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A Falcons Football Year in Review and Accomplishments:
Last yr. I told our program & anybody I talked to: We will go over .500 & make playoffs. I got trolled, laughed at, and told the Power Raid wouldn’t work at Green Hope. Well what we accomplished:
40 minutes and 40 seconds of Me ( CoachTF) teaching Stick concept with Game footage…Numerous QBs and receivers…Unique and different formations…How to Coach the QB…Details!!!
To the Christian athlete/coach:
Remembering where our true identity rests can be challenging, especially when we are frequently met with expectations, wins and losses, performance, stats, injuries, and a multitude of earthly values/challenges that can fade/strip our joy, and make us quickly forget the gifts we’ve been given by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
A lot of us have heard the saying “Audience of One,” and a lot of us say it often. Which is great. However, it can be hard to remember the truth of that saying in the heat of everything. I remember in college specifically asking one of my community group friends at church (who now plays in the NBA) how he kept this a constant aspect of his life as an athlete because we face a lot of the same struggles as Christian athletes/coaches.
So, what is something we can do to help us remember this when we’re the man or woman in the arena?
What my buddy talked to me about, and what I ended up learning from him and implementing into my own life, was giving myself a constant visual reminder when I was on the field so I could actually remember the truth of it.
In the dirt by my feet at shortstop, I would write “AO1” before the first inning of every game and rewrite it as the game went on so it was always there. (When we played on turf, I would write it on my wrist tape or somewhere else.)
The point was that I looked down at some point before every pitch, and I wanted it to be somewhere I looked often, somewhere that blocked out all the noise, where I couldn’t see ANYTHING other than “AO1.”
This was my reminder that I had been given the platform and gift of baseball to honor Jesus, and that I wasn’t playing for the approval of a worldly audience that will find every reason to disapprove at some point. Rather, I was playing for an audience of ONE who already approves of me always and forever, no matter what happens in ANY baseball game.
The weight this took off my shoulders, and still does, is indescribable. It helps the former athlete and coach in me remember what the real purpose of this platform of baseball (or any sport) is: to know Jesus as my Savior and help make Him known to those who don’t know Him, and to use the gifts he’s so graciously given to honor him and nothing else. When I start to feel the weight of everything else, this helps free me, and I’m only free because of Him and the price He paid on the cross.
This changed everything for me when I fully understood AO1 and committed to remembering the importance of keeping that mindset. I hope it can do the same for you. It’s great to say it, but it’s even better to help yourself remember it as much as you possibly can.
This is a great play-action concept off of power read.
➡️The Post is the alert.
➡️The Rail stretches the defense horizontally.
➡️The Shallow occupies underneath defenders.
➡️The Dig settles into the void created by the movement.
Every route has a purpose.
🎯 1. POST:
🔺 (Alert vs Quarters) The "Y" attacks the near upright at 10-12 yards and forces the safety to make a decision.
🔺Drive on the dig and give up the post? Carry the post and vacate the zone underneath?
🔺Either way, this concept has answers.
🎯 2. RAIL:
🔻The Rail route is the engine of the concept.
🔻By widening to the sideline, it stretches linebackers and safeties horizontally, creating space for everything happening behind it.
🔻Most young QBs stare at the post.
🔻Understand the Rail is what makes the concept work. Get to it quick.
🎯 3. DIG:
🔺As defenders expand with the Rail and react to the Post, the shallow/dig arrive into the vacated windows.
🔺Easy completion & a chain mover.
🎯 4. SHALLOW:
🔺The Shallow route cleans up the picture.
🔺Against zone, sit in grass. Against man, keep running.
🧠 Quarterback Coaching Point
🔻Don't chase the big play.
🔻Read the conflict players.
🔻If the safety carries the Post, eyes to Rail.
🔻If FS gets nosy, take the Post over the top.
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