This week in Keith’s coaching notebook, he talks about the red zone. This is where every team wants to capitalize and come away with points. A lot of teams find themselves struggling to be efficient due to lack of creativity and personnel issues. Keith explains some of his personal favorite concepts when working into and within the red zone. He gives some resources of how you can enhance your red zone efficiency and put some of these ideas into your game plan going forward.

Show Notes

00:50 Notes from Steve Fairchild

01:25 Keith’s method in red zone

02:30 4 vertical package

03:30 Ideally want to carry plays without adjustments

04:25 Thinking about pre-red zone 35-25 yard line

04:50 Andrew Coverdale insight

06:00 High red zone 25-18 yard line

07:20 Working 17-12 yard line

07:30 Work horizontally

07:50 Working 11-18 yard line

08:24 Protected play action

09:05 Personnel and formations

09:50 Looking at goal line passes 7yd to the endzone

10:14 Working 2pt plays

10:38 Specific packages

11:50 Empty red zone package

12:10 3 by 2 empty set

12:45 Keith’s play call 25-17 yard line

19:20 Including a quick route

20:00 Adding the draw

22:50 Thinking overtime concepts

23:30 Include 7on7 in red zone practice

24:00 Get reps

24:30 Football development

25:00 National Conference

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