How would you teach your players to avoid silly penalties

Any penalty of 15 yards warrants one appendage removal, starting with the pinky toe. They'll get the point sooner or later.

Alem's penalty was out of pure frustration. Of course, that's never happened in the history of the game of football.

Alem said the guy was trying to poke him in the eye.

I do it like this.

1. If its a 15 yard or personal foul penalty(blow to the head, roughing the passer) or an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.......Laps for every yard(15) and sit out 1 half.

2. If it turns out to be a game changing or one that causes us to lose a game........benched the entire next game to think about what you did. I dont care if you are a star player. You cant give away games on silly fouls like that. Like the one where it was 3rd and forever and turned into 1st and ten. Thats a key moment.

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Alem

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Played like a beast this year..he deserves a pass.

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No he doesn't.

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why not?

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why not?

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Because he doesn't plan and simple. It's about taking responsibility to be under control and not get out of control. Its called taking ownership of every action you make. If a person is under control then stupid crap like those penalties would not happen. When my WR's started dropping balls left and right I began to punish them until they stopped it and began to making catching the football routine and just like breathing. I started out making all the WR core do push ups or up downs for every ball that was dropped and eventually they got better and I went to just the individual doing the punishment and what do ya know? They caught balls with regularity and the drops hardly ever happened. Its called discipline and it's called COACHING and being a LEADER and having a zero tolerance policy for things YOU can control. Catching a football is something an individual CAN control and not committing dumb arse penalties is also something a player CAN control. Taking ownership is what it's all about!

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Because he doesn't plan and simple. It's about taking responsibility to be under control and not get out of control.

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So you are saying your players are like robots and feel no emotion whatsoever?

If you've ever played ball at any level, you've never gotten frustrated and done something stupid? Have you ever seen players at the professional level make a stupid mistake out of frustration? What about a celebration penalty for excessive celebration? Oh, would that make it better? The point is, the players feed on emotion. Good or bad. That's what playing the game is all about. You can't convince me otherwise.

bench them.....run them silly afterwards. They'll think twice next time.