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!)
Flag Pulling Drills The Patriots Way
If you ask us pulling a flag just might be harder than making a physical tackle on a ball carrier...
Youth Football Play Action Pass
If we were coaching 9-10 year old players we might never throw a drop back pass. We would depend almost exclusively on the play action pass....
Teach Proper Blocking Angles
Defensive coaches talk a lot about "poor angles" to the football. It is important for offensive coaches to teach proper blocking angles too....
How To Protect Your Puller
When you pull your backside guard, your center will block back to protect the puller. If possible get your tackle involved too....
3 Types Of Run Game Advice To Avoid
This is a "buyer beware" blog. Specifically, we are going to look at 3 types of run game advice to avoid on the internet. ...
Youth Football Unbalanced Formations
FirstDown PlayBook is not real sure that youth football unbalanced formations should even be allowed. Here is our case for and against....
5-2 Cover 2 Youth Football Defense
The FirstDown PlayBook youth football 5-2 Cover 2 defense bridges the gap between a high school football and a youth football defense....
Youth Football Split Backs Counter Blocking
You need a punch, but you also need a counter punch. That's exactly what this youth football split backs counter run provides....
Any Football People Behind Your Football PlayBook?
FirstDown PlayBook was created by coaches for coaches. Sounds like a common sense formula that is true in most places where you go to get football help right? Not so much. The reason we...
Wing T Starting Point With FirstDown PlayBook
You will see pretty basic schemes in the FirstDown PlayBook youth football Wing T section. There is a good reason for that....
How To Create Great Route Templates (And Others)
The new FirstDown PlayBook "My Templates" area is built precisely on the foundation that coaches and players are very visual....
Introducing FirstDown PlayBook Templates
We have just released a new coaching tool that is going to save everyone of you a ton of time. The brand new FirstDown PlayBook Templates area allows you to create your own stencil or t...