Big Plays For Short Yardage Situations
LOOKING FOR A SHORT-yardage package that is highly effective, easy to teach, balanced and adaptable to your talent? The Wishbone Power Package provid…
Issue
April/May 2001
14 articles in this issue
Putting The “O” In Your Offense
WHEN I FIRST BECAME a head coach, I used my experience as a defensive coordinator to put together an offensive system. I took the best and hardest of…
Try The Shuffle Option From A No-Back Set
IT’S TIME TO COMBINE the great equalizers of the passing game and option football. To accomplish this, we like to use a no-back set in our passing ga…
Control The Game With Defensive Clock Management
AT SOME POINT during the season, your defense will be confronted with a situation when you must consider the clock as well as your opponent. There ar…
Synchronize Your Team With This Cadence Drill
THE PURPOSE OF THIS DRILL is to get your players thinking about getting off the ball on the snap count and maintaining quickness when they are tired.…
Are Your Play Tendencies Showing?
WONDERING WHY the other team has snuffed out your screen pass for the fourth time in 3 quarters? Maybe your play calling tendencies are showing. Hank…
Winning In The Off-Season
THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR to focus on your objectives and prepare for off-season football practices and summer programs. FOCUS ON THE BASICS One impor…
Swapping Recipes For Success
THE EDITORS of Gridiron Strategies recently took in some great sessions at the Mega Clinic in Chicago, Ill. and found that successful coaches seem to…
Spread Punt Pins Offenses Deep
Spread Punt Pins Offenses Deep By Mike Sabock, Assistant Football Coach, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. THE SPREAD PUNT is a great weapon…
The Double Wall Punt Return
A PUNT RETURN FOR a touchdown can do more to fire up a team and change the momentum of a game quicker than any other score. As a result, working on p…
Tracking For The Future
WHEN THE STRENGTH testing period comes around and you ask your players how much weight they will have on the bar, do you ever get blank stares? Testi…
Classic Plays From The Past... The Green Bay Packer Sweep
ONE OF THE MOST FEARED plays of all time was the famous Packer sweep of the 1960s. Opposing teams knew the sweep was coming and they still couldn’t s…
5 Steps To Better Run Blocking
TO STABILIZE and improve the running game, your offensive linemen need to master these 5 basic run blocking steps: 1. Base Step. 2. Reach Step. 3. Ga…
Off Season Stats Software
BIG G SOFTWARE, located in Alleyton, Texas, is the producer of Off Season Stats on CD Rom. The Off Season Stats program allows coaches to set up thei…