Your First Ten Days With Two Wings
Derek Wade
Tomales High School, Tomales CA
Coach_Wade@hotmail.com

Who The Heck is Coach Wade
• Special Teams Coordinator,
Linebackers, Running Backs, and Tight
Ends Coach; Tomales High School JV
2002-2005.
– 2002: 5-3 Ben Kaplan - 1241 Y.R.
– 2003: 6-2 Josh Perucci - 1021 Y.R.
– 2004: 6-3 Nick Caramagna - 1008 Y.R.
– 2005: 7-1 Bailey Tucker - 1019 Y.R.

Who The Heck Are The Braves?
• 2005 Tomales Braves:
– Bailey Tucker
• 1019 rushing yards
• 308 Receiving yards
– Zack Wenrick
• 418 Passing yards
• 11 passing TDs (JV school record) 2 INTs (first game)
– Offensive line (Abe Avalos, Tito Miranda, Mike
Severson, Andrew Ritter, Sean Cochran)
• No sacks after first game
• 262 points in eight games (32.75 ppg)
• Averaged 6.3 yards per snap rushing
• 2005 NCL II Class “B” Champions

Syllabus
• General assumptions
– Practice times
– Practice length
• Preseason
– Organizing your staff
• The “optimal” coaching staff
– Crop Rotation
• Alternative ideas for smaller or larger staffs
– Organizing your overall practice
• Offense
• Defense
• Special teams

Syllabus
• Preseason, continued:
– Organizing your offensive practice plan
• Breaking the offense into manageable chunks
• Putting together an installation plan
• Practice
– Eliminating time wasting
– Getting reps
• The Offensive Repetition Checklist (ORC)

Syllabus
• Practice Overviews
– Weeks one and two
• Offensive installation and review
– Weeks three and four
• Review and focusing

Assumptions
• Youth teams, preseason
– Generally practice three to five times per week
– Generally cannot practice more than two hours per session
– Generally play on Saturdays or Sundays
– Generally have fifteen total practice sessions before a scrimmage event
– Generally have five additional practice sessions before the first game

Assumptions
• Youth teams, practice numbers:
– Total practices before the first game: 20
10 – preseason
5 – prescrimmage
5 – pregame

Warning!
This is a guideline, not a cast-in-steel method!
If it doesn’t fit your program, you’re going to have to modify it!

Organizing the Staff
• The Optimal Staff
– Reade Philosophy
• “Whatever the other guy has”
– Not really accurate. (SV – 9 man staff, Tom – 6)
» 10 incompetent coaches
» 3 competent ones
– Reed Philosophy
• “Army of One”
– Dumb slogan
– Inefficient use of practice time

Organizing the Staff, continued
• Things to think about:
– EVERY player needs to be coached by the head man!
– EVERY coach needs to be developed
– EVERY part of the team is important

Organizing the Staff, continued
• Optimal size for youth staff
– 3 Assistants
– 1 Director (Head coach, coordinator, etc.)
• Breakdown
– Offensive Linemen
– Offensive Backfield
– Receivers
– Head coach rotates every day (crop rotation)

Organizing the Staff, continued
• Benefits:
– Every kid gets face time with the main man
– Every coach gets immediate feedback on his coaching
– Nothing gets left behind as long as the person most responsible is involved!

Organizing the Staff, Alternatives
• For the smaller staff:
– 3 coaches
• Offensive line
• Backfield
• Tight Ends alternate with line and backs
– Follow the head coach (Can be a benefit)
– 2 coaches
• Offensive line
• Backs and receivers
– Swap every day

Organizing the Staff, Alternatives
• Ideas for the larger staff:
– Most inexperienced coach with the most experienced
– Most eyes on the most important
– Rookies always with the head coach

Organizing the Staff, Numero Uno!
• Never let an inexperienced coach work alone!
– Puts kids at risk
• “Forbidden” drills
– Puts the program at risk
• Incorrect teaching of fundamentals
• “Professionalism” mistakes
– Comments
– Anger/frustration
– Disciplinary problems

Organizing the Practice
• Football has three halves!
– Offense
– Defense
– Special teams
The one you don’t perfect will beat you!

Organizing the Practice, Planning
• Three critical points to every practice:
– Must warm up in some fashion
– Must practice fundamentals of play
(stance, start, blocking, tackling)
– Must condition players

Organizing the Practice, Planning
• Think through program:
– Offense
• Less reacting, more acting
• Requires more honing
• Must practice fundamentals of stance and blocking!
– Defense
• Requires more walk-through/live action
• Must practice fundamentals of tackling!
– Special Teams
• Almost entirely walk through/live action
• Few drills
• Fundamentals can be practiced with offense and defense
• Each rep takes longer
• Fewer plays

Organizing the Practice, Overview
• Unadjusted practice timeline:
– Two hour practice:
• 30 minutes warm up and fundamentals period
(speed building, flexibility, tackling, blocking)
• 30 minutes offense
– At least one third must be team
• 30 minutes defense
– At least one third must be team
• 30 minutes special teams
– Almost entirely team

Organizing the Practice, Timing
• We can rob some time from Special
Teams for Offense (install weeks only ):
– 30 minutes warm up and fundamentals period
– 45 minutes offense
– 30 minutes defense
– 15 minutes special teams

Organizing the Practice, Timing
• We can rob some time from Defense for
Offense (install weeks only ):
– 30 minutes warm up and fundamentals period
– 55 minutes offense
– 20 minutes defense
– 15 minutes special teams

Organizing the Practice, Finding time
• Stealing back practice time:
– No water breaks!
• Players carry water bottles.
– No bottle, no practice
• During standing time, players drink water in sips.
– Cuts down on chatter – “Billy, why aren’t you drinking water?”
– More efficient for the body to process

Organizing the Practice, Finding time
– No conditioning!
• Condition within the practice
– Always high speed (no walking, no waiting)
– Sprint whenever you move about the field
» Quick exercises
» Check stances
– If you have a sled, USE IT!
» Cadence
» Level
» Hit (three yards on initial pop)
» Drive (sustain for seven yards)

Organizing the Practice, Finding time
• Hitting the Sled:

Organizing the Practice, Finding time
– Few drills!
• Drill only if it cuts DOWN the time needed
– “Hammer drill” for linebackers: 52 reps in three minutes
– “West Point”: Three reps in twenty minutes
• Do not change the timeline just to add a drill!

Organizing the Practice, Daily planning
• Practice everything, every day!
– “Trickle in” teaching
– Deals with absenteeism
– Coaches don’t have to wait two days to fix a problem

Organizing the Offense
• First division: Series
– How important is this series to my offense?
– How often will I call the plays from this series?
– Why will I call the plays from this series?
– How crucial is the success of this series?

Organizing the Offense, continued
• The Wade Double Wing:
– Three series
• Toss
– 12 plays
» 8 core, 4 sideboarded
• Wedge
– 3 1/2 plays
• Jet Sweep
– 8 plays

Organizing the Offense, continued
•
– How often will I call this play?
– Why will I call this play?
– How crucial is the success of this play?

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Play types:
– Core
• Primary focus of series
• Represents the series 60% of the time
• Forces defense to adjust, opens up rest of the series
• 24 Toss (Tight Rip 88 Super Power)
– Counter
• Primary misdirection off core
• Takes advantage of defensive adjustments to core
• 45 X-Toss (Tight Rip 47-C)

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Play types:
– Pass
• Deep threat, stretches field vertically
• Quick strike threat
• Forces defense to move out of the “box”
• Attacks weaker defenders downfield
– MPPs at corner/safety
• 24 Toss Pass (Red Red)
– Big play
• Not “trick play”
– Tricks: 1-3 times per game, Big Plays: 5-9
• Huge chunks of yards in a hurry
• 30 Draw

Organizing the Offense, continued
•
– Sideboard
• Plays you’d like, but don’t need
• Plays designed for certain players
• Keep players from getting bored
• Will be added later in the season
– Weeks 4-6
– Playoffs
• 30 Trap (3 Trap at 2)

Organizing the Offense, continued
• The Wade Double Wing Plays:
– Toss Series:
• Core – 24/45 Toss
• Counter – 24X/45X Toss
• Pass – 24/45 Toss pass, 24 Toss Pass Deep
• Big Play – 30 Draw
• Sideboard – 30 Trap, 24 Screen L, Church
Pass, 45 X Toss pass

Organizing the Offense, continued
• The Wade Double Wing Plays:
– Wedge Series:
• Core – 30 Wedge
• Counter – 18 Wedge Keep
• Pass – 18 Wedge Keep Pass
• Big Play – 49 Wedge Counter
• Sideboard - None

Organizing the Offense, continued
• The Wade Double Wing Plays:
– Jet Sweep Series:
• Core – 28/49 Jet Sweep
• Counter – 34/35 Quick Trap
• Pass – 18/19 Waggle Pass
• Big Play – 28/49 Reverse
• Sideboard - None

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Final addition: Formation
– Must be able to run 80% or more of offense
– Must give us “something new” to justify practice time

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Formation: Spread

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Formation: Spread
– Softens the interior for the wedge

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Formation: Spread
– Places ends in prime position for crack blocks on jet sweep

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Formation: Spread
– Can isolate a good receiver on the perimeter

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Formation: Spread
– Mentally forces the defense to prepare for pass

Organizing the Offense, continued
•
– 7 Base Formations
• Week one:
– Double Wing
– Unbalanced-I Green, Unbalanced-I Black
• Week two:
– Green, Black (Wings on)

Organizing the Offense, continued
• Formations
– 7 Base Formations
• Week three:
– Spread
– King R, King Left (Bunch trips)
• Week five:
– Jester R, Jester L (Twins)
• Week six:
– I-Right, I-Left (Wing-I)

Organizing the Offense, continued
• The ORC: Offensive Repetition Checklist

Organizing the Offense, continued
• The ORC: Offensive Repetition Checklist
– Keep track of correct repetitions

Organizing the Offense, continued
• The ORC: Offensive Repetition Checklist
– Keep track of correct repetitions
– Allows you to stagger your reps

Taking it to Practice
• Days 1-2: Evaluations
– Index card for each player
• Name
• Drill times
• General notes
– 30 Minute warm up/fundamentals
– Agility Game (Deer Hunter, Dodgeball, etc)
– Gregory speed/strength evaluations www.gregorydoublewing.com

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Days 1-2: Evaluations
– Two-hand touch
• 5 on 5: 3 games = 30 players
• Evaluate skills, make notes
– Punting/Kicking contest
– Snapping contest

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Days 1-2: Evaluations, Basic instruction
– Basic Instruction for all players:
• Stances
• Form running/speed building
• Receiving handoffs
• Carrying the ball
• Catching
• “Scoop and score”
• Fumble recovery
– End of day two:
• All players understand down/distance rules
• All players understand sportsmanship and team rules
• Temporary depth charts for each position
• Walk through first play as a team (24/45 Toss)

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 3: First install day
– 55 minutes offense
• 30 minutes (6 segments) individual install
– Linemen/tight ends - cones
– Backs - timing drill
• 25 minutes (5 segments) team
– 15 minutes (3 segments) cones
– 10 minutes (2 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Install 24/45 Toss
• Install 49 Jet Sweep
• Install 30 Wedge
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each play

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 4: Install/review day
– 55 minutes offense
• 5 Minutes (1 segment) fundamental drills by position
• 30 minutes (6 segments) individual time
– 15 minutes (3 segments) review
– 15 minutes (3 segments) install of new plays
• 20 minutes (4 segments) team
– 10 minutes (2 segments) cones
– 10 minutes (2 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Install 24X/45X Toss, 18 Wedge Keep Pass, 34 Quick Trap
• Review previous day’s plays
• Perfect backfield timing of wedge/sweep action
– Practice without footballs
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each installed play

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 5: Install/review day
– 55 minutes offense
• 5 Minutes (1 segment) fundamental drills by position
• 30 minutes (6 segments) individual time
– 20 minutes (4 segments) review
– 10 minutes (2 segments) install of new plays
• 20 minutes (4 segments) team
– 10 minutes (2 segments) cones
– 10 minutes (2 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Install 24 Toss Pass, 24 Toss Pass Deep, 28 Reverse
• Review previous plays
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each play

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 6: Review/install day
– 55 minutes offense
• 5 Minutes (1 segment) fundamental drills by position
• 30 minutes (6 segments) individual time
– 25 minutes (5 segments) review
– 5 minutes (1 segment) install of new plays
• 20 minutes (4 segments) team
– 5 minutes (1 segment) cones
– 15 minutes (3 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Install 18 Waggle Pass
• Review all plays from previous week
• Practice with two footballs to perfect timing on sweep series
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each play

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 7: Install/review day
– 55 minutes offense
• 5 Minutes (1 segment) fundamental drills by position
• 30 minutes (6 segments) individual time
– 15 minutes (3 segments) review
– 15 minutes (3 segments) install of new plays
• 20 minutes (4 segments) team
– 5 minutes (1 segment) cones
– 15 minutes (3 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Install 45 Toss Pass, 30 Draw, 28 Jet Sweep, 35 Quick
Trap
• Review all plays from previous week
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each play

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 8: Install/review day
– 55 minutes offense
• 5 Minutes (1 segment) fundamental drills by position
• 30 minutes (6 segments) individual time
– 25 minutes (5 segments) review
– 5 minutes (1 segment) install of new plays
• 20 minutes (4 segments) team
– 5 minutes (1 segment) cones
– 15 minutes (3 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Install 19 Waggle, 28 Reverse
• Review all plays from previous week
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each play

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 9: Review/final install day
– 55 minutes offense
• 5 Minutes (1 segment) fundamental drills by position
• 30 minutes (6 segments) individual time
– 25 minutes (5 segments) review
– 5 minutes (1 segment) install of new plays
• 20 minutes (4 segments) team
– 5 minutes (1 segment) cones
– 15 minutes (3 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Install 49 Wedge Counter
• Review all plays
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each play
• Begin focusing on plays that need more work

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Day 10: Review day
– 55 minutes offense
• 5 Minutes (1 segment) fundamental drills by position
• 15 minutes (3 segments) individual time
– Review
• 35 minutes (7 segments) team
– 10 minutes (2 segments) cones
– 25 minutes (5 segments) scout defense
– Daily goals:
• Review all plays
• At least ten perfect repetitions of each play
• Focus attention on plays that need more work
• Use ORC to keep track of reps
• Set aside time as necessary to install any remaining plays

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Week Three (Practices 11-15)
– Focus on reps
• 10-25 reps minimum
• “Stagger” reps
– 10 reps one day allows you to focus on something else
– 15-20 reps on following day
– Practice game situations:
• Goal line offense
• Panic offense
• Two minute drill
• Four minute drill

Taking it to Practice, continued
• Week Four (Practices 16-20)
– Add time back to defense and special teams
• Aim for:
– 35-40 minutes offense
– 25-30 minutes defense
– 20-25 minutes special teams

Coaching
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Football: Volume One: The Program
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2005 Tomales Braves Junior Varsity
N.C.L. II Class “B” League Champions

2005 Tomales Braves Junior Varsity
N.C.L. II Class “B” League Champions
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