TRIPLE PASS
Triple Pass is called when your coaches up in the booth find that the defense is starting to either stuff the tackle box with 9 defenders or their safeties start to cheat up in order to lend run support. When this…
Bracketology: Breaking down the Final Four
It is that time of year for sports – March Madness with its brackets and the road to the “Final Four”. Just think of all the games, the teams, the excitement and bracket busters! With that in mind it brings…
The Philosophy of the Air Raid Offense
The basic philosophy of the Air Raid Offense when it was created was to “throw the ball short to people who can score.” The offense has always prided itself on being a pass first system of offense that develops a…
Just Wing It
In his book “Scoring Power with the Wing-T Offense” (1957), Forest Evashevski, the father of the wing-t offense wrote: “The wing as a basis for an offensive attack goes back to the earliest days of American football and was popularized…
PISTOL-FLEX BASE FORMATION
The majority of plays that we run from the Pistol-Flex will be out of our base formation. Notice that it is a balanced formation that has the potential to have four receivers out for a pass immediately after the snap….
Interview with Dan Dalrymple, Director of Strength and Conditioning for the New Orleans Saints
Dan Dalrymple was hired by Head Coach Sean Payton of the New Orleans Saints when he first became head coach in 2006. Payton and Dalrymple had worked together at Miami of Ohio in the mid-1990’s. Dalrymple produced a set of…
Time to ENDURE
Character Matters Timeout: ENDURE Coach “Do not grow tired of doing well, for at the proper time you will receive the rewards if you do not give up.” It has been said “It’s not how you start the race but…
Super Safety
By Mike Sweatman Retired NFL Special Teams Coach How many Super Bowls have ended with one team taking a “safety” and then executing a “free kick”? We were rewarded in Super Bowl XLVII with multiple exciting special teams’ plays:…
Playing the QB versus the Spread Option – Is it time to go back to “Fast Playing”?
Years ago before spread offenses were fully out there, defenses were “fast playing” the QB vs team’s that showed option. Meaning the defensive player that the offense left unblocked to “read” would go as fast as he could to tackle…
Distort and Displace with Double Teams
The bedrock principle of our running game is to attack with a downhill running game that focuses on level 1 movement and displacement. Fundamental to that is the combination block. A good combination block essentially guarantees a positive yardage play…