by Coach Brady Walz | Jan 8, 2018 | Article
What if the stats coaches normally use to analyze football games are really not that telling? What if the game has changed? What if coaches are biased to certain information and it clouds their vision of important indicators in football games? Is there a better way...
by Rowdy Harper | Jan 5, 2018 | Article
In a previous article I wrote about the benefits we gain from using inside footwork on our gap double teams. One of the reasons I decided to wait to publish in another article is how well it marrys with our backside zone double teams. When a gap scheme play is called,...
by Rowdy Harper | Dec 29, 2017 | Article
I wanted to gear this post towards “new” offensive line coaches because I feel that I am still in the later part of that category, and there is no better time to remember information than when you are going through it. I am starting my 4th year coaching football and I...
by Rowdy Harper | Dec 22, 2017 | Article
When we run weak or strong power our backside guard doesn’t throw his elbow, open his foot and shoulder, or wrap around the double team. Instead, he pushes off of his inside foot kicking his outside foot back behind it with depth. He stays square and comes down hill...
by Coach Brady Walz | Dec 18, 2017 | Article
We have all been in that brutal AM staff meeting. You can hear the complaints. Heck, maybe you are the one saying them. “Why are we here?” “Couldn’t this have been sent out in an email?” “This is too much information. There is no...
by Coach Brady Walz | Dec 16, 2017 | Article
I guess you could say I started learning about “ball” at a young age. This is about 1982. I was 3 years old, and I’m sitting with my father Darryl Walz enjoying some cereal, probably Cheerios. He is wearing his 1981 South Dakota High School Football...
