Jackson Hole (WY) High School Head Coach;
in the past 3 years has made 2 semi state final appearances and 1 State title appearance;
published coach in Nike COY Manual (2019);
frequent Nike COY Clinic speaker;
his offense has been ranked #1 in 3 of the 4 programs he has taken over in his coaching career
Coach David Joyce has developed a reputation for quickly turning around struggling programs, allowing them to compete for conference championships while becoming State Tournament qualifiers. He has turned a team that was 0-10 in 2008 into a 9-2 playoff team in 2011, and took another school from 2-8 in his first year to 8-3 overall and a conference championship. In just his third season at Mountain Home, Coach Joyce's team earned a playoff berth for the first time in 8 years and finished with a winning conference record for the first time in over 10 years. Newly installed as Jackson Hole (WY) High School's head coach, Joyce has already amassed 1 state final appearance and 2 state semi appearances over his first 3 years.
This video is the ultimate guide to the no-huddle defensive philosophy!
David Joyce provides a defensive scheme that he's utilized to revitalize multiple high school programs. This is a defensive scheme that allows you to keep up with no-huddle offenses. This system has the potential to change an average defense with average speed into one that plays fast, cuts the offensive playbook in half, forces the opposing offense to adjust after the snap, and competes for championships!
Coach Joyce gives you detailed white board schematics and game film to demonstrate Hurry Up No-Huddle (HUNH) defensive positioning, responsibilities, and adjustments necessary to shut down the opposing offense. Most importantly, Joyce thoroughly explains and demonstrates the ease with which this defense can be learned by your team.
The Blueprint for the HUNH Defense
This defense is a no-huddle style defense that Joyce created through analyzing his no-huddle offense and adapting it to the way he can call and adjust his defense. This system is an even front defense that doesn't flip to strength, allows the defense to slide adjust, and allows players to become one-gap defensive players. The main fronts and scheme focus on a 4-3 under and 4-3 over scheme.
Learn the alignments, communication, and defensive adjustments that will eliminate your opponent's ability to use tempo to make big plays. Joyce gives you the blueprint for installing a HUNH defense that will:
- Play as fast or faster than the offense
- Help your team play a fast one-gap style that eliminates doubt of assignments
- Protect the middle of the field
- Force adjustments after the snap
- Neutralize tempo
- Position your best player to always been in position for making plays
Joyce takes you through offensive formations and how this defense adjusts to motion. It shows how the defense can morph into multiple looks, helping you break down how you can quickly adapt to no-huddle offenses on the fly. He also shares how to set up your defensive call sheet and the importance of having no more than nine calls with a few adjustments.
Player Responsibilities in the HUNH Defense
Coach Joyce helps you determine defensive positioning by providing detailed player traits and characteristics necessary for success. For example, the strong safety or "shark" position should be your best defensive hybrid player on the team who is the only player who adjusts to the offensive alignment. Additionally, the Nose (the 1 Technique) must be quick with speed more important than size, demand a double team, and try to cause one bad snap per game.
Building the HUNH Defense in Practice
You'll see how a typical practice runs and how to use a sample practice plan to bring home the point. He goes through the every day drills that are utilized in practice at each position. From there, you'll see the action in video as Joyce shows several video clips that detail how the defense can prepare for any situation.
Coach Joyce provides a defensive scheme that he's utilized to revitalize multiple high school programs. This is a defensive scheme that allows you to keep up with no-huddle offenses and also allows you to stay in games with quicker and faster opponents.
110 minutes. 2017.
FD-05192B: with David Joyce,
Jackson Hole (WY) High School Head Coach;
in the past 3 years has made 2 semi state final appearances and 1 State title appearance;
published coach in Nike COY Manual (2019);
frequent Nike COY Clinic speaker;
his offense has been ranked #1 in 3 of the 4 programs he has taken over in his coaching career
Coach David Joyce has developed a reputation for quickly turning around struggling programs, allowing them to compete for conference championships while becoming State Tournament qualifiers. He has turned a team that was 0-10 in 2008 into a 9-2 playoff team in 2011, and took another school from 2-8 in his first year to 8-3 overall and a conference championship. In just his third season at Mountain Home, Coach Joyce's team earned a playoff berth for the first time in 8 years and finished with a winning conference record for the first time in over 10 years. Newly installed as Jackson Hole (WY) High School's head coach, Joyce has already amassed 1 state final appearance and 2 state semi appearances over his first 3 years.
The spread offense wants to take defenders out of the box with the use of three and four wide receiver sets. Playing sound defense can be a challenge against the spread formations - championship defenses understand correct gap control on every snap. With the Hurry Up No-Huddle (HUNH) defense, players align the same way and execute run fits based on the offensive formation. This creates an assignment-sound team while disrupting the opposing passing and running attack through timely blitzes to exploit their weak link on offense.
David Joyce teaches his run fits and blitz packages from his Hurry Up No-Huddle defensive scheme. You'll learn:
- How the defense has the ability to put the ball where they want it.
- One player sets the edge with nine players in pursuit with a safety player over the top.
- Run fits are based on the number of backs; two backs = two hats, one back = one gap and gap over concept.
Run Fits
Coach Joyce uses a PowerPoint as well as a white board to show you his Zone Read and Power Read defensive adjustments. He breaks down the different classifications of offensive personnel that determine run fits. Using game footage, Coach Joyce breaks down offensive plays and illustrates how each run play is fit by the defense.
Defending the Zone Read play is accomplished with simple adjustments. Adjustments to the Zone Read include:
- Zorro and Zulu calls used to create a "run through" linebacker to tackle the dive back.
- Backers up to discourage any combo blocks by the offensive line, allowing the defense to "build a wall" up front.
- The 5 call puts the Mike backer on the nose, creating a Bear front without changing players' rules.
See how Joyce trains his players to leave one shoulder free to seal the gap while also having the ability to make the tackle if the ball hits in their gap.
Blitz Package
The brilliance of the Blitz package from an X's and O's perspective is the multiplicity in coverages and pressures it can bring against opponents. Joyce's blitz package aims at a taking advantage of a few areas. He focuses on three families of blitzes:
- Edge
- 4 & 4 Trap
- 9 & 9X
- Flood & Wolf
Both sideline and end zone game film give a clear picture of each blitz in action.
If you're looking to simplify your scheme or add new concepts to help defend the spread offense, this video is a must!
112 minutes. 2017.
FD-05192C: with David Joyce,
Jackson Hole (WY) High School Head Coach;
in the past 3 years has made 2 semi state final appearances and 1 State title appearance;
published coach in Nike COY Manual (2019);
frequent Nike COY Clinic speaker;
his offense has been ranked #1 in 3 of the 4 programs he has taken over in his coaching career
Coach David Joyce has developed a reputation for quickly turning around struggling programs, allowing them to compete for conference championships while becoming State Tournament qualifiers. He has turned a team that was 0-10 in 2008 into a 9-2 playoff team in 2011, and took another school from 2-8 in his first year to 8-3 overall and a conference championship. In just his third season at Mountain Home, Coach Joyce's team earned a playoff berth for the first time in 8 years and finished with a winning conference record for the first time in over 10 years. Newly installed as Jackson Hole (WY) High School's head coach, Joyce has already amassed 1 state final appearance and 2 state semi appearances over his first 3 years.
Playing multiple set and spread offenses puts tremendous pressure on a defensive scheme. Keeping the defense simple, but flexible enough to match and stop various offensive sets is difficult.
Cover 3 zone coverage is one of the oldest and most stable coverages in football. David Joyce diagrams the pattern matching version of Cover 3, which includes concepts of man-to-man with zone drops, that he utilizes with his team. Combining pattern match Cover 3 with Cover 1 puts the pressure back on the offense. Quarterbacks have no way to identify zone or man before the snap of the ball, which will pressure them into mistakes.
Coach Joyce uses a PowerPoint as well as a white board to show you the structure dividers that are landmarks for the secondary to create leverage on every offensive set. Dividers will change depending on the placement of the football on the field as they move with the ball from the center of the field to the hash.
Advantages of the Pattern Match Cover 3
Joyce explains the difference between pattern matching and spot dropping in zone coverages, including the advantages and disadvantages of both styles of play, which include:
- Fewer big plays because of a middle of the field defender.
- Pattern reading routes cover up holes left by spot dropping concepts in a traditional Cover 3 zone.
- Packs the box to outnumber the potential blockers so you can stop the run.
- Few people run it.
- Allows the defense to play with confidence because of the simplicity of the scheme.
He goes on to explain alignment and assignment rules for each position and describes the specific reads and reactions of the secondary players against specific routes. Joyce also covers inside linebackers' rules and responsibilities vs. 2x2 formations and trips.
Joyce does an excellent job explaining the concept of the divider principle for the secondary, which helps players determine what leverage to play on a receiver as determined by his alignment. The divider principle will allow the player to know if he can expect the free safety to be able to help him or not on routes that break to the middle of the field.
Advantages of Middle of the Field Cover 1
Cover 1 is, according to Nick Saban, "the simplest and best coverage in football." Joyce explains the basis of the coverage and how it's the perfect complement to Cover 3 zone coverage. You'll learn the rules for the secondary as well as the inside linebackers. Joyce diagrams and uses game footage to provide examples of the inside linebackers' responsibilities against 2x2 and trips formations, with a special emphasis on his "fiddle" call. As an added bonus, he describes how this coverage can be used to complement inside linebacker blitzes.
Coverage Drills
Coach Joyce spends a considerable amount of this presentation describing various drills to teach proper technique to the secondary players. Using practice video footage, Joyce demonstrates his "phase drill" in which players are taught how to play the ball depending on the position they are in relative to the receiver.
Looking for an in-depth coverages video to combat fast offenses? This is the one for you!
90 minutes. 2017.
FD-05192D: with David Joyce,
Jackson Hole (WY) High School Head Coach;
in the past 3 years has made 2 semi state final appearances and 1 State title appearance;
published coach in Nike COY Manual (2019);
frequent Nike COY Clinic speaker;
his offense has been ranked #1 in 3 of the 4 programs he has taken over in his coaching career
Coach David Joyce has developed a reputation for quickly turning around struggling programs, allowing them to compete for conference championships while becoming State Tournament qualifiers. He has turned a team that was 0-10 in 2008 into a 9-2 playoff team in 2011, and took another school from 2-8 in his first year to 8-3 overall and a conference championship. In just his third season at Mountain Home, Coach Joyce's team earned a playoff berth for the first time in 8 years and finished with a winning conference record for the first time in over 10 years. Newly installed as Jackson Hole (WY) High School's head coach, Joyce has already amassed 1 state final appearance and 2 state semi appearances over his first 3 years.
Success on third down is one of the most important statistics for a defensive football team.
David Joyce diagrams the third down packages that he utilizes with his team. Tempo offenses create problems for calling crucial third down defenses because of the no-huddle approach. Using a unique number system, Coach Joyce is able to communicate the defensive call at lightning speed, allowing the defense to match the tempo of any offensive system.
Joyce identifies several factors which must be considered when creating a third down plan. Field position, down and distance, and opponent personnel are all discussed, as well as how he determines when to use the various personnel packages that he discusses in the presentation. Coach Joyce also covers key elements in making in-game adjustments in response to problems and unexpected issues.
HUNH Third Down Packages
Coach Joyce breaks the third down into three categories - long, medium and short - as he uses a PowerPoint and white board to illustrate the defense.
- Bravo - Keep your base defense on the field to match any offense that uses tempo.
- Delta - Used when the offense subs out to a spread set.
- Alpha - A short yardage package that brings in bigger bodies to stuff the run.
Each package is broken down with pressures and coverages and is presented with game film in order to see the packages in play.
Bravo Package
The Bravo package is a base personnel package that can be utilized in all situations, and especially when the situation and personnel of the opposing team make it difficult to get into a sub package defense. Joyce diagrams a variety of calls that he runs from his base personnel package.
A variety of front stunts that don't involve a blitzing player, as well as five man rush zone blitz schemes, and six man blitz schemes are diagrammed. Joyce also goes over the double A gap blitz package that he uses, and details the versions of the blitz that his team can run to keep the offense confused.
The Delta and Alpha Packages
The Delta package is a sub package that features a 3-4 alignment and smaller, faster players that are ideal for defending against obvious passing situations. Coach Joyce diagrams four-, five-, and six-man pressure schemes from this package. He also discusses his Red coverage, which is a pattern matching quarters coverage that he utilizes with his four-man pressures. The Cross coverage is diagrammed as well, which is a man free Cover 1 package that can be used to compliment Red coverage.
Finally, Joyce describes his Alpha package which is another sub package that is used for short yardage and goal line situations. It places your biggest players in the A gaps. As an added bonus, Joyce reviews game footage of the various concepts that he has diagrammed throughout the presentation.
If you want to get the other team's offense off the field, this video will give you plenty of effective ideas for your defense.
71 minutes. 2017.