Using Video to Teach

Q1: How often do you watch film with your team? With your position?
Q2: Do you have a defined expectation for your players to watch film on their own? Do you track it?
Q3: How much of the game film and opponent film do you share with your position?
Q4: How do you balance going over the positive plays and the negative plays from the game film?
Q5: How does what you see on the film impact your practice plan?

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Evolution of Football – Systems

Q1. Compare the system of football you played in to what you are coaching now.
Q2. What in your opinion, has been the biggest change in Offense and Defense systems over the last 20 years?
Q3. Who are the innovators you consider to have had the most impact on how football is played and coached today?
Q4. How far back in football history will you look for play and scheme design to install in your program?
Q5. If you can, trace back the development and evolution of your offense and defense. Multiple tweets encouraged
Q6. Do you believe systems influence player development or players influence system development?

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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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