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100 Linebacker Drills
Build position work around the reads, fits, and decisions a linebacker faces on Friday night.
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SIDELINE SCIENCE / COACH BARTLETT
Better players.
Stronger minds.
Brighter tomorrows.
The science behind the skill. The coaching that brings it to the field. Practical reading and resources for coaches, athletes, and sports parents.
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE SIDELINE
Wisconsin Lutheran College · Tight Ends Coach
THE COACH’S WHITEBOARD01 / THE READ
THE COACHING QUESTION
What does your player need to see
before he knows where to go?
SCHEME FIRSTPLAYERS > PLAYSPRACTICE WITH PURPOSERESPECT THE EVIDENCE
01 / THE EQUIPMENT ROOM
Put the next rep
on purpose.
Coaching ebooks for position development
and practice design.
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The Tackling Drill Library
Focus tackling work on the approach and the decisions that bring the defender into position.
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Building Competitive Football Drills
Design scoring and constraints that connect competitive effort to the skill you are trying to teach.
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02 / FROM SIDELINE SCIENCE
Read it.
Question it. Use it.
Football coaching · Athlete development
How to Watch Film Like a Coach
A practical guide to studying the assignment, checking technique, and taking one clear fix into practice.
Read on Substack ↗Sports parenting · Sports science
The Car Ride Home: What to Say (and Not Say) After a Game
What young athletes reported about postgame conversations, with ideas for letting your athlete lead the ride home.
Read on Substack ↗Football coaching · Sports science
If the Drill Can't Go Wrong, It Isn't Teaching
A coaching discussion of blocked and varied practice, decisions, and what your individual period asks players to read.
Read on Substack ↗THE SCIENCE / THE SCHEME / THE SIDELINE
Better practice starts
with a better question.
Research can help us understand how athletes learn. Coaching connects that understanding to a player, an assignment, and the next rep.
Sideline Science brings those conversations together. The newsletter explores the evidence. The Equipment Room gives coaches resources to organize their teaching. Friday Night Transfer is the coaching principle underneath it: prepare players for the decisions the game asks them to make.
MEET THE COACH / SAM BARTLETT
A teacher’s questions.
A coach’s perspective.
I coach tight ends at Wisconsin Lutheran College and teach science at Elkhorn Area High School. Sideline Science brings those two parts of my work together: understanding how people learn and helping them put that learning into practice.
Former head coach at Whitewater High School. Former defensive and special teams coordinator at Racine Horlick High School.
My story & coaching philosophy →SIDELINE SCIENCE / ON SUBSTACK
A better question
for your next practice.
Football, learning, and athlete development from a coach who teaches science. Clear takeaways, with room for what the research can’t tell us.
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