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!)
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....
June Is Youth & Flag Football Help Month
FirstDown PlayBook is going to focus on youth & flag football help during the month of June. There's a lot to cover so be sure to keep up. ...
Your Formations & Defenses Are Already Drawn
You can now go into FirstDown PlayBook and find Community formations and defenses then save them in your Template area. ...
3 Things To Teach Youth Football Linebackers
When you are coaching youth football linebackers it can be easy to skip vital parts of playing the position. This is a huge mistake....
New! My Tools & Practice Schedules
The Practice Schedules area is very simple and easy to use. Open the area up and you will see that we provide a template to get started....
Flag Football Hook & Ladder
Let's look at this flag football hook & ladder. Regardless of your specific flag football rules you can tie this play into your call sheet....
Unbalanced Formations Made Easy
Unbalanced formations can be tricky. They are tricky because they return you to the roots of the game of football. ...
Youth Football Man Coverage Tips
You can break youth football man coverage down into counting to 1-2-3. That is after you teach your team about what makes a player eligible....