Youth Football Plays & Coaching
Coaching a youth football team is hard. It requires a lot of time before, during and after practice. FirstDown PlayBook™ understands that coaching youth football is about more than just plays. We know that the proper fundamentals and techniques must be taught to insure safety and success.
Fortunately, our Coaches Community site provides you with everything you need to get started. Check out some of our youth football coaching articles below, or head over to our Youth Football Play Library & Play Drawing & Software to quickly and easily find the best youth football plays for your team, and then edit them to your liking! (Our youth football plays were drawn by real NFL coaches, and include coaching notes and player assignments!)
Football Video Can Be Your Achilles Heel
In the 30 years that I coached I watched a lot of football video but never once did I install the weekly game plan with a football video....
Football Drills Now Live On FirstDown PlayBook
Football drills are now live on FirstDown PlayBook. This is an important early step for you, the coach and FirstDown PlayBook....
How To Install Your Youth Football Offense
This video takes you through the 3 things to consider as you install your youth football offense and how to go about it....
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....
Find Your Football Play By What You Name It
You can now find your football play simply by typing in what you named it. By play we mean play, defense or special teams scheme....
Better Give FirstDown PlayBook Another Look
A coach said "FirstDown PlayBook is a lot better than it was 4 years ago... If you're a good coach your team is better than 4 years ago too....
Coming: Football Drills & Fundamentals
Time has come to launch the FirstDown PlayBook Football Drills & Fundamentals section. Now your drills are right inside of your playbook....
Help On FirstDown PlayBook? Count The Ways.
Let's be real. If you can't find help on FirstDown PlayBook you just are not trying that hard and that is a fact....
Youth & Flag Football PlayBooks Easy As Ever
We have added a lot this off season but creating a youth football or a flag football playbook is as easy as it has ever been....
Youth & Flag Football Help #1: It Starts With People
You can have everything else in order to coach a youth or flag football team but if you don't have good people, you are going to struggle....
New! Practice Scripts & Cards Made Easy
The new FirstDown PlayBook Practice Scripts tool improves how football coaches prepare their practice cards and scripts....
8 Man Football QB Power Read
This 8 man football play does 3 primary things to gain a numbers advantage on this Quarterback Power Read. They are simple yet very effective....