Author Archives: CoachFisher

Turnovers and Ball Security

Q1: How do you teach your defense to produce turnovers? #txhsfbchat
Q2: What has led to your team success in creating turnovers? #txhsfbchat
Q3: How do you teach ball security to your team? #txhsfbchat
Q4: What would a ball security circuit consist of as part of your practice? #txhsfbchat
Q5: How do you teach your team to respond after a turnover? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How do you use turnovers to create opportunities for your offense? #txhsfbchat
Q7: How do you create an offensive/defensive mindset to cause/prevent turnovers? #txhsfbchat

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Knowing Your Opponent

Q1: You’ve faced the same team for at least the past 4 years with the same staff and systems in places, how do you game plan with a fresh approach? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How much do you examine the previous year’s games to learn from successes and failures? #txhsfbchat
Q3: Why do you or why don’t you pay closer attention to tendencies during this week? #txhsfbchat
Q4: If your opponent is someone you have worked with and runs the same system(s) as you how much new scheme is introduced for that week? #txhsfbchat
Q5: Have you ever consider changing play signals, etc due to a long history of playing that team and same coaching staff? #txhsfbchat
Q6: If the opponent does something you like, would you meet with them in the off-season to discuss how they do it? #txhsfbchat
Q7: Would you be receptive to meeting with a familiar opponent in the off-season to discuss your system? #txhsfbchat

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Go-To Plays

Q1: How do you game plan your Go-Tos against your opponent each week? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How often are they scripted in practice? #txhsfbchat
Q3: Do your Go-To plays change year to year based on how the team executes? #txhsfbchat
Q4: What is the expectation when your bread and butter play is called? #txhsfbchat
Q5: Do you care about tendencies during the game when running your go-tos? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How do you incorporate your play-makers into your go-to plays? #txhsfbchat
Q7: What are your best drills you use to work your position’s responsibility in your go to plays? #txhsfbchat

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The Coaching Staff

Q1: Describe the composition of your coaching staff. How many coaches, their assignments, etc. #txhsfbchat
Q2: How are new coaches to the staff introduced to and taught how the staff operates? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What do you do as a staff to build camaraderie with each other? #txhsfbchat
Q4: How does your staff balance the demands of the season with respect for time with your family? #txhsfbchat
Q5: What is the office like on gameday? #txhsfbchat
Q6: When game planning with the O or D staff, how much input do the position coaches have? #txhsfbchat
Q7: What is something that your staff does that you feel is unique, or one of the best things about your staff? #txhsfbchat

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Zone Scheme

IZ and OZ Scheme
Q1: Based on the position you coach, how do you teach IZ responsibilities? #txhsfbchat
Q2: Based on the position you coach, how do you teach OZ responsibilities? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What RPOs do you use off of IZ? OZ? #txhsfbchat
Q4: When your zone scheme isn’t working, what do you answer with? #txhsfbchat
Q5: What gives your zone scheme the most trouble? #txhsfbchat
Q6: What adjustments do you make to your IZ/OZ blocking to handle different fronts? #txhsfbchat
Q7: How do you involve your fullback in your zone scheme? #txhsfbchat

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State Associations

Q1: What does your district and/or state association do to support football/athletics? #txhsfbchat
Q2: What opportunities are provided for you to be involved with your state coaches association? #txhsfbchat
Q3: Does your district and/or state association provide professional development for coaches? #txhsfbchat
Q4: Who makes up the leadership/representation for your state association? #txhsfbchat
Q5: What benefits are included to being a member of your state association? #txhsfbchat
Q6: Do you know the mission of your association? #txhsfbchat
Q7: How could your state association improve to better serve you? #txhsfbchat

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