Simplifying Your Offensive Playbook | FBCP S20E06

And this is what a lot of coaches I think miss out on. To you, it's just, you know, power right with a different formation. You're listening to the Football Coaching Podcast. Coach winning football. Offense defense special teams. Because your team needs to win football games, and that's why I'm. Coach simple, play fast, win. Hosted by Joe Daniel football.com. Welcome back, coaches. This is the Football Coaching Podcast. I am Daniel Chamberlain-Co-host. Here with Joe Daniel, as always. So coach. Coach, it's glaring on the screen, so I'm just going to do my level up right now. I had a face-by-opsie today for skin cancer. So PSA coaches cover your crap up and wash sunscreen. Yeah. We don't know for sure. He's like, it might be a wart, but I doubt it. It looks like it's a basil. But played for Auburn. Oh, coach, man, I'm going to forget your name again. I did this before too. He won with a national championship with the bow. Anyway, man, I feel like a turd. Anyway, he's the one that spotted it when I was in Tampa. He was like, that's cancer. Go get that checked. So kudos to you. Thank you so much, coach. And now we'll know in a couple weeks. Anyway, so there you go. I have won out of my life. I have for the last few years going every year for a checkup. I actually missed last year because our insurance changed. So I got to find up a new one, but I missed this summer. So I got to find a new one. But yeah, it's a new been out. Of course, you were outside for for many things, but right. If you've been coaching for a while, where sunscreen, where where the floppy hat and get checked for sure. So you're a ball guy like me and I never liked wearing hats. So I got about 10 years of the top of my head being baked. Got a couple things under surveillance up there. Coach, Coach Ridley always had like the biggest straw hat. And like I'm, I'm like, I think I'm just going to get a like some for arrow. A huge one. Yeah, huge straw. Some for out to be goofy, but also I don't want cancer. So yeah, I just, I just, I just never liked wearing it. I mean, in the summer I would. And then of course, you know, as soon as I get cool off a little bit, I'd start forgetting, but this, I did start wearing sunscreen last few years. That's good. Got to carry yourself. Power minute here, guys. We are talking offensive playbook philosophy. You know, how many plays to carrying your playbook, etc. So I'm about building around your best play, how to execute at the highest level. And attacking your opponents defensive weakness, which are all great ways to determine. How many plays should be in your playbook? So it's going to be a good one. Last week, we talked about how to fix a losing culture in your football program. You guys, that's one that I think even if you have a pretty good culture, it's good to go back and like remind yourself the fundamentals of not letting your culture die out. Or starting from scratch. Next week, we're talking about calling offensive plays to exploit defensive weaknesses. Another good one. So you know, tonight we're going to talk about how many plays you're carrying all that. And the next week is kind of the rearming yourself. How to call them to have the best offensive games. Before we get started here, coaching can be loud. A meeting practice Friday nights. This podcast is meant to be one of those quiet moments most of the time. Sometimes we get a little crazy, but fairly quiet. Or you can actually think if that's happening for you, share it with another coach. You could use that same space too. I know that a lot of times as we're typing these out or when I'm going back and listening or whatever. I'm it makes me think about stuff outside the box. Put a Twitter out not too long ago about, you know, coaches. What are what do podcasts have they really given you? Because how many times Joe, we heard like podcaster online football. They're just internet football. That stuff doesn't work. But you'd be surprised the, you know, responses we got to like a bit at this 25 years. And I'm still using this your podcast to, you know, not it makes a make some changes. But like I was like, it just vet, you know, validates the way I've started doing things. Because you guys are also doing it in your area. When you're kind of on the cutting edge, having someone else that's doing things differently is good. Getting away from conditioning, getting away from, you know, Oak Almond drill and doing things to make football a little fun again. It's good to have other people in that same space. Let's pay the bills real quick Joe and we'll get on with it. Yeah, we'll just one thing real quick on the last week's episode. And I put this in an email probably the day or two before the episode came out. I don't know the math. There's a just just how to fix a losing culture is probably not, I mean, the best. It's not the only purpose of the things we talk about. And I sent out an email talking about this is that, that idea of changing the culture. What we're really need is you, you're stuck somewhere. So it's not like a team goes one in nine one year. It's it can be that your team has had a losing tradition for years and it just feels impossible to break out. And that's what we put a lot of the focus on. But also when you're stuck in that middle and you're stuck in that four and six five and five. And you're trying to break through to being consistently, you know, a winner where where the floor becomes six and four seven and three. And then also when you're, you know, maybe you get to that point where you're making the playoffs, but you can't get past the first round or you're, you're making it to this. Maybe you might be making it for you might make it to the semi finals and you just can't break through and you know, you're wherever you're at. If you're stuck and you that's where that idea of creating that breakthrough, creating that breakout is. And that's a lot of what we talk about in that episode is ways to do that. Not just to stop the bleeding, but to do that. So I, you know, as far as this week, I don't have anything to send you to go to your annual football. I'll fly. How? 45 Boston. Let's go. Well, 425 Boston. Yes. But it's, you know, I usually like to find something that kind of relates to the episode topic so that if you downloaded this, you know, JDFB has my entire pistol power offense and it's. It's a very, very in depth is the most in depth system that we have and it's because it's, it's the offense and you can do anything with it. And create anything you want. So if you're looking for a foundation of an offense, what a system looks like I didn't invent it. You know, it's, it's not, it's Bill Mowjoy didn't invent it, but I learned it from him. He learned it from, you know, a lot from the early 80s, Washington Redskins and the Joe Gibbs and that group. A lot of me going back to Don Coriel and just Bill Walsh and all sorts of places that coach Mowjoy learned football from Bobby Boudon, he has pulled a lot of Bob Boudon passing. It's an evolution that came from Bill Mowjoy and then I learned that and I evolved some more, but it's a complete system. And so as we talk about simplifying the playbook and we talk about those things. And in fact, there's a video inside JDFB when you become a JDFB member, Jody and football comm slash membership. You go through our code simple process, which starts with 35 point diagnostic, you felt the kickoff registration. We send you a 35 point diagnostic of where your football program is at right now. Mostly stuff you know, it's as much for me as it is for you just to know where we're at right now. And then I do a video where I talk about our quick start and in that I'm going to send you if you're talking offense, when I send you to a video in the quick start called offensive playbook philosophy and that's going to break down exactly what you need in offensive playbook. We're talking about some of that tonight. But if you're in JDFB, make sure you check out that quick start. If you're not going to jody and football comm slash membership check and you can get into JDFB and like I said, we do the coach of the process. Get you off and running as fast as possible and part of it is that quick start. We'll talk about the offensive playbook. I want to talk about the clinic tonight. We are we are closing in as a time that we record this. We're just outside a month and when this releases next week, we are three weeks one, two, yeah, three weeks in a day from seeing y'all's faces. Jody and you'll flip off dot com backslash 425 Boston is the link but go there and sign up today guys the by time this releases you will have missed the early bird pricing. Unfortunately, but the prices are still very reason very very very fair for especially for what you're getting. You're getting a full comprehensive 425 system. This isn't like you don't you don't need to go do anything else. If you don't have anything in your in your system, you go get this you have a full system. Sure over the year you're going to evolve it. Everyone's going to get back into their internet spaces and find other things they want to add to it to make it there's that's you're going to do that anyway. Right. But when you leave Boston on Saturday, you will have given didn't given the entire system the how the what the why you're going to hear two state champion head coaches that ran Joe's 425 text book didn't make any evolutions and and went on to go undefeated state championships. Well, at least one item. I'm not sure if condo did or not if he was undefeated or not, but these are guys that have proved it works at whatever level you're going to be at. You're also going to get to see the on field install. So you're going to watch we're going to keep some of cons kids there and get there it'll be a problem on a basketball court guys it's cold. And unless they have an indoor which I'm sure they do they're far enough north. But we're going to get the kids out you're going to get to see what an install day looks like. When I talk to Brady bad Brad bear he talked about his installs 20 minutes. He's like we install our defense the 425 defense 20 minutes in the junior haggles out and plays a football game the next day. That's how we have to do it because our timing down here, no clahoma. Same thing though, we're gonna give you a long and field installer and talk drills, we're gonna talk position groups, everything you need to take what you've seen, the notes you've taken and the recordings we end up with. And you're gonna go home and be able to have the full system for your coach. I think it's a wonderful idea to bring your staff. I realize there's a price point there that maybe your staff isn't big enough to get the staff pass. But if you're bringing more than three, the staff pass is for you. And then that way you can all kind of take your own notes and compare notes when you get back. But it's gonna be a wonderful experience. I'm freaking pumped about it. I recommend you get to Boston a day too early and enjoy the sights. If you've never been, it is my favorite city. We're going a couple of days early and I've been there several times. So anyway, go over to jodanjafobal.com/425boston. Get signed up today. The rooms as of today, as of the 10th of February, the rooms were extended, the group rate at the high end there in brain tree, which is right south of Milton. I think it's a 10 minute, probably gonna Uber most people will every day. But they were supposed to close out that group rate on the 11th tomorrow and it got extended to the 18th. So we got a few more days there. So if you're hearing this now, the rooms are not, that closed yesterday. - Just missed it, yeah. - You still just missed that too. So what am I, but hopefully you've seen all the social media stuff 'cause I am posting that social media about every other day at this point. So anyway, we look forward to seeing you guys three weeks out, come to Boston, come see us. There's still plenty of affordable rooms. And if you need to travel, I just do that holler at me and I'll get you to our guy. Awesome. Let's jump into it here, Joe. Part one. So what we're talking about tonight is, kind of the big question, how many plays go into your playbook? How big should your playbook be on offense? We're talking offense tonight. I've heard like how many run plays, how many pass plays? You know, of course in the world, I live in with tags and how many RPOs should we carry and should we run read plays? There's a lot of questions out there about what all you should have. And tonight I think we're gonna answer a lot of those questions and it starts with, and that's why I think you need more than one play 'cause you gotta figure out what your best play is, but building around whatever your best play is each year. The thing that we found that I've found and then a lot of our, most of our coaches have found, you know, in JDFB it's the pistol power off in the system but this applies to any offense that you're on. It really doesn't matter. It's kind of a winged tee concept. It's lots of different systems. You use the same concept. You can apply it to, you know, we're gonna talk specifically run game because that's the vast majority of people will be basing with the run, but you know, if you wanna be an array and base with the array, it's still gonna be the same principles. It's, the principle is there's got to be something. It's no different than your base defense. There's got to be something that is your best play. And what we've found is you don't get to decide what that is and that's if the more that you try to force it, the more frustrated you can become. So like JDFB is the pistol power off in the system. And so I love power. Like, you know, off tackle, down down, kick out, wrap the linebacker, great play. I absolutely love it. In many years, it is our best play. I don't know that it's ever not been a good play, but it's not always our best play. And I can say that year in and year out, I don't know what that's gonna be. And a lot of our coaches and other coaches who have run coach mount joys system and like I said, you know, comes from there. And even Bill himself changed from power to really the last, like decade, really being more about stretch outside zone as his favorite play, his feature play. Just he saw that as being a quote unquote better play, more flexible. And then that said, as much as I love outside zone and there have been years where it has been the best play that we had, I've also had years we couldn't run it at all. Had years where inside zone was terrible. Had years where we only ran inside zone a handful of times 'cause we realized this just isn't getting it. And we would only run it, you know, very sparingly. And we would use other plays to kind of create what we talk about here, but the idea behind this is, number one, identify what your best play is. And in the pistol power offence system, we have five bass plays. We have five quote unquote bass, you know, they're the bass offense. The bass offense is power encounter, which both use the same blocking scheme. So that's one blocking scheme, two plays. Counter is essentially a tag. It's just, it just swaps the guard in the H back who kicks out first. That's really all the changes for us. The direction the quarterback boots away, the quarterback boots away on counter. He pulls out front side on power, that's it. So that is one blocking scheme. And then the other blocking scheme is zone blocking or zone count system. And that's inside zone and then outside zone and outside zone just really changes the aiming point, which changes the footwork, which changes, you know, all has to work together, but really it changes the aiming point of the inside zone to a different spot, to an outside for the offensive line and it changes the, you know, the backfield footwork. And then we have truck toss, which is actually a tag, essentially a tag off of outside zone, where we pin and pull the outside, everybody back side of the tackle, front side tackle is blocking outside zone. The tackle is pulling to block the corner and the, you know, the Y or H, or whoever it is outside of the tackle, pins his guy there. He blocks down handle stack guys. So those five plays, two blocking schemes, five plays, and make up the base offense. And I can say that I have had power be our best play. I have had outside zone be our best play. I have had inside zone be our best play out of absolutely nowhere, because there were points where I was like, we've got to do something different than inside zone, because it just doesn't, it's just not working. And then all of a sudden, the weakest, most inexperienced offensive line that I had had, maybe not the most inexperienced, I take that back because I had one of those even more inexperienced, but they were more physically capable, the physically weakest and almost most inexperienced offensive line that I ever had, and that being created inside zone, be very good at inside zone. Against teams that were much bigger and stronger, it seems like it shouldn't work, but it did. And I'm gonna say they're gonna argue with it, it's gonna run it. I still try to run outside zone way more often than my head coach would like, but, and it never worked, but, you know, I gotta give it a go. Come on. I mean, I just want to win the game, I would just try it and we could yell that and I would go, "Von's, I'm gonna break through, never did." So I've had, I've had, inside zone, outside zone and power over the course of about overall, it's probably been 15 years with this offense, eight of which I was, well, seven or eight of which I was a coordinator for it. No, there's a lot of it, I was the offensive line coach, I was a defense coordinator. I have, I have one team I know where counter was their best play, their feature play, and that seems, sorry, counter intuitive. You know, it seems like, well, how could counter be your best play? They were literally based out of counter. It was the angle of the kickout. And so you would still run power, but, you know, power was the, the, the one that they didn't run that much. I mean, they were times when they ran counter 15 times and power three times in a game. Just, just to interrupt, the, the swarming or the wave or whatever of odd front defenses, I think is what made counter start being base played better than a power. 'Cause it helped you. Getting that four eye double team to down as a pain in the rear versus the four eye never gave me a problem, but the kickout on the, the four tech definitely is easier. Yeah, yeah. So it's, what, yeah. Anyway, sorry, I mean, break your mojo. There's a reasoning why that happens, guy. It's okay to bear with the counter. And, you know, you have to, we can get into all of this week. We do in the pistol bar off the system of coach, I'll do it as red side and white side plays. And you're right, counter is a red side, is a white side play, which is wide, be gap, basically guard uncovered, be gap open. And then red is a reduced side. And so we like to run power to a three tech. We like to run counter to a, to a four, let's say, or a one and a five, you know, so if you were playing a 40 front, you would rather run it to the one and the five than to the, the three tech. We had a JV team that was great at truck toss. And literally their entire offense became truck toss. And we had a really tough look at this years ago. We had this really tough look at it. He was, he was an inside linebacker on JV. He ended up being one of my overranging safeties. Cause he was, he was 140 pounds if that maybe 135. And just very undersized, very tough. And he was the eighth back. And so they would run truck toss, truck toss, truck toss. And he was tiny and he would hide and they would run, we would run each trap, which is fake the toss and run the trap back underneath. And it was the home run. It was essentially the counter, even though it was an inside play. And, but it was just making living. And they were very good at truck toss. And so you would get the defense spread out. And you would get them chasing that toss action. And again, this was JV, but, you know, to a little less discipline in the linebackers maybe, but it just, you know, take what they give you. It worked. It was always there. They still ran power. And the key here is we've got to get so good at this base play, this thing that we're going to do. And you figure out what that is. And this is why we don't install the system and say, okay, this is going to be our base play. And this is why when I do an installation, I want to install everything in five days. And it seems like they're going to be, to be drinking from a fire hose for five days. We're putting the entire run package in all five plays and they are but I feel like we need to do that because we need to find out which one clicks first and then as soon as we figure that out it becomes the and these don't take these numbers as like definitive but it becomes the 50% of our workload is this play 10% here 10% here 10% here of our run game obviously the new ever pass game and everything right and how much that's going to be is how good we're passing everything but the sooner that we can find out what that best play is going to be I just like I said you know if I had stuck to outside zone is going to be our best play I don't know if we would want to gain I don't I would have been fired for sure but if I had just come in and said outlook outside zone the last place I was at outside zone was the best play that we had and we were really good and so come into this place outside zone is going to be the best play that we have luckily I'd been through it with you know teams already figuring out what can you know sometimes we're going to sometimes we're going to that if I had come in and just said outside zones would be our best play period and we're going to invest 50% of our run snaps in practice to outside zone I don't know how good we would have been I don't know that it ever would have clicked and so I didn't want to I don't think you should fight your kids on this and you know I probably fought for power longer than you know because we were good at power and it was this and I'm talking specifically about one team we were good at power but it was just like first of all inside zone has been such a lackluster play for us in a lot of previous seasons that I was just like there's no way so call on it it's working you know the other stuff's not working it's like there's no way and you start to just kind of realize like no we're actually and then we start to dress it up you know and you start to start to dress it up make it look like different things that's but you've got to find that find what that is and and then when you build around your best play the idea is that everything else gets easier we're talking about that later with attacking defensive weaknesses but you've got to have one thing that you're so good at that boring just being flat out overmatched I mean there's look there's there's just no very difficult to go against teams that are just you know we always you four touchdowns four touchdowns better than you you're trying to compete with them if they've got 65 guys and they've got D1s and you've got 25 and you're not sure any of them are D3s like I don't you know it's pretty tough but if we've got to have something that given that we have some kind of chance we feel like we believe we can run this play against everything we can run this against anybody and the only way that they can truly stop this play is to overload it and that's what we're looking for and then when they overload that play that makes the other plays in our playbook easier that's and that's that's kind of the the whole philosophy and I talk about an Arab offense playbook philosophy you're an inside running outside running off tackle run and a counter and then you put a play action off of it and those those five plays your base play your your four run plays in a play action those five plays one of which will be your best usually it's not to play action but it has been I mean I honestly have had seasons where the play action was best one too usually one of those four run plays is going to be your best and then you just when they stop the one that's your best it you there should be another one of those four that you do well enough that when you are absolutely at an advantage you can execute it and get them back into some sort of a base defense where you can get back to your base I wrote an article recently in the I need to get back with you Joe about writing for your website actually but I wrote it for the headsets magazine and I even took it further down than your best play I truly think you need to build around a formation and one play out of that formation and where because we talk so much about perform to a line right guys I am still me I still live in the tag world I still want to show 65 formations a game while my guys ran six that's how I want life to be but I think on day one or or as you're trying to simplify that playbook and get it back down to what do we do best and you're building around that base thing your philosophy should be around a formation and a play that then you can dress up like you talked about Joe for instance I am an 11 p guy but I'm a lie off guy I don't really like tidy and in line probably because we've never had that guy and when we did he was so good agility wise using him off the ball let it gave us a way more of an advantage you know what I mean if I had Jason Witton out there who's just crushing dudes six foot seven maybe I'd feel a little different but giving my little bowling ball a chance to get running and then cleaning someone's clock on the other side of the formation sure is a lot of fun so I even think you can get that far yes one play but what formation makes that play hyper successful you can run GH counter out of anything you can run GH counter out of 10 personnel two by two and put someone in motion they're three by one right you just got to have somebody someone has to come around and be the rap guy but it sure is easy out of 11 p.y. off so I think everything you just said find that base find your core find your identity what is going to be us this year and then how many ways can I make the defense have to guess if I'm actually running at this play or not you talked about being 50% of your workload I understand that does not mean that 50% of your run plays on Friday night are going to be that play heck it might be 80 it might be 20 it depends on whatever they're giving up that night and that's what guys have to understand you can't predetermine how many times you're going to use a play you can want you can want to run a lot but if it's wide open you're gonna run a lot more than you maybe want it to and if they're taking it away you're gonna have to move but building around whatever your best play is out of your best formation with your best 11 on the field that best personnel package like that I think starts the basis for what do we carry in this playbook we've talked many times inside zone or inside run mead run outside run perimeter pass plays the you know counter a bootleg all those good things you absolutely have to have but you better start somewhere we're one of those is causing like you just edge of if no one ever sells out to stop anything you do you're you're doing too much or you're not doing any one thing well enough I guess I should say right I'll say a Bristol like this kind of for us was just the RPO game yeah our counters our gap scheme and all stuff was great but the RPO game was so freaking good that people had to play cover one took our RPO and then they can load the box and then we can kind of manipulate that right anyway I don't want to get too much into here because we're going to kind of move on to that in the second piece but I on top of having your best play I think you better figure out what's my best play formation personnel where am I running on all cylinders and then build around that yeah at a risk of getting too deep into a game planning because that's and we do in the office of play collar system which will be open up at the end of the month I believe not 100% on that for looking some different things a couple things coach mount joy was very much very adamant on the number of formations in three basically three formations six you would say six formations because right and left and that included motion so we hear guys talk about I will have guys come into JDFP and they're like how do you you know we talk about the wristbands well how do I tag the motions on to the wristbands oh no no no no no no the wristband the play on the wristband is motion formation play it's it includes shift includes all of those things you don't tag motions and just see what happens because that because it goes into game planning office play collar system we have a whole thing about scripting and how you script and Kenyla and I've talked about this how you script and the way that we work off of scripts and and you know script doesn't mean run play one run play two run play three one play four we may never get past past play one if this if the formation leads us down a path that works should play one works why am I running out I'm running out still stop I get eight yards and play one run play one again like especially if I walk out there and I line up in a formation and I see you have a misalignment so you're not ready for so again without getting too much into it coach Maldonight and I didn't always agree and especially when we were pretty heavily overmatched it was a lot of smoke in mirrors we used a lot of different looks a lot of different motions a lot of different and we relied heavily on the wristbands my my last year at that school where we want to play off game for the first time in school history but we were outmatched almost every week I mean really truly and the especially upfront just experience wise and and and some of our you know different guys we had some good athletes that who could make things happen but you know we relied on the the pictures from the Ruzki system and and to be able to do all of that but one of the coach Maldonight would always you know talk about there's three formations six total right and left and he would have a chart and he would he would rotate the formation we ran this three weeks ago so now we can come back now we're going to come back to it yeah and he was very big on that and the reason was very simply that and this is what a lot of coaches I think miss out to you, it's just power right with a different formation. Might be a different guy carrying the ball sometimes. We do multiple guys can carry the ball, quarterbacks and run the ball a lot for us, depending on who he is, but usually quarterbacks and run the ball a lot of him. I wouldn't let run the ball at all because he could really throw it and he was only 140 pound, 145 pounds, so I wouldn't wanna run it. Grant Sneak, Grant Sneak really well. The thing that we want though is the thing we have to understand is to those kids, that formation is a new play. Maybe not to your right guard, still got the right tackle next to him, so I got the center next to him, doesn't mean much to him, but maybe I'm running power with the tight end next to him, one play and then the next time running with no tight end, changes the blocking. The next time I'm running it with an H-back, changes the blocking, the next thing, the quarterbacks carrying, it's a different play. And even if it's only a different play for one or two guys, it's gonna change the overall execution of the play. And so it is when you talk about how do we execute at the highest level? I talked about, I've talked before about, even when powers are best played, we wanna run it to the right, 95% of the time. Power right. And we almost always ran it out of either the pro-3, 24 of the best formation. And it's just a tight end with a H-back. People call this a for back, I never, it's just where our H-back is. You know, you'd be somewhere between the guard and tackle a B gap area ready to kick out, or we'd motion in there. And so we go ham pro-3, 24, and he would line up on the left. Ham is H across motion, it's all in our system. I need ham to the three. We always tell him where he's gonna end up, we don't tell him where he's gonna wanna start, we teach him how to start. So we all, once they learned ham, then we would say like start outside, change the number, start as a receiver, end up as a back. That not only changes how many guys are on one side or the other, it changes how many guys are in the back field, and it just gets more movement. But that would be the formation for power right. And so yeah, that's definitely a big deal is formationally. What do you want to be? What do you want to look like? What is your base? What is, you know, and then how does it fit into everything else too? It's a whole different thing. The other thing I mentioned is you talked about, you know, you might run an 80. When we say we're gonna invest 50% of our time in that play, it's because if that play is our best play and we are good enough at it, then it's going to open up everything else, but then Ron Vanderlin is the first person that, I heard say this at a clinic, he was the deep, the coordinator at 10 state, but I'm sure, you know, it's probably a common phrase, I just used the one that said it, and I was like, oh, right, that down, which was balance is not, you know, balance is not running 50% pass and 50% run. This is speaking specifically about running pass, but obviously it applies to any play. Balance is not 50% run, 50% pass. Balance is the threat of being able to run or pass at any time. You might run the ball 80% of the time because they're threatened by the pass and they're giving you an open box. You might have, you have the threat of running an inside run play, an outside run play, an off tackle run play, or counter or play action on any snap and running it relatively well, but, you know, it's not your base play is not going to be run all of the time unless they're not, unless they're not taken it away, but if they take it away, and all the things are going to open up and if they are just committed to, if they come in and say, you are not going to beat us with this play, then you're going to have to beat them with another play. Probably unless you're just better, unless that good at it. 'Cause if I, generally, if I commit to, it's like the double wings, like, you know, if you say, look, you're not going to be just with the run and you put 12 guys in the box, like they will throw it over top of you. It'll look like hell, but they'll complete enough to beat you, like eventually, you know, so. - So yeah, I mean, we kind of have touched on already about executing that play and why we focus on that play, which is really the second part is, that play becomes your identity when you figure out what it is and you invest a high amount of time into that play. You choose your formations. It can be real tempting to look at your formations and say, so not only does it determine your practice planning, we gotta run this, we gotta invest this amount of time in this play. It also, you know, it determines things like, what formations you're going to carry in that game, what motions you're going to carry in that game, because you're looking at what formations and what motions can I use that make this play, you know, optimal. You've got your base formation. We talk about truck toss, truck toss, always needs to be run to a three-man surface. You always need to run it to a trips, you know, whether it's a tight end, H-back, and it's relatively, you know, bunch is a great play for truck toss. So if truck toss is your best play, you might be talking about like, hey, we're gonna be running bunch, we're gonna be running a, what we call, we call pro three, you know, some sort of pro three and the H-back would know that he's in a wing and not in a sneifer position, that's part of the system. You know, you might be using a motion to get to that so that you can try to out-leverd them. We would use a zip motion, we're gonna bring the Z in to seal. So like, you know, you would use different motions to set that play up. And then you're, the rest of your call sheet is basically, okay, if this formation doesn't work, setting up truck toss, what did it set up? So if they adjusted so hard to this formation, so let's say that I ran a ham motion, I ran an H across motion to try to get an edge on them and they slid everybody or they ran with the motion and added an extra defender over there. What does that open up for me? Does it open up toss? Does it open up inside zone? Or to me, it was over the counter. I was open up, you know, maybe they're blitzing your motion. Does that open up play action off of it? Like what opens up from that play? But it's all built around the fact that you believe that you are so good at this play, that if they don't do something pretty drastic enough to notice that if they just don't react to your motion or they don't react to that formation or they don't, you know, that you are going to be able to run that play on them all night. You know, talking about making that play, executing it and I kind of jumped into it a little bit earlier picking a formation and here we're talking, as you're trying to figure out what your playbook's gonna look like and how much you need to carry on top of that play, you're right, first you gotta figure out what makes it operate the highest level, right? If you're a GT counter guy because you wanna be in 10p a lot and so that HBAC's not there, it's a beautiful thing. We've had a ton of success around a GT counter out of our empty stuff even, right? Just quarterback run game. I think you better start highlighting which kids can make that operational. If you don't have the line to make, to have kids pulling and you don't have any linebacker types that are willing to put on a big kid number, you might have a little more problem. You talked earlier about Inside Zone, you know, it was miraculously your best place some years. And I laugh 'cause I hear coaches, I have a ton of faith in but that, you know, well, if you don't have a good align, it's hard to run zone stuff. That's what I thought. Have you ever tried to pull a kid who has no feet? (laughs) Like, and do you get rid of an HBAC or a wide receiver so that you have one pulling guard? Anyway, there's a lot of stuff going on out there, but you know, carrying the tools that make that play become more successful. Obviously, once again, I do live in the tag world. So that toolbox for me, we're always carrying, number one, I'm just gonna stick with my one, my favorite formation for whatever that play is, okay? Then we're gonna carry three or four tags that mix that thing up because I need, we talked about window dressing earlier, rather dressing up our favorite play. That's why I do that. It's just change the formation a ton, right? If it is Inside Zone, if it is a gap scheme, whatever, right? So having those abilities to answer questions and people are giving your play problems is wonderful. Once again, I know we're not trying to touch into game planning too much, but, you know, your playbook has to be, I think, just dense enough, at least one, right? And I think I'm at the point where I will never not have an RPO, even if my quarterback can't throw it and I put him on a constant, you're never throwing this read. We're running one out there just to make it look like, to add complexity to what we're doing, right? For the defense to break down. Thank you, good, another good thing about, you know, minimizing this down and getting started with a small amount of plays you talked about earlier, a little bit Joe's, just that ability to, to just coach all the very, the minutia, if you will, like all the small details, right? So we make it more successful against more fronts. We make that put. And, you know, obviously, guys, we're talking a lot of run game. If you're, once, if you're past game guy, you're worried about coverage is more than fronts, probably, but if I have a play that we're good at, I want to keep us good at it. I have to make sure that my guys can run it against anything. Yeah, you really covered all the rest of it, honestly, on how to execute that play, the one play that you're trying to build out and make it super successful. I don't really have a lot to add on top of all the things you said. Let's jump to the third part here. And we're going to talk about attacking a defense's weaknesses. So now we go from offensively planning, or carrying tools to make us offensively better. In case you're trying to take our stuff away, right? We need to make sure this play successful. But now we're kind of transitioning to like carrying things in our playbook that give us answers when they start showing a weakness. So how do you do the difference there and separating those? We don't focus here on the answer to the question at the beginning of episodes, how many plays you need? Because we're going to get into identifying those defensive weaknesses next week, and the four weaknesses of a defense that we talk about in the defensive playcar system, and in numbers, bubbles, angles, bubbles, space, we're going to get into those. I think it's one of those next week specifically about identifying those weaknesses. But when we talk about, okay, how many plays do you need? If I were to just start talking about weaknesses, it would start filling out the playbook. But if you look at the base way to start is simply this, inside run, outside run, off tackle run, and a counter. And so what we look at is, do I have a way to attack the inside? And we can just start with numbers as a weakness, okay? Just the simplest place to start your run call, your game planning, your play calling, is, if I got more guys than they do, I should probably go there, right? If I run trips and they're in a base defense, that a balanced defense that doesn't react to the trips, I should probably go to the three receiver side. If they over adjust to the trips, that was one of the number one things, especially with outside zone, with Coach Moucho, is that if we had three by one, and the quarterback needed to look backside, and if he saw three guys backside, check it to 27, check it to outside zone, we left, or, you know, the backside was almost always left, so check it to outside zone, weak, because we are gonna have a center, a guard, an tackle, they're going to have three guys, and we like those numbers, right? There are three block there, three, and we're off the races. They don't have a force defender, 'cause they've rotated them over or something like that. And we would do things to try to create that look, and try to make that happen. Motion over, and see if they'll run with motion, and take their force player there, and okay, well now we gotta fly over. But, so that's an example of making a check to get there rather than just, but, so the, the first thing is, okay, let's say that they empty out the middle, right? They're just killing them off tackle, and so they load up the C gaps, and the A gaps are open, and I've definitely been in situations where, they are in double threes, what we call an out-off front, double-three techniques, and I don't know why, but they are, and we just need to attack the A gaps. So that's one, right? Just call your inside zone, your dive, your wedge, something, right? It's just open. So, you know, we need an inside run for if that's there. If they pack the A gaps, and they play, you know, A gap, B gap, and then the next guy is in a ghost nine technique, C gap area is open, the off-tack area is open, so I need an off-tackle play. If they squeeze everybody down, A gap, B gap, C gap, and they've got their force player right there on the edge two, I need a way to attack the perimeter. I need a toss player, something. If they move everybody over, because we've got a tight end and a wing, then I need a counter play. So, just based on numbers, I know that I need an inside run, an off-tackle run, an outside run, and a counter. Now, what if they bring everybody down in the box? And again, the best thing back to your point is we do all of this out of the same formation, because it all looks the same at the start. This is the starting point, right? We all know we love formations, we love tags, we love all this stuff, but this is the starting point of how many plays do I need. Okay, with they bring everybody down in the box, what do I need? Well, I need a play action. Corner starts getting up there, being the fourth defender, making tackles, you know, yeah, I need to, like, and it's just real easy to start to put this together. Okay, that's what I need. Start there, and then you'll be able to identify some other things pretty quick, because you look at, when you look at the film, and again, you don't have to do this, guys, we put all this together for you. Every system has this stuff, but it's just an understanding of how to use it and how to put it together. But if you go to JDFB and the principal office system, we've got this all put together for you. If you go off into play car system, we talk about all this. But if I just start with those five, and I go out in my first game, I'm a pretty good shape, right? Everything you can do to stop that base play, so how many plays do I need? Well, I need five, four runs in a play action. I probably need a quarterback draw. I probably need a screen for different reasons. They're pinning your ears back. I need to be able to screen them. You know, they're flying out past, past drop. I don't know why they do that, but, you know, it's starting to over something like that, because you don't have any past plays in solid or the play action, but, you know, so we have, and I have a draw. Obviously, we need like a quarterback sneak, something that, you know, quick hitting, short yardage. You know, those are the kind of the, the plays that are just are. But we go out and we run that, you're muted. We go out and we run, we run that, and we play our first game, and it goes fine. We've got a good, we've got a good base. And then we look at the film and we go, "Man, you know, a good game." But, you guys noticed their corners were playing 10 yards off all night. What if there was a way we could attack that, and you go, "Huh, we need a hitch or a stop or something, or a bubble or something to attack that weakness?" Well, you had a hitch. And the next week you've got your hitch, and you thought a few times, 'cause they haven't seen you attack the 10-yard off corner yet, and the corner comes up, and you go, "What if there's a way we could throw up behind him?" And you put in a fade. These are, when you start to talk about attacking weaknesses. So, how many plays do you need? How many weaknesses do you need to attack? How many things do you need? I talk about our base playbook has an inside run, an outside run, a counter, and two off tackle runs, outside zone and power, or both off tackle. They both, the important of the back is, essentially, see gap, different ways. And it's because, now I don't know if this was Bill's total reason and logic when he put it in, but this is why I continue to run both of them, and I recommend that if you can, if you're going to run both, you run both. This is why. If the defensive end wants to crash, to take away power, then outside zone becomes open. It's easy to hook your defensive end if he's trying to crash for power. So, and if he wants to sit outside to stop outside zone, to force the cut back, number one, I'm okay with forcing the cut back, but let's say there's a bunch of linebackers inside. They're really good. I don't know. Then I want to kick them out, I'm about. So, each one solves a different weakness. They both attack the same area, but again, it's in a way that the angle is being created. So we talk about the different weaknesses. We have a better angle with one than the other. Well, we have each one of them has a different angle. And so it gives an advantage because that becomes a weakness, even though the numbers didn't change, the angle changed. So, the answer to the question is, if you start with those five, you'll have the base. You'll have a good starting point. And I always recommend other than the youngest youth programs, I always recommend, you know, start with those five and a hitch and a faith. Maybe near your basic quick game, hitch, faith, maybe slant. You're your basic, basic quick game. And that can be for the guys who are like, you'll never want to game with that. Shut up, dude, I'm talking about the people who are just trying to get a base offense in. Okay, settle down. They win a lot of games with it, by the way. If you just, if you started, you know, say, a middle school team, say a young, a day of struggling, far-steed team just needs to get something going. If you just started with, and inside running with the five base plays, with the base quick game, three quick game throws. And then you're, you would have a very good start. And then you start to identify things that your players do well, that give them a more admit advantage, things that you can do. So, you know, is sprint out necessary? No. May it be a play that you want to have in your offense because you could be very good at it. Yeah. Another one to add, just one more thing to add, triple option. If you decide to be a triple option, let's say you decide to be a flex-bone option team, okay? Or as some sort of a triple option, split-back Vier. Even if you try to decide to be a zone-reteam. Remember that, let's say you're a split-back Vier team, that has an inside run, the dive, an off-tack or run, the quarterback, and an outside run, the pitch. So how many plays do you need? Two runs. 'Cause you need a counter and a play action. But you're very expensive, one run. But you're going to be spending, but now take that and remember that you're going to spend not 50% of the time on that. You're going to spend 60, 70% of the time on that play and get really good at it because it is the play. And so, that's where option plays come in. And RPOs accomplish a lot of the same thing because you start to combine your passes, you're whether you RPO a bubble, that's essentially an outside run for you. If you RPO a stick or something, then that's like your hitch or whatever, that's kind of your short passing. So those start to accomplish, you start to look at those as accomplishing multiple things, which is why you don't need nine different option plays. You don't need 12 different RPOs. Your RPOs accomplish certain things and they build to what they build to. So, I mean, that's the answer to the question of how many plays do I need. It's way less than those people think. And then over time, it will start to get bloated because you will start to add in an answer. So like you'll see something in your game planning for a team. Just keep this in mind as you go through the season. Now, it's not always looking back on last week's game and you go, wish we could have attacked that weakness, especially assuming that you are high school of varsity, film exchange, all of that. You're going to see things that you want to attack in the exchange film. And so you would stall a play to attack that film. If I install one to attack last week stuff and one to attack this week stuff, I just installed two new plays this week. I multiply that and when we started with five, I multiply that over 10 weeks. By the time I get to the playoffs, I have 25 plays. Ish in there, right? That's. And then we talk about we love the formation, then we love the tags and we love the, that's how we end up having way too many wristbands. So, you know, that happens, but that's, I don't want to go through this episode and not answer that question. That is the answer to the question. It's maybe not as easy as saying. Some guys will say, you know, you need eight runs, five passes, three play actions, two screens. It's not that simple. Yeah. I love how you do things are somewhat different from me because-- Well, and I don't know that you personally do. But when you talk about like, hey, if you look at last week and you say, we have to add a play to take care of that disadvantage that they were at, we couldn't take it. This is why I think this new tagging thing is the future of offensive football because that could just be a tag. I don't-- if it is a corner that's 10 yards off, right? We just need to get a hitch or an out route or whatever. It could be an RPO that gets you there. Like you said earlier, Joe, it could be a bubble. But that doesn't have to change what the other nine guys on the field are doing, right? So I think as you guys have listened to this episode and you're going, okay, okay, my five base plays and then I'm going to add in a run play, a pass play. So that's number six. Well, I want two pass plays because like you said, over the back or they up. So now I'm at seven plays. You're already-- I don't know that we don't run. We might be at 10 plays in our offense that just last all year. You live in that tagging world where I can tag this and it switches to guys and lets them do something different this week to take advantage. And then we don't have to run that tag next week and so we-- you don't have to add the play, which is I think I love about the tagging system. I know you tag a ton, too, Joe. So you guys that are freaking out like, man, I got to the end of season. I don't have 25 plays or whatever it is. That's okay. The bloat does happen no matter what. And what I've seen is the evolution happens and it's hard to unevolve. It's hard to get back to those five base things. Your five base things have gotten two or three tags that feel permanent now. One of ours is our inside zone. We don't run base inside zone and we run zone insert. That's our base now. To one point, that was a tag to answer for a backside inside linebacker who was a nuisance. You insert that H back inside. You lock on the backside defensive end. Now I don't have to worry about an offensive tackle trying to climb to a really good inside backer. I'm letting more of an athlete do it. Anyway, that became our base. And then we tag on top of it and then we tag on top of that. So that is, you know, you can still end up in this place where you're carrying way too much stuff. But anyway, I do agree. We have answered the question. You know what you need? You got to be able to hit them at the base numbers. Like you said, Joe, and next week, I'm looking forward to next week when we're really breaking to all the defensive weaknesses that they can show you. Because then you'll really see where, whether it's play installation or tags or formations, whatever it is. And then we'll really start picking people apart with just little changes. Anyway, we'll get in that next week. Yes. I would be careful with the tags for coaches. Because, yeah, we do. So if you want to know our base system is five run plays, but essentially two blocking schemes. So, you know, 24 and 24 counter. GH counter is a tag for us. If you want to go that would just switch the responsibility to guys. Same thing. I mean, she's getting it. She's looking at our, so we have five run plays. Three of them are off of the zone scheme. Two of them are off of the gap scheme. Same block scheme across the board. Same counter system in the zone scheme. We have three, excuse me, two quick games, 6061 and 6263, which is traditionally has been Hitch Seam is 6061. But we start running more as an all Hitch as a base. But 6061, which is Hitch Seam and 6263, which is slant flat. St. Stuart, St. Flat. And then we have five drop by passes. So we have 5051, which is smash. We have 52 53, which is post out. We have 54 55, which is deep out. We have 5657, which is curl, curl flat. And then we have 58 59, which is poke out, which is a post corner or shake route. So all of that said, if you look at what we do with 6061, 6061 is Hitch Seam. 60 up is four verts because it just tells the outside guys to run it up. 60 up, HY out is a bench concept. We've got a vertical and an out route. So you know, 6061 out and up is or Hitch and go. We've called it 60, excuse me, 60 and go would be Hitch and go. Okay. So like those are all tags in that in that family. And so, but that said, they are all different routes, all different reads for the quarterback. So while it is simple to say this is what we're doing, we're just tagging it. It does add to the quarterbacks, the things the quarterback has to do, the things the receivers have to do. Some guys can handle more of that. Some guys can handle less. The beauty of the system, when you look at the system, especially the outside breaking routes that we were on the base before you start tagging stuff, a Hitch and a slant are caught in the exact same spot that the exact same throw a deep out, a curl, a post are actually all caught in the exact same spot when you are when you're in it and a corner are essentially caught basically in the act, especially those those three inside breaking or all caught up corner. You know, the post, the post route is caught in the same spot, especially on the same spot. So if you look at the curl route, nine big two little come back. So let's say 10 to 12, coming back 12 to 10, coming back to the quarterback, it's caught at 10 yards, he's at a 12 yard split. So it's 12, it's 12 yard split, 10 yards up. If we were on the deep out, you reduce the split, he throws it on the break. And so it's caught in the exact same spot, 10 yards, he breaks out a couple yards and boom, it's thrown on this exact same spot. The post route is going to break to the corner, seven step, seven, about seven and to the corner and he's going to, he's supposed to throw it. It doesn't always happen, but he's supposed to throw it so he aligns a little bit wider and he breaks and the ball comes right, the post is supposed to be thrown on the break, not in the middle of the field. And so he throws the post on the break, it should hit the exact same spot. All of those are supposed to, the first regor supposed to hit in the same spot. So the quarterback is always making the same throw to the same spot over and over and over again with just a different trigger for it. I love it. I stay in corrected. I said not the post, but you're right, you are a hamper set correct. The corner is different because the corner is thrown to the number two receiver. So, but the outside receiver is running a hitch. So it's, it's hitch, right? It's still hitch. Yeah. Awesome, man. I think we checked all the boxes with that. You guys hopefully have a better understanding of what needs to be in your playbook. Guys, you're going to evolve and you're going to carry more whether we tell you to or not. We can tell you not to and you'd probably do it just despite. I do too. I always, I'd always get bloated and you just kind of turn back. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to get bloated here. Even this year doesn't have to get undebloded, but as you get new guys in, you better make sure that they can all still do the things that you expected last year's class to do. And I don't, I don't think you can carry that expectation year over year. You're just going to, you're going to fall off somewhere and get better somewhere, right? Other kids are going to need more and you weren't giving them enough. So just make sure you're evaluating. Before you move on with your day or night or whatever you were recording at night. So, you know, do one simple thing. This episode of someone in your football world, it's just, it's just good conversation to pass along. Like I said earlier, you know, if it's a space that you can come in and get something to think about, you know, we're at that part of the offseason, where it's time for coaches, just really put good thought into why you're doing stuff. Why are you carrying most of your clenching is most states, I think, are already done. So now you're just going to your glazers and you're getting online. Just ensure that whatever you're looking at, you have a why behind it. Do they a lot of self thinking there? Let's not be talking about offensive playbook philosophy, kind of how much to carry in your playbook, building around your best play. How can you execute that play at the highest level and then attacking your opponent's defensive weaknesses next week. I'm sorry. Last week we talked about how to fix a losing culture in your football program next week. We're on to calling offensive plays to exploit defensive weaknesses. So like Joe said earlier, we kind of did some foreshadowing, we're getting into a lot more defensive weaknesses, how to look for them and then how to take advantage of them. Stora level up, Joe, where you at, sir? We finally got sun. I say one of the things that it takes a lot of time when we do the, you know, our kind of new coach onboarding, which is called the coach simple process. You know, we have the kickoff diagnostic, the kickoff registration, which when you sign up, you get a registration and it just tells us about your program, you know, what the goals are, what the what the strengths are, what the obstacles are, all of that sort of stuff, what you're interested in doing, which, you know, which, which try to do with JDFP. We use that to create a 35 point diagnostic to let you know where your program is at right now. Then I do a personalized video where I talked to you about the, the road out to victory and what, what the low hanging fruit based on what you've told me, what the things that I would focus on first just to get you started. And then we schedule your one on one coach call where we really get into the specifics of, okay, you know, what do you need? If you're not sure about what system to run or how to install or what you need or, you know, more specific questions, we make sure that you come out of that coach simple process with everything you need to dive into JDFP and get going and that you don't start off stuck that you don't sign up and, you know, not use it for free months or anything like that. We want you to get in there and get to work. And then we continue to support you with the chalkboard community forum and the chalk talk Q and A calls that we do monthly in the off season and every week during the season. That is a time consuming process as you can imagine for me, you know, a one on one call, phone call with every single new coach, but also taking a lot of time to do that. do just the initial, we call roadmap to victory video, that first video that I get to you, and I wanna get that to you as soon as we can. And it was taking so much time because what happens when somebody signs up is the kickoff registration comes in one place. Your information is in another place, which is in our CRM and everything. Then we had another thing that's tracking, whether you've signed up for that coach call or not, so that I can say on there, hey, look forward to talking to you on February 18th, or do you need a link for this? Let me know so we can get you signed up for it. I wanna get you on that call. I don't try to sell you anything on that call. I ask you a question to know more about your football program. I ask you one basic question, and then I hope that you talk about whatever you wanna talk about. It's your time. This week, I was like, I can't take anymore. I'm just taking 15 minutes to send a three or four, or five minute video depending. It's always, if you ask about offensive line, you're getting a longer video. But most of the time, it's pretty short forward, but I have to get all the information. I gotta find all this information. And so I was going back and forth, Chatchy PT and I sat down to figure out how to pull all this information into one place. We started working on using Zapier, which can pull different things from different places. And I was trying to put it into a Google Doc. And of course, Chatchy PT always thinks it can do things, whether it can or not, and you get down the road. And you get down the road and you're like, hey, I can't do this. And it goes, oh yeah, I can't do that with the Google Doc. And I'm like, what, you just told me this is-- - It's eyes. - So there is, so this is for everybody who may need to do this. Maybe you're keeping all of your weight room information in a Google sheet. There is a thing, it's part of Google Workspace. It's $10 a month if you don't have it. Luckily, we have, because we use Gmail for all of our email and everything. And with this aside, we have Google Workspace. There is a thing called App Sheet that literally all it is is an app to turn your spreadsheet rows into a readable on your phone or on your desktop app. So I had to use, I'd finally got some web hooks and all that sort of stuff to pull the information from the right places. But then I got what I wanted, which is this very nice all information in one place. I mean, it's not pretty. It's just a white background information there. I don't even think it has like a dark motor or anything. But Friday, I think about 8.30 is when chat GPT figured out the right thing to use. And about 12.30 Friday night, Saturday morning is when I finished it. I was so happy, 'cause this has been a problem forever, forever. And I didn't want to pull somebody on my team off of other things they need to be doing to make this, 'cause it seems like something that should be automation. - Yeah. - And so it just felt so good. Now I screwed up the import of the Zapier, ran about 18,000 apps more than 82, which cost a lot of money. Got that fixed today or yesterday with some web hooks. And so I think now we've had a couple of new coaches come in and it's worked really well, but that's my level up. There's a, if you've got things that are in a Google Sheet and you want them to get into it more, 'cause it's just impossible to read a row. You know, they get a wrap and the row is disappearing and you wrap it and some guys put long responses and all of a sudden the wrap is covering. It's great. I appreciate the long responses 'cause it means I know what's really going on, but it messes everything up and you just presides on the rows and everything. And then again, I got multiple sheets. That's just so great to have it all. It's one. And what I wanted more than anything else was to be able to just put the notes in. We get off that call and you've been telling me about, you know, I didn't have a good way to do it. We don't have a CRM like that. It's not, you know, we just don't have something like that where I could manage all the information and be able to pull it up quickly. So now, let's talk and do a coach. Talking about his team. Is in England season starts May 3rd. I'll tell you about the team. I look up the team and like, this is like, this is like, you know, a professional team in England and one of the first, I believe maybe the first American football team in England. And so I'm like, I want to remember this stuff. Like I don't want it to be like a new conversation. I have a lot of these conversations. I can't remember it all, but I want to record it all so that I know when I talk to you, maybe you send in a question for the next chalk talk and I can look up real quick because you didn't mention what Frontier run and I can look up real quick and I can say, I'll have somebody talk there and install in 45. So very happy with it. There you go. I'm glad you found a solution. I don't have that problem personally, but I have had, first of all, chat Gbt will just flat out lie to you. Absolutely lie to you. Flat out lie to you. Chappy Gbt set me up from like, okay, hour one day. Let's make this big thing. We're extract all this data out of the internet. And then it said, oh, I can't actually do that within my web browser. But then my, yeah, I was like, but by all means, if you want to go get that data and upload it to me, then I can work within a parameters blah blah blah blah. The worst one was it's like, do you want me to export it as a PDF? And I'm like, that'd be great. And it's like, I can't do that. (laughs) - Why did you ask? Why did you ask? - I hate jerk. - What a jerk. - My level up. I have looked for the alternative chat Gbt. And like, there's a big thing. I just, I haven't found one. The, I use it more for like building, you know, the podcast graphics and stuff like that. Like, and it's really good at images. It's not the greatest at others. Like they all have a strength and I'm working all, but I'm not paying $40 a month for-- - I was using Gemini because it's included in our Nurgle Google workspace stuff. And I was liking it for a while. And we got on one thing and it was so far off and worse than chat Gbt ever was. - Chat Gbt leads you down the wrong road. But Gemini was so far off. And I don't remember what it was, but I can tell you because it's the last conversation that I had in Gemini. And I was just like, I mean, I was using it like, consistently for probably a couple of weeks. I was using it as my primary AI. And then, and liking it. And then it just did one thing that it was just like, so wrong. I was just like, chat Gbt has never been this wrong. And I was just like, all right. - I'll talk about chat Gbt a little bit and I'm actually have a real level up and then we'll move on. And then we'll close out of here. But my wife laughs because chat Gbt, you can do the talk, right? Where it just puts in a voice conversation. So when I'm driving down the road, obviously I'm not gonna text and drive too much. And so I'll just click the mic and I'm like, all right, let's go. And I'm having a conversation. And she's like, you were so weird when you talked to that thing because it's like talking to like a person. Well, yeah, I wanted to respond to me like a person. I'm picking the brain of the most intelligent human on earth to solidify what I'm doing or. - Maybe a little overconfident, but in very telling me. - Yeah, yeah, validate or, you know, or maybe I'm trying to learn. How many times have my son asked me some random question? I'm like, let's ask, hey you. And then it just talks to us. And it's so, they've got it so too fine tune. Like it's, it's wide. Anyway, I, it's, do you name yours? - No, is that a thing? - I have mine's got a name. - Oh no, I gotta give it a name now. Am I still the generic voice? I don't know if you can even get off the generic female voice or not. I don't know. - You can't, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, I'll have left it all the same. I feel less intimidated when it's not like some burly dude yelling at me. It's just, you know, she's nice. So it's nice. - She's nice. Yeah, I mean, I still use that one, but I've experimented with others, but yeah. - My real level of love. - Sometimes I use her to like read sometimes I've had her like make up a story to tell my son. And I don't want her. - Hey, we wrote books, man. I'll send them to you. So you can have an idea of what you gotta prompt it. And then it just writes books about your kid. It's so cool. My level of, so because I already did the face thing earlier, really, I just want to tell you guys, you know, my big thing this week was finally broke 10 days on carnivore slash keto. And I did it this time by being less carnivore strict, but 100% keto strict. What's the difference? Like, there's not a ton. I don't eat any vegetable still, but like, I had to find ways to end craving. So my, like, I'm a chips and dip guy. And I may have said this last, but I can't remember. It's been so long ago. Peace my face is missing. So I can't remember anything. - Stress cool. - But I had to have like the dip, like, I just want to chip and dip and eat and crunchy. And so I got pork rinds and cream cheese completely solved it. So there's like things like that where it's like, which is the, the cheese is in in carnivore. And pork rinds are just fried fat. I mean, pig fat. So whatever. It's all the same. Anyway, but the best thing so far has been, we just went and bought two huge full days and had them last night and like, but either. It takes a little bit to get used to cooking steak every day, because you know, it's kind of, every guy has his way. I've always just smoked mine and then cook them for a crust. And that gets old. Fire, smoker, waiting on it, cooking two steaks. But I also don't want to be reheating something cold anyway. But I've got like my skill. It's figured out all the things are good. I can do it real fast. So I will try to get some updated numbers. I noticed my weight didn't stall, but slowed down. How fast it's coming down. But my body fat percentage is still like plummeting. So it's good. So if you guys are looking for carnival, I had flay and in eggs last night. There's nothing wrong with having flay, minyon and steak for freaking it's so good. Anyway, get on the carnival guys. It's a really good excuse to just be like the manliest man that you've ever been. We don't want potatoes and greens. You don't have to eat greens anymore. You just eat red meat. It's fine. It's perfect. Let's play the business one more time. Get out here, too. If you're interested. Just to power off in system, go to JodyNofuba.com/membership and you can jump in there and you get access to the entire system. It's massive. Not overwhelming, you can pull the things that you want, but if you want the more in depth you want to go, you can do it. If you want to get into the tags, we have the variations, all this for stuff and all the tags and all of that. But the bait, if you just want to know the base, run system, there's a module one is all about the formations and how we tag our motions and that. And then module two is, I believe, module two is all about the zone run game, inside zone, outside zone, module three and truck toss. Module three is all about the power counter. I think module four we get into the passing game. So I don't remember, I think module four might be pass protection and module 'cause I start there 'cause I'm off to flying guy. - Yeah. - So I mean, then we get into variations to all the things and different things that you can do, game planning, how to attack different fronts and how to put it all together. And it is legit and it works. I mean, it works. I'll help you figure out, you know, so you don't get overwhelmed on written fire hose. I'll figure out where to start, a lot of our coaches start with just either zone or power counter, some coaches start with both. It's all there and then it's, you know, pick it up. That's it. - It's still by far the best base that I could have ever hoped for. And like I said, it is the old, I mean, you can keep adding to it. It'll take you through whatever you need it to. I was lucky enough to dive into like four different offensive systems, but I still install in zone first because I need the count system for my pass pro. So, you know, I mean, like it's still like the ultimate. - Yep. - I love it. Everything about it is just so good. Even if my philosophy changes, that stuff doesn't change. So it is really good. Keeping a good base. I remind you the 425 clinic coming up in Boston, Massachusetts, March 13th and 14th. We will be that evening on the 13th. We have a social that night. And then the 14th is an all day thing. All hands on deck and we get the kids out and we get to do some install on the field install. Going through some drills. It's gonna be a great time like I said. We got a couple state championship coaches that have played it with just the base 425. They're coming to talk about their pieces and what they liked about it and how they any modifications they made or whatever. It's gonna be a great time to see, take it an in depth look at one system. And then you can go over to jose. jodanielfootball.com and look how everything you learned about the 425 that complete base system, it does not matter what numbers you put in front of it. You're gonna be able to modify it. So if you need to be three, four for personnel, it's the same stuff. Everything we do is gonna be the same. If you wanna run odd stack, if you wanna run four, three, whatever. It doesn't matter. So even if your team runs something different, you can come here and get a great base install, a fundamental install for you mentally and then go and run whatever the heck you need to. But the 425 system is great. I had strayed Joe, I had strayed to the 3, 4 because the, you know, show me your friends. I'll show you your future. All my friends are three, four weirdos. And I watched one with struggle a little bit this year and a 3, 4 answering some questions. And two, I turned back on Brent Vinnable's defense and he is a base 4, 2, 5 guy. Of course he carries an odd front. He carries all the same stuff. But Manit Shrews nice to see four dudes with their hand in the dirt, getting after it. Right, and you're just making things happen on the back end. So I'm back, baby. Back to the 425 installed on everywhere I ever lived. It's gonna be great. Which cells are open and closing? You said you didn't know what was opening and closing. You had no one to be-- - Not sure. - Thinking off its play car system, maybe have some other different things happening. So yeah, not 100% right now. - The store is open, correct? - Some things are up in the, the store is open, but there's the 33 stack. Not everything is in the store right now. We're kind of reorganizing things right now. - There we go. - More later. - Jump over and get in where you fit in. - You can jump into JDFP. You're gonna get access to all the systems, go to JDFP, go to jdnofableball.com/membership, get access to all the systems there. - Absolutely. - Send us some good information. - And you'll get the roadmap, the coachable process. We'll walk you through, we'll get to 35 point diagnostic, the videos, the roadmap videos, the 101 coach call with me. So it's a good place to start. Drop in for a month. - Love it. - Social media, I'm @coachchainbo, okay. You can fire me on, oh, excuse me. Twitter/x, you can email me at www.chairmail.com/[email protected] and all the other places. Joe, where are you, Esther? - I am @jdnofableball on Twitter, or @jdnofableball on Instagram, @fableinfo on x, and some other places, Facebook.com/jdnofableball. 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