🎥 Top Coaching Clip of the Week 💭 In this interview, Los Angeles Rams Offensive Coordinator Nathan Scheelhaase shares two beliefs that have helped shape his coaching career: 🤝 You have to know people to lead people. 🔥 Keep your nose down and go to work. Great coaching has always been about relationships. Before you can influence people, challenge people, or develop people, you have to invest in them. Leadership begins with connection. At the same time, relationships alone aren't enough. The coaches who continue to grow in this profession are the ones who consistently show up, do the work, improve their craft, and stay focused on getting better every day. 💡 That raises an important question: What is your calling card? The strongest careers are often built around a few defining traits that people consistently see and experience. 🚀 At Coach Portal, we believe in both of Coach Scheelhaase's principles. We're here to help coaches build meaningful relationships, expand their networks, develop professionally, and cultivate the mindset required to continue advancing in this profession. 📈 Relationships create opportunities. Work ethic turns those opportunities into results. 🔗 Join the network: coach-portal.com #CoachPortal #TopCoachingClip

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Let me sum up the “debate” I had at the “Sport Movement Skill Conference”. The attack: 1. Straight line speed has no direct correlation to any sport other than track. 2. Speed is NOT “the tide that lifts all boats”. 3. The fastest guys from the NFL Combine are not good players. Jerry Rice was slow (4.71). 4. It’s dumb to work on “just” speed. Their beliefs: 1. Movement skills must be developed “in context”. 2. Drawing heavily from “ecological dynamics and skill-acquisition theory”, athletes should learn to solve movement problems under changing conditions. Rather than chasing one “perfect” sprint model, athletes should be capable of producing effective movement solutions in many environments. 3. Athletes need variability (“noise”) in training because sport is unpredictable. Athletes become faster and more resilient when exposed to changing constraints and decision-making demands. My response: 1. Speed is the tide that lifts all boats. 2. The 3 requirements to play in the NFL at all positions: size, speed, skills. There are minimum requirements for size and speed. Size can’t be coached. Speed can be. 3. Faster teams are healthier teams. Athletes who get faster are more resilient. Sprint-based football teams are almost bulletproof. 4. In a Feed the Cats program, we don’t “just train speed”. We spend less than 30 seconds a week at max velocity (most important 30 seconds of our week). ⚡️ 5. “80% of NCAA 🏈 players never reach their genetic ceiling of speed.” ~Boo Schexnayder (Too much emphasis on weight room, conditioning, and sport-specific movement… in the absence of consistently training max velocity in low doses.) 5. Let the sport train the sport. Away from the sport, improve KPIs. Don’t “just” reverse-engineer the sport. 6. The debate is silly. Athletes need to PRIORITIZE speed. Prioritize does not mean “at the exclusion of everything else”. Speed is the priority, not the majority. NO ONE SAYS SPEED IS ALL YOU NEED TO PLAY IN THE NFL. Every NFL player who gets SLOWER seems older and is getting closer to the end of their career. Every NFL player who gets FASTER seems younger and is extending his career. 💰 Mic drop ⤵️ Athletes need to sprint, lift, jump, bounce, and throw. Athletes ALSO need to be taught sport-specific movements and skills. It’s not one or the other.

Core runs do not stay efficient by accident. If you want to live in outside zone, split zone, or any foundational run concept, the defense is eventually going to overplay the action. That is where compliments matter. Nakeds, boots, keepers, and movement throws punish defenders for chasing the run. But the next layer is the counter punch to the compliment. When the defense starts reacting to the naked, the quarterback cannot just run into the edge player or throw the obvious flat concept. He has to pull up while selling naked, let the run action pull down the boundary defenders, let the field defenders chase the tendencies, and replace the void with the deep cross. The boundary No. 1 keeping his route skinny as he occupies the corner in the deep third. That spacing creates the window for the deep cross runner working back across the field. That is offensive structure. Core run Compliment Counter punch = Efficiency. The best offenses do not just call plays. They build answers in sequence.

Adam I can tell you the way you would prescribe conditioning and we stole from you…Our kids would trade back to the 110’s if they could 😂 Kids are just surviving 110’s. Bad movement skills, heavy feet etc. performance out the door. Yes “hard” but lots of stuff is hard. The things you are prescribing? That’s hard. The old school “we have to be tough so we run 110’s” mentality clearly have no idea about what we call “Archuletas”that I got from you a few months ago. 😎😂🤷‍♂️

Notable that this is from research on children aged 7-16.

Every high school football team in America will soon begin their summer workouts. I’m here to discourage as many coaches as I can from having their players run 20 110s as I possibly can. Player health > “We’ve always done this”

A common phrase is formations are cheap, plays are expensive. I think formations can cloudy up plays. The more formations you use for the same play, the more defenses your players have to figure out. By limiting the formations for a play you clear up the pictures on that play

#Titans HC Robert Saleh was asked about opening the season against his former #Jets team: “I’m appreciative of the Jets and everything I had there. ... It’s to be expected with the NFL, but I didn’t think anything of it.”

Eric Church delivered one heck of a commencement speech before closing it out with Carolina… #EricChurch #UNC #countrymusic