Recap of #Edgefbchat with Josh Herring 5/21/15
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6/4 #Edgefbchat guest host Nick Restifo of Cleveland St. Ignatius
Saint Ignatius Offensive Coordinator/QB Coach Nick Restifo is a walking encyclopedia of offensive football. With Coach Restifo guiding the offense St. Ignatius has won 11 state championships and two USA Today national championships.
15 Wildcat quarterbacks have earned All-Ohio honors during his tenure, and four of his quarterbacks went on to play in the NFL.
We are excited to have Coach Restifo guest host the #Edgefbchat on June 4th at 8pm CST/9pm EST.
GOROUT PARTNERS WITH COACHES EDGE TECHNOLOGIES & #Edgefbchat TWITTER CHAT
CLEVELAND, OH – Today, Coaches Edge Technologies and #Edgefbchat announced an advertising partnership with GoRout. GoRout is a wearable display technology solution that simplifies on-field communication for players and coaches during practice. The long term agreement has secured placement as the company’s official twitter chat sponsor.
Coaches Edge Technologies Founder Keith Grabowski said, “We are excited to partner with an innovative company like GoRout. They have taken the lead on helping coaches to create a better practice with wearable technology. GoRout is at the forefront of a technological boom in the sports industry. We look forward to working with GoRout to help coaches teach their players with cutting edge coaching information and tools.”
GoRout’s wearable display technology, gives coaches the most effective way to communicate with players on the field in real-time during practice. With their digital whiteboard scripting, coaches can instantly make adjustments to plays, organize scout team looks, and send in pin point coaching notes to all 22 players instantly with a single push of a button. Each wearable display unit is military-grade and comes shockproof, dust-proof, and water resistant. Each unit is also focused on an individual position, so every player can see their specific play responsibility, notes, and keys. GoRout’s system is also completely compatible with many existing playbook technologies.
“We are very excited to be partnered with Coaches Edge Technologies and the #Edgefbchat. We both share a deep commitment to player and coach education, and as a company, we want to be partnered with organizations that share that same value structure. We are fiercely focused on helping both players and coaches communicate, teach, and most importantly, execute in a fast, effective manor. Our wearable display’s help teams increase production by more than 25% at practice while reducing wasted activities like play card creation and huddling. We’re now providing coaches with a level of flexibility they’ve never had at practice, and our technology now allows coaches to start coaching their 21st century players with 21st century tools on the field.”-Mike Rolih, Founder-GoRout, Rochester – MN.
About GoRout
GoRout is a sports innovation company that designs software and military-grade hardware products to help high school, college, and professional football teams practice perfect. GoRout is incubated at the Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator in Rochester, Minnesota.
Learn more at www.gorout.com, and follow them on Twitter @Go_Rout.
#Edgefbchat 5/28 8pm CST Head Coach Mike Hallett
We are excited to have @coachhallett Coach Hallet guest host the #Edgefbchat on May 28th from 8pm-9pm CST.
Over the past 4 years Coach Hallett has had one of the most consistent, top producing offenses in the country. Over the past four seasons Heidelberg really moves the ball, totaling nearly 11.5 miles of offense. Over that span they have averaged 492.3 yards of offense per game including averaging 532.5 yards per game in 2014.
Coach Hallet lists the following keys to their success:
- Utilizing a strong running game
- Having a great decision maker at QB
- Changing launch points for QB in passing game,
- Always thinking about the OL when game planning
- Practicing faster than we will ever play (Tempo)
Coach Hallet will answer questions on the keys to the Heidelberg offense.
I know Coach Hallett personally as well as having faced him as an opponent. He is a great football mind and coach. He has excelled in turning Heidelberg into one of the top teams in one of the toughest conferences in Division III. He is a coach whose mind you will definitely want to pick on the #Edgefbchat.
Heidelberg Stats 2011-2014:
2014
| Rank | Team | G | W-L | Plays | YDS | Yds/Play | Off TDs | TDs | YPG |
|---|
| 4 | Heidelberg | 10 | 8-2 | 681 | 5,325 | 7.82 | 57 | 61 | 532.5 |
2013
| 6 | Heidelberg | 10 | 679 | 5,108 | 7.52 | 63 | 67 | 510.8 |
2012
| Rank | Name | Games | Plays | Yds | Avg | TDs | Ydspgm | Wins | Losses | Ties |
|---|
| #19 | Heidelberg | 11 | 800 | 5178 | 6.47 | 57 | 470.73 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
2011
| 13 | Heidelberg | 10 | 712 | 4572 | 6.42 | 47 | 457.20 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
#Edgefbchat with guest host Josh Herring
On USA Football: Josh Herring’s Squeeze Concept: Use fin and win routes at any level for high-percentage, quick passes
The quick game has become standard for most offenses. The hitch, slant, quick out and fade routes are a part of many teams’ three-step package. A variation that can be used in place of the slant route is a 5-yard in, which some teams refer to as “fin.”
Offensive coordinator Josh Herring of Lassiter High School in Georgia has made this route a staple in his offense and has found consistent success. Herring calls the base concept “squeeze” because the QB reads whether or not the defender squeezes the inside route. The play produced 8.1 yards per call and was completed at a 67 percent rate in 2013. In 2014, those numbers were 10.0 yards at 59 percent.
Herring believes the route provides many benefits…read more
Josh Herring will be our guest host on #Edgefbchat tonight (Thursday 5/21) at 8pm Central Standard Time (9EST).
Coach Herring’s digitally enhanced books are loaded with details and videos. Learn more and get them here:
I continued to be impressed with Josh Herring’s ability to teach and coach offense. The concepts he has shared on the Coaches Edge Technologies platforms have been full of detail. This Quick Hitter on the “Squeeze” concept is no exception. Coach Herring delivers a sound explanation of how this concept works in his text, diagrams and tutorial videos which total over 40 minutes. He follows it up with 72 cut-ups for the coach to review and develop his own understanding. This Quick Hitter explaining a simple quick passing game concept gives the coach reading this manual every aspect he needs to incorporate it into his own offense.
Here’s a brief overview from Coach Herring of this concept:
Squeeze is made up of two routes: Win and Squeeze. The Win route is basically a seam route in which the receiver must “win” inside of the hole player. You can think of the Squeeze as a 5 yard flat slant or mini dig, whichever verbiage you prefer.
It has been an incredibly consistent pass pattern for us for years. It is our most common quick game pattern. We feel it can be incorporated into any offensive system with ease. There are a number of advantages that the pattern provides us and very few disadvantages. As long as your offense contains a formation with two deployed receivers to a side, you can run the play. Squeeze is high percentage and enables the ball to come out fast. We once completed a ball in a playoff game in which our left tackle busted a protection and a defensive end came completely free and untouched right at our quarterback. The ball was out before he got there. The read for the quarterback is extremely simple. We teach the play in our program even at the 4th grade level and even a 4th grade QB can make the correct read.
Get More Josh Herring & his Rapid Precision Offense:
Explosive Offense: Manufacturing Vertical Shots iPad More Info
Show, don’t tell
“Show, don’t tell” is a basic method of writing taught in language arts classes. The idea is that the writer creates a picture in the reader’s mind.
Coaches should operate the exact same way.
A coach’s instructions should paint a vivid picture in the athletes’ minds. That can be accomplished with a few simple coaching strategies as well as with tools provided by technology….read more
Be empowered not acquired
Coaches –
If you have done a good job, inevitably you will be contacted by someone with an odd title like “author acquisitions.” You may be sweet talked. You may be promised a vacation across the country to shoot a video. At the end of the day though, what will they put in your pocket?
We are not looking to acquire your your intellectual property. We would like to partner with you to find innovative ways to share your knowledge and make this great game better. In the process we would like to help you earn meaningful compensation for doing it.
At Coaches Edge we value of the ideas that you have researched and developed over the years. We want to empower you to share your knowledge with the coaching community by developing you as an author, presenter, and consultant while being fairly compensated.
We have prepared our company to lead the way. We are looking for the best coaches with the best content, and we are ready to offer a truly cutting edge platform for coaches who are ready to learn the game like never before.
We have some huge announcements coming soon from Coaches Edge Technologies. Our mission is to create the most detailed coaching information on the market and reward the coaches who do it. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact me at 440-856-9038 or grabkj@gmail.com
Opposing ideas in these articles: Best rated helmet ever vs. lose the hard shell helmet
Former NFL player Dhani Jones is in favor of removing the helmet for safety.
In the article Jones said,
“We need to take the hard-shell helmets off. We could replace them with throwback leather helmets, which everyone understands provide limited protection. But we need to eliminate the idea that I’m in a cage, you’re in a cage, and we can go at each other because we’re indestructible.”
At the same time, Schutt has introduced the best tested helmet in history.
Pete Carroll has come up with a tackling system that many are embracing.
Pete Carroll’s “Heads Out” Tackling – A Must See For Coaches
National Champion Buckeyes embraced Pete Carroll’s “Hawk Tackle” techniques in 2014, and it paid huge dividends
Chris Ash OSU Co-Defensive Coordinator:
“We changed our tackling philosophy, partly because Pete Carroll’s video inspired us to go back and really evaluate ourselves,” Ash told reporters this past week. “When we did evaluate ourselves, we found out that what we were coaching wasn’t showing up on film.”
“I’m so glad that I did watch that video when I did, and we went through as a staff and did that self-evaluation when we did, because I feel today that after 18 years of coaching, I taught something that actually shows up on tape and is safer for the players.”
“It eliminated some injuries,” said Ash. “But it also was a lot more effective. And I can tell you honestly right now, as a coach, I could go show you our film and what we teach, what we coach, what we drill and guess what? It shows up on film,” Ash said. “Not once, not twice, not by luck but by design. Our players have bought into it and that alone, in my opinion, led to us having a lot of success, especially late in the season.”
Pete Carroll Teaches Heads Up Tackling the Seattle Seahawks’ Way
“It gave the answer,” said John Madden, co-chair of the NFL Player Safety Advisory Panel. “We take the head out and you put the shoulder and the arms and the techniques and the drills in.”
Erik Swartz leads innovative research to reduce head injuries in football.“Our primary goal is to reduce head and neck injuries in football,” says Swartz, a professor in the athletic training option of the kinesiology department. “It sounds simple, but if there isn’t contact to the head, there won’t be a head injury.”
Coaches Edge Technologies
Train the Brain – Lessons From the Masters: The Blue Angels
Football has really moved from a game that was 3 yards and a cloud of dust mentality to a thinking man’s game. In order to prepare our players to be problem solvers on the move, we need to find ways to train the brain as well as get the the information that really helps them on the field. Coach Floyd’s post that follows really emphasizes the importance of being mentally prepared. In his article about the Blue Angels he said, “Mental visualization helps them perform precision maneuvers that at times put their wingtips within eighteen inches from each other while flying at 700 miles per hour.” We need to be able to prepare our players to perform in a much less dangerous environment, but nonetheless, they must be prepared mentally to perform optimally.
The scouting report and game plan gives our player the information they need. Football is data driven. We can give our players reports and information in a number of ways, but what do we really need to do to cut through all of the superfluous information to the things that make them successful? Just Play Solutions has created a coaching tool that allows 1 to 1 interaction, presentation of the critical information, and testing of that information. Information is presented in a way that is relevant to the player through the mode the player wants to receive it (smart phone, tablet, or computer – his choice). http://justplaysolutions.com
Football is a series of patterns of movements. Each position sees a limited amount of those patterns. It becomes crucial that they are prepared to see and recognize those so they can play fast. If you do not have plans to implement Virtual or Augmented Reality into your player development plan, you might get left behind. This is an area that will have a big impact on how we prepare our players for the game while removing the risk of injury through full contact repetitions; we will still use those, but even in an uptempo practice we are limited in what is available. This is the way to get all players the repetitions they need to play fast. If you haven’t checked out EON Sports VR, you need to do that soon! http://eonsportsvr.com
How do you coach on the field. Has your uptempo culture forced you to coach off film? You are missing opportunities to improve performance when and where it is needed – on the field. GoRout does an amazing job with this in their See-Do-Review process and their wearable technology. With their system, each player has a small monitor (military grade, about the size of a smart phone) on their belt. This allows them to review their next assignment if needed, perform the rep, and then get video feedback on their display after the play. http://www.gorout.com
At Coaches Edge Technologies we have created a great initial library full of very detailed content. Check it out here and be prepared for some exciting enhancements to what we already do very soon.
If you talk with Just Play, Eon Sports VR, or GoRout, let them know Coach Grabowski sent you.
“On Demand Consulting” with Coach Grabowski
My digitally enhanced book Coaching HD will be available soon. This book will show how today’s technology helps improve the player-coach relationship, enhances efficiency and effectiveness, and can dramatically improve the chances for success. Included are specific strategies and models for implementing all the great technology tools that re available to us today.
Coaches Edge Quick Hitter: Distort the Defense with Power Read
AVAILABLE NOW:
The Power Read is not a new concept. It has become a staple in offenses that utilize and athletic quarterback to stress the defense in multiple ways. The Power Read gives a play that stretches a defense horizontally and puts a defender in conflict with a decision by the quarterback to pull or keep.
It would seem that this play could be utilized by any team running power because the blocking scheme is already installed. This Quick Hitter Manual points out the pitfalls in that thinking by making distinctions between the traditional power concept and the power read concept.
Through trial and error as well as extensive film study, Coach Grabowski has identified key coaching points in making the play successful as well as the different scenarios for which an offense must prepare.
A chapter on a simple yet effective play action concept adds to this highly effective package.
INTRODUCING THE COACHES EDGE F.A.S.T. MANUAL SERIES:
FOCUSED ATTACK STRATEGIES & TACTICS
At Coaches Edge Technologies, we are revolutionizing the coaching education market by producing information on a cutting edge platform. We do not want our innovation to stop there. In today’s information age, being able to find answers and ideas and then incorporate those into an existing system is of paramount importance. In order to aid coaches in finding detailed and relevant information, we continue to create a distinguished product line. We continue to produce our author series manuals. This type of product has been the standard in coaching education for many years, but our new, state-of-the-art, digitally enhanced format provides a more thorough, easy-to-understand analysis of how systems, concepts, and new ideas can be successfully incorporated. The Coaches Edge Author Series Manuals provide an unrivaled amount of content for a coach to study. At Coaches Edge we realize that coaches need a different way to find, consume and interact with information. Coaches must be able to get detailed answers that cut to the core of what makes the answers successful. Therefore, we created two product lines that enable a coach to tailor his research. The F.A.S.T. Manual and the Quick Hitterprovide a new and more relevant way for coaches to interact with coaching info. The F.A.S.T. (Focused Attack Strategies and Tactics) Manual Series goes beyond teaching the concept to presenting the application of strategies and tactics. Understanding a concept is one thing. Being able to experience a coach’s though process in using his system is another. This type of information is not only useful in off season research, it provides a coach an easily consumed piece for week to week research and review of tactics that his team may need to use during the season. For example, if it’s a certain formation against a certain defense, or a specific blitz scheme against a pass protection, our library can provide the answers. The Quick Hitter Series provides the coach with ideas on a single focused topic. This might be a certain route, run concept, defensive pressure, special teams scheme, or in-game procedure or tempo. Though the amount of content presented is equivalent to a chapter from an author series manual, the depth and detail remain. Coaches Edge is committed to utilizing innovative ways to provide coaches the interaction they need to assimilate ideas into their coaching. F.A.S.T. Manual: 15 Personnel Power Package “15” meaning 5 TE (and h-back type), 1 running back (the wildcat) are utilized to create an effective short yardage and goal line package as well as a nice open field change-up. The coaches thought process in analyzing strengths and weaknesses, planning for adjustments and creating opportunities is shared in text and video. Application of the plan is illustrated with multi-angle game footage and voice over analysis and telestration. All raw cut-ups are included for the readers own review and study.
Quick Hitters: Information on one specific topic. $5.99
The Quick Hitter allows a coach to find information on a very narrow topic. The coaches sharing this topic still provide great detail. The Quick Hitters will be valuable tools for a coach looking for specific ideas. This type of information is useful both the off season as well as during the season. As we build our library, we will incorporate a cutting edge search tool allowing a coach to get the exact resource he needs to solve a problem or improve a certain aspect of his own system. The Quick Hitter gives you the critical information you need right now.
Marrying Stick and Zone Bubble (an RPO) iPad iPhone Google Play more info
Something to Hang Your Hat on Inside Zone iPad more info
101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays: Play Action iPad iPhone More Info
101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays: Pin & Pull Sweep iPad More Info
The Zone Offense-Define the System and Build the Foundation iPad more info
The Zone Offense-Develop the Fundamentals iPad more info
The Zone Offense-Structure a Starting Point and Develop Coaching Methods iPad more info
Author Series
The Author Series presents volumes of work by our coaches. This is where you will get very detailed information designed to allow you to master the material and utilize it within your own system. Our coaches back hours of video, hundreds of diagrams, interactive presentations, diagrams, and of course text into each manual. If there is an idea you want to implement, these manuals give you what you need
Explosive Offense: Manufacturing Vertical Shots iPad More Info
Quick Rhythm Option Routes iPad More Info
101+ Read Game Plays iPad More Info
Targeted Attack: Using Tempo As a Weapon iPad More Info
RPO (Run Pass Option) iPad More Info
The Blue Print iPad Google Play More Info
The Need for Change iPad IPhone Google Play More Info
Core Drills For Developing Football Kicking Skill iPad More Info
The Zone Offense: Create a Structured System iPad More Info
101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays iPad More Info
Pass Protection from No TE Formations iPad
Do you have a desire to share your football knowledge with other coaches? Do you want to help our great game while earning a supplemental income? Contact Keith Grabowski for more information. grabkj@gmail.com. (440)856-9038
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