Contributors

FirstDown PlayBook opens up our vast network of professionals so that you can benefit from their experience. Our contributors come from several different backgrounds. The great thing about this page is that we can archive them so that you always have them at your fingertips.
You will find help with being a sports parent, mental training and even help with strength and conditioning for your young football player. There is a lot more that goes into being a football parent or coach than the X’ and O’s.
This page will offer you a home for quick tips about how to lift your young player when they are down. It will also help you with tempering the enthusiasm as they find success.
So we are exciting to have this contributor page up and running for you. We also want you to know that if you feel that you have something to offer, please let us know!

See The World With Global Football!
Global Football has been offering coaches and players opportunities to travel abroad while also playing football for over 26 years....

Honest NFL Is A Deep Football Dive
Anyone who has followed "Honest NFL" over on Twitter understands that it is not for a casual fan, or casual coach for that matter. ...

Move The Chains Offers Up Great Content
Our friends "Move The Chains" over on Twitter are a great example of how to use FirstDown PlayBook as a powerful football teaching tool....

Coaches Community Website Gets A Facelift
Over the past ten years the Coaches Community site has become an essential tool for FirstDown PlayBook allowing us to share information....

Field Goal Operation Clutch For 4 NFL Teams
How many of the four NFL playoff games came down to the field goal operation this past weekend? Yes, we all know the answer is all four. ...

John Madden Documentary On Christmas Day
"Coaching isn’t work. It’s more than a job. It’s a way of life. No one should go into coaching unless he couldn’t live without it." John Madden...

No Right Way To Placekick But…
I tell my kickers, that there is no “right” way to kick. However, there are basic principles and fundamentals that all kickers can use....

Don’t Be A 4th Down Punting Cop Out
When we hear a coach say "We are so bad at punting, we might as well just go for it every time." that is just being a 4th down cop out....

Mitch Morse Keeps Josh Allen Clean
Not often you see an offensive lineman get a 2-for-1 special like this, but credit Mitch Morse for awareness and by being a great technician....

Aiyuk Adjustment With Ball In The Air Is Special
He expects the ball over his inside shoulder. The ball, though, is over his outside shoulder. This is how you adjust if your Brandon Aiyuk....

Fred Warner Carries A Disruption Calling Card
Fred Warner just got paid handsomely by the 49ers for his ability to disrupt plays as an interior Linebacker. Let's see why....

Get Your Special Teams Help In Seconds
The Special Teams help you will find here kept us off the street many times in our thirty years of college and NFL coaching. ...