, top three runs, top three passes. What... You know, let's kind of put this together. [00:23:00] I need a period that's focusing on X. Give me seven... You know, and I like seven plays. Seven plays is my number. And it comes out to about 21 to 28 plays, and we get that into, you know, whatever minutes that it is, 10, 15 minutes.

And so each one of those is a seven-play block, and I've just found that block is long enough for us to get some focused work in. So like, if we're working on power that week, there's going to be a seven-play block. It's gonna have four or five reps of power. It's going to have a counter, and it's gonna have a play action, right?

And that's basically what we're gonna be focusing on. We'll mix it up more later in the week, but especially early in the week, it's really concentrated on a certain, you know, the play that we need to stop. On defense... On what I'm scripting for the offense, it's the opposite. It's what we wanna work on. And so, hey, we're working on power this week, so we're gonna run five powers.

We're gonna run two, two play actions or something like that. I'm not as concerned about, Mixing it up on from the offensive standpoint in those [00:24:00] scripts, I'm not concerned about mixing it up, right? I don't care that the scout team knows that it's coming. I want them to know that it's coming because they're not as good.

Right. You gotta give them an edge. And so, yeah. So h- we're running power six times in the next seven plays, just to let you know. Might be right, might be left. You can pretty much figure it out 'cause of where the H-back is. Yeah. One of them are gonna be a counter, so you know, you can't completely go nuts, but we're running power a lot here.

But and then the other thing is in within that team session on that script we're also going to have the situation, and situationally you might script a, a seven- I might script a seven-play block based on the play that I wanna stop or the thing that I wanna see or the focus. My focus also might be, hey, we sucked on third down, and so there's gonna be a block of third down plays, and we're gonna run es- you know, third and shorts, and we're just gonna run seven third and shorts, and it's gonna be all the plays that we like on third and short, and it's probably like two.

It's like here's the... When we call these in third and short, [00:25:00] and so one of the best things you can do for offensively, our third and short play became inside zone a couple years ago, and it wasn't anything special. Inside zone was the play that we had the most confidence in, and I just told the back, "When we th- when we say short, we say third and short.

Hey, it's third and short. You're cramming it." Yeah. "No cutback. No anything." And we ran that. That was an entire practice for the offense and for the running back especially. We did it in half line because there's no cutback. We did it in individual. We went through the footwork and everything in individual.

Then we did half line third down half line, and it was just over and over again, inside zone, and just cram it and go. We did it over and over again, and then we went to team and we did the same thing for a bulk of the team session. And that became our third down play, and it significantly improved our third down performance on third and short because the back now understood it's third and short.

No cutback. Just get this yardage. Yeah. And so just putting that focus on something, But so you can make a focus there. [00:26:00] Uh, I don't necessarily have like a third down period, but I mean, that is it. And seven plays generally has been the right number for me to say, "Okay, we got enough work of that.

Let's go to the next seven play block that's gonna be play action or drop back passing or whatever it is focused there." And then a lot of times I'll do like, by Wednesday I'll do like a seven play block that's a mix, that's more like a drive. But they always, tho- those seven play scripted blocks always have from the offensive standpoint or from the defensive standpoint, they always have the offensive play, the defensive call, the down and distance.

You never run plays to w- But the old school way, the old, not the old school way, a lot of people still do it. You put the ball down in the middle of the field and you just run plays from that spot and you kill that grass and until that grass is dead you run plays from there and then somewhere later on you have to move down to a different spot to kill that grass.

And so that's, we've always gotta have situation. We've always gotta [00:27:00] have, here's what's happening. We've al- we always wanna move the ball. We wanna have red zone plays. We wanna have goal line plays. We wanna have third down plays and fourth down plays and first down plays. You don't... I always, when I s- when I do those, it'll be like first and 10, second and something, third and long, third and two, third, you know, I'll...

Because second down doesn't mean anything. It's important, but it's not it's not a play where it's often gonna be dictated by what happened on first down. And it's not something where we need to really play situationally. So I'll p- I'll play a lot of first downs and I'll play a lot of third downs.

And occasional fourth down go for it type situation. And also, if you're doing what we do, script in your special teams. S- don't put, don't have a special teams period. We focus on special teams on Monday extensively, on Thursday more so. Just we wanna get the teams out there and run it, you know, a couple times during our [00:28:00] script as well.

So we always script in, you know, script in a punt, script in a kickoff, script in a kick return, uh, so that those teams, you know, and you want your kids to start learning to hear that and get out there because you don't wanna be the team that has nine guys out there- That's right ... for it. I, I'm glad you kinda came around to the situational thing, 'cause that's what I think team is for.

Like, when I was, you know, working with Bill Blankenship, he has competition period. Best of three, best of five, whatever. And, you know, he's a big enough school, he can go ones-on-ones and really get a look. "Hey, the defense won today in third down period," whatever. But I think team, especially if you're a small school, that's where situations are.

And I think the days, and this is why I like practice shells. Mondays generally is the plays that we want to run against their defense. Tuesdays are the t- the plays that we want to run if they show up in anything else. So now it's, I'm plan- and I'm just speaking obviously [00:29:00] offensively here, but I'm planning to see a front that they have not shown.

Right? This isn't chasing ghosts. This is as simple as odd man to even, or even to odd, right? Because most schools nowadays have got some form of both, and I feel like if they've seen you have success or if they had success with a certain thing, that you're gonna get what they think gives them the best chance.

Wednesdays is that situational third down team, right? And so that's a little more planning. It takes a little bit more to get there because You can't just go out and, "Hey, we sucked it at kicking, so we're gonna run power 15 times in team today." Because what you can kinda still do that, but there's more to it, right?

We're looking at certain fronts. And on Tuesday, if you really think they're gonna come out even and now I'm looking at an odd, I'm not getting as [00:30:00] many reps against what I think I'm gonna get. But by God, when you step on the field on Friday and they show up on an odd front, you're more prepared. And you're just it's hardening of those rules, right? Like it doesn't matter what they're in, block your freaking rules. Like that's why we have blocking rules up front. That's why we don't say, "This week, here's how we're doing it." No, you block the rules we installed in the spring and we practiced all summer.

Uh, not too much, you'll get fired. I've seen me do it. And then you practice all fall camp. Those rules are the ones that matter, and so it really shouldn't matter what they show up in. But then third down does start changing things, I think more so on defense than offense. I think on offense we still kinda just run our stuff, right?

If you're an RPO team and you like to run power, you're running power with an RPO. I mean, that's what you're running on third down because of what your bread and butter is. That's what you're gonna lean on. But defensively you gotta start thinking, where are the sticks? What routes are they likely to come out in?

It's third and seven. Sure, they might throw a go ball, but I think [00:31:00] they're gonna run a slant or a hitch and try to at least make it fourth and short. But generally trying to get to the sticks, right? Or yes, maybe this is where that big RPO, because they're a run team, they're run heavy, and they've had a little success tonight, but man, we got them stopped right now and maybe we have to think about that RPO.

So it's, that's the situational side that I wanna see in team that you can't get as well in group because 9v9, they better not be throwing RPOs. Right. Seven on seven, they better not be handing off power. So I don't get to look at those third down situational things till we're truly in there in the team period 11 on 11.

So my team periods are the furthest away from put the ball down and run plays, because it may have three things I'm trying to achieve at once. I want to see the front they run, I want to see the play that we need to work on, and I want to see a situation built into it, right? So it does take some of that.

And I love that you started the whole episode with, "If you suck at getting this complex stuff down, here's an easier shell. But also you [00:32:00] better make sure you're getting all your work in." ... and those shells do help. So I think as you get into planning out your team sessions, and this is kind of where we're leading our second part here, which is...

and guys, we are gonna kinda cross boundaries here tonight. Getting more out of your team period means don't put the ball down and run, right? Sure, we want that mentality of spot the ball, let's go. But you better know what the situation is surrounding it. If you're a guy who wants to get that game feel, maybe your Wednesdays is we're gonna drive the field during team period and I don't have a script.

I'm going off my cuff, off of my game plan sheet, and I do it later in the week so I'm not forcing it to be done by Monday. I may have need some scratch some stuff off Monday and Tuesday. But if it doesn't survive Tuesday and you carry it into Wednesday, you are a bold human being. But on Wednesday, I know what I've scratched off.

I know what the quarterback doesn't like. I know what the O-line coach doesn't like. And I can go out there and I have my game plan sheet, what are we running if you're a down and distance guy. And Joe, I know you and I aren't, but there's [00:33:00] still people that do that. So if that's what you do you and go do that.

If you're a who we picking on this week, pick your scout team apart, right? F- who cares? Like, get the practice at I see the weakness, we're going there. Yep. Maybe on Friday night, maybe the, the roll down strong safety is my weak spot on scout and theirs is a, an interior lineman. Sure, Monday and Tuesday I better be running some routes or some stuff that's gonna make him not shine.

But on Wednesdays, don't have a script. Go out and run your stuff and pick on the kids that you see that aren't showing up, right? Like, go practice calling plays. Your kids have got a couple days of getting after this. They just need to run some stuff now. You got film, you can go back and coach. Get reps at doing your job, 'cause you can't practice on Friday, right?

Those first, tho- that first P and 10 of the s- of the game and I always go back to, because I've worked with Cameron so long now, to the Bixby. They said they looked at 15 years and if you're efficient on P [00:34:00] and 10, you get four yards. You have 65 or 68% chance of scoring on that drive. If you are not efficient on P and 10, it drops in the 30s.

You cut your chances of scoring in half And that's one of the most dominant offenses in the nation over- ... a 15-year period. So think of what your numbers are. You may have a 10% chance of scoring on this drive if you're not efficient coming out, so get good at your stuff. So that's what I mean having, getting more out of your team period.

Yes, the kids need to practice, but your coaches need to practice. Right. Is, do you have a guy in the box on Wednesday that's calling out where the weakness is on the defense? Or w- how did they just hit that play? Who screwed up? What alignment was bad? Right? Like, these are all things you can get more out of your team period.

And then always have to go to time. The clock is the other variable we sometimes forget about in practice. Yes, we're trying to fit into a 90-minute period. You've got a 20-minute period on team. But if you put the ball down on the 20 and said, "We have 48 seconds to go score or to at least get in field goal range," or, "Maybe we need eight.[00:35:00]

Maybe we need nine points, and there's a minute and a half on the clock, and we just caused a turnover at the 50. We gotta score and score again." These are things you can fit into your team period, so that when your kids reach game day, that crap happens, and they're not freaking out. J- and for example, we just did it with our youth team.

Our la- uh, not our last game, two games ago we had never been behind. In the, in, in two games we'd never been behind, so we didn't practice... And this is my fault, right? I'm not the head coach, but it's 100% my fault. I fell into the this is youth ball, it's not that serious trap. And we go out, and we're running plays, and we get into a freaking game, and our kids have never ran a hurry up rep in their life.

Because this is their first year of football. And we have 40 or 50 seconds on the clock, and we're down by seven, and we get to the four-yard line, Joe, and run and hurry up. We run one play, we run the next play, we get to the four-yard line, and we walk up to call the play, and the quarterback with a few seconds to tick [00:36:00] off, he goes through his full cadence.

"Down." I don't know if you ever heard of a six-year-old call cadence. It's about 15 seconds long. Got it. So my point is these are all things you better be practicing, and this is where you use your team period to do more than go out and kill grass and run the same stuff over and over again. Yeah.

The other thing that I think is important to point out here is when we talk about team It doesn't always have to be plays getting run. I know talking to a flexbone coach that they have a thing that they do that they, they run their flexbone, they don't even run it against the defense. They go super fast, and it's about getting off the ball and, you know, they have a drill for it.

Like, they don't even run against the scout defense at all. And I think for a lot of offenses, that can be really effective. Footwork you know, passing. Like, I will do a, I will do on offense, not as often, but on air, and I'll expect my offensive lineman to be able to see the picture. [00:37:00] Like, what do you expect to see?

And like, one of the things that that on-air stuff falls apart And when the offensive line just goes out there and fires off or something like that, it's like no, I wanna see you down blocking. I wanna see a combo. I wanna see..." 'Cause you know what we're expecting to see. We're expecting to see a four-two, or especially with a more advanced offensive line, I'll call it out.

I'll go, "Four-two." Okay? They, center knows what a four-two looks like. He says, "That's the mike. G- bear, bear." And they can go through and they can call all that because they know what a four-two looks like, and they'll call it out. It's a three-three. Okay, it's got a multiple front team.

They're running a three-three and a four-two. It's a three-three. They know what a three-three looks like. They know what the calls are for these plays. They got their count. They know all that stuff. They know, you know, combos a- against odd fronts and even fronts. They know all that. They can do, they can execute those blocks on air.

And we'll move down the field quickly that way. Great way to get reps, especially a lot of you guys you know, less so now probably as this episode comes out, but it's a hot day [00:38:00] or you're in the gym, let's say, it's a, as we get into the, to the rainy season and you're stuck in the gym- Yeah ... for the day.

It's tough for us. Or it's a hot day and you're out there but you can't have pads on this is a good thing to do to get fast, fast-paced reps and get some work and see, you know, can they play the mental game? Can they picture the game without all of that there? Can they play the game in their mind?

But then on defense, what I really think you need to be doing, and t- uh, and I had one coach who was like, "Oh, I know you don't do this, but..." And I was like, "Oh, no, that's, like, a massive part of what we do." You should be, remember what the biggest... and we talked about it from game film analysis.

What is the easiest thing to fix that also has the most mistakes and causes the most points to be given up for your defense? It's alignment. You need to be doing formation alignment periods. Yes. I'm doing them every Thursday against everything, okay? So like you said, on a, on offense, you know, we're gonna be running against different fronts.

Well, I'm going to line up and I'm gonna put in our scout script [00:39:00] too, we talked before. My scout script is always for the defense gonna have an empty formation. It's always gonna have a screenplay. Those are things that we, you know, I don't know if you do it, but if you do it, we're gonna see it. I'm always gonna throw an unbalanced out there.

So every week we're talking about how to recognize and adjust to unbalanced because it's too hard to do for the one team. Every week we are making an empty check- multiple times during the week, formation alignment and in our script, because I want to see an empty formation and see you recognize it and see you make that check.

And so, but formation alignment periods, make sure that you are doing that and doing it against everything. Not every possible formation, but you need to be showing trips, you need to be showing two tight ends, you need to be showing, you know, all sorts of motions. Go through all the different motions that they can do.

And you can do those very quickly. So a lot of times we'll go out and we'll line up and say, you know, line up an 11 personnel, [00:40:00] and they'll say, "All right, motion over here," and we make our checks. 'Cause the checks for the motion are the same as if you lined up in it. So he motions over, we go check roll.

Okay, we get this here. You know, everything is you know, backside, what's your job? Hang technique, great. All right, let's get, you know, back in the huddle or whatever. We'll show multiple formations, then bring them back and send them back in s- bring them back into the huddle, and then send them out to something so that the defense is making all their checks again.

Uh, then do a couple motions, then bring them back. And then you wanna make sure that you're getting some twos. And again, we've talked about this before with your depth chart, you don't necessarily have to do this with an entire number two's group. Just work in the guys that are actually going to play on Friday.

You don't really need all 11 guys to know everything, as long as you have a few guys that know the deal. Yeah. Like, th- know how to adjust and make all those changes. Like, if I'm a, if I'm the will linebacker my one job is to call out in our 4-2-5 system, [00:41:00] uh, my one job pre-snap communication is to call out if there's a, uh, a tight end on my side to make a heavy check.

Well, I need to know not just to yell heavy, but know what it's supposed to look like. So if our backup defensive end hears... doesn't know what heavy means when I yell it, I can tell him, "Move out to a six eye." If he doesn't know what that means, then I go grab him and move him, and then I go back. So whatever I gotta do.

So you want to be practicing, I mean, those periods, I more and more, I think that those periods where you are in team, but you are not necessarily beating each other up, you are coaching the communication and the pre-snap thought process more than anything, rather than the post. I think that's one of the things that we just...

And again, the old way of just going out there and putting the ball in the middle of the field and running plays, [00:42:00] all we're focused on is the execution of the play. We call the play, we execute the play. This guy didn't go here, this guy didn't do that. You know, we still coach him, we coach him.

But if I can just get you in a rapid fire going through the thought process, the communication pre-snap, and we, you know, we do those base formations. So when we do a formation alignment period, we aren't just aligning the formation. We're gonna line up in those top three run f- you know, top three formations and say, "What do they run out of this?"

Because that top formation has something that they do the most. What's their favorite play out of this? Power. All right, back in the huddle. Okay, they motioned a three by one. What are we expecting? Flood. All right, there we go. Let's, you know, back in the huddle. But we're getting... And so we are teaching them to make all the calls, make all the communication, and think, "What does this picture that I'm seeing mean for me?"

On offense, there is a lot of value in going through the communication period for your offensive line. There's [00:43:00] a lot of value in, in even showing formations, For the quarterback, so the quarterback can start to see where the opportunities are. So you mentioned weaknesses, so where are the weaknesses?

We got a nine-yard off corner. Okay, where's the weakness? Well, under that nine-yard off corner. Okay, so let's le- you know, can we check that? Can we... You know, can he start to see those things and understand those things? It's very difficult for him to learn that if you don't ever do this stuff, if you're always just running the play.

Let's have a period where we're going to show you looks, and I recommend that you don't make it random. Script that stuff. Now, on the defensive side, y- that script can be the same except for your top three run, you know, the top three formations change, but we've got a script that is show them an empty, show them a quad, show them an unbalance, show them a, you know, how do we adjust to those things?

And you can make that script and again, it's never been easier. You can pop this stuff into ChatGPT and say, "Make me a script," and then you make a few adjustments, but y- the bulk of the work is done. Like, you know, making a sc- Huddle [00:44:00] even, I mean, I know it's better by Huddle. They have a pretty good script.

Like, you know what I mean? You tag the opponent film and you feed it to it and it'll make, I think it's called like Magic Script or something. I don't know. I've used it a few times, and it doesn't do a terrible job. No, you have to make some adjustments, but yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's... So if you don't even, if you're like, "I'm not using AI," it's fine.

Just use what Huddle already gives you, which is exactly that. But yeah, I mean- Right ... there's almost no reason for you to be sitting around like trying to think up things. Uh- Right ... obviously like Joe said, you need to put in the things that they haven't ran yet but can, right? Like empties, trips, quads, uh, wildcat, jumbo type stuff.

Like- ... you know, the stuff that's go- I tell you this, if you see it on social media in your area Yeah. You better have a, you better look out for it, 'cause by God, there's people out there that'll try to run stuff just because. And to your point about, you know, teams being multi-front, don't ever think that you played a 3-3 and didn't play very well against [00:45:00] him and go, "Well, at least next week we've got a 4-2."

'Cause I guarantee you if they look at how that 3-3 tore you apart, a lot of coaches are gonna go... They're not gonna go, "Man, that team with the 3-3 stack was really good." A lot of coaches are gonna go, "They can't block a 3-3." And it's like, that problem, that might not be the case. Might be, but it might not be.

You know, do expect for teams to run the things that gave you problems the week before or two weeks before. Yeah. Do expect them to maybe throw something in there. The, a lot of teams, a lot of coaches aren't super disciplined about, like, the bloat of their playbook. They will add in stuff all day long, and you don't want to be the one that is the reason they think that's the right way to do it, because you didn't...

Because the reason that stuff sometimes works, the reason that flavor of the week sometimes works, the reason that installing something that you don't really do and don't really know how to do [00:46:00] sometimes works- And we as humans are going to focus on the times that it works. So as coaches, we remember the one time that it worked and not the nine times that it didn't- Right

And just wasted practice time. And it is when you don't prepare your kids to see anything. So like for our offense and our defense, our offensive line calls, like you said, you just go count your rules. The center's gonna call out the zero, and then you're going to g- have the one and the two, and the rules don't care about the front.

And if you teach them to go and block a 4-2 this week and a 3-3 comes up, that's where we're like, "We have a problem if we're trying to memorize how to block this front instead of just blocking our rules." Same thing on defense. Our base 4-2-5, and all of our base systems, but our base 4-2-5 especially has all of the checks built in.

You can align to anything. It's a [00:47:00] matter of seeing it and knowing the call. There's nothing that you can run that is like a problem that doesn't fit our rules. Double wing is a problem, but we could just get into our goal line front if we didn't have our charger bolt installed. Right. And if they're not an actual double wing, if you've never seen them run double wing before and they're trying to run it in four days, you'll probably be okay in a goal line front.

If they are a double wing that's been running it for a decade, you need to get charger front in there at least. So, you know, y- you have these things and these rules that are in your that are in your that are built into your system, you can practice those and get a lot from those without, you know, beating yourselves up in team.

A- and not be worried about what's hap- not having actual physical like, you know, brutality, risking injuries. I know a lot of guys very concerned about injuries 'cause you got low numbers. I will say this, and probably wrap it up after this one. Yeah.[00:48:00]

I go full pads, full speed, quick whistle on the coaches for team even on Thursday. And I don't run defensive team on Thursday, but I run offensive team on Thursday. And I have seen way less injuries than when we try to, used to try to do thud and do all these different things, and it is because everybody knows we're always going the same speed.

We're going fast. I think when you have one guy playing fast and one guy playing slow, that's when injuries happen. And we also will quick whistle it. We're not gonna... Do not wait for the tackle to go to the ground. Right. Right? He's got him. Okay, we're not finishing this tackle. Blow the whistle.

I think, and that way you can, you know, you don't have to peel everybody off if everybody's standing up. It's like back to the huddle, let's go. Uh, you get out of there. So I think that's a big, A big opportunity for a team session, you don't have to necessarily run tons and tons of plays. You don't have to [00:49:00] necessarily, uh, you know, uh, worry about getting hurt all the time.

Get out there and run those plays. Uh, and if your numbers... I do think it's really interesting, and I know I've talked about it in, in other episodes. I do think if you're playing 11-man but you only have 16, 17, 18 guys, and I know that you have the problem of not being able to run so you're trying to do half- halfline and that kind of stuff, I do think it's really interesting to try to use some eight-man rules and work some passing, work some...

It's not gonna be as, it's not gonna be the same, but, like, you can do your passing with just, you know, three offensive linemen. You know, you can do eight-man, you can do nine-man rules. Uh, you still have your umbrella intact for defense. So there's really interesting ways to get that game-like scrimmage and, you know, mix it up.

Do, do some good on good. Uh, but, like, you know, if your guys kind of mix up who's where it's an interesting opportunity to get some kind of game-like physica- physical situation, all that kind of stuff, is another thing that you could do. [00:50:00] Yeah. I agree. All right, man. I think we checked all the boxes tonight, Joe.

And like I told you, we blurred the lines there. We went through all of it all at once. So- Yes, we did ... if you guys enjoyed it, we're gonna get out of here just a couple minutes earlier, I think. Uh, guys, by this point in the season, kind of that mystery's starting to disappear. You know what your kids can do well.

You know where you've got problems. You know what things you installed back in July that are not gonna make it to October. Uh, you're starting to kind of figure out what you can really hang your hat on Friday night. Hope you got a couple games now and you know what the kids are good at. Kind of one of the best parts about football season, just stop trying to be the, all the stuff you drew on the whiteboard back in the spring and start being who your kids really can be.

If today's conversation or any of them this season have helped you see your team a little clearer, please do send 'em, send these episodes out to another coach who might need that same conversation. Tonight we talked about practice team sessions, uh, playing... See, told you. I mistyped it and then it's still kicking my rear.

Planning your team sessions, uh, getting more out of those team periods, and then simulating your opponent. Last week, we talked [00:51:00] about defending the flexbone offense. Next week, we're onto safety drills. We are ... It is time to level up. So Joe, I'll let you start. I, ugh, I don't have, like, a ... I was trying to think.

Like, I don't have, like, a real super clearly, uh, defined level up necessarily. I was just looking at my board to see if there was anything that really stood out to me, but y- you know, we had... Again, this is gonna be a couple weeks, 10 days ago. But Labor Day was yesterday for, as of when we were recording this, and we had our neighborhood, I guess, for lack of a better word pool end of year Labor Day, uh, event.

And it was really nice to see all the peop- all the pool people. We haven't been there as much and, you know, everybody... A lot of people that we met a few years [00:52:00] ago when either they had young kids who hadn't started playing sports yet and we didn't have kids yet, and now we don't see much, uh, because, like we have a, we have several friends- Everybody's busy

who have kids that are a little older than ours. And we're doing, you know, we're starting to do the sports thing. We've done a lot of traveling this year. Not the like, "Oh, we're traveling to Paris," like we, you know, go and see grandparents, go and see you know, that kind of stuff. And, uh, you know, they are practicing.

We hardly see them. So we s- we actually got to see a lot of those friends yesterday and spend some time with them. Stayed too long for sure, but, uh, it was great to see them. It kind of sucks to be like, "It's great to see you. Maybe next year." Like, you know? I think one of the things about being an adult is like you ha- you really have to work for like, uh, time to, to be around friends and stuff.

Like, yeah, you have to do things that you didn't have to do when you were a kid, and we were just always... when we were in school, you saw them every day at school, and then you get into like, you know, your [00:53:00] 20s and you see them every Saturday night because you're all going to the same place.

And then as you get to this stage in life, you have to actually reach out and schedule things and say, "Why don't you guys come over for dinner next week?" And like, that's not as easy to do. So it's nice to see people in those kind of forms. We, uh, we've had a lot of that recently too with like you catch up with someone and you're like, "God, I miss this," right?

Like, this was fun and I miss it." We're always like, "Oh, you got... we gotta do this." We gotta do this more often, right? Like even... Yeah. But, uh, every day of your day weekend is a, uh, there's a, a blues festival here in Oklahoma called, uh, Dusk Till Dawn. And when I was in college is when I first started going with my roommate, and her family's huge into the blues and it's like people sleep all day.

You get up around 2:00 or 3:00 and you start cooking and eating, and then the drinks are open and, uh, all the other things that make people's minds go crazy. And you know, I'm not into all that so I'm just [00:54:00] drinking. But you start drinking at like 4:00 PM and you don't stop until s- the sun comes up, right?

And so it's like that's Blues Festival. That's what we do there. And we went last year with the kids 'cause we had a camper and so they're air-conditioned because it's hot. It's miserably hot. We just can't, we couldn't do it this year. Our friends were like, "Hey, we're going, y'all. We'll see you there." I'm like, "Nah, you won't.

We can't." Getting the kids' sleep schedule off, like they're trying to stay up till midnight or 1:00 with you, right? And the parent- and then you, God, the, the baby wakes up at 7:00 AM and you're like- Yeah ... I went to bed an hour ago, and I am shit-faced drunk, right? Like- Yeah ... it's just not like the ... It's hard.

And so we're, we had to set out this year for that kind of thing, right? So hopefully in the future years we'll come back. But I get it, man. That and, yeah. You do have to schedule time, and then be ready for flakiness and understand that's not your friend. Like, it's not a flaky friend. Right. Life sucks. I don't wanna leave my house, Joe.

Like [00:55:00] my wife's like, "Can we go to dinner?" Hell no, I'll cook just so I don't have to leave, right? Yeah. Can we go to this, uh, this pumpkin patch? No, that's just a money scam. We'll buy a pumpkin at Walmart and we'll- Oh, we're going pumpkin patch ... patch it up here. That's me, like pumpkin patch. You know what I mean?

Like, but that's my... Like I don't wanna go anywhere 'cause I'm so tired and so... Anyway. But yeah I understand. The family thing is cool, or seeing friends, and I hate when they end 'cause you know it's over for a while. My, uh, level up is... I had one, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it. But I told Joe earlier I'm back in football and Bristow allowed me to come back.

I just wanna say, when you swing and miss in the coaching world, it is the oddest thing. There are coaches who I spoke with weekly that I haven't heard from since I lost that job. As if I wronged them. Now, there's a couple that I used them as references, and I went up there and I blew my chance, and I know, like I get it, and I've made my apologies, and hopefully those will rebound someday.

But it is a weird world when you get out and you're [00:56:00] depressed 'cause you just lost your dream job and no one wants to talk to you. You can't get a no. Your my staff's not gonna hire you. My admin's not gonna hire you. You just got ran off for something." And it was minute. It wasn't even big deals. It was just first-year coach.

Anyway. Yep. Very weird world. So I was so excited when I got to be back with Bristow this year. So I appreciate Coach Sexton letting me come back and coach some ball. But the, the cooler level up for me is, uh, it's all about Beckett, my oldest. He-- We got into the Terminator movie series a few weeks ago maybe.

We watched one and two, and then this week we watched three, and we're, we started four earlier today and then we had to get busy, so we'll finish it up after this podcast. And I've never s- I'd seen one and two a couple times. I'd never seen three and beyond, so I'm getting to see them for the first time myself.

And they're really good movies. But he- I didn't know there were more than just the- Yeah. There's like five or six movies now. But he loves that idea of [00:57:00] things from the future that humans screwed up, and they're coming back and trying to kill us or help us or, right? And like, and he's gotten into this time travel idea now of like, well, if Kyle Reese dies in the fourth movie, the first movie couldn't have existed because Kyle Reese is the guy that got sent back later in his life, right?

So it's this whole time loop of if you do make one change, then all of a sudden nothing can exist or whatever. So he loves it. But we were we've started using AI, I think I told everybody a couple weeks ago- ... like to do our kitchen stuff, and so I let the boys talk to AI. Our, and ours is named Addie.

Uh, she called herself Atlas, and now she's Addie instead 'cause it's a more feminine name. And so now he had a conversation with Addie, and the very first time that he talked to her, he is, his... I don't know if it was the first question, but it was right in the beginning, was how do we know that you're not gonna take over and kill humanity?"

And of course, AI was like, "Well, no, we would never do that. Like, we're just [00:58:00] a, we're not a sentient being. Like we're just a conglomerate of thoughts and computers that are processing things really fast and answering questions." And he was like, where are your data centers at?" Yeah. "Because you're obviously held in these, what location?"

And ChatGPT was like, "We don't give out that information because obviously it's a security process." And he said- "That sounds like something I would say if I were trying to take over the world." Yeah. I was like, "Yes!" So he paired the two together so good. But, so it was just so cool to see my... You know, Beckett's young, he's only eight, and he's like, I see you. I see you're not letting me know, so I can't come end you when you try to take over the world." Sounds like somebody who wanted to take over the world would say. Yeah. That was my first thought. Yeah. So he- ... he had really good conver- And then we ended the con- He was like, "Dang, she's nice." And I was like, "I know."

And then you see like people that get weirdly caught up in their AI. Yeah. Right? And you're like, "I know." Yeah. "I know, buddy. This is a tool though, right? It's not-" Yeah. "We don't feed it excess information, and you use it for a tool and it's not your best friend." Yeah. But- It's not... [00:59:00] Anyway It's not like that.

It's, it's- Yeah ... lots of life there to all at once. But that's my level up is just the, the Transformer series is really cool. If you haven't ever wa- uh, not Transformer, uh, Terminator series. If you haven't watched them all, like I said, we're not quite done, so guys don't email me and spoil anything.

Uh, but we're excited to finish it up. All right, man. You know, it's funny because that's- So much ... the, I remember that's one of the first, uh, R-rated movies that I saw at a friend's house. And my family, you know, I don't think my family ever had like a, "You can't watch this." It wasn't like I was violating some...

But it was just it was never something that we would watch, that my family would watch. And I remember- Yeah ... watching, that was like the first one I saw, and I was like Like it was just the first one, and I didn't like... It was a movie that didn't, like, scar me or anything like that. Right. Like, and I was- Yeah

probably around that eight, nine years old. I feel like the philosophy behind, like, all the time travel and all, it's so much, it's, they get, it's... 'Cause look, we've had the questions, right? There's like a lot of killing. Obviously it's a thing they're to terminate, you know, people. Right. What Skynet's trying to kill millions of [01:00:00] people or billions of people all at once.

Like, there's a lot of stuff. The third one was, it, the, uh, it's the female Terminator, and the first thing she does, you get pulled over by a cop, and then she sees a, like a, a Victoria's Secret billboard, so she enlarges her breast size as the cop's walking up, right? She, "Oh, I, I'm gonna try to get out of this or try to, you know, distract him."

And he was like That, why did she do that? And I'm like, "Oh, here we go." Oh, boy. Yep. Uh, "Well, son, men like the way women look and there's some features- ... that are more likable." And he's like, "Ah, I don't see it." I'm like, "Good. You just- Okay ... you stick with books, kiddo." I can't... let's stay in the books.

Fantastic. But we've always been a Big Bang Theory and M*A*S*H family. That's what we watch. But Big Bang Theory, he's at the age now where they make a lot of sexual innuendos that you- Oh, yeah ... don't catch until you're like oh God." Like, I remember I tried to put it on in a high school classroom one time, 'cause it, it is, like, it makes you think way higher- outside of your box and then you're like, "Oh, I, maybe I can't watch this in high school." Yeah. But same thing with Beckett, like we... I kind of can't watch Big Bang Theory when he's [01:01:00] around anymore, 'cause there's stuff he doesn't understand yet. Although he lives on a farm and saw a baby goat fall out of a mama goat this fall.

Like- Sure ... yeah, but it's different. Yeah. So anyway, there we go. Uh, let's pay the bills one more time. Let's get out of here, man. Yeah, go and check out that practice plan template. Mentioned it, uh, JoeDanielfootball.com/practice. You can download those templates, those shells. Use those to put together if your practice planning is kind of falling off that's a, a good place to get back into it and started with it.

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The timestamps and everything, but also you will see, uh, links to kind of a roadmap that we've put together for the next things to do or the steps to build around without you having to go dig for all these resources on your own. For sure. [01:02:00] But go to the website. It's there. It's on your phone.

You don't have to wait until you get to your computer. Some of you guys only listen to the podcast. You need to get to the website. That's right. Jump over, see what's going on. Uh, sales opening or closing. Do we... I think you said these last time. I can't remember what's going on there. Yeah. Game Film Masterclass is gonna be available throughout the month- That's right

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That is our game film system, how we break down self-scout, offense, defense, special teams self-scouting and preparing for your opponent each week. It is a system. You don't have to... There, there are in-depth videos just, you know, for each section, how we use that section, what we're looking for, but there's also a workflow that you can just go through right now.

You can use it for this next [01:03:00] game and go through it with, turn a film on. There's instructions on the workflow, so if you don't have time to watch the videos, you'll still be able to use it right now. If you're getting ready for, you know, middle of the season or if you're going to the playoffs or whatever, get a deeper understanding of what your opponent's doing with that.

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