This week on the Game Plan series of the Coach and Coordinator podcast, Grabowski and Coach Coiner host former NFL offensive coordinator and college head coach Steve Fairchild to talk about ways to be proficient in the red zone. The coaches discuss different plans they thought were good in the red zone and Fairchild expressed it as an opportunity to get creative without doing too much. He even gives examples of ways to take some of your play calls and incorporate them into your red zone attack.

Show Notes

01:20 Steve Fairchild Bio

04:10 Identifying the red zone

05:02 Have a plan to manage points

06:06 Prepare for the worst

07:00 Planned plays by areas

07:37 Have a 3rd down, play action and end zone call

10:30 Having a catalog of plays per field zone

12:10 Not giving up on the run

13:00 Handling the extra defender

16:10 Personnel and matchups in red zone

18:00 RPOs

19:55 Working with limited schemes

21:10 You can get creative

21:50 What Steve likes in red zone

27:00 Working the protection

29:05 Steve Fairchild’s QB development

32:00 Working horizontally

32:55 First down playbook resources

 

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