About this episode

Coach Jimmie Tyson discusses innovative defensive strategies and coaching techniques in football.

In this episode, Kyle sits down with Coach Jimmie Tyson, the new Defensive Coordinator at Dothan High School in Alabama. Coach Tyson brings over 20 years of coaching experience, including six years at Florida A&M University and nearly a decade as Defensive Coordinator at Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, one of the top programs in the state of Florida. Coach Tyson walks through how a post-practice conversation with his offensive coordinator changed the way he called defense, how studying Mike McDonald's work at Baltimore and Seattle led to building a coverage matrix, and how his staff developed a one-word call system that lets them run the same blitz path with completely different coverages week to week. Topics covered include non-traditional Tampa 2 with the nickel as the hole runner, dropping ends as hook players, disguising zero coverage while dropping into Tampa, changing assignments based on opponent tendencies, stem work, cadence reads, player buy-in through ownership of pressures, and why every player on the defense needs to understand every role. Coach Tyson also closes the show with two of the most unique things he has seen done at the program level, including a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kyle Bradburn, Matt Dixon

Guest: Coach Jimmie Tyson

Topics covered

• defensive strategy
• coaching techniques
• football
• player development
• defensive coordination
• team competition

Keywords

• defensive coordinator
• coverage matrix
• blitz path
• Tampa 2
• player buy-in
• staff development
• team competition
• football coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Florida A&M University, Lincoln High School

Places: Dothan High School, Tallahassee, Alabama, Florida

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