The Football Coaching Podcast with Joe Daniel

Your Week 1 Opponent may be a week away, or 12 weeks away, but it's never too early to start planning for them. As your working through your summer schedule, the 7-on-7s, Team Camps, Fall Install… It all should be guiding you to the same place, your Week 1 Game Plan. On this episode Coaches Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain discuss preparing for your Week 1 Opponent by Beginning with the end in mind, building out your game plan for week 1, and practicing so your players can execute flawlessly in week 1.

If the internet and Social Media have made football worse anywhere, it's given coaches the false understanding of what a good football drill looks like and why we use them. Too many whistle-bearers are turning to Tik-Tok and X to find their next day's drill, when they should be turning to their game film. On this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain talk through Better Football Drills by starting with the 1-on-1 game, problem solving any problem, and using drills to build habits for your players.

Once you know a system like the back of your hand, it's nearly impossible to change the way you think about the game. Changing systems just because you have players that don't fit it perfectly is similarly almost an impossible task. On this episode, Joe and Daniel discuss how to fit any defense to the players you have. They talk through player-Centric Coaching, fitting the defense to your players, and executing faster on defense with a player-centric culture.

Building a culture takes a long time. "Rome wasn't built in a day," is such a comparable phrase, because you can't change things overnight. But, with the right tools, you can expedite your turn around time. On this episode Joe Daniel and Daniel Chamberlain talk through Building a Culture with the Players' Creed, how to establish the team's identity, and getting you players to buy into your culture and the creed.

Coaches are constantly looking for ways to get better at making adjustments. It's game night, the opposing offense is driving, you need to make changes but you can't install a whole new front right now. What's the quickest way to make adjustments on the fly, and where do you start anyway? On this episode Joe and Daniel discuss the Levers Principal, how to pull them for improvement, identifying which ones to pull, and how to build practice plans that highlight levers.