Best Eleven of 2023, #2: Into the Passing Lab – Josh Herring, QB Coach, Lassiter High School (GA)

Whether I am recording the conversation with Josh Herring or not, our interactions never disappoint. He is both an outstanding student and teacher of the game and can take complex ideas and simplify them in the way he teaches them so that his players can excel in execution.

In 2023, Coach Herring moved back to his previous position of QB Coach at Lassiter High School after serving a stint as OC at Jones County High School. In this episode, he shares what he is seeing in the evolution of the passing game.

Show Notes:

• The landscape of defensive football - things you need an answer for
• Less six-man - more empty protections to strain the defense
• More seven-man play action or check release to take away dual read
• Breaking down pressures to formulate a protection plan
• Have a language that allows quick communication
• At least two blitz pick-up periods every practice
• The passing is a total thing and must be worked that way in practice
• QB needs to have a protection thought process in every passing drill      
• Drop eight answers
• 11 and 12 personnel
• Concepts for drop eight - Floods, Wide Splits, Four Strong
• Four Strong concepts
• Spacing concept
• Winning route side space 
• Y Cross coaching points
• Dig or Post Curl with Y Cross
• Evolution of the Seam Read
• Starting with “What’s our pressure answer?”
• Drill setup for the passing game
• The Book Concept
• Teaching the “Dodge” route

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