Football is a game played in spurts; spurts that last approximately 5 seconds in duration. Kids have short attention spans; spans that last approximately 5 seconds in duration.
What I am trying to accomplish lately is telling my DBs that I need 5 seconds of 100% effort, one play at a time. Heck, the game gives you 25 seconds to rest before the next play. Anyone can give 100% effort for 5 seconds right?
Just the other day in "one Ons" A rising star Cornerback was covering our best receiver on a deep post, was in phase and reached to deflect the pass. He got a hand on it and thought that he had broken up the pass. Our receiver, being a wily veteran and thoroughly versed in the 5 second effort ethos, continued to chase the tipped pass. The receiver gathered it in and waltzed across the goal line. The Cornerback did everything correctly as per his technique would indicate. Later, after chewing on his ear for a while, I passed along the notion that all I needed was 5 seconds. Just give me 5 seconds of uninterrupted focus and next time you will finish the play. He agreed and all is well.
This got me thinking about how effort truly rules the successes and failures of our team on a play by play basis and how if we adopted a 5 second effort rule team-wide we would be unstoppable. And then I thought that even if we got only half of the kids to adopt this ideology we would be damned hard to beat.
I started with one kid thinking about 5 seconds at a time. I asked him if he could give 100% 5 seconds at a time. he said he could. So far he has and has continued to produce the expected results so longed for in a position of need and short of quality depth. I am now advocating 100% effort for 5 each seconds, one play at a time, every play, all game!
5 Seconds! Hmmm that has a nice ring to it!
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