Holistic Approach to Protecting the Passer – Dan Gonzalez, Football Consultant, Former HS/College Coach
On today’s episode from our archives, long time coach at both the high school and college level as well as offense consultant Dan Gonzalez joined us to discuss taking a holistic approach to protecting the passer.
Too often, protection is seen as the responsibility of the offensive line, or of the line and quarterback, but this discussion highlighted that protecting the passer is not only a shared responsibility of all position groups, but it is a key focus of the coaching staff as well. Every facet of the offensive plan, from protection principles to route design to formationing, should have the idea of protection as a key consideration.
The information boom in the last three years put every great idea in front of us. There are Twitter accounts with thousands of followers liking and retweeting new ideas. The adaptation of new ideas and concepts as well as the creativity of coaches has skyrocketed.
As coaches we have to consciously fight what UNI offensive coordinator called the YouTube install meaning that you see a great idea and that it was successful and have the naivety to think “We can do this,” and it gets into your playbook or game plan. The idea may be great and has worked but that is the surface level of what really goes into coaching football. There is much more that we dig into in this conversation in regard to the passing game.
In addition, defenses now present so many looks that you have to have a system of protection in which the entire offense has to have a strong understanding not only of the routes they run but the timing and the protection that are tied together tightly.
Bringing all of it together in how your players and coaches think about it gives you a better chance for success and for keeping the quarterback, who most offenses are built around both healthy and performing at a high level.
Coach Gonzalez has resources for study on CoachTube that we talk about throughout the conversation and we will link those in the description.
There are so many ideas in this episode that make for great reflection and study before you put your passing game on the field this fall, and we will share our top Winning Edge takeaways and ideas for implementation after the interview, so be sure to stay tuned.
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Coach Gonzalez's Resources on CoachTube:
https://coachtube.com/bundles/protecting-the-passer?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763
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