The Wishbone Offense might not be as popular as it once was. But we can still learn a lot from a 1970s Arkansas Playbook.

Download the Arkansas Wishbone Offense Playbook

The Miami 4-3 Defense was originally developed to shut down the Wishbone Offense that Barry Switzer was running at Oklahoma in the 1980s. But we’re going to go a little further back. 

Today’s playbook breakdown is on the 1970s Arkansas Wishbone Offense. It’s a really well laid out playbook from the Lou Holtz era (that’s the claim anyway). Plenty to learn from any football coach, whether you run the Option or not!

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• Download the Arkansas Wishbone Offense Playbook
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Quarters Coverage is the perfect fit for your 4-3 Defense. But you can’t let Pattern Matching slow your defense down.

Quarters Coverage can mean a lot of things to a lot of different coaches. Cover 4? 2-Read? Palms? Hey who knows… but here’s how we do Quarters Coverage as of now, in 2019. 

A lot has changed over the last 12 years since I started running Quarters Coverage. It’s a pattern match coverage that requires you to have some pretty good Safeties. But if you’ve got the horses, and the time to teach it… this is a great way to coach a winning football defense!

Check out the episode for an in-depth look at updating Quarters Coverage for the 2020 Season.

Show Links

• Get the 4-3 Defense Video Series here: http://joedanielfootball.com/43videos
• Learn the Umbrella Principle, the most important concept I’ve learned for defense
• Fritz Shurmur’s Coaching Team Defense at https://amzn.to/2Z0DEmf, for which I wrote the foreword.
• My interview with Shap Boyd, author of Quarters Coverage Made Simple from several years back is at https://joedanielfootball.com/shapboyd/. 
• The original Quarters Coverage Made Simple that I learned the 4-3 Defense Quarters Coverage system from  is at https://coacheschoice.com/quarters-coverage-made-simple/
• Sign up for your Free MaxOne Demo

Let’s get outside the box for leveling up your football team’s off-season in a new way. Coach McKie joins us on this episode!

Coach McKie from The Talking Football podcast and the Football Coaching Podcast Network joins the show as we run down our Top 5 Ways to Level Up Your Football Program. This is a little more ‘out of the box’ thinking on ways to make your team better this off-season.

You’re going to get some tricks that we’ve used throughout our coaching careers, plus some ideas we’ve taken from other walks of life to apply to coaching. This is a good one!

Show Links

• Check out Coach McKie’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/rsmckie
• The best strength training program I’ve ever used is available at http://joedanielfootball.com/weightroom.
• For your speed program, Dale Baskett is at godfatherofspeed.com.

Time to plan your 2020 Football Off-Season. And there’s a whole lot to plan for if you want to be successful.

OK, Mister #nooffseason, here it is. All the things… well, most of the things… you’ve got to get done during the off-season. There’s plenty of work. 

This episode breaks down your football off-season into coaching development, player development, speed and strength development and on-field development. This is going to be a critical time for your 2020 Football Season.