Today is my birthday! As I’ve gotten older, birthdays have become a little different. When you’re a kid, birthdays are about presents. When you’re an adult, they’re usually about spending
I can already feel some youth coaches getting ready to throw their coffee at me. Trust me, I get it. Youth football coaches work incredibly hard. They spend countless hours
This past week, Coach P.J. Gibbs dropped his latest Defense Lab Podcast, where he interviews, in my opinion, the greatest Center to ever play the game, Hall of Famer Kevin
Every offseason, every coach has the same vision in their head. We picture the perfect version of our scheme. The offense humming. Motions flying around. Counters off counters. The quarterback
There may not be a tougher conversation in a football program than the “bubble kid” conversation. You know the player I’m talking about. The kid who absolutely could help the
Every year, football coaches get hit with the next big thing in speed training. New ladders. New sprint systems. GPS tracking. Velocity-based training. Apps measuring force production, acceleration, deceleration, and
Sometimes JV football is a struggle of the “Not Yets.” There’s a label that follows JV football around whether we like it or not. It’s unspoken, but it’s there. “This
If you walk onto a JV practice field and listen long enough, you’ll hear a lot of words. Coaches talking. Players talking. Corrections, reminders, encouragement, frustration—it’s all there. And if
This weekend was my cousin Amy’s baby shower. It was the first time that I was going to see that part of my family in over a decade, and the
You’ve seen it. Maybe you’ve coached it. Maybe you’ve lived it. Ball gets snapped. First read isn’t there. Feet get heavy. Eyes drop. Everything speeds up—and at the exact same
