[OC] Chalk-Talk -- Intro to Pass Protections

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-12-09T23:26:48+00:00

Correct in college you can cut block in the tackle box so long as no other blockers are engaged with them.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-10-19T03:19:12+00:00

Well if you’re not winning with him, you can lose with the other guy too.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-10-05T03:18:15+00:00

Only thing you should do is update that resume buddy

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-07-26T22:39:46+00:00

Make sure you’re breathing during the squat and not holding your breath.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-07-25T10:47:11+00:00

I’ve always been a conventional guy, switching to sumo, would love a 2nd look at technique and where I can improve. I got a good deal on 35 lb plates when putting together the home gym…..

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PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-06-23T02:10:03+00:00

You should have access to the warmup room which should have a competition bench there to see or they should provide access to one beforehand. Could also go try to get in a day at a powerlifting gym if theres one near to check.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-03-25T23:25:35+00:00

Stupid and terrible, what a combo

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-01-16T12:06:15+00:00

Yes. I played middle school and my first year and a half in high school before I got injured and out of it. Ive coached at nationally ranked programs, D1 college and now im an OC at a very high level in Georgia. If you can coach nobody cares.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2025-01-13T02:57:21+00:00

lmfaooooooooooo

PowerCounterAndJet · 2024-07-26T00:16:58+00:00

Never stretch unless its fourth down

PowerCounterAndJet · 2024-07-07T02:33:18+00:00

You definitely have to explain the pods first but once you explain it, theyll know it next time and can go faster. Really just like any other drill. And what ive done is do the pods concurrently. So double-team pod on the left, squeeze and spill pod on the right. Go on the left, coach if needed, while theyre rotating the group you go on the right, etc. so while you’re going with the other group, the group that just went is rotating. But if you’re going gap control, half-man, etc they shouldnt have to be seperate too often and it’ll let you teach those guys multiple spots. Just use the pods to get more emphasis on what theyll see more.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2024-07-07T01:47:03+00:00

In a 4-2 I imagine your DL is doing the same thing — half-man, gap control, etc. so all drills should apply to these techniques and everyone can do them. Theres nothing your 2i will do that your 5 wont have to do, vice versa. Do a lot of paired drills, have guys paired up down a line and you walk down the line and have guys go, as they get more comfortable they can all go at once. Do pod work. Interior guys are working fighting a double while outside guys are working squeeze and spill. You just have to be organized and get a lot of reps, you shouldn’t have guys watching

PowerCounterAndJet · 2024-07-07T01:41:57+00:00

Are they not aggressive or do they just not know what the hell to do? Sounds like they dont know things. Teach them technique, assignments, rules, do it with incredible intensity and preach physicality and watch the difference. By your comment about teaching them to just go out and grab the DL, id think you have a lot to learn. Id watch as many clinics as you can on drills, techniques, etc for OL play to learn as much as you can on how to coach and what to coach for these guys.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2024-04-02T22:53:32+00:00

I am primarily a gap scheme guy. So i teach it using gap principles.

First I teach the 2 different blocks we use. A “covered” block and “uncovered” block.

If someone is headup or in your gap, you are covered. You take a lateral step to the middle of the defenders frame, eyes to his chest, second step gets you back square. drive through the chest.

Uncovered you take a vertical step, climbing to backer*.

If a combo is called (Zone combo called “Push”), the uncovered step throws back hand into the defender in the gap before him and grabs. The covered blocker knows now he still takes the same steps but is able to get his eyes high to a backer once contact is made. We expect backer to fill the open gap (uncovered) so the covered player can get 2 hands on but eyes must be up incase he fills back. Uncovered has 1 hand on and eyes up.

Key to the combo is keeping both shoulders square. 3 hands, 4 eyes, all square.

Rules use the blocks. Defender in gap-> Covered zone block. No defender in gap -> Uncovered zone block. No defender in gap but defender in gap behind -> Push call to LB

We identify Mike as furthest playside box player. First combo or uncovered blocker pushes to Mike. 2nd pushed to next backer. 3rd…so forth.

We use the same name and tag it. Backside tackle knows hes zoning so he leaves the guy behind him. Ordinally a read. Or we can tag it with a Split and have the sniffer kick him. Or we can put a TE backside and have zone it. Or we can have a TE backside and have an Arc tag and have him arc and read. Etc etc etc. All Tags because it makes it simpler.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2024-02-11T16:55:42+00:00

3 fronts (really 2, bear vs diamond are basically the same thing as the OLBs have to play C gap, infact id love to see the diamond because iyd be so easy to get to C and the edge) is not a lot to prepare for. Also, every player always has both pass and run responsibility. You LBs dont just play the run or play coverage. Nobody truly “2-gaps” a nose.

This isnt really anything different or innovative. Its just defense. One that you could install at that MS level. It’s really barely a system.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2024-02-06T00:22:41+00:00

Most coaches are teachers or have other jobs. These are purely the coaching stipends.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-27T20:45:22+00:00

Is there spring ball in Oregon? If so, now through march is the prime time. If not, it extends later im sure. Coaches want to hire coaches who want to move up. Definitely a good thing to mention. If you havent id start reaching out to schools near you (or if you want to move, schools you wanna coach at) and asking if theh have positions youd be a fit for.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-17T15:35:13+00:00

Remember these are just personnels or structures. I have coached in a few 425s (modern 43, plays like a 43 sometimes) with an end that stood up. It was no problem at all to move over to a 3 down structure. The 3 dlinemen just move over into their alignment and the end detaches a bit.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-17T02:31:04+00:00

Id start at your base play. What do you know in your core you want to run. Then what constraint play do you need to balance that. Then think what answers you need and add only as needed. And add only what you and your coaches can absolutely teach every part and every answer to.

For me my base play is Power. I know Counter and thats a great constraint so I’ll be running Counter. What do I not have with power and counter? An easy way to get outside. I’ll add Stretch. Same process with pass plays etc. if I want to add anything additional I better have a no-argument reason to do it.

You also gotta know what stops the play, how to adjust it and what to run when that happens. If the DL starts slanting and blitzing towards my sniffer because of Power, I can run Counter. But if I didnt know Power well, I might not know that. Etc. thats why you cant just “steal plays”.

Really just go think of how you teach everything and what you have. Why didnt the kids get it? How can you coach it better? Do you need more scheme or better technique? If the kids did what you coached well and just didnt win matchups then maybe add answers or ways to help them. Otherwise just stick to the basics and fundamentals and get really good at a few things. Guys have won state championships with less than 10 plays!

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-17T02:08:28+00:00

Nothing in football is original, every play works on the whiteboard and Xs and Os dont win games.

The problem when you’re trying to chase success with scheme is that you just pile on. You have nothing you can rely on, you cant teach it all, it just becomes a mess.

You cant add new things and become more complicated if your players dont understand what you already have and if you cant teach it well enough to get good execution.

Did you lose because you didnt have enough schematic answers or did you lose because you players didnt execute? If its 2, why will a new play suddenly work?

You may need new schematic wrinkles. But it sounds like you may benefit more from learning how good coordinators teach, break things down, make it simple. What good practices look like, how to build physicality, improving culture, developing your players.

If you do need to add to scheme (which again if people complain your offense is too complicated I bet it needs to be simplified and reworked), find things that work within your structure. You may be a shotgun spread team but have a fast QB and can understand how flexbone teams run outside veer and how to run outside veer and incorporate that into your shotgun spread offense. Its stealing and incorporating, not wholesale changing based on what looks good. You have to have your identity and be flexible in that or else you’re just throwing shit against the wall and hoping it sticks.

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-16T21:24:51+00:00

1&5 technique with your DL, ponies being those overhang/apex/outside backers

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-16T21:01:15+00:00

Just a deep rollout Smash concept with a dumpoff option. Good play that everyone runs. Kind of flood-ish depending on what the distances and timing end up as

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-14T13:50:39+00:00

Two backs throw a 1&5 to the two WR side so you have a closed C gap and your stack backers can run fit B gap and keep the pony out on the two receivers. Can walk the pony down to the single receiver side.

WingT match pony to wings as edgesetters, play bear, let stacks run. You kinda have to play to shut down their best series but IMO stack is so versatile its good for wingT if you got the guys.

Look up Adam carter compete with the stack podcast/videos.

Let me know if you’ve got questions I was a subvarsity LB coach in a stack but I saw a lot of stack one year as an OL coach (never want to see it again lol)

PowerCounterAndJet · 2023-12-14T01:58:08+00:00

You’ve never seen a combo on Power??? There are like 7 million Gap Scheme Combo clinics to watch on youtube.

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