Mini Bio:
Jason Eck is entering his first season at Hampton University as the Offensive Line Coach.
He comes to Hampton from Ball State University, where he served as the Offensive Line Coach for the 2009 & 2010 seasons. In his second year, the Cardinals trimmed their sacks allowed from 30 to 16, which was good for 2nd best in the Mid-American Conference.
In 2007 & 2008, Eck served as the Co-Offensive Coordinator and Offensive Line/Tight End Coach at Winona (MN) State University. He helped Winona State to a 10-2 overall record in 2007, when they won the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship and qualified for the NCAA Division II Playoffs. Eck coached 6 1st-Team All-Conference selections at Winona State, including 1st Team All-American Nick Urban, who attended training camp with the Minnesota Vikings.
Eck’s first full-time coaching job was at the University of Idaho. He coached the Offensive Line under Head Coach Nick Holt for the 2004 & 2005 seasons, and then transitioned to Tight Ends Coach and Recruiting Coordinator under Dennis Erickson in 2006.
In 2002 & 2003 Eck served as the Offensive Graduate Assistant at the University of Colorado. He helped Colorado to the 2002 Big 12 North Championship under Coach Gary Barnett.
Eck started his coaching career at his alma mater under the tutelage of Barry Alvarez. He was there for three seasons, including 1999 when the Badgers won the Big Ten Championship and beat Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
Eck graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1999 with a B.A. in Psychology. He went on to earn a Master’s in Business at UW in 2001, while serving as a Graduate Assistant Coach. After originally joining the Wisconsin football team as a walk-on, Eck earned a scholarship before the 1997 season. As a senior, Eck was named UW’s Athletic Board Scholar for Football, and made the 1998 Big-Ten Academic All-Conference Team as the Badgers won the Big Ten Championship and beat UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
A graduate of St. Pius X High School (Class of ’95) in Atlanta, GA, Eck is married to Kimberly Eck. They have three children, Quentin (8), Jaxton (6), and Palmer (1). His father, Jay Eck, was a college basketball coach for over 20 years with stops at Toledo (Head Coach), Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Bradley, Pitt, Loyola of Chicago, and Towson.
Topic: "O-Line Drills to improve toughness and enhance fundamentals."
Coach Murphy has coached football for 13 years. He was the defensive coordinator at Mt. Diablo HS and Head Coach at Ygnacio Valley HS before coming to Clovis East. His teams have won 9 league championships and 3 CIF championships. He has been coach of the year 3 times. Coach Murphy went to College Park HS and was a two-time All-League DB and WR, ran Track and played Baseball. After HS he played strong safety at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of two books and several videos on the Double Wing Offense and 4-4 Swarm Defense.
Coaching philosophy: "Teach kids that the best things in life come from working hard and never quitting no matter how difficult the task."
Coach Murphy will come on and talk about some of the new wrinkle he has added to his double wing scheme. Get ready for one hell of a show on the best youth football radio show on the web.."The Red Zone Show". You made his interview w/ Coach Val number overall in ratings. So enjoy your treat tonight on "The Red Zone Show".
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I went to the Mid-Atlantic Wing T Clinic last weekend and enjoyed every minute of it. The venue was awesome and Coach Phillips ran a 5 star event no question. During one of the lectures one of the speakers mentioned that he wasn’t a big screen guy. He had a few screen plays in his packages, but he didn’t use screens as much as others would or do. I spoke with a few youth coaches off the air and I had noticed that most youth teams don’t use any form of screens in their play calling. Most coaches feel the use of screens at the youth level isn’t worth the time of effort of installing. The use of screens can be very useful to any offensive attack when used properly. The reason why screens should be used is because of 4 reasons:
(1) It allows you to take advantage of blitz heavy youth defensive schemes
(2) It allows you to get your key player in open space
(3) Use of screens can be an extension of your rushing attack
(4) Quick passing play that don’t take long to develop
The main reason why I enjoyed using screens at the youth level is putting a youth defender in a situation that he has to make an open field tackle. When I studied screens there was one that was effective for my squad last season. This screen was the bubble screen. This screen could be used where you could have a back leak out in the flats, or a quick pass to an isolated wideout. Most teams don’t use press coverage, will allow you to get anything underneath, and don’t practice pass techniques enough within our tight time frame with their youth players. When I looked at screen plays the bubble screen took the least amount of time to install and didn’t cost me anything with blocking up front. I will show you a bubble screen play we used last season that was a good play for us in any situation.
Disclaimer:
Not even screen will break for 80 yards!!!!
Understand that when you use any screen play in a perfect world you would love to take a 2 yard pass to the house. The key to using screens is to get 3-4 yards. If my player picked up more than that I was fine. The way I used the bubble was to force the defense to account for every player on the field. I refused to allow any team to stack the middle without making them pay dearly for it. The bubble screen allowed me to get my stud in open field and make a play. I would use players that can make the 1st man miss by quick open field moves and getting behind his pads to finish off the run when he get hit. Most coaches I seen use screens would dump the play quickly when the play don’t turn big yards. The bubble screen should be used to help move the chains and if the player miss the open field tackle you will get interest on your investment. You must be patient and work it in within your play calling. Too many times people will file 13 a play if it don’t generate big yards. If my players get my 4 yards a play I take that any day of the week.
Trips Yo-Yo Bubble Screen
Hybrid Wing T-Jet Sweep Series
You can run the bubble screen from any formation you want. When you use compressed sets like double wing sets the leaking the fullback to the flats is a great play if you have been beating your opponent up well inside. If you use some sort of spread attack 2 x 2 or trip sets the bubble is a great way to put a team in conflict. You must hit the un-covered wideout and make them account for him every play. Last season we ran the Hybrid Wing T from pistol depth. We ran a jet sweep based series. We would flex out FB out along with out TB and SE. The FB would be the outside wideout, the SE would be in the middle, and then the TB. We would run jet sweep to the raw TE side with our QB. The TB would fake jet and lead and kick out the DB for the QB when we ran to the raw TE side. We would also run power with the QB with the jet fake underneath. We have seen that by us being in pistol it forced teams to send pressure from the edge. We would show double tight or a our base formation “Ace” and then flex to trips. When we made this shift only one team in our league would slide a defender over to the trip side last season. This allowed us to have numbers outside. The influence of the jet would force the defense to flow to the jet action. Once they would slide to the jet action we would attack the bubble screen with our FB that was within the bunched trips alignment. Since our QB was in pistol he had enough time to set up and drive the screen route.
Trips Alignment from left to right with rules:
FB: Bubble Screen (Take 1 jab step forward, and 2 steps back facing the QB for bubble)
SE: Crack Block 2nd level defender (OLB)
TB: Run jet fake and yo-yo back to kick out DB
LT- WB: Jet Sweep blocking rules
QB- Fake to TB and drive the bubble screen pass
What we found out was when we ran the yo-yo motion it allowed us to get flow away from the bubble and pick up another blocker. We also only had to teach the SE and TB to pick up key blocks. This cut down on teaching anything new up front and made this add painless. Then when the TB yo-yo back towards the DB he was in perfect position to crack the DB. The DB in most cases would chase the jet backside or sitting reading the backfield. The SE has a crack call in our jet sweep system anyway. So this was an easy adjustment for the SE with the bubble screen.
Adjustments:
You will get plenty of looks when you run jet sweep. When we saw that the OLB followed the TB we would add a “Ride” fake to this play then still run the bubble. Our QB and TB knew this and it was an option that they could run without us signaling this in. This can be done with drills during your offensive sessions at practice. We would have our OLB mix up his reaction. My assistant coach would mix up the OLB calls so this would help the TB and QB know what to do. This helped our kids with their reads and made it second nature for them. This adjustment only took 3 minutes in one practice to get in. Then we would add this to our series prep during the week.
If the OLB shade the trips side and jump the bubble the QB would pull the ball down and run the ball where the OLB have moved from. This was also added in our practice sessions around week 3. This made our bubble play harder to defend. We just didn’t want to get negative yards on the play. One game our QB broke a 35 yard run when the OLB jumped the alley of the bubble. (This team had scouted us 2 weeks before our game that week.)
You can also tag your players and rotate who would run the bubble as well. If you run it to your TB you can use the yo yo motion and have the FB stalk the DB. The SE would use his crack call on OLB. If you wanted to hit your SE you would allow the FB to crack 2nd level and the TB would kick out DB.
Closing:
There are 4 things that made this play a great add for us.
(1) Was in pistol depth
(2) Flexed our formation to trips to put the defense in conflict
(3) Use PA to generate flow away from our bubble
(4) Being proactive with offensive adjustments to keep the defense off balanced
The bubble screen allows you to take advantage of aggressive defensive coordinators that like to send heavy pressure. The use of the bubble with other play action pass plays can keep any team off balanced and force defensive coordinators to account for every player/alignment. I hope this play can help other coaching staffs as it did for us. This is a play that the kids loved and mesh well with our offensive system.
Joseph Lee Jr., is a Coach, Author, Teacher, Entrepreneur and Inventor. Since a young age Coach Lee has shown the courage to express his unique and unusual teaching style. After his playing career he successfully transitioned to the Coaching business and proceeded to invent Coach Lee's New Football Key System (CLNFKS) in 1971.
Since 1971 he has turned around struggling football programs and individual play, within just 24 hours of hearing his system (see Featured Clients page). His unique key system allows defensive players to see the game of football unfold before their eyes in slow motion thus instilling calmness, maturity, and discipline 100% across the board. His key system is a unique invention in that he is the only technique coach who teaches these unique techniques.
With this his book “THE Blueprint for the Ultimate Defensive Back,” he hopes to bring his unique teaching to the masses and provide your team with a seeable edge.
Coach Lee, Ali Sarkeshik, and NFL DB Cletis Gordon will come on and sit down with "The Red Zone Show" family and talk about DB play. This is another area that don't get enough attention during the time we work with our kids. Coach Lee has a system that changes the way DB's play the game and the use of keys to enhance their ability to know what the offense is trying to do. This is a must hear interview.
• BORN JULY 25, 1952 IN MONROE, N.C. PARENTS – MARVIN AND ETHEL POPE
• PLAYED FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL AND TRACK AT PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL\ 1966-1970
1. PLAYED SOCCER AND WRESTLING AT WINGATE COLLEGE 1970 -1972
• PLAYED OFFENSIVE LINE AT GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE 1972-1974 FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP
• PLAYED SEMI-PRO FOOTBALL – STANLEY PATRIOTS – 1974-1976 OFFENSIVE LINE TEAM RECCORD WAS 34 – 3 DURING THIS TIME
• COACHED AT HIS OLD HIGH SCHOOL FOR 5 YEARS PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL – FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, TRACK AND WEIGHTLIFTING
• COACHED IN SOUTH CAROLINA FOR 30 YEARS AT LANCASTER, SUMTER, BLACKVILLE-HILDA, INDIAN LAND, SENECA, HILLCREST, LAKEWOOD AND WALHALLA HIGH SCHOOLS. COACHED FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, TRACK, SOCCER, WRESTLING, AND WEIGHTLIFTING DURING THIS TIME.
• HELD NUMEROUS POSITIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE. PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT, REGION COORDINATOR 6 DIFFERENT TERMS
• SOUTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH OF THE YEAR 1988
• STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AT BLACKVILLE-HILDA IN 1988
• AWARDED DISTINQUSHED SERVICE TO SOUTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL AWARD IN 2008 BY SOUTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL COACHES ASSOCIATION
• CELEBRATION OF LIFE THRU SPORTS AWARD – SPOTING NEWS AND DAVID STIEN SHOW
• NUMEROUS REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS IN FOOTBALL AND TRACK
• COACHED 7 YOUNG MEN WHO PLAYED PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL AND NUMEROUS OTHERS WHO PLAYED COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND TRACK
• COACHED SHAWN CRAWFORD OLMPIC CHAMPION 2004 IN THE 200 METER DASH
• DIRECTOR OF HAWG TUFF! CAMPS AND CHALLENGES FOR LAST TWENTY YEARS. WE HAVE HAD OVER 20,000 YOUNG MEN AND ONE GIRL COME TO THE CAMPS.
• WE HAVE GROWN TO HAVING 34 CAMPS AND CHALLENGES IN NINE STATE THIS YEAR.
• DIRECTOR OF HIGH SCHOOL RELATIONS AND ASST. FOOTBALL COACH AT WINGATE UNIVERSITY FOR LAST TWO YEARS. 2010 TEAM WON SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SCHOOL FOOTBALL HISTORY
Coach Mike Pope will come on and talk about the importance of offensive line play. He will also give us tips on how to improve in this area that is overlooked by most youth football programs.
This weekend I will be at The Mid-Atlantic Wings and Things Coaches Clinic. This clinic will be held in VA. If you're in the area stop by and enjoy the line up that Coach Phillips has set up on both sides of the ball.
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A supporter of the show locked in 4 guest that spoke at the Singlewing Conclave event that just passed. These are the future guest that will be coming on the show soon.
Leonard Johnson
Single Wing/double wing
HC Scott Branch HS
James Barg
OC Holly HS
Holly NY
(Direct Snap Double Wing)
John Minteer
OC Osbourne HS VA
Single Wing/Spread
Dr. John Ward
OC Cape Fear Senior HS
Single Wing/ Spin series Guru
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We will finish our chalk talks wth Coach Dennis Caryl today talking about the 46 Bear defensive attack. We will now get ino blitz packages, adjustments, and other key coaching points with the 46 Bear defensive system. Tune in tday at 2PM EST with me and Coach Caryl on "Moving the Chains".
Coach John Bland will come on this week to talk about his option attack. You may have heard of him before from speaking at Frank Glazier events and how he runs his program at The University of the Cumberlands. He will break down how to attack from under center and from gun using the hard to defend option offensive system. You don't want to miss a chance with Coach Bland as he teach us how to install, the key coaching points, and major road blocks coaches have when running this system. See you all thursday night @ 530PM EST. You're in for a treat..get ready for another chalk talk session with Coach Bland and Coach Big B on "The Red Zone Show".
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