(Part 2) Best football coaching books according to redditors

I would start here for a high level organizational start and understanding offensive schemes and adjustments.

https://www.amazon.com/Defensive-Coordinators-Football-Handbook-Hand/dp/1606793306

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Best defensive book I have read

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Linebacking-Lou-Tepper/dp/1450466451/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1562856723&refinements=p_27%3ALou+A+Tepper&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Lou+A+Tepper

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If your team has been a sht show for a while, don't worry so much about attempting to do a lot of schematic things. Pick one front (4-2, 3-3 etc) learn a single zone coverage (C2,C3,C4 etc) and a man coverage (C1) add in only a very few blitzes. From there you can practice scheme specific drills with your guys. Spend more time on tackling and block destruction than anything else. Get comfortable with what you do and make sure you know how to formation adjust against everything you see. Get through one season doing it really simply and then review for additions and subtractions.

Key words: Simple, fundamentals, adjustments.

Concept Passing: Teaching the Modern Passing Game

The Bunch Attack: Using Compressed Formations in the Passing Game

Run-And-Shoot Football: The Now Attack

Lavell: Airing It Out

Bought all these when I wanted to learn more about the passing game.

Don't forget this one as well.

Links:
The Essential Smart Football and The Art of Smart Football. The price for me is $2.99 each

that or

this free on kindle

https://www.amazon.com/Football-Girls-Modern-Chicks-Understanding-ebook/dp/B00W7NKN4G

Want to send this to Richie Hall

Anybody got his address?

You have to be careful with some analysis you find online, but two that I've seen that are usually spot on are:

http://smartfootball.com/#sthash.iqhVs74b.dpbs
This guy also wrote a book that can walk you through a ton of football jargon. http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Smart-Football-Chris-Brown/dp/1470125595/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404821713&sr=1-1&keywords=smart+football

http://fishduck.com/

There are several magazines we get including American Football Monthly and American Football Coaches Association.

If you're really looking to dive into some things, go on Amazon or even to the local library and check out books on specific topics you find interesting. Even reading "outdated" books you'll notice the pillars and fundamentals of football today.

Defenses have been changing pretty drastically the past two years, but this book was a great introduction to how many NFL teams were playing their defensive fronts.

Lastly, I have a great benefit of attending coaching clinics and networking events, however, go to your local college and watch a practice. Many of the practices are open to the public and the coaches, usually, are a very open bunch. Spring is usually the best time since that's when all the other coaches are trying to tweak routines and see what everyone else is doing.

Has anyone read "The Wild Bunch"? It sounds interesting but it's getting mixed reviews

http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Bunch-Conflict-Theoretical-Approach-Football-ebook/dp/B00PUWS6ZY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426267172&sr=8-1&keywords=bunch+offense+football

Succesful TE at 42 in the draft. Succesful QB at 199 in the draft. It's almost as if Bill was raised with some insights into scouting. http://www.amazon.com/Football-Scouting-Methods-Steve-Belichick-ebook/dp/B00I9GZK7K

Excerpted from possibly the worst book ever self-published: PhD Footballs The Downfall of the NFL

Chris Brown's Smart Football blog is pretty good. I also got a lot of mileage out of Take Your Eye Off The Ball and Blood, Sweat, and Chalk.

Keegan Dresow coached in Denmark and wrote this book on different offenses in football.

Try Coaching High School Football

There is also Football for Dummies

Part 2. Here is some scheme discussion. Note this part of the write up is much more in the weeds. It probably wont change how you view my team it's just for nerds who want to torture themselves want to read even more. If there's a part of the write up to skip this 100% is definitely it nobody's gonna judge

Part C: Scheme

Offense Scheme: >85% 11 personnel, tons of bunch sets and 3x1 WR distributions. If you want an idea of the specifics of some of the things Reich/Wentz ran in 2017 this book has your answers But specifics aren’t that relevant all teams run largely the same plays TBH

a) What matters is creating favorable mismatches and IDing opposing coverages pre snap. Here are 4 random Antonio Brown games: you can count about 80 plays where either he was doubled, bracketed or had a safety shifted towards his side beyond what’s standard That’s an absurd level of attention and per Matt Harmon’s Reception Perception data AB has been top 3 in snaps doubled amongst all WRs past 3 yrs(D Adams was 7th last season). Effects of this

i) Firstly opponents have to simplify their coverages because of the focus he commands. Notice the lack of disguising and how its predominantly 2 deep shells. Frank Reich already as is as you can see here is a master of using pre snap motion to ID what opposing coverages are and torching them. IF you have to simplify them due to this teams WR talent he’s just fishing with dynamite.

ii) Look at how attention by AB opens up things for others. Both of JuJu’s 97 yd TDs the past 2 yrs prime ex.

iii) Here’s an ex of what happens when you put two elite WRs on the same side with JuJu and AB. Results in predictable coverage + having to bracket somebody. This creates opportunities for easy 1 v1 matchups(here AB matched on a safety for a TD).

b) AB and Adams attention means Calvin Ridley gets to operate with tons of free space vs opponents worst CBs. Ridley was at 64/820/10 despite only playing 58% of his teams snaps as a rookie. Good luck with this in coming yrs

c) Per PFF Antonio Brown is top 5 in missed tackles created amongst all WRs 4 of past 6 yrs. Davante Adams top 10 2 of past 3 yrs. There will be tons of screens and quick throws to get them ball. Giving AB/Adams attention up top leaves less defenders underneath they’ll feast here

Defensive Scheme: Ill keep this simple but as you can read here finally, one big gripe many smart analysts have is that teams don’t run enough modern coverages now days like pattern matching which does work even vs the best. One big reason why? Don’t have the personnel for it(especially at DB). We do. We will specifically focus on 3 things.

First goal is disguising pressure(bringing only 4 but not letting offenses know which 4 are coming and making them prepare for more). One prevalent ex is the use of creepers(similar to zone blitzes) you can see some ex here. If you have the right personnel even for the best offenses this is torture and it creates favorable matchups for pass rushers. And by right personnel that means versatile front 7 defenders.

Mark Barron, Oren Burks and Dorian ODaniel are all former safeties. Olivier Vernon can do stuff like this. Sheldon Richardson spent a whole season in 16 as an edge rusher. One of Uchenna Nwosu’s strengths coming out was his coverage can see many ex here. All these guys can be used in many different ways and are largely well equipped to drop into coverage.

The second part of playing a modern day scheme is disguising coverages. Smart CBs, fast LBs and a gamechanging FS are king here. It’s where Eddie Jackson comes in. This video describes his impact perfectly. He changes a defense he is DPOY level. In particular note his range he shows on the INT at 5:30. That kind of range allows SO much flexibility in how you design coverages and disguises. You want to know the impact a FS like this can have? Look at the Seahawks splits with and without Earl Thomas it’s a transformative impact.

The third part having CBs who can play 1 v1. Modern coverages demand having CBs who can do this, you are so limited in how you can disguise otherwise. We are better equipped than almost all for this.

Here is a clip tying all this together. 1) Disguising pressure watch 99 in particular drop 2) Disguising coverages: in particular watch the range of 32 at FS, don’t have this from your FS cant run real disguises 3) Watch 24 at the bottom of the screen need a CB you trust 1 v1 like here to run this. 4) High intelligence DBs to make disguises work. It’s why investing in them like with W Jackson, Humphrey, E Jackson is mandatory. It’s how you have to defend offenses now days.

I have a bunch:

Unbeatable Flag Football Playbook

Presets For Lightroom

Overnight Resume Makeovers

Yes it is dangerous if you have a strong front 3. What screws with O lines so much is that you slant to the strength, every dang play. The keys are so simple for the mike will & sam. It's so rudimentary yet so hard to defend.

This book was what I started with http://www.amazon.com/Coaching-3-5-3-Defense-Thomas-Cousins/dp/1585180270
pm me your email and I'll send you our book.

$21.95

https://www.amazon.com/Installing-Explosive-Concepts-Into-Offense-ebook/dp/B01B12YSCG/ref=nodl_ is a good way to look at rpo’s. More of a introduction but it has some neat ways to incorporate it into more traditional systems.

Anything on R4 you can find online is great.

If you get more specific I can probably find something in my resources that will fit.

The Vince Lombardi Playbook: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Vince-Lombardi-Playbook-Recollections-ebook/dp/B01FA0AWM0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485721280&sr=1-1&keywords=vince+lombardi+playbook

Lots of hand-drawn plays - including the famous Lombardi Sweep - and notes, along with pictures and stories. I'm a huge fan of this one.

https://www.amazon.ca/Football-Scouting-Methods-Steve-Belichick/dp/1578987067?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc12-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1578987067


Helps when your dad wrote the book on football.