Author Archives: CoachFisher

Strength and Conditioning with Coach Garson Skelton

1. How do you help educate your athletes on nutrition and eating habits?
2. When it comes to supplements what do you tell your athletes? For/Against? Which ones?
3. When it comes to speed/agility days, what do you feel like is the most important? or the most over looked?
4. You can only use 2 exercises for the entirety of offseason, what do you use?
5. Aside from getting Stronger and more Conditioned, what other training aspects do you value in off-season?

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Screens

Q1: What makes a screen effective? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How many route options do you include in your screens? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What rules do you have for your QB in your screens? #txhsfbchat
Q4: How do you practice running and defending screens? Please feel free to include drills #txhsfbchat
Q5: In your Base D, what are your rules when recognizing a screen? #txhsfbchat
Q6: Do you base your screen game plan on your opponent? Or is it a large part of your offensive philosophy? #txhsfbchat
Q7: If caught in a blitz on the screen, what are your coaching points to the DL and LBs? #txhsfbchat

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Running the Zone

Q1: What are your reasons for using or not using a zone running scheme? #txhsfbchat
Q2: When teaching the OL steps, do you teach a lateral step or a drop step and why? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What are the rules for your running back to read the blocking in front of him? #txhsfbchat
Q4: When defending a zone scheme, what do you stress to your DL? #txhsfbchat
Q5: How do you teach your D to confuse the QB on the give/pull read? #txhsfbchat
Q6: What are your complementary plays off of your zone scheme? #txhsfbchat
Q7: We usually say when all else fails, run zone…when your zone runs fail, what is your answer? #txhsfbchat

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Installing RPOs

Great information inside! Ranging from QB Read drills, route concepts, OL work, and coaching points to help install these plays into your offense.

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Defending RPOs with Coach Jarry Poth

#txhsfbchat gives the “other” side of the ball a turn with the chalk to talk how to defend RPOs.

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The Internet of Coaching

As I watch Coach Joey Jackson talk about blocking the inside zone on his first YouTube lecture, my mind starts thinking about all the amazing work that coaches are doing online to promote the profession and the game of football. There are coaches who are blogging, making videos, and using social networks like Twitter and…

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RPOs on Offense

Lots of great information on RPOs in here! If you see a conversation you like, you can click on the tweet and revisit the thread.

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Tracking Football – Multisport Participation

Athletes need competition year round. The best way to accomplish this is by participating in DIFFERENT sports for the school during each season. Kids benefit athletically, socially, and mentally when they get involved in different sports. Keep encouraging your kids to participate as much as they can!

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Watching Football

We are teachers of the game, and we are fans of the game. As coaches we find ourselves watching football quite a bit, but we also find ourselves learning from it and taking things from it to help benefit our players. Whether it is a play, technique, or the way a coach handles and organizes his team, we see something we like and we try to implement it. Enjoy watching the games that are left and keep learning!

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