Game Changer

Just saw Richard Sherman "Pick6" to tie up the game. That's a game changer. On every defensive play, you have the opportunity to 'change the game around.' You must position yourself to be that kind of player. To do that you must be FUNdaMENTALLY sound:

More Secondary FUNdaMENTALS online at:

http://www.addy.com/coachfree/Secondary.html

Secondary FUNdaMENTALS

Basic Information for Defensive Backs

More Than Ever, Games Are Won or Lost on Pass Defense

Primary Objectives:

1.     Maintain perimeter - never allowing an offensive play to get outside or behind us.

2.     Prevent the score - stop the TD.

3.     Intercept - cause the offensive turn-over.

4.     Tackle - make the sure open-field tackle.

Must Know For All Defenses:

1.     Call - coverage/force and secondary force.

2.     Alignment - must be exact.

3.     Stance - inside foot up, knees flexed, arms relaxed, head up.

4.     Flow - direction of backfield and/or ball.

5.     Eligibles - key for run/pass pattern recognition.

6.     Responsibility - execute and pursue.

7.     Tackle - square up - eyes on the ball. Get under him. Explode up and through. Wrap him up - knock the ball out.

Things We Must Accomplish:

1.     We must: play team defense.

2.     We must: play the ball at its highest point and intercept.

3.     We must: recover fumbles.

4.     We must: prevent the “bomb”.

5.     We must: use our hands to ward off blockers.

6.     We must: score on defense.

The Value of a Be An 11! Team

THE ELEVEN ATHLETE

Rest & Nutrition
Year Round Training
Record Keeping
Sprint Training
Agility Training
Endurance Training
Flexibility Training
Plyometric Training
Strength Training
Skill Training
Mental Training – Be an 11

All of these things go together. It is a synergistic system. Leave one of the components out, and one achieves far less that what’s possible.

To understand the importance of synergy, I have written the following to try and clarify:

The Value of Being An 11 Team
by CoachFreeb

John C. Maxwell in his new book, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork,
writes:

As much as any team likes to measure itself by its best people, the truth is that the strength of the team is impacted by its weakest link. No matter how much people try to rationalize it, compensate for it, or hide it, a weak link will eventually come to light That’s the law of the Chain (#5).
Weak team members always take more of the team’s time than strong ones.
One reason is that the more competent people have to give their time to compensate for those who don’t carry their share of the load. The greater difference in competence between the more accomplished performers and the less accomplished ones, the greater the detriment to the team. For example, if you rate people on a scale from 1 to 10 (with 10 being the best), a 5 among 10s really hurts the team where an 8 among 10s often does not.
Let me show you how this works. When you first put together a group of people, their talents come together in a way that is analogous to addition. So visually a 5 among 10s looks like this:

10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 45

The difference between this team and great ones with five 10s is like the difference between 50 and 45. That’s a difference of 10 percent. But once a team comes together and starts to develop chemistry, synergy, and momentum, it’s analogous to multiplication. That’s when a weak link really starts to hurt the team. It’s the difference between this:

10 X 10 X 10 X 10 X 10 = 100,000

and this:

10 X 10 X 10 X 10 X 5 = 50,000

That’s a difference of 50 percent! The power and momentum of the team may be able to compensate for a weak link for a while, but not forever. A weakling eventually robs the team of momentum – and potential.
Now, what would happen if each of those team members committed to Being An 11? Is that possible? Can ALL team members choose to Be An 11? The answer is, CERTAINLY! Being An 11 is an attitude, an expectation, a commitment. When all team members develop an 11 approach the effect on the team would look like
this:

11 X 11 X 11 X 11 X 11 X = 161,051

That’s a difference of more than 61%! The whole IS greater than the sum of its parts. The power and momentum of the team is accelerated beyond what was previously thought to be possible. Members of the team no longer have to compensate, in fact, they feed off each other and their efforts multiply. The dream, the goal, the vision is achieved in an unbelievably sort period of time. It is the development of this BFS, Be An 11 Attitude that is responsible for those remarkable turnaround seasons that are chronicled in this BFS Journal year after year.
As BFS Clinician Jeff Scuran points out the answers are simple but not necessarily easy, “If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.” Not everyone is willing to put self aside, to make those sacrifices that are necessary, to adopt that BFS Attitude of:

No matter how long it takes;
No matter how hard it is;
No matter how much it costs;
No matter what I personally have to personally sacrifice; I’ll do whatever it takes to achieve our goals.
It’s going to be because of me.
The Best is yet to be!

When you can get a bunch of people together willing to make that kind of commitment, as a group, then you have the makings of a Championship caliber team.

Lifting Standards

STANCE

Watching pop warner football yesterday & even the "Pros" today reminds me how important a player's stance is. Every play begins with a stance. How is your team doing? Here is a link to what we have posted previously on S T A N C E:

http://footballfaxuals.blogspot.com/search?q=STANCE

GO HAWKS!

DO YOU THINK THIS 12TH 'MAN' WILL BE IN THE STANDS TONIGHT?

SERVANT LEADERSHIP

How might you be a better servant this week?

Everytime I try to do something on this page . . . they change up the format & I have to learn new ways of doing things. It's tough being an old fart.

Here is what I put up on this BLOG about Blast 34, including a vid of a goal to go situation. This single play accounts to more than 25 TDs each & every year along with countless First Downs. I recommend it to you highly.

http://footballfaxuals.blogspot.com/search?q=blast+34

BLAST 34

This from our friend Coach Chuck Hartman after his huge win to open the season, "Well, we used your FB Blast play a lot Friday." I answered: It is a great play when you are in a short yardage situation & needed to pick up another 1st Down or a TD.

If your team is in need of converting - this is the play that will KEEP THE DRIVE ALIVE - OR end it with a TOUCHDOWN!

Here is what it says in our playbook about Blast 34: http://www.addy.com/coachfree/FullbackBlast.html