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Josh Ervin, Ganado: Spread Quarterback Development

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Overview

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This comprehensive course walks coaches and quarterbacks through a complete developmental system, starting from middle school basics and progressing through varsity-level execution in the spread offense. Built from years of on-field experience at the high school level, the program emphasizes efficiency, detail, and game-ready application teaching only what translates directly to film and Friday night performance.

Participants will learn how to structure year-round quarterback development, from off-season fundamentals to in-season execution, covering:

  • Foundations: Stance, snap exchange, grip, and ball carriage.

  • Throwing Mechanics: Accuracy, timing, footwork, and release techniques, including the “three cameras” and “above the water” concepts.

  • Warm-Up & Drills: Daily routines that ingrain accuracy, timing, and consistency.

  • Drops & Footwork: Mastering catch-throw, drop rock, three-step rhythm, three-hitch, and screen drops to match route timing.

  • Run Game & RPOs: Teaching quarterback reads in inside zone, wide zone, power read, and draw, along with RPO decision-making and timing.

  • Pressure & Scramble Drills: Training quarterbacks to respond to live defensive pressure, extend plays, and apply scramble rules with receivers.

  • Practice & Seasonal Planning: Building a calendar that develops quarterbacks year-round while balancing small-school constraints like multi-position athletes.

By the end of the course, attendees will walk away with a proven framework for creating quarterbacks who are accurate, efficient, and confident leaders of the spread offense.

Syllabus

  • Spread Quarterback Development
  • Overview on How to Develop Quarterback
  • Quarterback Success & Stance
  • Center Quarterback Exchange & Gripping the Football
  • Holding the Football
  • Throwing the Football
  • Warm-Up Routine

Quarterback Drops

  • Quick Game
  • Pass Game
  • Screen Game
  • Drops on a Line Drill
  • Play Polish Drill
  • RPO Drill
  • Pressure Drill
  • Walk-Aways
  • W Drill

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