Today's guest is Phil Longo, offensive coordinator at Ole Miss. Longo talks about the difference between playing enthusiastically versus emotionally, how he evaluates players on instinctiveness and how he tweaks 7on7 time to make them even more effective for his team. He also discusses how he turns weaknesses into strengths by always optimizing his playbook.

Show notes

• 1:53   Start as a football coach
• 2:52   Lessons learned as a young coach
• 4:33   Building culture within an offense
• 6:30   Establishing relationships with players
• 8:28   Emphasizing instinct with players
• 9:57   Longo's grading system for evaluating instinctiveness
• 12:30   How Ole Miss breaks down its spring practice schedule
• 14:09   How Longo turns weak links in the playbook into strengths
• 16:39   Tweaking plays for red zone and goal line situations
• 18:04   Special Teams and trick plays
• 19:35   Don't install RPOs just to say you run RPOs
• 20:59   Play repetition
• 22:23   Coach technology
• 24:45   Keys to running an effective walkthrough
• 26:17   Role of assistant coaches on game day
• 27:28   Getting the most from 7on7s
• 29:25   The winning edge

Coach Grabowski’s 3 key takeaways

1. Playing enthusiastically not emotionally
2. Having 26 plays and sticking with them
3. Getting your players to play instinctively

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