Game Day Workouts???

Lifting on game day, is it better to lift before the game or after the game? The Portland Trail Blazers have athletes dabbling in both. I have been a firm believer in lifting on Game Day for as long as I have been training! As a young athlete I was told to get a lift in on game days, and I feel it made me stronger later in the season and in the end of the games. Now getting a lift in doesn't mean go in the weight room and do maximal effort lifts, it just suggest that you go in there and get your body moving by doing your everyday movements.

I believe that the athletes at EPHS right now have bought into lifting on game day, but that was not the case when I arrived at EPHS in the fall of 2006! The football team has had much better team speed and health over the last three years then it had in the past, and it is because of the athletes commitment to the weight room!

I would hope all Oregonians have a little Blazer in them sense they are the only professional team in the state. They have to be everyone's 2nd B-BALL team at least!

Here is clip from the Blazers Strength Coach:

Instructional Videos of Position Drills

Attention all Offensive football players and coaches involved in the Eagle Point Football Program. I have two videos that are great fundamental drills for all Offensive Positions! I wish we could get all of our coaches to do just these drills at the lower levels and we would be better for it in the long run of things here at EPHS.Please watch and learn something from these videos. I have been around the sport of Football my entire life, my father was a HS football coach so I was the water boy, ball boy, and student of the game all at the same time. I picked up a few things from these videos, and if I can do that then everyone can. If you say to your self I know all this then you are a terrible team player because I have yet to see any one of our players or coaches do these things and if they do, they can always improve on them.

Please take something away from these videos! Have fun it is FOOTBALL we are talking about here!

Some U of O cut ups

Saw these cut ups and wanted to show everyone!

If I can say one thing EP Football players please watch your offensive position in these videos. Watch how the athletes carry out their fakes and watch how the O-Line get after their blocks. WR's making down field blocks. WR's and QB's take special note on the screens they show and watch how they are executed! Rewind if needed but study this game film during the off-season.

Enjoy some great FOOTBALL:

The Off-Season starts

The Off-Season is a thing of the Beauty! I will tell you why. The new thoughts of next year are already going through my mind. I have not forgotten about the seniors who are leaving us, but I have come to appreciate what they have done for our program and also realize they can no longer contribute physically for us. The football coaches are preparing to talk to all the under class man and set goals for each. If I were a player again on this team my number 1 goal would be to make the playoffs, and leave no questions behind.

The athletes are working hard in the weight room to become better athletes, some are wrestling and some are playing basketball. The others that are not participating in a winter sport will start meeting twice a week to work on speed and agility and plyometrics with the football staff.

Eagle Athletes need to take the next step towards turning the athletic program around. I believe you all know what needs to be done!!!

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End of 1st Quarter Athletic Rankings

Here are the Boys Athletic Ranking at the end of the 1st Quarter:
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Here are the Girls Athletic Ranking at the end of the 1st Quarter:
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Friday of Week 10

Week 10 - Well, the Football team finds itself in a position in which they must win by 10 points to enter the playoffs this post season. The post season has not found EP football program for 12 years and it has been 13 years sense the Eagles have hosted a playoff game. The Eagles are hosting the Ashland Grizzlies at 7pm tonight.

All I have to say is, WIN!!!

If our players stay focused and give their best effort every play we will walk off the field victorious and have the opportunity to host a playoff game against Wilsonville High School.

WIN EVERY PLAY!!!

I have never coached in a playoff game before and I am very excited for tonight's game, because for us (Eagles) it is a playoff game. We win by 9 points and we continue to play football. We lose and we start preparing for next fall! I do not want to start preparing for next fall yet!

We are prepared and we are ready, now all there is left to do is play the game!