Core Run Plays: Choosing Families, Simplifying Teaching, and Maximizing Execution

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Daniel Chamberlain and Kenny Simpson discuss strategies for selecting and teaching core run plays in football.

Daniel Chamberlain and Kenny Simpson discuss spring football scheduling, summer team camps, and a quote on maintaining standards through adversity, then focus on selecting and teaching core run plays. They emphasize first deciding team identity (run-heavy, balanced, or pass-heavy), then choosing a small number of run concepts that attack the perimeter, interior, and a change-of-direction element (counter/reverse), while majoring in either gap or zone and pairing runs with RPO/play-action. Th...

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Hosts: Daniel Chamberlain, Kenny Simpson

Topics covered

• spring football scheduling
• core run plays
• team identity
• run concepts
• RPO/play-action

Keywords

• football
• core run plays
• team identity
• spring football
• RPO
• play-action
• coaching

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