Drills not carrying over

A sports psychologist at a clinic said players must practice something 4,000 times before it enters their muscle memory and becomes a natural action. We do our drills in a progression, working individual parts, and then the whole skill. So we are getting the reps. We figured out one problem was that we are asking our lineman to do too much. We got away from our philosophies a little bit and gave them too much to do. As we evaluated our last three games we really noticed it. We thought we were taking advantage of our strengths, but we weakened other parts of our game. Keep it simple, do less, get more reps, and practice a few things for perfection. We were adding one or two new plays each week to take advantage of a weakness of the defense, instead of using plays from our base offense that would take advantage of those weaknesses.