Practicing vs. Option Offenses: What We Do to Teach Assignment Football
One of the hardest things to teach a defense to do is to play assignment football. When we are faced with this problem, we do some things to help out players to play their assignments and slow down the option…
Running a Better Team Session by Hindering the DL to Have More Players Make Plays in Team Sessions
By Ned Panfile We often have trouble with our ‘look squad’ blocking our defensive linemen during our team defense session. No matter how much we tell the D-line to back off, we can’t get a view about how well…
Fostering Relationships With the Coaches on the Staff: Getting What You Need to Get Done
The coaches on a staff are like any other group in an office, school or place of work; they all have unique personalities and talents that can be used to make an efficient working unit. You may not like…
A Variation of “The Pit” in Daily D-line Drills
In my May article in American Football Monthly, I outlined the everyday drills I use to prepare my d-linemen to read offensive blocks. I sometimes find that they do become robotic in their approach to “The Pit”. So, I…
Being a Defensive Coordinator by Calling Offense (The “What If” Factor of Coaching)
I had always fancied myself as being a so-called “defensive guy”. Coming out of college, I thought I knew defense. I had grown up in a family were football, especially defense, was king. My dad, Ned Panfile Sr., was the…