Evaluating Your Passing Game

Q1. What concepts were you most successful with this year and against what coverages?
Q2. How did your pass protection dictate what you could do with your passing game?
Q3. What concepts and coverages did you struggle with this season?
Q4. How many short yardage concepts do you employ/trust?
Q5. When breaking down your opponents, what did you look for in the coverage?
Q6. How do your athletes impact what you do with your passsing game?
Q7. What will be your focus this spring and summer to improve your passing game?

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Evaluating Your Run Game

Q1. What were your most effective run plays this season?
Q2. Why was this play succeful for your team?
Q3. What were your least effective run plays this season?
Q4. Why was your team unsuccesful running this play?
Q5. Do you have runs that you prefer vs odd fronts and even fronts?
Q6. How many of your run schemes have RPOs associated with them?
Q7. What are you goals for improving your run game this spring and next fall?

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Beginning Off-Season

Q1. When your season is officially over, how soon after do you begin off-season?
Q2. Do you begin off-season with strength tests for a baseline, or do you jump right in?
Q3. How much in-season lifting and conditioning do you do, and does it help begin off-season?
Q4. Describe the in-season lifiting and conditioning you perform.
Q5. How do you plan the first phase of your off-season?
Q6. How do you group your athletes in the first phase?
Q7. What is the environment created by the coaches and the workouts during the first phase?

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A Championship Environment

Q1: What characteristics define a championship environment?
Q2: How do you build these characteristics into your program?
Q3: Will you visit with champion programs to learn from their environment?
Q4:If your team falls short of the goal, what changes do you look to make in your program?
Q5: Is it easier to change the mentality of the team/players or the environment in which they work?
Q6: What does your program do already that is characteristic of a championship program?
Q7: When you think of championship programs, college or HS, what programs come to mind?

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2 Way Players or 2 Platooning Your Team

How do you determine whether you use 2 way players or 2 platoon your team?
How do you handle your sub-varsity teams?
What are the benefits of players playing 1 side of the ball vs both sides?
What are the cons of players playing 1 side of the ball vs both sides?
Are there small school coaches that 2 platoon?
Have you ever gone from 2 Way players 1 season to 2 platoon the next? (or vice versa) Why?
If you don’t 2 platoon your players, how often will you share your best athletes?

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The Hurt Makes It Great

As our season ended earlier than we wanted my mind filled with memories of everything this team accomplished this season. I thought back to the games we won, the practices we had, and my time with the kids. I looked around at the excitement on display by the team that won, and the dejection on…

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Personnel Packages

Q1: How many different personnel packages do you employ? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How do you use each package differently? #txhsfbchat
Q3: How do you use each package the same? #txhsfbchat
Q4: Do you have personnel packages on defense? #txhsfbchat
Q5: What situations call for different personnel on defense? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How does your personnel determine how you play? #txhsfbchat
Q7: Do you use two-way players in your packages? #txhsfbchat

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Game Week Tweaks #txhsfbchat November 9, 2016

Q1: Will you introduce new plays into your scheme to take advantage of your opponent? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How much time will you spend working the new play leading up to the game? #txhsfbchat
Q3: How do you determine the cost/benefit ratio of adding this to your attack? #txhsfbchat
Q4: Are you more likely to “steal” plays/schemes from other teams, or adjust the play to your system? #txhsfbchat
Q5: In the game, how do you work it into your plan? #txhsfbchat
Q6: What determines if the play becomes part of your system or just a game week adjustment? #txhsfbchat
Q7: When you Scout an opponent, do you look for plays to add to use against them? Why? #txhsfbchat

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Situational Football

Q1: How do you prepare each week for different D&D situations that occur during the game? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How does your philosophy for 1st down plays differ from 3rd and medium (4-6 yards)? #txhsfbchat
Q3: You’re faced with 3rd and 25+ in the last minutes of a game that you’re down by 3-4 points, what is your plan to get the 1st down or stop them from converting? #txhsfbchat
Q4: How do you work your 2 minute drill? #txhsfbchat
Q5: When you work GL do you work against a scout or good on good? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How do you incorporate special teams into your situations? #txhsfbchat
Q7: Do you practice the last play of the game? Taking a knee? Special play to win the game? #txhsfbchat

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Enduring the Long Season

Q1: How do you plan practices to endure the regular season and a long run in the playoffs? #txhsfbchat
Q2: What are the keys to making a long run through the playoffs? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What do you do on your team to help avoid injuries (knock on wood) ? #txhsfbchat
Q4: How do you maintain team focus week in and week out as the season closes? #txhsfbchat
Q5: How do you maintain personal focus through the long weeks as the season continues? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How do you use the sub-varsity to help your team stay fresh as the season continues? #txhsfbchat
Q7: What intangibles are present in those special teams that compete and win state championships each year? #txhsfbchat

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