Phil Longo’s Don’t Blink Offense – The Magic Formula
Wisconsin OC Phil Longo brings to the Big Ten his version of the Air Raid, a simple and efficient offensive philosophy built around personnel and balance.
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Adding Multiplicity and Flexibility with the Counter Play
In this era of inside zone schemes, the counter, a play popularized by Joe Gibbs in Washington in the 1980’s, has returned.
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Phil Longo on Instinctiveness: Play the Best Eleven
A coach’s job is to get the best eleven on the field. But who are they? North Carolina Offensive Coordinator Phil Longo says it’s the guys who can play instinctively.
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3 Tips on Installing Procedures and Running an Uptempo Offense
The procedures coaches use to operate must be installed early in camp in order to play fast as part of an offensive attack.
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Offense R&D – Tackles
By Keith Grabowski In our first two installments we talked about the offensive line and how different skills sets should be considered when choosing scheme to fit your personnel. The same approach holds true with offensive tackles. Interior Linemen, Part 1 & Part 2 Match Personnel with Scheme The primary difference between Offensive Tackles and…
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Offense R&D Series – The Interior Offensive Line, Part 1
It is the time of the year where we evaluate what we did last season, what we have coming back for next season, and how we need to evolve in order to be successful in 2021. In order to help you move forward, we will be sharing a series which will put the focus on…
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12 Days of Christmas – Distort the Defense with Power Read
One play that we fell in love with because of its flexibility and its ability to stretch a defense was power read. It seems like an easy play to install, especially if you have the power scheme in your offense, but we learned there are some key differences which, when accounted for, can make a…
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A Better Definition of Game Planning
There’s plenty of ways to game plan: Well, what’s the best answer? Andy Kotelnicki, offensive coordinator at the University of Buffalo has studied this at great length. He believes it is a year round process that begins with understanding yourself as a team, and having a flexible system that does not hinder creativity. In fact,…
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Wake Forest’s Slow Mesh RPO for Explosive Plays
By Keith Grabowski Wake Forest has found consistent offensive success in the last few years. Watching video of that offense operate in 2017 compared to what they were doing in 2019 and now again in 2020, on the surface appears to be the same when looking at diagrams of the play, but the video shows…
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All-22 Tuesday – The Double Wing and Diamond Formations to Create Misdirection
All-22 Tuesday is a collaboration between First Down Playbook and the Coach and Coordinator Podcast. Coach and Coordinator host Keith Grabowski and First Down Playbook Founder Charlie Coiner review plays from the past weekend. Joining Coiner and Grabowski is Dan Hatman from the Scouting Academy to focus on the personnel aspects of a play. To…
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