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!)
Defense Adjustments vs 27 Formations
FirstDown PlayBook learned a long time ago that if you are a Defensive Coordinator and cannot make defensive adjustments you're in trouble....
A Case For Corners Over Defense
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....
Youth Football Plays Vs Multiple Defenses
We block every youth football run play up vs multiple defenses for your Pop Warner team. We also make it easy and fast to find them!...
Shutdown The A Gap Run With Pirate Stunt
You are the Defensive Coordinator and they are pounding your defense in the weak side B gap. Put a stop to it with this Pirate stunt....
Youth Football Power I Provides Punch
The FirstDown PlayBook Power I youth football formation gives your Pop Warner offense an inside run game and a receiver to target....
Wing T Midline Option
Reading the B gap defender on this Wing T Midline Option gives the play caller both option football and power football. ...
Hudl’s PlayBook Curved Line Wastes Your Time
The ability to draw a football playbook curved line seems like a small thing until your players lose interest in what you are teaching them....
3 Common Youth Football Defense Mistakes
FirstDown PlayBook looks at three common mistakes Pop Warner coaches make with their youth football defense and how you can avoid them....
Training Quarterback Fundamentals In Season
John Shoop has trained quarterback fundamentals at the NFL, college and high school football levels. Add an ELF championship to his resume....
The Detroit Lions & Your Flag Football Hook & Ladder
The Detroit Lions pulled off a version of the Hook & Ladder recently that reinforces why you should have this in your flag football playbook....
Call What You Practice. Practice What You Call.
As you plan your next football practice consider this. Do you call what you practice and do you practice what you call in a game?...
3 Reasons You Need A Screen Pass
Coaching it up requires work and practice time but here are 3 reasons FirstDown PlayBook thinks you need a screen pass in your offense....