– Previously, I had put together an article on similar concepts here. Unfortunately, some of the video I had added to illustrate these concepts has since been removed due to copyright issues – and I’ve been too lazy to edit the older post. Instead, I offer you this: a very comprehensive piece surrounding these concepts and their relationship to vertical, horizontal and triangle stretch reads from Chris Brown at smartfootball.com.
– I could always just send you to Brophy’s excellent website, Cripes! Get back to fundamentals… and tell you that everything you find there is gold. I have his site bookmarked on my toolbar, and literally, as I look at the titles of his 20 or so most recent posts, every single one of them begs to be delved into and broken down, piece by piece, to uncover some incredibly valuable nuggets of football coaching information. He writes about all facets of the game, but I have been especially interested in his offerings centered on Noel Mazzone’s (former NFL WR/offensive coordinator and most recently ASU’s offensive coordinator) melding of pro style passing with college style spread and run game, college and pro adaptations of inside zone and stretch in the run game, and his overall access to some great coaching cutups and clinic films presented for your leisure, or in-depth study. Try these on for starters:
Back to the future: Sliding with Noel Mazzone
Why Noel Mazzone: Dennis Erickson and the one-back spread offense
Airraid Wrinkle (Part II) & Airraid Adaptation (cntd)
Alex Gibbs: Stretch/Run Game Developments (part 1) (This post features nearly 5 hours of clinic discussion – between Gibbs and former Florida Gator Offensive Coordinator, now Mississippi State Head Coach, Dan Mullen, and former Florida Gator Offensive Line Coach, now Temple Head Coach, Steve Addazio – on the inside and outside zone game implemented at the NFL level.)
Alex Gibbs: Stretch/Run Game Developments (part 2) (Continues with nearly 4 more hours of discussion of Gibbs’ system and how to adapt it to the college game with shotgun and reads.)
Rod Dobbs: Teaching & Installing Zone Runs
Attack Nodes: Running From the Gun
– Lastly (for now), I have been gathering information recently on all things relevant to running a high school football program. I came across a great website titled Cheifpigskin: Football Video Haven. This is a great site for coaches looking to grow as there are TONS of great videos concerning all areas of high school football development including overall program development, practice scheduling, O/D drills, in-depth documentaries, and more. And it’s all FREE (most of it, anyway). They even offer you a free downloadable eBook titled, Playbook for Manhood, for joining their mailing list. I have only perused it briefly, but it looks like it will be helpful in providing some real world examples in the effort to lead some of those uncertain youngsters – whom we often come across in the coaching profession – in the right direction; toward becoming a real man. From a description on the website, the book’s author, Frank DiCocco, “The Playbook for Manhood addresses an important problem in our society today: the breakdown in the positive developmental process of our world’s young men.”
Saturday Nite Lites 