with Matt Drinkall,
Kansas Wesleyan University Head Coach
In just his second year as head coach (2015), Coach Drinkall led Kansas Wesleyan to its best season in school history. Coming off a 2-9 season the year before, the Coyotes racked up a school-record 10 wins and earned a berth in the NAIA Football Championship Series for the first time since 2002. Coach Drinkall's offense ranked fifth in the NAIA in total offense and pass offense per game and was seventh in the country in scoring. Coach Drinkall served as offensive coordinator at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa for two seasons, guiding an offense that ranked No. 4 in the NAIA in scoring offense (44.2 points per game), total offense (505.9 yards per game), passing offense (326.3 yards per game) in 2013. He helped SAU reach the NAIA Football Championship Series three times (`08, `12 and `13).
Spreading the offense and forcing opponents to defend the entire field has become prevalent in today's competitive football environment, leading to record-breaking offensive production. Designing such an offense from scratch will provide the modern football coach with an advantage over copy-cat opponents.
Coach Drinkall explains how he was able to turn a struggling NAIA football team into a playoff powerhouse with a simple, yet difficult to defend Power Spread Offense. By providing in-depth commentary, analysis, and use of quantifiable data, Drinkall shows you how to quickly troubleshoot and simplify your offense to become more productive on game day.
Designing and Structuring an Offense
What kind of offense do you need? Learn how to structure your offense using simple categorizations and play families that will allow you to teach your offensive philosophy conceptually. This will allow your players to execute on the field based on game-day situations.
Coach Drinkall illustrates and reviews different types of tempo based on what kind of offense you want to implement. Changing up the tempo of an offense can cause havoc for a defense. He explains how he changes up the tempo in order to take advantage of the defense's weakness.
One key aspect of putting together an offense is knowing your personnel. Drinkall explains how he makes play call decisions based on his personnel on the field. It's all about maximizing the talent on the field and trying to expose the defense's weaknesses. Using game footage, Drinkall shows his philosophies in action.
The Power Spread Offense
After discussing how to use quantifiable data to troubleshoot and/or design a new offense, Drinkall examines his own offense built from his personal philosophy and coaching experience. You'll see:
- Six unique formations
- Power football
- Deadly play-actions
- Explosive RPOs (Run-Pass Options)
Coach Drinkall finishes with video examples of his offense in action, showing how with sound structure and design, his offense remains flexible and ready to execute in multiple game situations.
Whether your offense is backed against your own goal-line, coming out to score, or facing an opponent at their goal-line, Coach Drinkall will show you how to get your players ready to perform on game day in this video.
"With Coach Drinkall's videos I now have a proven method of organizing my offense in a way that is 'short, fast, & simple' and allows my players to focus on making plays." - Customer Review
76 minutes. 2017.
FD-05068B:
with Matt Drinkall,
Kansas Wesleyan University Head Coach
In just his second year as head coach (2015), Coach Drinkall led Kansas Wesleyan to its best season in school history. Coming off a 2-9 season the year before, the Coyotes racked up a school-record 10 wins and earned a berth in the NAIA Football Championship Series for the first time since 2002. Coach Drinkall's offense ranked fifth in the NAIA in total offense and pass offense per game and was seventh in the country in scoring. Coach Drinkall served as offensive coordinator at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa for two seasons, guiding an offense that ranked No. 4 in the NAIA in scoring offense (44.2 points per game), total offense (505.9 yards per game), passing offense (326.3 yards per game) in 2013. He helped SAU reach the NAIA Football Championship Series three times (`08, `12 and `13).
Offenses in football are constantly changing, always looking for advantages. In today's football, offenses are spreading out to give their playmakers more room. However, sometimes an offense needs to be able to have a power running game. Coach Matt Drinkall explains how he runs a power run offense from a spread concept in this video.
Coach Drinkall explains his terminology and philosophy as he talks about his bread and butter plays: the power and the trap. He describes his terminology as a simplified process to make it easy for his players to understand. This allows his running game to be successful without a lot of confusion.
As with any offense, you cannot live on only two plays. Coach Drinkall illustrates with charts and video the blocking schemes for several other plays that are built off the power and trap run plays. In this offense, any of the skill players can run the ball and the offensive line will still know their blocking assignments. One weapon Coach Drinkall likes to use is the running quarterback, as it creates many problems with the defense. He has designed powers and traps for the quarterback to make plays.
Coach Drinkall also illustrates his "man" blocking scheme to create a zone-style blocking scheme. From this scheme, he is able to run all the same plays, plus it allows for variations of runs to be implemented.
If your team needs a power running game in its spread offense, this video featuring Coach Drinkall is a must!
84 minutes. 2017.
FD-05068C:
with Matt Drinkall,
Kansas Wesleyan University Head Coach
In just his second year as head coach (2015), Coach Drinkall led Kansas Wesleyan to its best season in school history. Coming off a 2-9 season the year before, the Coyotes racked up a school-record 10 wins and earned a berth in the NAIA Football Championship Series for the first time since 2002. Coach Drinkall's offense ranked fifth in the NAIA in total offense and pass offense per game and was seventh in the country in scoring. Coach Drinkall served as offensive coordinator at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa for two seasons, guiding an offense that ranked No. 4 in the NAIA in scoring offense (44.2 points per game), total offense (505.9 yards per game), passing offense (326.3 yards per game) in 2013. He helped SAU reach the NAIA Football Championship Series three times (`08, `12 and `13).
PASS, PASS, PASS. So many teams are now shifting to a pass-first philosophy, but they struggle to put together a successful passing scheme. Coach Drinkall has a simple, but effective passing scheme that allows an offense to move the chains with high percentage throws. His offense has built-in answers and adjustments for any problems it may encounter.
Coach Drinkall explains the quick combination pass game that includes directional quick throw packaged with a drop back concept. Using game footage and PowerPoint illustrations, he explains and demonstrates key coaching points for each route, how and why to tag specific routes onto the play call, and the quarterback read progression in man and zone coverage while keeping the same blocking scheme for the offensive line.
Combination Pass Package
One of the biggest keys for success in the passing game is space. Coach Drinkall's passing scheme is developed on having the receivers spaced apart so that one defender cannot cover two receivers. His base pass play package gives freedom to the receivers to read the defense and find the open area.
Coach Drinkall explains the individual routes and how they are adjusted based on the coverage the wide receiver sees. Also, Drinkall explains the quarterback's read progression using a unique color coding method to make learning and execution easy on the quarterback.
Combination Routes
Once the base package had been practiced over and over, Drinkall adds combinations routes to the system to get his best players an opportunity to make plays. He explains how they adjust this route concept with tagging individual routes by specific receivers to take advantage of how defenses may try to defend this concept. This will confuse defenses and provide open routes to throw to for the quarterback.
The individual tags presented are hitch, slant, and option. Coach Drinkall uses game footage and a PowerPoint to diagram and explain how each tag is taught, and, he explains why each tag should be called according to how the defense is playing. Coach Drinkall demonstrates how the hitch tag can also be tagged with a play action fake to add an additional element to the play and to give the defense an additional look.
Once your players have learned the system, it is almost unstoppable.
62 minutes. 2017.