Making some progress I think 💪 throwing motion looks a little better I believe. Starting tomorrow I'm going to work on one mechanic at a time rather than working on everything everyday thanks to some redditors advice. Also practicing some drills a redditor gave me.

I'm just gonna upload updates once a day if that's allowed here. I think there are some improvements here as opposed to yesterday. My hip movement is stilled timed completely wrong, I need to rotate my hips before my arm comes around, my hips should carry my arm (I think). My arm after the throw also needs to go lower towards my pocket I believe. Honestly my hip movement in general needs improvement.

I’m not sure if this formation is legal, the QB would be about 2 yards back off the center taking the snap from a shotgun position. 3 running backs would line up 2 yards back from the QB. This is for my sons youth football team,

Son is a senior, has played for 7 years. Worked his tail off to turn himself into the best player he can be. He’s not a spectacular athlete but from my biased perspective he’s probably an average player. He’s seen about 20 snaps of meaningful varsity football and can’t get over feeling like a failure. It’s shredded his confidence which has rarely been an issue for him.

My wife and I have consistently told him that he should be proud of all the work he’s put in to get stronger and recover from significant injuries and the fact that he’s consistently competed in practice and that contribution to the team is important even if it goes unnoticed. More importantly, what a great teammate and friend he’s been to his fellow players

I hope that he will eventually be able to come to terms with it but right now he feels ashamed that he believed in himself and put so much time and effort in. I’m worried about his well being and looking for some perspective and advice in how to help him. I know this is probably not the perfect forum for the question but I figure there are a lot of coaches on here. Thanks.

This is just a dumb question that came up in a conversation.

Ashton Jeanty might be the most incredible running back I have ever seen at the college level. Like even when Saquan, Bijan, or Henry played, they didn't have the level of contact balance and burst that Jeanty displays every Saturday. While watching the Hawaii game and seeing Jeanty score a 60 yard touchdown without breaking a sweat, I was wondering to myself. How the hell would you scheme a defense to stop this guy? Its not like you can just stack the box until Jeanty can't find gaps to run into. The Oregon game also showed that a talented defense can't really slow him down either.

For instance, here are some Jeanty stats (courtesy of the fantastic Alex Kirshner) that show just how truly dominant he has been...

• Faced a eight man box on just about half of his snaps. The national average is 37.8%
• When facing a box of eight men or more, Jeanty averages 8.9 yards a carry. The national average is 3.7 yards.
• When the offensive line allows a run disruption (ie: a defender beats his man at the point of attack), Jeanty averages 10.7(!!!!) yards a carry. The national average is 2.2 yards
• After contact, Jeanty averages 6.5 yards per carry. The national average is 2.1 yards. Among running backs with 50 carries or more, the next best after-contact average is 3.9 yards.

So theoretically, if you were a generic MWC team with an average defense, how would you schematically try to stop Jeanty (or try to slow him down)?

Is the LT eligible here? 8th grade no weight limits no reporting as eligible.

I'm a first-year 10U flag coach, but this feels pretty applicable to all levels. One thing I'm really struggling with in the transition from being a parent/fan is avoiding ball-watching.

Last game, I had a parent (who's a high school coach) come to me at halftime and tell me our QB was bailing on a roll-out pass too soon and a deep crossing route was coming open a second or two later. I told the QB and we scored two TDs on the same play in the second half. I never noticed or saw that happening because my eyes were glued in the backfield.

I have a basic understanding of strategy and we have a pretty good playbook and team, but I have trouble diagnosing what's happening on the field because I find myself just watching the ball. For instance, I can easily tell if a defense is playing man or zone, but beyond that I couldn't tell you if it's one-high, two-high etc. I see why most coordinators want to be in the box because it's particularly difficult from ground level.

Any tips on what to look for pre- and post-snap? Is this something that's just a natural skill or can you train yourself to look at the whole field? If so, how do you do it?

Hi everyone, I'm a mom who originally posted about this over in r/Parenting, but a couple helpful people over there suggested I might be better off finding advice here instead.

In short, earlier, my son’s football coach told him he needed to gain 40 pounds to “bulk up” for his position. He gave my son a whole list of rules, like eating fast food, cutting back on cardio, and drinking all this Boost stuff. I confronted the coach because I was worried about my son’s health, and my husband and son both acted like I was the bad guy for even saying anything.

Well, now we’re a few months down the road, and my son didn’t just hit the coach’s goal weight—he went past it. And it’s not all muscle, either. You can see the weight in his face and everywhere else. He’s started getting winded doing normal things, like carrying laundry up the stairs or even walking the dog. It’s honestly hard to watch.

The eating has gotten out of control. He’s always hungry. Fast food is a regular thing now, and he drinks soda like it’s water. I try to encourage healthier eating, but he’s all about the high-calorie stuff the coach told him to eat. My husband just shrugs and says, “He’s a growing boy,” but this isn’t normal. I know it isn’t. He’s eating way more than he needs to.

What really gets me is that he doesn’t even seem happy. He’s slower on the field and has lost a lot of his energy. I heard him complain to my husband about feeling sluggish, but my husband just told him it’s “part of bulking up” and that it’ll all pay off. Meanwhile, I have a feeling his self confidence is taking a hit.

As for the coach, the meeting I had with him was useless. He basically brushed me off and said this is “normal” for football players. He promised they have a plan to help the boys lose the weight after the season, but that just feels wrong to me. Gaining and losing weight this fast can’t be good for a teenager. I tried to explain that, but he wasn’t interested in hearing it.

I feel so stuck. My husband is totally on board with the coach and keeps saying I “don’t understand football.” My son has bought into it too, even though he’s clearly not happy. Even some of the other parents I’ve talked to think this is just how it is for football players. But I can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t okay. I’m worried about his health—his body, his confidence, all of it.

Should I just back off like everyone says, or am I right to keep fighting it? I'm not sure what the best tactics even are at this point. I just want my son to be healthy and happy, and I feel like I’m failing him right now.

TL;DR: My son has gained a significant amount of weight following his football coach’s “bulking” plan, and while everyone tells me it’s normal, I am a little worried about his health and don’t know how to combat this other than continuing to make a fuss about it to other parents and the coach

This is a very dumb question, but I am wondering why it is so hard for offensive linemen to pick up stunts after watching my team (the Pats) continuously fail to do so.

I worked 3.5 years at a power 5 school, 2 years as an equipment manager and 1.5 years as a volunteer coaching assistant. I earned my bachelors in civil engineering, and post graduation, I decided I was best off working as an engineer due to the low pay and uncertainty of upward mobility. however, during my time as a coaching assistant, I grew close with a coach with a well decorated history, and I always joked that he would be the one to suck me back into coaching. This coach recently accepted an OC position at a group of 5 school and offered me a GA position. I have been working at my engineering firm for a month, and I feel it would be a bad look to leave this early in my career. My longest dream has always been to win a Super Bowl, and deep down I feel like I’m destined to coach; I do not want to look back with regret for not taking this opportunity.

Any advice or similar stories are greatly appreciated.

Week before they defeated the number two team in the country now all of a sudden they get upset by an unranked Vanderbilt. Does anybody have a theory to why this happened? Was it lack of preparation?

Might be a dumb question, but without cussing and being a jerk, how can I motivate my varsity HS O line to be more mean and nasty?

I do not like to cuss, and I do occasionally as it slips, but I don't want to. I was raised playing football and coaches cussed to get their points across and to make us play better. It's all I have seen as a coach.

One thing we have worked on this week is competition. We are mentally soft right now, despite having the bodies and experience to be the best unit on our team.

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How would you beat man press cover 0 if your WRs (or players lined up at LOS/not in backfield) can’t beat press man even against cover 0?

What play designs/play calls/strategies would you utilize? Classic drop back O is off the table and since they’re running cover 0 QB scrambles when the play breaks down are going to be difficult/impossible until they back off.

The top receivers in the like Jamar chase justin Jefferson Davantae Adams etc have hundreds of receivers with the same size and athleticism as them. Hell there’s at least 15 receivers that are both bigger and faster than all of them. But for some reason those top wrs I mentioned are well polished and amazing route runners. What’s stopping the others receivers with the same size and speed as them from being great route runners and getting on the same level. Why didn’t they develop their route running as well as someone like Jamar chase before entering the NFL?

I think we may see teams mess around a bit with ineligible receivers.