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Year: 2017



FALCON OFFENSIVE GAME PLANNING – Part II

FALCON OFFENSIVE GAME PLANNING – Part II By Matt Walker, Head Coach University of Wisconsin – River Falls SITUATIONAL GAME PLANNING After the Base / Mixed Down Game plan is complete, we begin work on what we call the ‘Situational…

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FALCON OFFENSIVE GAME PLANNING – Part I

 FALCON OFFENSIVE GAME PLANNING – Part I By Matt Walker, Head Coach University of Wisconsin – River Falls One of the things I love most about football is that there are a lot of different ways to do things and…

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Defining, Evaluating, and Developing the Non-Physical Elements of QB Play – Part II

Defining, Evaluating, and Developing the Non-Physical Elements of QB Play – Part II By Eric Marty, Head Football Coach Reedley College Continued from Monday, June 5th… 2. The ability to see accurately, completely, and without distraction from the pocket. First,…

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Defining, Evaluating, and Developing the Non-Physical Elements of QB Play – Part I

Defining, Evaluating, and Developing the Non-Physical Elements of QB Play – Part I By Eric Marty, Head Football Coach Reedley College Often what we say we want in a quarterback (size, arm strength, speed, athleticism) quickly is replaced in the…

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Challenging and Eliminating An Isolated Wide Receiver Part II

Challenging and Eliminating An Isolated Wide Receiver Part II By Ryan Jirgl, Defensive Coordinator Whittier College   The second example of what we can do to disrupt an isolated receiver and give a separate look is what we call a…

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Challenging and Eliminating An Isolated Wide Receiver Part I

  Challenging and Eliminating An Isolated Wide Receiver Part I By Ryan Jirgl, Defensive Coordinator Whittier College In today’s game we are exposed to many variations of air-raid and up tempo offenses. Scoreboards are being lit up at an incrible…

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High School Free Agency Market – Destroying Fundamental Traits

My name is Tom Flynn and I am a recent Hall of Fame Inductee to the Palm Beach County Florida Sports Hall of Fame; a former member of the 1977 National Championship Notre Dame Football Team; a Free Agent Rookie,…

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Sparks’ Coach Changes Losing Program and Emphasizes Hard Work Part II

Sparks’ Coach Changes Losing Program and Emphasizes Hard Work Part II Sparks’ Coach Jumpstarts Winning Program in 2008 By Al Bruno, Winning for the South Park Sparks’ was not an immediate accomplishment – it would take a couple of seasons…

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Sparks’ Coach Changes Losing Program and Emphasizes Hard Work Part I

Sparks’ Coach Changes Losing Program and Emphasizes Hard Work By Al Bruno, When a young football coach takes over a hapless and winless football program and magically leads them to the top of the mountain literally, the NY state championship,…

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To Script or Not to Script: Offensive Game Planning – Part II

Compares to bands that sell for 14.95, on sale now only 9.95   To Script or Not to Script: Offensive Game Planning – Part II By Ryan Munz, Assistant Head Coach, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Rethinking Scenario #1 We stopped scripting…

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