Quick Clinic 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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #65 – Coaching Without Enough Players

July 21, 2017 by Joe Daniel

Coaches everywhere struggle with this major practice problem. I’m going to give you some solutions. Practice starts, and you look around. There’s about 19 guys here today. What are you going to do? The obvious answer is to go half line and get your work in that way. But there’s a second issue. … [Read more...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #64 – Football Film Timeline: Apex Football

July 19, 2017 by Joe Daniel

The next step down the path in the Football Film Timeline is Apex Football. And they’ve all but disappeared from the earth today. Apex’s big feature was the ability to input your data using voice recognition. It was a very cool, though at times very frustrating, feature for football … [Read more...]

JDFB Quick Clinic #63 – Where to Put Your Best Player in The 4-4 Defense

July 14, 2017 by Joe Daniel

JP sent in a question on Facebook asking where to play his stud player in the 4-4 Defense. Mike? Outside Linebacker? Free Safety? There’s a few things to get out of this podcast. The biggest one is changing out decision making process as coaches. If you want to send in a question for the JDFB … [Read more...]