Defense
Finding defensive football help on the web that can actually help you is a rare feat. At first glance it looks like there is an abundance of resources. Scratch beneath the surface and you find that there is nothing but the surface. Defense is rarely addressed correctly on the internet.
The internet is a pretty easy place to coach football. There is no pressure to get your call in on time. You normally draw one play, defense or special teams scheme up and you do it vs a good look.
Coaching on Friday nights and even at practice is not quite like that. Ask any experienced defensive coach and they will tell you getting lined up in a sound defense to all of the different formations is the biggest challenge.
This is not to mention all of the trades, shifts and motions that offensive coordinators like to throw at you. When we draw up your FirstDown PlayBook defensive football help we try to keep all of this in mind.
We take all of this into consideration when we design the FirstDown PlayBook varsity and youth defensive sections. We get great satisfaction when we show this to a high school or college defensive coordinator and their eyes light up.
The Scouting Academy Dissects Linebacker Eric Kendricks
This is critical, and not an easy thing to teach young linebackers. He doesn't JUST have to read run/pass, but he has to know what type of run he's seeing....
The Scouting Academy Looks At Off Man Technique
"Off Man" gives you some of the advantages a defender might get by playing zone, while still maintaining many of the pluses that come with press man....
Run Support Corners Are A Rare Breed
He is landing his shoulder into the midsection of a larger WR, with enough power on contact to disrupt the catch point and creating an incompletion....
Teach Tape Thursday Looks At Press Coverage
Defenders who can play their assigned man but also play the ball in the air once it is thrown are truly rare players. Here is an example....
Kickoff Coverage With Defensive Terms
If you coach defense don't turn your nose up at coaching kickoff coverage. It is your first defensive play and if it goes badly you are going to pay for it....
Zone Dog Pressure…Free Safety Style
Bringing the free safety can take some nerves of steel especially if your strong safety is not real comfortable in the deep middle of the field....
Bills Make Playoffs With Defensive Pressure
Today on All 22 Tuesday we will dissect a Buffalo Bills pressure that was used in the Steelers game at least twice on Sunday night. ...
Press Man Coverage From The Guy Who Started It In College Football
In a lot of ways, Ron Case is the "father of press man coverage" in college football. As you will hear, he began doing it when it was generally something you saw on NFL Sundays that the...
Don’t Ever Ask Me “What’s The Defensive Call?”
Art Kaufman get’s one thing straight with his defense in the very first defensive meeting of every year. He makes it clear that he never wants his defense to ask him the question “w...
40 Year Coaching Veteran John Palermo Talks Defensive Line Play
John Palermo's resume includes a national championship ring with Notre Dame where he coached Chris Zorich, a two-time consensus All-American and the 1990 winner of the prestigious Lomb...
Former Texas DC Bull Reese
Today on the Coach and Coordinator week one Gameplan Coach Reese shares his thoughts on making gamely adjustments and why he thinks that if you wait until the day after the game to look...