High School Football

High School Football

High school football coaches are at the core of what FirstDown PlayBook does. Yes, we serve all of the coaching communities. No doubt about that. However, we understand that there is a degree of pressure on the prep coaches with little to no pay in return.

We offer high school coaches advantages in many ways. The first obvious way is a football playbook tool that saves you time and helps you coach better. FirstDown PlayBook did not forget the football when we were developing this tool either.

There are over 35,000 football plays in FirstDown PlayBook. This gives a high school football coach a big head start when it comes to getting ready for playbooks and weekly installs. We have also added practice scripts, practice schedules, text wristband sheets and

FirstDown PlayBook also is the only football coach reference site out there that offers high school football coaches help every day. We do this on the Coaches Community website every day. Here’s the kicker, at no charge. Why? Because FirstDown PlayBook is for coaches by coaches.

A Football Resume You Can Actually Use

A Football Resume You Can Actually Use

by FirstDown PlayBook on Nov 14, 2024

If you had a job interview next month, what would you take with you? Smart coaches take a visual football resume to show how they teach....

Grant Mollring Joins FirstDown PlayBook

Grant Mollring Joins FirstDown PlayBook

by FirstDown PlayBook on Nov 12, 2024

Grant Mollring brings almost 25 years of coaching experience to FirstDown PlayBook and a consistent record of working to make our game better....

Football Job Edge: Special Teams Coaching

Football Job Edge: Special Teams Coaching

by FirstDown PlayBook on Nov 8, 2024

You include special teams coaching with detailed FirstDown PlayBook diagrams...You are a hard assistant coach candidate to ignore....

Packers Steal FDPB Short Yardage Play

Packers Steal FDPB Short Yardage Play

by FirstDown PlayBook on Nov 4, 2024

This FirstDown PlayBook short yardage play showed up at Lambeau field yesterday as the Packers needed one yard and Jordan Love was banged up....

WristBand Sheets Made Easy

WristBand Sheets Made Easy

by FirstDown PlayBook on Nov 2, 2024

Many times a new youth football or flag football coach forgets about the painstaking process of creating wristband sheets for their players....

“Show” Your Youth Football Players Who To Block

“Show” Your Youth Football Players Who To Block

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 31, 2024

Your youth football players are visual learners. If you are coaching your Pop Warner team with just blocking rules you are going to struggle....

3 FirstDown PlayBook Programs To Watch

3 FirstDown PlayBook Programs To Watch

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 29, 2024

Today we would like to look at three different FirstDown PlayBook programs from different regions in the country who are having great seasons....

Defense Adjustments vs 27 Formations

Defense Adjustments vs 27 Formations

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 27, 2024

FirstDown PlayBook learned a long time ago that if you are a Defensive Coordinator and cannot make defensive adjustments you're in trouble....

Unbalanced Formation Tackle Screen

Unbalanced Formation Tackle Screen

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 25, 2024

This unbalanced formation Tackle Screen is a great trick play but it's better if you do some things to hide your intentions from the defense....

A Case For Corners Over Defense

A Case For Corners Over Defense

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 23, 2024

Corners over allows a defense to be sound if the ball is snapped with or without motion. Personnel matchup is a big part of it....

Teach Football As Your Player Sees it

Teach Football As Your Player Sees it

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 17, 2024

A common mistake football coaches make is they teach football as they see it and not the way the player sees it. FirstDown PlayBook can help....

It’s Period 5. Anyone Seen The Kickers?

It’s Period 5. Anyone Seen The Kickers?

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 15, 2024

One of the hardest jobs I ever had as a special teams coach was to manage the kickers, punters and snappers, especially during practice....