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.

Drills: Football Coaches Coaching Coaches
If you do not understand football coaches coaching coaches you are a fan or a young coach about to understand how this business works....

Coaching Youth Football Defense Responsibilities
Before you can teach a Pop Warner aged player how to play youth football defense you need to teach gap responsibility and techniques....

FirstDown PlayBook Scouting Report Tool
The FirstDown PlayBook scouting report tool will be launched in July. Full Team account members will be able to present this on all devices. ...

Should A Pop Warner Defense Bring Pressure?
Should you bring pressure with your Pop Warner defense? Only if you install basic rules with your youth football team to play sound defense....

Defensive Pressure Packages
FirstDown PlayBook offers a defensive football coach several different ways to find sound defensive pressure that fits their specific scheme....

How Many Special Teams Units Is Marcus On?
"Hey how many special teams units is Marcus on?" You're going to have this conversation in the next month, whether you plan it or not....

Youth Football 5-3 Bear Defense
This FirstDown PlayBook coach was having trouble defending an unbalanced Double Wing offense. This youth football 5-3 Bear defense can help....

614 Headsets Brings Young Coaching Energy
As an old football coach, when I first heard about 614 Headsets I read up on them. After looking, I saw something very familiar to me...me....

3 Ways To Coach High School Football Better
If you coach high school football, FirstDown PlayBook offers you three different ways you can coach better and for less money....

FirstDown PlayBook Defensive Terminology
The FirstDown PlayBook Defensive Terminology is a great example of what every coach must have, especially youth football coaches....

7on7 Defense Vs Empty Formations
When you walk out onto a football field to coach a 7on7 defense football field, you know that you are in for an unfair competition....

3-3-5 Defense May Change College Football
Now that FirstDown PlayBook has studied the 3-3-5 defense more we think it may change college football for the next decade....