{"id":2639,"date":"2018-08-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:30:45","slug":"coyotes-bring-professional-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/coyotes-bring-professional-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyotes bring professional approach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The newest member of the Madera Coyotes varsity coaching staff is one of those that has proven what he teaches can lead to a professional career.<\/p>

Coyote offensive line coach Anthony McCoy sports a Super Bowl ring he won as a member of the Seattle Seahawks while spending six years in the National Football League.<\/p>

\u201cWe won\u2019t talk about the other won we should have gotten,\u201d McCoy says about the decision to pass the ball rather than run it in with Marshawn Lynch. Fans of the game can remember Malcom Butler\u2019s game-clinching interception for the New England Patriots.<\/p>

However, after his football career finished two years ago, McCoy seeked something to do and was thinking about calling his old football coach and current Madera Coyotes head coach Yosef Fares.<\/p>

\u201cI started looking around and Yosef gave me a call,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cI was thinking about Madera, but never pulled the trigger on calling, but Yosef called me first. We were on the same page. I got myself through the door and with the Yotees.\u201d<\/p>

McCoy was a senior when Fares was the linebackers coach at Bullard-Fresno. From there, McCoy played four years at USC before getting drafted and playing for the Seahawks.<\/p>

\u201cWe knew each other,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cIt was a player-coach relationship then. Now, it\u2019s a friends\/colleagues relationship. It\u2019s a little different than before. Coach Yosef gave me a call one day and we were going to go over some run-game stuff. The next thing you know, it went from run game stuff to do you want to come on board as the offensive line coach. I said, \u2018hell yeah.\u2019\u201d<\/p>

McCoy is also working with his wife\u2019s diamond business, McCoy\u2019s Diamonds, and being a father to his kids.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s been a lot slower since I got out of the NFL,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to try to keep the structure in your life. You go from the past 10-plus years to I have to be here at this time and be done at this time. Now, the past two years, get up without an alarm clock and what to do with yourself. The first year, I was enjoying the stuff and traveling while taking up hobbies. That stuff tends to get old and you want to get into something.\u201d<\/p>

In addition, McCoy runs a camp with his father-in-law, former San Francisco 49er Tim Collier (McCoy Collier Football Camp). In his time working with the camp and visiting schools, he saw things he could teach kids to make them better.<\/p>

\u201cA lot of these kids don\u2019t know hot to do some of the little things right, like stretching, warming up, stepping this way, hand placement and all the things that comes with playing the position in football,\u201d he said. \u201cIn going around, I noticed that a lot of these kids simply didn\u2019t know. I said, that\u2019s where I need to be, at this level. In high school, you\u2019re trying to teach these boys to get to the next level versus kids who are at the next level expecting them to be all great talent. I heard Deion (Sanders) say. It\u2019s not about getting your top guys scholarships. It\u2019s about getting 15-20 guys scholarships to wherever and give these kids the opportunity to play at these places. The only way they are able to do that is if they get professional-level or good coaching at the high school level. These kids at the places I have visited just don\u2019t know. This is where I have to attack. That way, if they are blessed to play at the next level, they will be way far ahead than a kid at another school and isn\u2019t doing what they are doing.<\/p>

\u201cWhen I got to the college level, I had to learn all that stuff. I didn\u2019t know that going into college. I got my butt kick learning to how to play a position, how to read a defense, proper stance, what to look for. I was just beating guys with athletic ability. Off of that, I did well in high school. A lot of kids do that from high school. Not a lot of kids know football at this level. The kids know football, but don\u2019t know football and the nuances about how to play the game.\u201d<\/p>

McCoy says that one of his goals is to make sure Madera kids are ready to play at the next level.<\/p>

\u201cMore coaches and scouts are most likely to come to a school like Madera because they know kids will know football,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m glad to be here with Yosef because he knows a lot of football. He travels a lot to a bunch of different clinics to talk to a lot of different coaches. He\u2019s like a sponge. He\u2019s taken all the information and throwing the kitchen sink at me on defense. That\u2019s how it\u2019s supposed to be, competing. That\u2019s what I like about Yosef and the environment he\u2019s created in Madera. It\u2019s about competing. It\u2019s no different than it was with Coach Pete (Carroll, Seahawks head coach). I like the philosophy that he\u2019s following in the program.\u201d<\/p>

McCoy is excited for his first season as a high school coach and sees a lot of positives going into this season, including inheriting bigger, faster and stronger linemen.<\/p>

\u201cThe best thing is Yosef runs a good offseason program,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are big, strong and fast so I don\u2019t have to worry about that much. All I have to do is worry about the X\u2019s and O\u2019s, footwork, technique, fundamentals and stuff. I don\u2019t have to worry about if this kid is fast enough or strong enough. Yosef has done a great job of preparing these kids. My job is easy. My job is coaching techniques and fundamentals because these kids are physically already there and their mindset is where it needs to be. I come into a real good situation in Madera. Only time will tell how good we do, but I\u2019m excited to see what these boys can do.\u201d<\/p>

Heading into Fares\u2019 third year as the Coyotes\u2019 coach, optimism is high for the upcoming season. Some think this could be the year the Coyotes break through that County\/Metro Athletic Conference armor and beat one of those teams other than Madera South.<\/p>

\u201cThere was a lot of optimism even before I got here,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cI just try to do my part, crank it up another notch and bring energy that I\u2019ve had in my career. I just try to bring what I\u2019ve learned at the professional and college level to bring a mindset to what they are already doing. Yosef is already doing professional stuff. Everything he has been doing to how he runs his weight room to how he runs his practice is how it\u2019s done professionally. Everything, for me, is easy. He is running a professional-style ship. That makes me more optimistic as a coach to see how great things are run. Now, I can fit in a lot easier. All this experience we have, they know how to bring the energy at practice. You know when the game comes, they are going to kick it up. Optimism is real high. The kids believe, we believe, the city believes. Now it\u2019s time to put the work in.\u201d<\/p>

One of the advantages McCoy has over other coaches is that he has played at all of the levels. The players know that what he is teaching comes from the professional level.<\/p>

\u201cThey know who I am now,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cI want them to approach me as a coach. I\u2019ll come out and bring the energy. I hope I can energize, motivate them, get them better and teach them how to do things right. I had to learn how to do things right. I want to teach these guys to be able to play longer. All I\u2019m teaching from is from experience. Who I\u2019ve learned from, what I\u2019ve learned and bring it all to these kids. The kids know what I\u2019m teaching them is from the professional level. Everything we do is professional-style with these kids. I want to make them better. If any of these kids, and we have some kids that can play at the next level, are prepared.\u201d<\/p>

In looking back, McCoy is excited about coaching at Madera, particularly at the high school level. It completes a circle for<\/p>

McCoy to where his career started and now his next career is starting.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s bringing me back to my roots,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s back to where it\u2019s not about business and politics. It\u2019s about competing and it\u2019s all about football. It\u2019s all about the game of football and having fun with your brothers and enjoying this game. Each level, something changes. The game gets more political and more dangerous. You know all the coaches and players. You kick it with them afterwards at the high school level. If you are blessed to the next level, all of that changes. I like coming back and having fun with the kids. I like showing them something new and see them doing what you taught them and they are successful brings a lot of joy to me. Knowing that I am able to teach somebody else what I\u2019ve been taught is like the father-son relationship passing down knowledge. It\u2019s been a real privilege to have this opportunity to coach kids the game of football.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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