Thursday, January 14, 2010

Coach Pat Murphy enters into "The Red Zone"




Pat Murphy is going on his 27th year of coaching high school football in Montana. He started his coaching career as an assistant coach at Missoula Big Sky for 11 years under the tutelage of Gary Ekegren. He than took over the reigns of Park High Schools program in Livingston for 4 years. Followed by a successful 5 years at Jefferson High School in Boulder. He is currently the Head Football Coach at Capital High School where the Bruins have played for the state title the last five years, winning three titles. He has a 63 – 12 record in the 6 years at the school. Within this span the Bruins set a state record 33 consecutive wins. The 2007 Bruin team set a state-rushing total of 3992 yards. The 2008 team racked up 5983 total yards and averaged 47 points a game. He was selected to the NFL youth Summit in 2003, and was selected as the MCA coach of the year in 2006, 2007, and 2008. He was selected as an assistant coach for the United States Junior National Team next month on January 30th. So with a resume like this you know you need to tune in this week and check out Coach Pat Murphy. What's on the table for this week is the Shotgun Wing T and 3-4 defensive scheme. Coach Pat Murphy also spoke on the ruby punt as well.

This was a great show and we learned more about the ever changing Wing T scheme. The beauty of football is how older schemes change from coach to coach. The backbone is there, but because God made all of us different in our own way you see this apply to the way we coach football. In this interview you will see how Coach Pat Murphy talk about the bucksweep vs. jet Sweep. He also talk about the laws of the game that was taught by him when he 1st began to run this system. We also had a chance to really get into the 3-4 scheme. As you can see on many sites and on TV that the 4 man front is slowly going away. Not because the 4 man rush isn't good. The reason is because the lack of talent of 4 solid pass rushers that can contain the run. The other point is the use of spread that is spreading like the flu. 3 man fronts allow you to be stout against the run, and you have men in an area to help with containing the wideouts across the field. We also talked about rules for the linemen and how to teach them these rules. Coach Jerry Campbell in his last interview spoke of this and I wanted Coach Pat Murphy to speak more on this issue. When you listen to this interview even if you don't run the Wing T you need to understand what make it tick. If you don't want to run the 3-4 you need to understand what make it work and the weakness of this scheme. Then the Rugby Punt is a great way to expand your special teams game as well. Just click below and listen to this great online clinic. Below is some of his cut-ups on youtube.com.

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The Red Zone Show

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/coach-bigb/2010/01/14/coach-pat-murphy-enters-the-red-zone


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