No one knows when or if the 2020 High School Football Season will start. But we need to be prepared. 

I’ve heard this question a lot - so today’s episode is not a response to one particular question. It’s a response to a lot of questions from a lot of places, and related to the pandemic that is affecting all of our lives right now. 

How long does a High School football team actually need to get ready? I’ll share my thoughts on it here (and it’s not long). But football coaches are going to have to be prepared to get your team ready in that time. 

Send in your questions for the JDFB Quick Clinic by messaging me on Twitter @footballinfo or sending an email to me at joe@joedanielfootball.com.

Now these are some good questions. Time to get back in a different sort of mailbag. 

Usually when we do a mailbag show, it’s just a huge collection of stuff that wasn’t enough for a full episode from my Twitter DM’s. Not this time.

This time it’s 4 questions from an email I sent out, hitting a little bit of everything. Here’s the topics…

• Best advice for a young coach
• OL vs DL Player Traits
• Defending Empty Sets
• Safety Reads

These were a responses to listener questions sent by email. You can send in your questions for the JDFB Quick Clinic by messaging me on Twitter @footballinfo or sending an email to me at joe@joedanielfootball.com.

The Jet Sweep is a great play, if you use it right in your offense. The big advantage comes from the counters. 

Today’s JDFB Quick Clinic question is a great one. It’s about running counters off the Jet Sweep motion. Probably my favorite reason to even put the Jet Sweep in the playbook.

In the Pistol Power Offense System, Jet Sweep is a fairly cheap play to install. You just use the same blocking as our basic stretch play. But it can have big advantages if you’re using the ‘counters’ we talk about in this episode. Jet Sweep make great window dressing!

This was a response to a listener question sent by Twitter. You can send in your questions for the JDFB Quick Clinic by messaging me on Twitter @footballinfo or sending an email to me at joe@joedanielfootball.com.

Defense is played Flat Down the Line. What does that even mean!? 

Football is a weird game. There’s tons of terminology, and none of it is universal. So to a coach just starting out, it can be a very confusing world.

Today’s JDFB Quick Clinic tries to explain one of those terms. “Defense is played flat down the line” is a phrase one of our listeners is hearing, and he’d like a little clarity on what it means. So I’ll do my best.

This was a response to a listener question sent by twitter. You can send in your questions for the JDFB Quick Clinic by messaging me on Twitter @footballinfo or sending an email to me at joe@joedanielfootball.com.

It’s another dive into the Twitter Mailbag! We’re talking about Scout Team and off-season coaching preparation. 

The Mailbag episodes have become a tradition. Not because they need to happen a lot. More because these are questions I never thought we could do a full episode on - then find out we could’ve done a full episode on half of them. Or more.

We start off with a deep dive into why your scout team sucks. And the benefits of scout team wristbands. 

Then it’s on to how to prepare yourself as a coach during the off-season. Old coach or new coach. Regular off-season or… whatever this 2020 off-season is (definitely not regular).

This was a response to a listener questions sent on Twitter. You can send in your questions for the JDFB Quick Clinic by messaging me on Twitter @footballinfo or sending an email to me at joe@joedanielfootball.com.

Show Links

• Jason Hahnstadt’s Easy Football Game Planner includes templates you can use for your Scout Team wristbands.