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  1. Well we won the last game of the season thanks to Coach Robs playbook. I took six plays from his playbook and used one that I thought would work really well against a fast rusher and man did it work. Out of the six plays, that was the only one I used plus some of my plays. Every Defense except us, ran a man to man which made this play work really well. We used the pitch to the RB, The Q goes opposite the RB and the RB throws back to the Q. Almost everytime their defense went after the RB and left the Q wide open. We did this 5x's and scored 3x's and the Rb as an option ran it for some huge yardage. The Q can't run in this league so no one expects him to get the ball. It was awesome and thanks for the play, Rob, plus your video helped too.
  2. I've been coaching youth sports for awhile too, but this was a tough season for us. Our last game we got blown out 44-0, which is fine, they are a better team because of 2 really good players. Everytime these 2 kids scored, they would either dive or high step into the end zone while looking back at my kids. Yeah they got penalized, but they didn't care as they were still smiling. The last play of the game we threw a intercetion almost at our end zone they ran it all the way back for a TD and their coach still cheering them on like it was the winning TD. I completely understand that you can't tell your kids to lay down a little to let the other team score, but you can't keep going to your superstar to shut out a team. So you made some good points. If your up that far in the score, make sure that every kid is touching the ball. At this point you have to gather up your kids and tell them and make sure they are being good sports (giving flags back, pat on the back, saying good job, etc.) and absolutely no show boating. As a coach, we can handle blow outs, but when you see your kids trying not to cry because they know their playing their hearts is hard for a coach to handle. To your rush offense, I never ran a rush offense,as well, even when I'm getting my butt kicked, but maybe I should have. my kids know my plays very well so it could've of been done. I coached tackle football and there we wouldn't even hesitate to rush it. It just seems like to me, in this league, the defense was never ready and I wouldn't feel right scoring like that. Maybe I need to get over that and just do it. As a matter of fact, I will this Saturday. I will give them my first 3 plays and tell them to go for it. At this point, what do I have to lose? If I was the other team, I would tip my hat to you, what more can you do, I don't know? Pic of my son juking some of those 13-14 year olds and he is only 10. oh yeah, he scored here, made it past 3 defenders.
  3. I've been coaching youth sports for awhile too, but this was a tough season for us. Our last game we got blown out 44-0, which is fine, they are a better team because of 2 really good players. Everytime these 2 kids scored, they would either dive or high step into the end zone while looking back at my kids. Yeah they got penalized, but they didn't care as they were still smiling. The last play of the game we threw a intercetion almost at our end zone they ran it all the way back for a TD and their coach still cheering them on like it was the winning TD. I completely understand that you can't tell your kids to lay down a little to let the other team score, but you can't keep going to your superstar to shut out a team. So you made some good points. If your up that far in the score, make sure that every kid is touching the ball. At this point you have to gather up your kids and tell them and make sure they are being good sports (giving flags back, pat on the back, saying good job, etc.) and absolutely no show boating. As a coach, we can handle blow outs, but when you see your kids trying not to cry because they know their playing their hearts is hard for a coach to handle. To your rush offense, I never ran a rush offense,as well, even when I'm getting my butt kicked, but maybe I should have. my kids know my plays very well so it could've of been done. I coached tackle football and there we wouldn't even hesitate to rush it. It just seems like to me, in this league, the defense was never ready and I wouldn't feel right scoring like that. Maybe I need to get over that and just do it. As a matter of fact, I will this Saturday. I will give them my first 3 plays and tell them to go for it. At this point, what do I have to lose? If I was the other team, I would tip my hat to you, what more can you do, I don't know? Pic of my son juking some of those 13-14 year olds and he is only 10.
  4. We just finished our season 0-6-1, our last game we got beat 44-0 and I'm happy to say that I actually have kids coming back to play this summer and requested me as a coach again. We're playing in a 10-14 year old league and some of you already heard this, but it was tough for us, since some of my better players were only 10 years old. This last game, the other team beat us up so bad that it left my kids trying to suck up the tears, trying to be tough. I felt so bad for them. At this point, for me it wasn't about coming up with the next best play, but to keep their heads up. That is the hardest thing for me to do because I see they're so far down on themselves that it breaks my heart for these kids. For example my center had back to back snaps to where one fell short then the next went long. He took this very bad, I went up to him, put my arms around him, gave him a good squeeze and I told him that it is alright, he knew he made a mistake and I knew he would learn from it. The next offensive play was his play and he made for the miss snap that he got us a first down. When these kids make a mistake at a position, don't ever pull them off the field. Give them that reassurance right away. Let them know you're still going to use them or let them make the next big play. Oh yeah, a little bit about our last game. Everytime the other team scored a TD their coach would yell YES or ALRIGHT in a aggressive manner. Everytime we scored a TD this season, not once did I say anything in a outburst manner. I would walk up to the kids, high five them, tell them good job, even though I felt good inside and wanted to jump up and down. So take it from me, if you're beating another team, as a coach, try to avoid getting to excited about your kids making a TD. The kids already know your proud by seeing the smile on your face. When they make a TD, they will look at their parents first then at you. All you have to do is have that smile on your face and shake your head yes and they will know. My kids heard all the cheering on the sidelines when the other team did good that they didn't need to hear it from their coach as well. What I focused on this year was to make sure every kid touched the ball. At this age one thing they want to do is touch the ball. So at 1st or 2nd down I would let some of the kids that were still learning or just starting out in sports do a running play or catch a short screen pass. It worked so good that when it was 3rd or 4th down I used some of more athletic kids to get a first down. When we got into the huddle, I had all their attention and I can see their excitement. I would always hear yeah yeah or ok ok in the huddles, so I knew I had their attention. Another thing to do to keep kids happy is to keep the parents happy. The parents want to see their kids touch the ball as much as the kids do. They also want to see a fair rotation. So by letting every kid touch the ball will make happy parents and kids. Unfortuantly that if you make a parent unhappy, they will start talking bad about the coach or other kids on the team in front of their son. Then at the next pratice or game, as a youth couch for awhile, you can pick up on this. This will start to tear up a team more than anything because now you have the kids talking amongst themselves. Then it starts to become a individual sport. Good luck this summer everyone and any input on this would be greatly appreciated. By the way I'm putting my 14 year old son my team this summer to just keep things fair. He knows this and I'm not using him to dominate the league, but more as a decoy. This will allow more kids to touch the ball more often too. I will keep you all posted on how this works for me.
  5. Your qb will panic when he focuses on the rush. My suggestion is that he won't have time to worry about the rush because he'll be executing the play. Rush will be a non-factor. Examples: QB takes snap under center. Quickly turns and throws the ball to the wideout at the los. Play is very quick and effective if the defense doesn't play on the los. Defense playing tight? Qb takes the snap under center. Receiver runs a quick slant. Qb literally counts one, two then throws. Hits the receiver 3-4 yards past los. Defense jumping the quick passes? QB under center, snap and quick fake pump either at los or slant. Wait a little then throw a long pass to the outside. Again, rush is non-factor. Want to run? End around will never get off unless you bring the receiver in motion. He should be 3 yards from QB when the ball is snapped. Take the ball at full speed, rush is non-factor. Check out my thread labeled swingout pass. That's another way to beat the rush. Actually any kind of delay/ drag where you wait for the rusher to come in then throw past or around him before he reaches the qb is good. Again, where you get into trouble is trying to run a play like the pros where the qb drops back and then looks for receivers. There is no time to do that. He should know where he is going and make it happen. Thanks for the advise Orange, I've checked out your play book and you got he wheels turning now. I can't wait for our next game. You're making me feel better about what I as a coach to watch for on defense and what to work on in my next practice.
  6. Here is a a rough draft of one of my play pages. I have my plays seperated into short pass, long pass, running and trick-fake hand off pages. I have my plays renamed from what are on this page plus I cleaned them up a bit so they don't look so clustered. I like having as many plays on one page so I'm not flipping through a book while I'm on the field. These are in a word format. You will also notice that I mention alot that the running back and Q have plenty options and the play isn't set. I have a really good Q and he picks up on the defense really fast. I'm coaching 10-14 year olds. Enjoy and if you have any questions, feel free to ask Can you send me a copy of your playbook my e-mail justin_quarles@yahoo.com you're not in colorado are you? might be my opponent. I will shoot you my rough drafts, but they will give you a plenty to work with and you can always modify them in word.
  7. I wanted to touch up on what I was saying in one of my previous posts, but a different topic. We had our first game Saturday and we got blown out by 26-0. The other coach insisted to continue with a rush offense. He kept asking the ref for times and calling timeouts so they can score again. I understand this makes his kids feel good, but it's hard for me as coach to keep my kids heads up. I think even the parents on his side felt bad at least they wasn't cheering as loud as they were at the beginning of the game which I appreciate. My understanding too is this guy is the dad of the guy that runs this league and this is against any of their values to keep playing like this. Even on defense they countinued to rush us hard for sacks which they were really good at. At this point all I did as a coach was look for any of my players with their heads down and lift them up. I had some good kids that helped me as well with excellent attitudes and pepping the others up. At the end of the game the coach came up to me and apoligized, but I couldn't look him the eyes and accept it. That just tells me that he was aware of what he was doing. If I did this, I wouldn't feel right as an human being. I've been coaching for 3 years now. I had plenty of games in football and basketball to where we were up enough on the score that I wouldn't even hesistate pulling out my starters. My starters always understood this and it was great to give the other kids more playing time. In return the kids are more likely to come back next season and the parents love you for this. Over the last 3 years I have developed a great following from the parents and kids. Alot won't even play unless I'm coaching them and this makes me feel good about what I'm doing. No I don't get all the super studs on my team, but we have fun. Parents tell me all the time that I'm the fairest coach they seen, escpecially the parents with older children that have been in sports for awhile. I guess I just enjoy seeing all the kids having fun and if you're having fun, winning will follow. So please coaches, especially in youth sports, show some class.
  8. Hey everyone, I'm coach Shannon (male by the way). I just wanted to say this is the best forum ever. I've been coaching 3 years now between flag and tackle football and basketball. I have 2 son's 10 and 14. I want to thank coach Rob, coachcurt and orange for all your help and taking time out of your day to coach youth sports and to come on here to help out us rookie coaches.
  9. It's simple really. Design all your plays to be executed before the rusher can reach the QB. You can't just take the snap, drop back and then look for a receiver. If you're doing that the rusher will be in your face. You have to have the QB take the snap and then begin executing immediately. We started in I-9 last fall after playing in a no rush league. In the first practice I took my 3 QB's, lined them up under center and had them take a snap. On the snap I had a fast rusher come from 7 yards back. No play or anything, just the Qb watching how long it takes the rusher to reach them. I wanted them to see how quickly they had to execute. I ran this with each of them several times so they understood just how little time they have. And frankly, it helped me to understand it too. Check out my most recent playbook for some ideas. Thanks orange, I will work on that more. What I notice more so is they panic a bit once my Q's get the ball because they know he is coming. I will have to work on that some more. We're only allowed an hour before the game to practice so I'm not expecting a lot, but this will definately help. Thanks and you guys are great for taking your time to help us rookie coaches.
  10. This is funny and it proves that even coaches need to be respectfull when out in public because you never know who you might run into. I've been coaching for 3 years now both basketball and flag and tackle football and I run into parents out in public all the time.
  11. Hello everyone. I've been coaching youth sports for 3 years between tackle and flag football and basketball. We had our first game this last saturday and we got blown out 26-0. I'm coaching a 10-12 division that turned 10-14. All my kids are 12 and under and we played a team that had some older kids with more experience. I'm coaching I-9, 5 on 5. 7 yard rush. My kids didn't even have time to get ball hiked and they were all over us. I need some ideas to bust this rush, something that will keep them at bay and stop rushing every play. I have a good group of kids with excellent talent for their age, but we can't compete with the older kids unless I can come up with some good plays for this. It's having 4th graders playing 8 graders.
  12. Here is a a rough draft of one of my play pages. I have my plays seperated into short pass, long pass, running and trick-fake hand off pages. I have my plays renamed from what are on this page plus I cleaned them up a bit so they don't look so clustered. I like having as many plays on one page so I'm not flipping through a book while I'm on the field. These are in a word format. You will also notice that I mention alot that the running back and Q have plenty options and the play isn't set. I have a really good Q and he picks up on the defense really fast. I'm coaching 10-14 year olds. Enjoy and if you have any questions, feel free to ask Running_plays.doc
  13. I give out the play book to the kids. I coach 10-14 year olds and when I hand out the play book, their faces just light up. I had a assitant coach talk to another team about my playbook once, so as far as the teams getting it or seeing it could happen. I just want the kids to feel like their involved. On each of my plays I write a description of almost every position job. When the kids take them home and the parents don't help them out, then at least they can read them and have an understanding of how important every position is on the field.
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