Covered/Uncovered Blocking

1) Covered/Uncovered.
2) Calls- who makes them: the uncovered guys.
****Will call combination then # of who they are working to****

Playside calls:
TED= Tackle and TE working to #
TAG= Tackle and Guard working to #
TAB= Guard and Center working to #

Backside calls:
SLIP= Center and Guard
SCOOP= Guard and Tackle
SIFT= Release over the center

‘If Mike sits, destroy

If Mike goes, crack flow’


So out of a tight end set against an odd defense:

55      51
E         N        E    S
O  O  X  O  O  O

Here the te and tackle are covered= no call
PS Guard calls TAG #51- tackle knows he has help to the ps b gap
BS guard calls Slip #55-center knows he has help on the bs a gap
BS Tackle has sift

We work our head/explosion through the aiming points and work the ray technique (our as some call it, a one arm bench press) with our arm extension if uncovered with our eyes on the number called.

Again uncovered guys make the call.

I think this a much clearer system that can handle all fronts and gives us more answers against more things than just "follow your rules."

Bottom line: I think it will help our kids know who and know what.

Stretch the playside and expand the backside.

Re-Thinking my zone approach.

Well another season is in the books. I foolishly thought I might be able to keep some content up on this site while the season was under way but...well....I was way wrong.

A couple of thoughts before I begin to dig into the evolution of how I teach zone.

1) I got a flip camera to film practice and I will never NOT film practices again. Mainly focused on drill work through the summer, then only filmed the team time (as I ran into a problem with breaking it down, battery life through the course of practice, and watching JV players run through drills.) Here from our spring scrimmage:

2) I really learned that no matter how good a teacher of something you are, very few kids will remember what you taught the year before. I will not make that mistake again.

Ok so...Zone.

Last season, as seen in the previous posts on the zone concept, we employed a true zone concept (ie step and feel pressure and react.) And we got pretty good at it, so I figured we were on to something. Well, what happened is that group of lineman graduated.

I was pretty sure I could teach the next group to get off and feel it just like the last. But what I needed to learn was a system that was player neutral, ie we would have success regardless of the Jimmy's. If we had great jimmy's we would explode, if we had average jimmy's we could get consistent yards. So what this year ended up being was a bastard system, one where we evolved from a straight man scheme to a combo team.With that said. I want to emphasis that we did not get there entirely this season. But for next year we laid a ground work, a teaching method, and a thought process that will lead to it.

Part of coaching is learning how to do something better, and trying to teach the next group kids who are completely different from the last group.

More to come on how we are gonna do it better....