Podcasts Archives - Joe Daniel Football

JDFB Quick Clinic #72 – How Do You Use Your Helmet in Blocking?

August 16, 2017 by Joe Daniel

I have a VERY important question from one of our listeners for today’s episode. How do you teach your players to use the helmet and/or facemask in blocking? It’s interesting because this got me a little riled up. That may not take much, but this one is really important. Not because I think the … [Read more...]

FBCP Episode 208 – How to Coach Kickoff Return Schemes

August 15, 2017 by Joe Daniel

In this episode of The Football Coaching Podcast, we're going to break down your Kickoff Return schemes. Special Teams are one-third of the game. Every coach says it. Most of us don’t actually spend that much time on it, though. In fact, a big part of special teams comes down to execution. … [Read more...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #71 – Changing from the 4-2-5 Defense to the 3-4 Defense

August 11, 2017 by Joe Daniel

When is the right time to change your defense? And should you change it at all? There’s a lot of factors that go into this. Today I’m answering a listener question about transitioning from the 4-2-5 Defense to the 3-4 Defense. We’ll talk about what to consider when you look at your players, … [Read more...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #70 – Can My Players Run a Zone Offense?

August 9, 2017 by Joe Daniel

This week’s question comes from a Youth / Middle School Football Coach who wants to run a Zone blocking scheme. Interesting question. I’d be a lot of coaches would say no. You may need to tweak some things, but you can absolutely do this. One mistake I learned on Zone blocking, was trying to … [Read more...]

FBCP Episode 207 – The Playbook: What, Who, Why, How?

August 8, 2017 by Joe Daniel

The Playbook. It’s like the Holy Grail of football coaches. We dream of putting together that amazing playbook. With just the right selection of calls. You’ve probably drawn up one or two in your time. If you’ve been dreaming of this job for long, you at least drawn up a few plays. Almost … [Read more...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #69 – Quarters Coverage in the 4-2-5 Defense

August 4, 2017 by Joe Daniel

Even more on the weak side of your 4-2-5 Defense in Quarters Coverage. This is a common topic, and it’s important to note that this is not a natural fit. See https://joedanielfootball.com/80 for all the details on that. In this episode I’ll talk about how you can handle 2 by 2 formations with 10 … [Read more...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #68 – Split Field Coverage on the Away Side

August 2, 2017 by Joe Daniel

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the weak side or Away Side in the TCU terminology, for Split Field Coverage with the 4-2-5 Defense. Today on the Quick Clinic, I’m answering one of them. Joe asked about playing the Sky check on the away side. In the Sky check we roll the Weak Safety … [Read more...]

FBCP Episode 206 – How to Coach Press Man Coverage

August 1, 2017 by Joe Daniel

Press Man Coverage is our Twitter Poll winner at http://twitter.com/footballinfo for this week. I’ll look at some of the myths and reality of coaching Press Coverage. We’ll also talk about technique for coaching press coverage to your athletes. I used to be one of those guys who shied away from … [Read more...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #67 – How to Move Players to a New Position

July 28, 2017 by Joe Daniel

Gideon sent in a question that every coach needs the answer to. How do you change a player’s position? Seems easy, right? And in the old school coaching world, it was. You just tell him to change positions. Like it or not. Sometimes that works. Sometimes you lose a kid for the rest of the season. … [Read more...]

JFDB Quick Clinic #66 – Creating Your 3-D Football Playbook

July 26, 2017 by Joe Daniel

I want to share a new tool with you. A free tool for football coaches here in the United States. The U.S. Army has put together a playbook app that’s available on Android, iPhone, Windows and a web based application (that I use on my MacBook). It will create a beautiful 3-D Playbook for your … [Read more...]