November 13, 2025 • 35 mins
Coach Pfiester is the Head Coach at Long County High in Georgia. Coach Pfiester runs the Power-T and has turned Long County around with his unique style to the area. In this episode, he talks about the benefits of his Power-T offense.
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dot com. Everybody, I'm back with coach Feaster. We got
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him back for another week. Coach. You know it was
we had two opportunities to talk to you before the
first round of state playoffs. So first round of state
playoffs are coming up though, so you know, good luck
to you. You know, in your time off, we had
got to talk to you twice.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So yeah, I love it, love it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, today is the day now. I told I said
it last time. The power T video on YouTube channel
is the most watched video. It's because you know people,
you know, they'll say there, we don't wear ever raid,
we don't need all that. Kids don't want to play
in it, right, nobody wants to do that, but then
they're watching it. Over all the other videos we got
every offense on there, they're watching yours the most. So
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I did want to talk to a little bit about
the Powerty like first, I mean, if you want to
tell a little history of how you got there, but
also why so maybe how and why well?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I I played for a legendary POWERT coach in Michigan,
Flavor Earth Siggler, who turned around all of that college.
Running the Powerty and playing in that system in college
was a big deal obviously to learn it in depth
and growing up in Michigan. It's a huge, huge, popular
offense in Michigan for high schools. And then again playing
for IRV and then my first job was actually I
moved to Georgia with Steve Hamilton who was coming from
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Gibraltar Carlson High School down River Detroit, went to Woodland
High School of Cartersville, and we had no idea what
that was going to be like, but we brought the
tea to Georgia back in two thousand and seven and
we made Woodland better. It's one of those things we
look back now and I joke with Andy, who's there
now and it's still a very, very difficult situation. But
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he works as a tail off. But that place hasn't
been five and five since we were there in two
thousand and eight running the power tee, and so I've
seen that system work. And one of one of the
things I've used in some interviews before I got this
job was, you know the results at different schools that
have run the system, And it's big schools, it's small schools,
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it's inner city schools, it's it's suburban schools. It doesn't
matter because football is football. It don't matter where it's
played at. There's there's eleven guys on each side of
the vault, and it's a system that allows us to
put our kids in a position to be successful, eliminates variable.
So that's kind of where I learned it from. That's
my belief system is that again we want to be
different and and give as many kids as possible, the
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chance to be a part of an offensive system.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, Coach, I mean that's not what I ran, But
I'll tell you what I would have run it if
I thought it would help us win. I couldn't care
less what we ran. I just want to win. But
I have found we taught last time about turning the
program around. And coach as a coach at Long County,
they had really struggled for about fifteen years or so
before Coach got there, and they've they've been really, they've
been pretty decent at least ever since you got there,
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and now they're trying to break in to winning playoff games.
And so the power tea is unique and it is
one of the reasons why you were You've been successful
there no doubt. Talk to me about why because I
love the practice stuff like things like that, like it
limits the number of technique. It's like these are the
time of things I know you've told me before. So
like anybody that's like, I don't know man, but our
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friend Rocky ad All Goa who coached at Walton when
I was Quia. Men and Rockyo know each other a
long long time. We couldn't have been more conventional coaches
at Walton and Squoia and then Rocky went to the
flexbone this year, you know, I mean they went to
Harding and they totally went to flexbone. And there's somebody
listening to this thing because I don't know why, but
a lot of people listening to as coach. I don't
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know why, but they do. And there's somebody even outside
of Georgia this going to listen to this and be
into it. So what I'm saying is like, tell me
why beyond this unique the things that you thought gave
you an advantage, whether it even be practiced stuff or
reps or or just a scheme of why this was
so critical for you guys turning this place around.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, a big thing is, like I said, you get
a lot of people involved. You know, it's a three
back offense, and when you have a quarterback that can run,
it's really a four back offense. So on any given play,
there's four kids that have at the end of the day,
chance of getting a carry. Where when you spread it
out and you throw it around, teams can take away. Guys.
There's a lot of variables, and with the tea we
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eliminate some variables. Now we do get variables in terms
of fronts that we see in defenses because it is
unique and so people a lot of times have a
hard time playing their base defense. So we do get
some odd stuff. But our kids learn a set base
of set of rules and they can apply it to
any front. And now at practice we can get a
whole bunch of reps. You know, like yesterday we it
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was Trapp Day for us. We have our days kind
of organized by series almost, and it was Trap Day.
So I bet we ran our four different versions of Trap.
I bet we ran fifty to seventy five reps of
just trapped yesterday. And now this is playoff week, and
so it's late in the season, but we're still repping
our base fundamental play and it allows those kids to
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get more and more reps doing a very set specific scheme.
You know, if I play tailback in our offense, I
run trap, I run an off tackle, power play, and
I run toss and that's kind of about all I do,
and I get really good at that. If I'm a halfback,
I smashed block, I run power, and I run sweep,
you know, and that's what I do. And so that's
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the big thing about the offenses. It allows you to
systematically build skills for each position and then just get
a ton of reps at it while looking pretty complicated
to the defense because of the fakes and the ball
being covered and not seeing the ball and that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, and it's yeah, you know, it's usually double tight end, right,
I mean you.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Still so It's funny the first couple of year. First year,
we were double tight end vast majority of the time.
The next two years, you know, I fall into that
trap of well, we had a kid show up, we
can play quarterback and he's pretty good, so we'll mix
in this, and it was good, it was fine, and
then well we gotta have a little gun set, what
if this? And then that's been okay at times, and
this offseason I said, screw that, man. We're we have
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been two tight ends on the field one hundred percent
of our snaps this year. Now we haven't been t
one hundred percent of the snaps, but we've two tight
ends in the field, and we've evolved over the course
of the season. And if you've watched us late in
the season, you've seen some single wing stuff creep in.
But that allows our block and rules to say the
same gives us some unbalanced, funky looks, but we're still
blocking power. We're still blocking trap, block and sweep. So
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I say that because the t if you, if the
kid learns the base system, I can move the backs
around wherever I want. We're still blocking trap, power, sweep
and so it's it's a pretty adaptable system.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Everybody listening that's not really familiar with Georgia Long County
coaches a middle size the three as kind of like
a middle size school for the state. So you're gonna
have some people playing both ways, right, I mean you
may have everybody about playing both ways. Have you found
that that is what because you're limiting the number of techniques,
have you found that that is helpful?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Absolutely? Yeah, I mean you know we can build again.
Our practice structure is that we don't do as much,
so we get more ups what we do. And now
with guys playing both ways, and that's been another one
of those battles of how do we get enough time
and practice reps on O and D. And we've done
it a few different ways, but absolutely, because you know
on the day that it's alley day for offense, that's
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an off tackle day. For us, Well, that's going to
be like inside run day for defense. So our practice
schedule kind of fits each other, so it compliments one another.
And on Wednesday for us as a perimeter day, so
we're working our sweep game and keep game and that
kind of stuff, well that's going to be a more
of a perimeter passing day for our defense. And so
I do think that it allows us to build a
schedule that fits and it allows our defense to be
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prepared while also getting our kids reps offensively.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, one thing I see people maybe in definitely inadvertently doing.
They're not messing up on purpose, but I do see
some of the smaller schools sometimes struggling to play people
both ways, in part because they've got so many things
in on both sides of the ball that they just
can't really get them all worked in the one hour
maybe fifty minutes that you can really get it in,
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and so they cramp. They try to do it and
they're just not very good, or they give up and
they're playing people more one way. And I'm telling you
that unless you're in the big, big time ball, it's
this I would put I would lose with my best
kids out there I'm just telling it's just the Parker philosophy,
you know, for whoever wants to hear it. But I
would not go down without my best kids playing as
much as possible correct well.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And that's the thing, you know, the system allows us to.
We've had kids, you know, in the past. We had
a running back my first couple of years in Amary
Douglas who was a fifteen hundred yard rusher, you know best,
you know, region offensive player of the year, A great kid,
great player the system simple enough, he was our tailback. Well,
he ran trap. Well, if somebody decides, if there's a
team that says, you know what, we're not going to
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let you run trap, they could do that, that's fine,
but you can't do that and stop off tackle and sleep.
And so then Amari, hey a Mark, go play halfback
and go run sweep and go run off tackle, and.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So play more positions because they're not that mean take right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, it's just at the end of the day,
it's it's it's power off tackle. You're gonna take a
crossover step, make a pocket, get the ball, and run
like hell. And so you know, and our players are
best kids. They all play multiple positions even on offense.
You know, they play tailback, they play half back, and the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Simplicity allows that, right, yes, And he's got some offenses.
You got some offenses where the Z receiver and the
H or both inside or something, and they're totally different positions,
you know, for what they're asking them to do. So
I think in exercise, I would advise anybody to listen
to this. Even if you don't run the tee, coach
is giving you a great insight on how to build
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your offense. Here in the off season. You start with techniques.
So one thing I always did and I never run
the power tee, but I did do this. You take
a position, write down all the plays you run. So
we've got these plays. You write them all down, power
counter or trail, you know whatever they are insidees on
you know, these passing plays, these play actions whatever. All right,
what's this kid do? Just take a position?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
He blocks down and he reaches he you know whatever
it is. You starting, well, how many things is that?
And if you're getting beyond eight or nine or ten things,
they ain't gonna be doude it sounds good or you know,
so you really got and sometimes people don't realize that.
You know, how many times you've been to a clinic.
Last time we made fun of the people that say
everybody calls them, nobody calls them. Now this time we
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can make fun of this. How many times you've been
to a clinic where a guy said, our offense is
really complicated. We run a million things. They never say that.
What they always say is, hey, we only run four
or five plays, but then they show twenty five plays
on the clips. Yeah, so they don't run four or
five plays. You know, everybody thinks they're not running much
until they do what I just said. If you really
sit down and write down every play you call on
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offense and write down what technique that kid does on
those plates, you will find that you're asking him to
do a lot. And what I'm saying is coach Feaster
does not He's not joking. The dude does three things,
so you can teach three things. But if you're teaching
a guy eleven things, and then you want him to
slide over and play running back too, where there's twelve
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or fourteen more things, they're just not I mean, they
may be able to memorize what to do. I'm not
saying that's not possible. Be good at it, right.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm a big repetition guy. I just think you know,
you've got to get a whole bunch of reps to
be comfortable because at the end of the day, yes,
against a scout look on Tuesday at our practice field,
you could kick somebody's tail. But on Friday night, if
you're not doing stuff right, that kid from Calvary or
that kid from Jenkins is gonna hammer you. And so
we got to also locked in.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I got a great question as I thought of this,
have you found that because it's limited and because you
can get a maion reps, you know you can get
into the nice to do stuff. Here's what I mean
by that, So teaching counter, everybody runs a counter or
some variation of that. So if you're doing a counterplay,
you know everybody blocks down, some people pull, and you
kick in your app right, So how many times do
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I go watch price and I did it too, and
it's just a mauling, Like we run counter and the
poor scout team guy just kind of stands there and
gets kicked, And well, you and I both know that's
not what they're gonna do on Friday night. They're gonna
squeeze this. There's a squeeze, piss out of it. You're
gonna have to log that guy, ky, you know. So
what you want to do is get to a point
where you're not just repping counter. We rep counter so
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many times it's boring. We're gonna make it hard on ourselves.
I'm gonna put this guy in a sprinter stance and
tell him just chase that tackle, just pulling, and see
if we can still dig him out or see if
like I felt like when I got to stuff like
that was when I limited techniques. That's what I'm saying.
We had more time to get to the like two
hundred level class or the three hundred level class. Is
that what you find?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, And I think what we have to do I
had to do this yesterday or the trap day? Is
that scout look sometimes because again, you know, they say
people play a certain way against us. They're gonna squeeze everything.
They're gonna wrong arm the trap, wrong arm the pullers,
all that good stuff. Sometimes those guys with the bags
won't go hard enough. I'll slight them up so they're
like even with the ball, so that they're like already
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across the line of scrimmage to make that path for
our guy harder, because again, when our guard pulls on trap,
he can't be too deep. He's got to get up
into the line of scrimmage to get his head inside.
All those details that I can manipulate. Because we have
enough time and experience in what we're doing, I can
manipulate that bag to line up wherever I want, and
that kid don't have to be as good of a
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player with the bag, but it gets our starter that
look that he needs, and so you're right, you can
manipulate the scout look. We have a period. We had
never been very good at throwing and catching it, which
is obviously we run this offense, but like we just
don't have a bunch of kids that can catch a ball.
It doesn't seem like So we added a period this
year trap PAP, where we run either it's a trap
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play or it's a play action pass. There's no secondary.
We'll get an eight nine man front and make our
offensive line block the worst front they could get for
a keep pass or a boot, but our receivers are
going to be open because guess what we throw the
ball in a game. Typically I guarantee you there. Yeah,
And so it allows our keys to be comfortable running
in space catching a ball because you know, sure as hell,
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even against if you run a scout dB out there,
it's covered three against us, that kid's will back up
to twenty yards. We never see that in a game, right,
So that DB's a waste.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It doesn't matter. You're not even gonna need to call it.
It's not gonna matter.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Right, So we got this period where we have an
eight or nine man box. It makes a heart in
the old line, and we're working our bubble pull for
a keep pass and our slide for boot and all
that good stuff. But our skill guys are getting great
work of getting out to the perimeter and catching the
ball in space where they're going to be open anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That is one of the things we ran back in
the day when teams were more accustomed to being heavy
run eye wing t teams whatever. They just didn't catch
them any balls. And I think that is one thing
now because teams catching the balls. So you probably do
have to find way. It's probably a great question, is
what is something you think you have to make fit
this Because of all those positives you said, there's always
an equal negative, and so is the equal negative that
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you just don't get the patent, go news like whatever,
the routs on air, whatever, the stuff that these ARA
teams are just doing every day. You're not getting as
much of that maybe, And is that what the negative is.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, that's something that we try to do pre practice.
Coach hairs in our OC and quarterbacks coach. He takes
all the skill guys, tight ends, half backs, fullbacks, takes
them out there and each day has like a theme.
One's a vertical day where you're catching corner routes and
go routes and stuff. One's a crossing day for like
tight ends who run the drag, but he works those
just straight catch like you said routes on air, but
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it's different movements. We're going across the field, we're gonna
run to get a corner route, routes we actually catch,
We're not, you know, just out there playing catch, right,
So we steal that time during pre practice because it's
it's not enough of our system to spend a ten
minute period during the actual practice time just throwing balls
to people. But we get that skill developed pre practice
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and then when it's trap pat day. Now they've caught
ten to fifteen multipore practice, now they're kind of in
the mood for that, and now I find that they
do perform better during the actual group period.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, so feel free to avoid the question if you
want to. But do you feel like, I mean, you
guys are gonna see all eleven guys playing the run.
I mean, you don't have to avoid that question, But
is the main thing that you see that you feel
like you're just more accustomed to see in that you
have to account for? Is these guys getting the secondary
down into the run game really easily? Right? I would
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assume that's what the and so being able to throw
the ball is the natural answer to that. But what
the question you might want to avoid is like, if one,
is that the main concern you see in this offense?
And then two, what are some more generic things you're
gonna tell me exactly what you're gonna call tomorrow against what's?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But what what are the things that one would do
to combat that? Because I would feel like that would
worry me.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, yeah, our system allows us to kind of have
some answers in terms of if if their secondary is
getting that involved in run support. Well, all of our
run all our passes or play a should passes. So
we know if we've had success off tackle running power,
well keep pass is going to be good. And then
it's just a matter of which which corner is getting nosier.
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If it's single high staty, which is what we predominantly see,
how close is he to the line of scrimmage, we
have some flashing game that it's no mystery. We throw
it all the time. We call it Michigan pass. Okay,
so you get a deep middle route and a couple
outside routes. Well, you know, if that corner is getting
real nosy, we'll probably the outside corner rout's gonna be
a little bit better in that look. But if that
safety is running downhill, well, now that deep post is
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probably good. So for us, it's just a reactionary thing
of we've got keep pass, Michigan pass, boot pass, and
some other variations of those. How it's just a matter
of us seeing how they're fitting and if there's rotation,
and then for us it's a base plight. We wrap
them all the time, So for us, it's not like
a make something up. We can run keep pass, we
can run boot if they're vacating a flat like, we
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have answers, it's just a matter of can we execute
that answer.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But you do have to commit a decent amount of
time to that because even though your other stuff is
simple and you know you'll be good at it, if
they'll let you, you've got to be an execute Like
I always found, I had great answers. If they stop
sweetp I was called if the tackle made, the defense,
tackle made the playoffs calling this as the d N did,
that was no problem. The problem was when that didn't
work because we sucked at that play.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I knew the play.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We just aren't any good at it.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, this is the thing that we talk all the time.
If and I think in a lot of systems, and
you probably had it with your stuff, is the old
option to me. I ran the triple when I was
with Andy, so you had that triple lote. If then,
if we're getting this, then we go this. Well, my
brain and the tea works the same way. If this
team is just fully committed to stop and trap, well
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then this don't run trapped, and that's fine. Let them
waste their full bodies in the right let them waste
their four bodies. Now, if they can do that and
still whip us off tackle. Well, guess what, they're probably
just better than us, and it don't matter what we run,
they're gonna beat our ass anyway, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And that is what we found. Yeah, the follow up
question I have to that is really more like, Okay,
so what you're seeing is junk defense. What I just
asked you about is you know, junk defense, like they
came up with something for the week, because that's what
they're going to do, right. But I am telling you this,
and this is where you guys coming to Georgia, you
really came about maybe a few years too early or
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a few years too late, because when I first came
to Georgia, which was seven years for you, everybody ran
the ball. I mean everybody. We would see one teams
in Alabama where I was from, Hoover had kind of
gotten hot, and everybody threw the ball. Everybody run his
Tony Franklin thing nineteen ninety nine and two thousand. That
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becomes this massive thing that everybody runs. We come to
Georgia and like, everybody run the wing tea basically, but
few teams around the eye. We didn't see a lot
of the power type tea. But I mean everybody ran
the ball. Well then people knew how to play that
and what became unique was you know, it's getting in
two by two and you know, throwing screens at inside
zone or something. Yeah, but you guys are the opposite. Now, Like,
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what kind of an advantage is this as we're giving
this infomer for the Power Team to people, what kind
of advantage have you seen from nobody's I mean, you
definitely you got three days get ready for this, babe,
there ain't you didn't see this anywhere else all year?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I mean the defensive coach, he's gotten three days and
he didn't he doesn't have anything in this. He's coming
up with something on Sunday and they're teaching it on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, right.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right, Well, I do think that, like you said, apparently
maybe it just blows feel good. But if this video
is the most watched, I do think people are are
trying to find ways to stop it. And I do
think that the folks that we play consistently on a
year in, year out basis, they have better plans each year.
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But that's why, again we continue to evolve and it
within our you know, you gotta have answer till I
having answers all the time, the people in the stands
and the folks my wife listened to on Friday night,
you know, keep running up the middle of why do
you keep doing that? Well, it's not the same play.
We just blocked power through, just ran trap two different ways. Right,
We've got these variations. So for us, we got answers,
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but for a staff of defense in three days, it
may be hard to determine those answers. My point is,
but they're reaching out. There's a network now, there's enough
teams around the country running it in Michigan, Minnesota, Tarboro,
North Carolina has been killing folks with the tea for years.
There's resources out there, and I do think that the
coaches are doing a good job of branching out finding answers.
And I've actually right by us. Tattle County went to
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the t this year. They have a guy from Michigan
that they've hired, and me and him talk a good bit,
and they've adapted. They ran the tea this year and
they were a little bit better and they saw a
lot of progress. So I think people are kind of
picking up on that being difference good and so hopefully
we don't get too many folks interested in it, because
again I.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Like that uniqu well, I think even if and I
appreciate your answer because it was genuine and it was
given credit to. We do have a ton of great
coaches in your region. Some of them are friends. You know,
some of your friends. They're great coaches. And I don't
on a slight them. Don't get me wrong, but you
ain't playing against them. But they ain't putting a helmet on.
So I don't care how many videos they watch. I
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don't care how much they did they learned from last
year's game with y'all those fifteen, sixteen seven year old kids,
they don't remember last year. Okay, they're doing this for
three days, okay, so they're doing it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and play on Friday. So I do think it's a
huge advantage. I think one of the advantages is I
just made a few notes to ask you about today.
Like one of the things that I thought of, why
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should somebody be listening to this, why should they have
made it twenty minutes in? Is that I mean, no
matter how good the defensive coach is, he's got to
translate that into those players on what to do, and
they are not seeing that many other weeks. You're I mean,
that is such an advantage I see for you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And the biggest thing with our offense is it's a
detailed offense in the and this is something I still
we struggle with and we harp on our kids all
the time. The biggest difference for us offensively is when
our kids will carry out their fakes. You know, We've
saw it in some games in the past few weeks
where kids has done a really good job and you
will literally see the safety running out to the off
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tackle area as the trap goes by them, like the
man with the ball is running by him, almost touching him,
and his eyes are on the fake and he's he's
off the page. And so it's that's the detail of Yeah,
people can block trap. We know how to block down,
go to the backside, back or block back of the
center guard polls kicks first. We get all that. That's easy.
The hard part is does your half back fake off
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tackle with a you know, with a vigor and does
he get off you know, go and you know, does
your alley block half back get up in there and
actually get the support player from folding in. Those are
the details that you can tell your kid to run
trap at your defense all week. You probably won't get
your your scout halfbacks to give that same look.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
No, this is gonna be And i'd imagine the first
few times y'all run it because they hadn't gotten that
speed of it either, that it is tough, you know.
I just think I just think it's a great it's
a great option, and I see people should try to
be unique. I just think it's kind of cool that
y'all are doing that. But you're right, man, It's just
it's all about being unique, being able to give yourself
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a chance and the power tea.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It was really a really neat variation of that. And
I like seeing that and the you know, I used
to run a lot of bucks sweep. But I'll tell
you something I did with fake Let me tell you
a fake tip and then I'll let you go. And
you probably do something like this. But I always like
to I like to do stats different than thereabouts. I
like to chart something different. I like to be unique
in that regard. So we had talked to our kids
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about the more traditional stats, although they'd be in the
paper and stuff like that. So sometimes we just charted
fakes like the only grade they got all day, the
only grade they got. And of course I didn't have
three backs like you, but we did send jet motion
a lot, and we had a back and it's a
lot of cross action out of the gun like jet
and buck and counter off of it and power, and
so we would own give the guy grade like he
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had twenty two fake opportunities, he had eighteen good fakes.
So he's doing four push ups money, we're doing four
push ups. I mean, four push ups ain't no big deal.
But we shined the light of them, you know what
I mean, Like I found that stuff to be like
super effective. That's the stuff I wouldn't told job I
was still coaching. I wouldn't even say it on that's
because you know, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Ais yourself though you went with a negative reinforcement. We
give our kids stickers for fakes, we reward them, but no,
so we ordered money signs, like we have Columbia Blue
money signs in our backs. When they get a fake
where they actually pull a defender. Our are running backs
coach and our and Stevie or Orc will chart that
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and that's one of the stickers they can earn our
our skill guys, they get stickers for fakes in touchdowns.
We want to score the ball and fake. That's all
we care. And the big guys, if he knocks up,
if you knocks away in the ground, you get a sticker.
That's it, you know, And I.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Think it is important, like when you're doing this, because
my last question maybe is that that's my last question,
I promise, Like what do you say to somebody that
says that? And I think the culture is what you're saying,
But what do you say to somebody that says, well,
we I would love that Coach Man, I wish I
had I could get with Coach Feast or I love this.
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I want to do something different. I want to run
the flexbone like Rocky at all go. I want to
run them with power tea like Coach Feast. But my
kids just won't do that, like my community won't get behind.
That is too much running. There is too much. We
got to spread it out and throw the ball or
my parents aren't gonna go for it, or my boost
cover my principal. You understand the question, right, I mean
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You hear that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
People like I would love to do that, but like,
what do you say to that person?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I guess the first thing would be that I have
a short I have a short feuws of that stuff.
Because now, if it's a place that successful, then okay,
well maybe you they don't want to do it. But
if it's a place that hasn't been, like I said,
that's not you know, get ourselves. If you can do
the samething, you're gonna get what you always got. So
the biggest thing my thing is again get kids involved.
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We have added some other things to our offense that
look a little different without changing our identity. And so
I guess my thing is, whatever your identity is going
to be, let's let's do it and sell the kids
on it. I had a hardy had some kids the
first year that did that did quit. They didn't play
that had played for years past, that were receivers and
and so you fight that battle. But at the end
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of the day, if if you're good to the kids
and you and they build that trust with you and
they know you're trying to do what's best for them,
I think that it'll work out, you know, I really do.
That's a hard one to answer, because that that's kind
of community centric now, like some places are just different.
But at the end of the day, I talk to
my staff all the time. I firmly, firmly believe a
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million percent that the staff that we have could pick
up and it goes somewhere in the state of Georgia
that's a little different than our place, and we could
compete for region to state championships doing what we do.
I firmly believe in what you do and how we
coach it, and we're gonna try to do that here
right now. And so that's that mindset of it can work.
(29:06):
And that's one of the last things I'll leave you with.
This is something that drives me crazy. You talk about
the triple that Rocky went to, and people talk about
those kinds offenses, and everyone's willing to say and they
agree that systems like the T or the flex bone
or the wing t it allows teams that are less
talented to play with teams that are more talented. Everybody
says that that's kind of like their claim to fame. Well,
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if you run that same offense with a bunch of
damn good players, want you to just beat the shit
out of everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Right, And I mean, let's just debunk this too. Has
nothing to do with getting a chance playing college, correct,
meaning if you're a player, you're a player. I mean
there's plenty of big time quarterbacks in the NFL that
random wing tea in high school like or random option,
and I mean that that's just one of the dumbest
takes ever.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's a genetic thing.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, yeah, if you can play, you can play. And
so I just I don't even know if that's even
a fair and good question. I just I know there's
people that's their excuse. They just don't feel like but
I would answer it with you got to have that
conviction that you have, so if you're going to actually
don't do it, if you're not willing to be convicted
and do it, you know, and then can you sell
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that culture? Because what I heard, the reason that question
came up was me hearing you talking about your helmet
stickers and the culture you want to score them on
a fake and we got these these these blue you
know what I mean, whatever, like you got maybe because
you are a little run heavy and you don't have
a lot of receivers and there's not a bunch of
screen passes. Everybody gets three catches a game, like you
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know you don't have that, but look what we do,
Like what do I have? Well, I'm building this culture
around these other kind of neat things. We're charting these
things different. We're giving this. And you tell them down,
You tell them receivers, coach, you tell them I said that,
they go over and turn around and play defense. You'll
let them catch every ball they can correct, correct, play corner,
they can catch all the balls that are even possible.
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Every time they catch one, we'll have a damn celebration.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And I mean, have you the smartest guy because I
ru on the tee. But we had a kid last
year of the six foot three dB and yeah, he
could be a receiver. We put him in safety. He
had eight pixies of South Carolina. I'm not that big
of a dummy. I knew where to put his ass
down in the middle of the field. Let him go
play defense. You mean it didn't hurt his college chances?
Not a bit funny how that works? Yeah, three with
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long arms.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yes, sir, I know you busy this time of year, man,
and it does mean a lot. You took some time
twice to talk to me, and you know, good luck
to you. Man. I'm really I try hard not to
cheer for like one person over other people that I
like and all, but I do really want to see
y'all get a playoff win. I'm gonna be I'm excited
to see what y'all can do.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Man. We sure try, and it's it's tough when you're
the three and four seet all the time and get
over the hurdle in our region. But we're gonna give
it a shot. We've been closing the gap and we
had a fourth quarter lead last year and couldn't hold it.
So hopefully this year we can give ourselves a chance.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Hey, and I saw the region breakdowns. We want to
or not the regions a classification breakdown. We we don't
have to get into that because I'm trying to this
more generic, but I think it might be okay for you.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah. Well, there's some schools in Savannah that operate differently
than we do that are probably gonna end up with us,
and you will probably understand how I feel about that
very quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Maybe we have so I try to keep these to
a few different genres, like this is a little more
to generic it's the main thing that people listen to.
And then I have some stuff that's just specific to Georgia,
and you know, and then I'll do some leadership stuff.
But the stuff, maybe we'll have to have a separate
one of these specific to Georgia where we'll turn the
we'll turn the ratings off a little bit. Unless you
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just have at it.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, I don't want to. I'm not like that fire
football coaches guy. Yet. Still I still would like to
maintain employment. But there's some feelings I have regarding certain
schools in our area that don't operate the way that
we do.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So yeah, it's it's interesting. But I do appreciate your time, coach,
and I do it. I mean, I appreciate your story.
And maybe you can go on Chris's podcast and tell
you know where all you came from and all that,
because that really is awesome to hear. And I know what,
I just wanted to talk about topics, and I just
want to talk about some building a program and I
want to talk about the power t But you know,
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I know you've had a great journey. I know you've
been around some awesome dudes and that's how you get
better at football man is being around good assistant coach,
being an assistant coach for really good head coaches to
teach how to do it, and then when you get
your opportunity, you're ready to roll. And I think you're
just a great example for all for your grades up,
for your gradeszon for you first coach, but you're a
grade zone for all these guys. Know you are man,
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the only but you're good just because you're a good
ball coach. You care, you're getting after it. But it's
really a good example for these guys who may just
feel right now like they're getting overlooked or the only
job then gets a tough one, or they got the
tough job and they're just feeling sorry for themselves, like no,
it can be done. So and that's why I'm cheering
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for you guys like you and I aren't related, we
didn't go to high school together. But I cheer for
you guys because I think it's such a good lesson
for the stuff that I get frustrated about the whining
and the you know, people just not focusing on what
they have. So appreciate you man, good luck this week.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, I appreciate the kind of words again It's just
it's kind of surreal for me to think about where
we're at now, where it was five years ago, and
at the end of the day, I don't really know
how to do it any difference. So we're going to
keep on doing our thing and hopefully it's good enough
to keep growing.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
No extra points Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Oh hey, I told Nick all the time, you can
kick an extra point. So the first one you minus,
we're done. We're going to the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Night, because you know, Bath coach, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yes, sirs, thank you.
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him back for another week. Coach. You know it was
we had two opportunities to talk to you before the
first round of state playoffs. So first round of state
playoffs are coming up though, so you know, good luck
to you. You know, in your time off, we had
got to talk to you twice.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So yeah, I love it, love it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, today is the day now. I told I said
it last time. The power T video on YouTube channel
is the most watched video. It's because you know people,
you know, they'll say there, we don't wear ever raid,
we don't need all that. Kids don't want to play
in it, right, nobody wants to do that, but then
they're watching it. Over all the other videos we got
every offense on there, they're watching yours the most. So
(01:42):
I did want to talk to a little bit about
the Powerty like first, I mean, if you want to
tell a little history of how you got there, but
also why so maybe how and why well?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I I played for a legendary POWERT coach in Michigan,
Flavor Earth Siggler, who turned around all of that college.
Running the Powerty and playing in that system in college
was a big deal obviously to learn it in depth
and growing up in Michigan. It's a huge, huge, popular
offense in Michigan for high schools. And then again playing
for IRV and then my first job was actually I
moved to Georgia with Steve Hamilton who was coming from
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Gibraltar Carlson High School down River Detroit, went to Woodland
High School of Cartersville, and we had no idea what
that was going to be like, but we brought the
tea to Georgia back in two thousand and seven and
we made Woodland better. It's one of those things we
look back now and I joke with Andy, who's there
now and it's still a very, very difficult situation. But
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he works as a tail off. But that place hasn't
been five and five since we were there in two
thousand and eight running the power tee, and so I've
seen that system work. And one of one of the
things I've used in some interviews before I got this
job was, you know the results at different schools that
have run the system, And it's big schools, it's small schools,
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it's inner city schools, it's it's suburban schools. It doesn't
matter because football is football. It don't matter where it's
played at. There's there's eleven guys on each side of
the vault, and it's a system that allows us to
put our kids in a position to be successful, eliminates variable.
So that's kind of where I learned it from. That's
my belief system is that again we want to be
different and and give as many kids as possible, the
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chance to be a part of an offensive system.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, Coach, I mean that's not what I ran, But
I'll tell you what I would have run it if
I thought it would help us win. I couldn't care
less what we ran. I just want to win. But
I have found we taught last time about turning the
program around. And coach as a coach at Long County,
they had really struggled for about fifteen years or so
before Coach got there, and they've they've been really, they've
been pretty decent at least ever since you got there,
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and now they're trying to break in to winning playoff games.
And so the power tea is unique and it is
one of the reasons why you were You've been successful
there no doubt. Talk to me about why because I
love the practice stuff like things like that, like it
limits the number of technique. It's like these are the
time of things I know you've told me before. So
like anybody that's like, I don't know man, but our
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friend Rocky ad All Goa who coached at Walton when
I was Quia. Men and Rockyo know each other a
long long time. We couldn't have been more conventional coaches
at Walton and Squoia and then Rocky went to the
flexbone this year, you know, I mean they went to
Harding and they totally went to flexbone. And there's somebody
listening to this thing because I don't know why, but
a lot of people listening to as coach. I don't
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know why, but they do. And there's somebody even outside
of Georgia this going to listen to this and be
into it. So what I'm saying is like, tell me
why beyond this unique the things that you thought gave
you an advantage, whether it even be practiced stuff or
reps or or just a scheme of why this was
so critical for you guys turning this place around.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, a big thing is, like I said, you get
a lot of people involved. You know, it's a three
back offense, and when you have a quarterback that can run,
it's really a four back offense. So on any given play,
there's four kids that have at the end of the day,
chance of getting a carry. Where when you spread it
out and you throw it around, teams can take away. Guys.
There's a lot of variables, and with the tea we
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eliminate some variables. Now we do get variables in terms
of fronts that we see in defenses because it is
unique and so people a lot of times have a
hard time playing their base defense. So we do get
some odd stuff. But our kids learn a set base
of set of rules and they can apply it to
any front. And now at practice we can get a
whole bunch of reps. You know, like yesterday we it
(05:30):
was Trapp Day for us. We have our days kind
of organized by series almost, and it was Trap Day.
So I bet we ran our four different versions of Trap.
I bet we ran fifty to seventy five reps of
just trapped yesterday. And now this is playoff week, and
so it's late in the season, but we're still repping
our base fundamental play and it allows those kids to
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get more and more reps doing a very set specific scheme.
You know, if I play tailback in our offense, I
run trap, I run an off tackle, power play, and
I run toss and that's kind of about all I do,
and I get really good at that. If I'm a halfback,
I smashed block, I run power, and I run sweep,
you know, and that's what I do. And so that's
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the big thing about the offenses. It allows you to
systematically build skills for each position and then just get
a ton of reps at it while looking pretty complicated
to the defense because of the fakes and the ball
being covered and not seeing the ball and that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, and it's yeah, you know, it's usually double tight end, right,
I mean you.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Still so It's funny the first couple of year. First year,
we were double tight end vast majority of the time.
The next two years, you know, I fall into that
trap of well, we had a kid show up, we
can play quarterback and he's pretty good, so we'll mix
in this, and it was good, it was fine, and
then well we gotta have a little gun set, what
if this? And then that's been okay at times, and
this offseason I said, screw that, man. We're we have
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been two tight ends on the field one hundred percent
of our snaps this year. Now we haven't been t
one hundred percent of the snaps, but we've two tight
ends in the field, and we've evolved over the course
of the season. And if you've watched us late in
the season, you've seen some single wing stuff creep in.
But that allows our block and rules to say the
same gives us some unbalanced, funky looks, but we're still
blocking power. We're still blocking trap, block and sweep. So
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I say that because the t if you, if the
kid learns the base system, I can move the backs
around wherever I want. We're still blocking trap, power, sweep
and so it's it's a pretty adaptable system.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Everybody listening that's not really familiar with Georgia Long County
coaches a middle size the three as kind of like
a middle size school for the state. So you're gonna
have some people playing both ways, right, I mean you
may have everybody about playing both ways. Have you found
that that is what because you're limiting the number of techniques,
have you found that that is helpful?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Absolutely? Yeah, I mean you know we can build again.
Our practice structure is that we don't do as much,
so we get more ups what we do. And now
with guys playing both ways, and that's been another one
of those battles of how do we get enough time
and practice reps on O and D. And we've done
it a few different ways, but absolutely, because you know
on the day that it's alley day for offense, that's
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an off tackle day. For us, Well, that's going to
be like inside run day for defense. So our practice
schedule kind of fits each other, so it compliments one another.
And on Wednesday for us as a perimeter day, so
we're working our sweep game and keep game and that
kind of stuff, well that's going to be a more
of a perimeter passing day for our defense. And so
I do think that it allows us to build a
schedule that fits and it allows our defense to be
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prepared while also getting our kids reps offensively.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, one thing I see people maybe in definitely inadvertently doing.
They're not messing up on purpose, but I do see
some of the smaller schools sometimes struggling to play people
both ways, in part because they've got so many things
in on both sides of the ball that they just
can't really get them all worked in the one hour
maybe fifty minutes that you can really get it in,
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and so they cramp. They try to do it and
they're just not very good, or they give up and
they're playing people more one way. And I'm telling you
that unless you're in the big, big time ball, it's
this I would put I would lose with my best
kids out there I'm just telling it's just the Parker philosophy,
you know, for whoever wants to hear it. But I
would not go down without my best kids playing as
much as possible correct well.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And that's the thing, you know, the system allows us to.
We've had kids, you know, in the past. We had
a running back my first couple of years in Amary
Douglas who was a fifteen hundred yard rusher, you know best,
you know, region offensive player of the year, A great kid,
great player the system simple enough, he was our tailback. Well,
he ran trap. Well, if somebody decides, if there's a
team that says, you know what, we're not going to
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let you run trap, they could do that, that's fine,
but you can't do that and stop off tackle and sleep.
And so then Amari, hey a Mark, go play halfback
and go run sweep and go run off tackle, and.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So play more positions because they're not that mean take right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, it's just at the end of the day,
it's it's it's power off tackle. You're gonna take a
crossover step, make a pocket, get the ball, and run
like hell. And so you know, and our players are
best kids. They all play multiple positions even on offense.
You know, they play tailback, they play half back, and the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Simplicity allows that, right, yes, And he's got some offenses.
You got some offenses where the Z receiver and the
H or both inside or something, and they're totally different positions,
you know, for what they're asking them to do. So
I think in exercise, I would advise anybody to listen
to this. Even if you don't run the tee, coach
is giving you a great insight on how to build
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your offense. Here in the off season. You start with techniques.
So one thing I always did and I never run
the power tee, but I did do this. You take
a position, write down all the plays you run. So
we've got these plays. You write them all down, power
counter or trail, you know whatever they are insidees on
you know, these passing plays, these play actions whatever. All right,
what's this kid do? Just take a position?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
He blocks down and he reaches he you know whatever
it is. You starting, well, how many things is that?
And if you're getting beyond eight or nine or ten things,
they ain't gonna be doude it sounds good or you know,
so you really got and sometimes people don't realize that.
You know, how many times you've been to a clinic.
Last time we made fun of the people that say
everybody calls them, nobody calls them. Now this time we
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can make fun of this. How many times you've been
to a clinic where a guy said, our offense is
really complicated. We run a million things. They never say that.
What they always say is, hey, we only run four
or five plays, but then they show twenty five plays
on the clips. Yeah, so they don't run four or
five plays. You know, everybody thinks they're not running much
until they do what I just said. If you really
sit down and write down every play you call on
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offense and write down what technique that kid does on
those plates, you will find that you're asking him to
do a lot. And what I'm saying is coach Feaster
does not He's not joking. The dude does three things,
so you can teach three things. But if you're teaching
a guy eleven things, and then you want him to
slide over and play running back too, where there's twelve
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or fourteen more things, they're just not I mean, they
may be able to memorize what to do. I'm not
saying that's not possible. Be good at it, right.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm a big repetition guy. I just think you know,
you've got to get a whole bunch of reps to
be comfortable because at the end of the day, yes,
against a scout look on Tuesday at our practice field,
you could kick somebody's tail. But on Friday night, if
you're not doing stuff right, that kid from Calvary or
that kid from Jenkins is gonna hammer you. And so
we got to also locked in.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I got a great question as I thought of this,
have you found that because it's limited and because you
can get a maion reps, you know you can get
into the nice to do stuff. Here's what I mean
by that, So teaching counter, everybody runs a counter or
some variation of that. So if you're doing a counterplay,
you know everybody blocks down, some people pull, and you
kick in your app right, So how many times do
(12:43):
I go watch price and I did it too, and
it's just a mauling, Like we run counter and the
poor scout team guy just kind of stands there and
gets kicked, And well, you and I both know that's
not what they're gonna do on Friday night. They're gonna
squeeze this. There's a squeeze, piss out of it. You're
gonna have to log that guy, ky, you know. So
what you want to do is get to a point
where you're not just repping counter. We rep counter so
(13:04):
many times it's boring. We're gonna make it hard on ourselves.
I'm gonna put this guy in a sprinter stance and
tell him just chase that tackle, just pulling, and see
if we can still dig him out or see if
like I felt like when I got to stuff like
that was when I limited techniques. That's what I'm saying.
We had more time to get to the like two
hundred level class or the three hundred level class. Is
that what you find?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, And I think what we have to do I
had to do this yesterday or the trap day? Is
that scout look sometimes because again, you know, they say
people play a certain way against us. They're gonna squeeze everything.
They're gonna wrong arm the trap, wrong arm the pullers,
all that good stuff. Sometimes those guys with the bags
won't go hard enough. I'll slight them up so they're
like even with the ball, so that they're like already
(13:46):
across the line of scrimmage to make that path for
our guy harder, because again, when our guard pulls on trap,
he can't be too deep. He's got to get up
into the line of scrimmage to get his head inside.
All those details that I can manipulate. Because we have
enough time and experience in what we're doing, I can
manipulate that bag to line up wherever I want, and
that kid don't have to be as good of a
(14:06):
player with the bag, but it gets our starter that
look that he needs, and so you're right, you can
manipulate the scout look. We have a period. We had
never been very good at throwing and catching it, which
is obviously we run this offense, but like we just
don't have a bunch of kids that can catch a ball.
It doesn't seem like So we added a period this
year trap PAP, where we run either it's a trap
(14:27):
play or it's a play action pass. There's no secondary.
We'll get an eight nine man front and make our
offensive line block the worst front they could get for
a keep pass or a boot, but our receivers are
going to be open because guess what we throw the
ball in a game. Typically I guarantee you there. Yeah,
And so it allows our keys to be comfortable running
in space catching a ball because you know, sure as hell,
(14:49):
even against if you run a scout dB out there,
it's covered three against us, that kid's will back up
to twenty yards. We never see that in a game, right,
So that DB's a waste.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It doesn't matter. You're not even gonna need to call it.
It's not gonna matter.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Right, So we got this period where we have an
eight or nine man box. It makes a heart in
the old line, and we're working our bubble pull for
a keep pass and our slide for boot and all
that good stuff. But our skill guys are getting great
work of getting out to the perimeter and catching the
ball in space where they're going to be open anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That is one of the things we ran back in
the day when teams were more accustomed to being heavy
run eye wing t teams whatever. They just didn't catch
them any balls. And I think that is one thing
now because teams catching the balls. So you probably do
have to find way. It's probably a great question, is
what is something you think you have to make fit
this Because of all those positives you said, there's always
an equal negative, and so is the equal negative that
(15:43):
you just don't get the patent, go news like whatever,
the routs on air, whatever, the stuff that these ARA
teams are just doing every day. You're not getting as
much of that maybe, And is that what the negative is.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, that's something that we try to do pre practice.
Coach hairs in our OC and quarterbacks coach. He takes
all the skill guys, tight ends, half backs, fullbacks, takes
them out there and each day has like a theme.
One's a vertical day where you're catching corner routes and
go routes and stuff. One's a crossing day for like
tight ends who run the drag, but he works those
just straight catch like you said routes on air, but
(16:15):
it's different movements. We're going across the field, we're gonna
run to get a corner route, routes we actually catch,
We're not, you know, just out there playing catch, right,
So we steal that time during pre practice because it's
it's not enough of our system to spend a ten
minute period during the actual practice time just throwing balls
to people. But we get that skill developed pre practice
(16:37):
and then when it's trap pat day. Now they've caught
ten to fifteen multipore practice, now they're kind of in
the mood for that, and now I find that they
do perform better during the actual group period.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, so feel free to avoid the question if you
want to. But do you feel like, I mean, you
guys are gonna see all eleven guys playing the run.
I mean, you don't have to avoid that question, But
is the main thing that you see that you feel
like you're just more accustomed to see in that you
have to account for? Is these guys getting the secondary
down into the run game really easily? Right? I would
(17:11):
assume that's what the and so being able to throw
the ball is the natural answer to that. But what
the question you might want to avoid is like, if one,
is that the main concern you see in this offense?
And then two, what are some more generic things you're
gonna tell me exactly what you're gonna call tomorrow against what's?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But what what are the things that one would do
to combat that? Because I would feel like that would
worry me.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, yeah, our system allows us to kind of have
some answers in terms of if if their secondary is
getting that involved in run support. Well, all of our
run all our passes or play a should passes. So
we know if we've had success off tackle running power,
well keep pass is going to be good. And then
it's just a matter of which which corner is getting nosier.
(17:59):
If it's single high staty, which is what we predominantly see,
how close is he to the line of scrimmage, we
have some flashing game that it's no mystery. We throw
it all the time. We call it Michigan pass. Okay,
so you get a deep middle route and a couple
outside routes. Well, you know, if that corner is getting
real nosy, we'll probably the outside corner rout's gonna be
a little bit better in that look. But if that
safety is running downhill, well, now that deep post is
(18:21):
probably good. So for us, it's just a reactionary thing
of we've got keep pass, Michigan pass, boot pass, and
some other variations of those. How it's just a matter
of us seeing how they're fitting and if there's rotation,
and then for us it's a base plight. We wrap
them all the time, So for us, it's not like
a make something up. We can run keep pass, we
can run boot if they're vacating a flat like, we
(18:43):
have answers, it's just a matter of can we execute
that answer.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But you do have to commit a decent amount of
time to that because even though your other stuff is
simple and you know you'll be good at it, if
they'll let you, you've got to be an execute Like
I always found, I had great answers. If they stop
sweetp I was called if the tackle made, the defense,
tackle made the playoffs calling this as the d N did,
that was no problem. The problem was when that didn't
work because we sucked at that play.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I knew the play.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We just aren't any good at it.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, this is the thing that we talk all the time.
If and I think in a lot of systems, and
you probably had it with your stuff, is the old
option to me. I ran the triple when I was
with Andy, so you had that triple lote. If then,
if we're getting this, then we go this. Well, my
brain and the tea works the same way. If this
team is just fully committed to stop and trap, well
(19:34):
then this don't run trapped, and that's fine. Let them
waste their full bodies in the right let them waste
their four bodies. Now, if they can do that and
still whip us off tackle. Well, guess what, they're probably
just better than us, and it don't matter what we run,
they're gonna beat our ass anyway, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And that is what we found. Yeah, the follow up
question I have to that is really more like, Okay,
so what you're seeing is junk defense. What I just
asked you about is you know, junk defense, like they
came up with something for the week, because that's what
they're going to do, right. But I am telling you this,
and this is where you guys coming to Georgia, you
really came about maybe a few years too early or
(20:13):
a few years too late, because when I first came
to Georgia, which was seven years for you, everybody ran
the ball. I mean everybody. We would see one teams
in Alabama where I was from, Hoover had kind of
gotten hot, and everybody threw the ball. Everybody run his
Tony Franklin thing nineteen ninety nine and two thousand. That
(20:33):
becomes this massive thing that everybody runs. We come to
Georgia and like, everybody run the wing tea basically, but
few teams around the eye. We didn't see a lot
of the power type tea. But I mean everybody ran
the ball. Well then people knew how to play that
and what became unique was you know, it's getting in
two by two and you know, throwing screens at inside
zone or something. Yeah, but you guys are the opposite. Now, Like,
(20:56):
what kind of an advantage is this as we're giving
this infomer for the Power Team to people, what kind
of advantage have you seen from nobody's I mean, you
definitely you got three days get ready for this, babe,
there ain't you didn't see this anywhere else all year?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I mean the defensive coach, he's gotten three days and
he didn't he doesn't have anything in this. He's coming
up with something on Sunday and they're teaching it on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, right.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right, Well, I do think that, like you said, apparently
maybe it just blows feel good. But if this video
is the most watched, I do think people are are
trying to find ways to stop it. And I do
think that the folks that we play consistently on a
year in, year out basis, they have better plans each year.
(21:42):
But that's why, again we continue to evolve and it
within our you know, you gotta have answer till I
having answers all the time, the people in the stands
and the folks my wife listened to on Friday night,
you know, keep running up the middle of why do
you keep doing that? Well, it's not the same play.
We just blocked power through, just ran trap two different ways. Right,
We've got these variations. So for us, we got answers,
(22:05):
but for a staff of defense in three days, it
may be hard to determine those answers. My point is,
but they're reaching out. There's a network now, there's enough
teams around the country running it in Michigan, Minnesota, Tarboro,
North Carolina has been killing folks with the tea for years.
There's resources out there, and I do think that the
coaches are doing a good job of branching out finding answers.
And I've actually right by us. Tattle County went to
(22:28):
the t this year. They have a guy from Michigan
that they've hired, and me and him talk a good bit,
and they've adapted. They ran the tea this year and
they were a little bit better and they saw a
lot of progress. So I think people are kind of
picking up on that being difference good and so hopefully
we don't get too many folks interested in it, because
again I.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Like that uniqu well, I think even if and I
appreciate your answer because it was genuine and it was
given credit to. We do have a ton of great
coaches in your region. Some of them are friends. You know,
some of your friends. They're great coaches. And I don't
on a slight them. Don't get me wrong, but you
ain't playing against them. But they ain't putting a helmet on.
So I don't care how many videos they watch. I
(23:07):
don't care how much they did they learned from last
year's game with y'all those fifteen, sixteen seven year old kids,
they don't remember last year. Okay, they're doing this for
three days, okay, so they're doing it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and play on Friday. So I do think it's a
huge advantage. I think one of the advantages is I
just made a few notes to ask you about today.
Like one of the things that I thought of, why
(23:29):
should somebody be listening to this, why should they have
made it twenty minutes in? Is that I mean, no
matter how good the defensive coach is, he's got to
translate that into those players on what to do, and
they are not seeing that many other weeks. You're I mean,
that is such an advantage I see for you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And the biggest thing with our offense is it's a
detailed offense in the and this is something I still
we struggle with and we harp on our kids all
the time. The biggest difference for us offensively is when
our kids will carry out their fakes. You know, We've
saw it in some games in the past few weeks
where kids has done a really good job and you
will literally see the safety running out to the off
(24:09):
tackle area as the trap goes by them, like the
man with the ball is running by him, almost touching him,
and his eyes are on the fake and he's he's
off the page. And so it's that's the detail of Yeah,
people can block trap. We know how to block down,
go to the backside, back or block back of the
center guard polls kicks first. We get all that. That's easy.
The hard part is does your half back fake off
(24:32):
tackle with a you know, with a vigor and does
he get off you know, go and you know, does
your alley block half back get up in there and
actually get the support player from folding in. Those are
the details that you can tell your kid to run
trap at your defense all week. You probably won't get
your your scout halfbacks to give that same look.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
No, this is gonna be And i'd imagine the first
few times y'all run it because they hadn't gotten that
speed of it either, that it is tough, you know.
I just think I just think it's a great it's
a great option, and I see people should try to
be unique. I just think it's kind of cool that
y'all are doing that. But you're right, man, It's just
it's all about being unique, being able to give yourself
(25:14):
a chance and the power tea.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It was really a really neat variation of that. And
I like seeing that and the you know, I used
to run a lot of bucks sweep. But I'll tell
you something I did with fake Let me tell you
a fake tip and then I'll let you go. And
you probably do something like this. But I always like
to I like to do stats different than thereabouts. I
like to chart something different. I like to be unique
in that regard. So we had talked to our kids
(25:39):
about the more traditional stats, although they'd be in the
paper and stuff like that. So sometimes we just charted
fakes like the only grade they got all day, the
only grade they got. And of course I didn't have
three backs like you, but we did send jet motion
a lot, and we had a back and it's a
lot of cross action out of the gun like jet
and buck and counter off of it and power, and
so we would own give the guy grade like he
(26:01):
had twenty two fake opportunities, he had eighteen good fakes.
So he's doing four push ups money, we're doing four
push ups. I mean, four push ups ain't no big deal.
But we shined the light of them, you know what
I mean, Like I found that stuff to be like
super effective. That's the stuff I wouldn't told job I
was still coaching. I wouldn't even say it on that's
because you know, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Ais yourself though you went with a negative reinforcement. We
give our kids stickers for fakes, we reward them, but no,
so we ordered money signs, like we have Columbia Blue
money signs in our backs. When they get a fake
where they actually pull a defender. Our are running backs
coach and our and Stevie or Orc will chart that
(26:42):
and that's one of the stickers they can earn our
our skill guys, they get stickers for fakes in touchdowns.
We want to score the ball and fake. That's all
we care. And the big guys, if he knocks up,
if you knocks away in the ground, you get a sticker.
That's it, you know, And I.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Think it is important, like when you're doing this, because
my last question maybe is that that's my last question,
I promise, Like what do you say to somebody that
says that? And I think the culture is what you're saying,
But what do you say to somebody that says, well,
we I would love that Coach Man, I wish I
had I could get with Coach Feast or I love this.
(27:16):
I want to do something different. I want to run
the flexbone like Rocky at all go. I want to
run them with power tea like Coach Feast. But my
kids just won't do that, like my community won't get behind.
That is too much running. There is too much. We
got to spread it out and throw the ball or
my parents aren't gonna go for it, or my boost
cover my principal. You understand the question, right, I mean
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You hear that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
People like I would love to do that, but like,
what do you say to that person?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I guess the first thing would be that I have
a short I have a short feuws of that stuff.
Because now, if it's a place that successful, then okay,
well maybe you they don't want to do it. But
if it's a place that hasn't been, like I said,
that's not you know, get ourselves. If you can do
the samething, you're gonna get what you always got. So
the biggest thing my thing is again get kids involved.
(28:03):
We have added some other things to our offense that
look a little different without changing our identity. And so
I guess my thing is, whatever your identity is going
to be, let's let's do it and sell the kids
on it. I had a hardy had some kids the
first year that did that did quit. They didn't play
that had played for years past, that were receivers and
and so you fight that battle. But at the end
(28:24):
of the day, if if you're good to the kids
and you and they build that trust with you and
they know you're trying to do what's best for them,
I think that it'll work out, you know, I really do.
That's a hard one to answer, because that that's kind
of community centric now, like some places are just different.
But at the end of the day, I talk to
my staff all the time. I firmly, firmly believe a
(28:46):
million percent that the staff that we have could pick
up and it goes somewhere in the state of Georgia
that's a little different than our place, and we could
compete for region to state championships doing what we do.
I firmly believe in what you do and how we
coach it, and we're gonna try to do that here
right now. And so that's that mindset of it can work.
(29:06):
And that's one of the last things I'll leave you with.
This is something that drives me crazy. You talk about
the triple that Rocky went to, and people talk about
those kinds offenses, and everyone's willing to say and they
agree that systems like the T or the flex bone
or the wing t it allows teams that are less
talented to play with teams that are more talented. Everybody
says that that's kind of like their claim to fame. Well,
(29:27):
if you run that same offense with a bunch of
damn good players, want you to just beat the shit
out of everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Right, And I mean, let's just debunk this too. Has
nothing to do with getting a chance playing college, correct,
meaning if you're a player, you're a player. I mean
there's plenty of big time quarterbacks in the NFL that
random wing tea in high school like or random option,
and I mean that that's just one of the dumbest
takes ever.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's a genetic thing.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, yeah, if you can play, you can play. And
so I just I don't even know if that's even
a fair and good question. I just I know there's
people that's their excuse. They just don't feel like but
I would answer it with you got to have that
conviction that you have, so if you're going to actually
don't do it, if you're not willing to be convicted
and do it, you know, and then can you sell
(30:12):
that culture? Because what I heard, the reason that question
came up was me hearing you talking about your helmet
stickers and the culture you want to score them on
a fake and we got these these these blue you
know what I mean, whatever, like you got maybe because
you are a little run heavy and you don't have
a lot of receivers and there's not a bunch of
screen passes. Everybody gets three catches a game, like you
(30:32):
know you don't have that, but look what we do,
Like what do I have? Well, I'm building this culture
around these other kind of neat things. We're charting these
things different. We're giving this. And you tell them down,
You tell them receivers, coach, you tell them I said that,
they go over and turn around and play defense. You'll
let them catch every ball they can correct, correct, play corner,
they can catch all the balls that are even possible.
(30:53):
Every time they catch one, we'll have a damn celebration.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And I mean, have you the smartest guy because I
ru on the tee. But we had a kid last
year of the six foot three dB and yeah, he
could be a receiver. We put him in safety. He
had eight pixies of South Carolina. I'm not that big
of a dummy. I knew where to put his ass
down in the middle of the field. Let him go
play defense. You mean it didn't hurt his college chances?
Not a bit funny how that works? Yeah, three with
(31:17):
long arms.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yes, sir, I know you busy this time of year, man,
and it does mean a lot. You took some time
twice to talk to me, and you know, good luck
to you. Man. I'm really I try hard not to
cheer for like one person over other people that I
like and all, but I do really want to see
y'all get a playoff win. I'm gonna be I'm excited
to see what y'all can do.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Man. We sure try, and it's it's tough when you're
the three and four seet all the time and get
over the hurdle in our region. But we're gonna give
it a shot. We've been closing the gap and we
had a fourth quarter lead last year and couldn't hold it.
So hopefully this year we can give ourselves a chance.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Hey, and I saw the region breakdowns. We want to
or not the regions a classification breakdown. We we don't
have to get into that because I'm trying to this
more generic, but I think it might be okay for you.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah. Well, there's some schools in Savannah that operate differently
than we do that are probably gonna end up with us,
and you will probably understand how I feel about that
very quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Maybe we have so I try to keep these to
a few different genres, like this is a little more
to generic it's the main thing that people listen to.
And then I have some stuff that's just specific to Georgia,
and you know, and then I'll do some leadership stuff.
But the stuff, maybe we'll have to have a separate
one of these specific to Georgia where we'll turn the
we'll turn the ratings off a little bit. Unless you
(32:36):
just have at it.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, I don't want to. I'm not like that fire
football coaches guy. Yet. Still I still would like to
maintain employment. But there's some feelings I have regarding certain
schools in our area that don't operate the way that
we do.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So yeah, it's it's interesting. But I do appreciate your time, coach,
and I do it. I mean, I appreciate your story.
And maybe you can go on Chris's podcast and tell
you know where all you came from and all that,
because that really is awesome to hear. And I know what,
I just wanted to talk about topics, and I just
want to talk about some building a program and I
want to talk about the power t But you know,
(33:09):
I know you've had a great journey. I know you've
been around some awesome dudes and that's how you get
better at football man is being around good assistant coach,
being an assistant coach for really good head coaches to
teach how to do it, and then when you get
your opportunity, you're ready to roll. And I think you're
just a great example for all for your grades up,
for your gradeszon for you first coach, but you're a
grade zone for all these guys. Know you are man,
(33:32):
the only but you're good just because you're a good
ball coach. You care, you're getting after it. But it's
really a good example for these guys who may just
feel right now like they're getting overlooked or the only
job then gets a tough one, or they got the
tough job and they're just feeling sorry for themselves, like no,
it can be done. So and that's why I'm cheering
(33:52):
for you guys like you and I aren't related, we
didn't go to high school together. But I cheer for
you guys because I think it's such a good lesson
for the stuff that I get frustrated about the whining
and the you know, people just not focusing on what
they have. So appreciate you man, good luck this week.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, I appreciate the kind of words again It's just
it's kind of surreal for me to think about where
we're at now, where it was five years ago, and
at the end of the day, I don't really know
how to do it any difference. So we're going to
keep on doing our thing and hopefully it's good enough
to keep growing.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
No extra points Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Oh hey, I told Nick all the time, you can
kick an extra point. So the first one you minus,
we're done. We're going to the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Night, because you know, Bath coach, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yes, sirs, thank you.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.