About this episode

Coach Will Cockerill discusses the systematic approach to building a weekly defensive game plan at Denton Ryan High School.

Will Cockerill has gone 25-5 in two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Denton Ryan High School in Texas. His defense finished number one in scoring defense in the Dallas area at just over 12 points per game and has held a 70 percent third down stop rate back to back. The Sons of Ryan are not just a good defense. They are a program built on culture, structure, and a weekly process that leaves nothing to guesswork by Friday night. In this episode, Coach Cockerill returns to the pod and walks through the full system. How he collects grades and sends a game summary to his head coach Saturday morning. How he uses position-specific Google Docs to structure his Sunday staff meeting before anyone walks in the room. How he sequences practice Monday through Thursday, buckets film by scheme instead of play name, and builds a call sheet that already has the answers to problems before they show up in a game. This one goes well beyond X’s and O’s. It is a blueprint for how a coordinator runs a week. 0:00 Introduction and welcome back to Coach Will Cockerill, DC at Denton Ryan 2:00 16 years in Texas, a 25-5 record as DC, and the three keys to success at any program 5:30 Defensive metrics…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kyle Bradburn, Matt Dixon

Guest: Will Cockerill

Topics covered

• defensive game planning
• football culture
• coaching strategies
• defensive metrics
• practice structure

Keywords

• defensive coordinator
• game planning
• football defense
• Denton Ryan
• coaching techniques

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Denton Ryan High School

Places: Texas

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