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!)
Jet Sweep From 2 Back Slot Formation
The 2 Back Slot youth football formation offers you a lot of flexibility with your play calling that is hard to find in others...
Youth Football Pressure To Unbalanced Sets
Adjusting to oddball formations does not have to be confined to one adjustment. Here's a case for youth pressure vs unbalanced formations...
Pass Protection For All Levels Of Football
Pass protection is such a very different thing when you look at the different levels of football. FirstDown PlayBook has help for every coach....
All 22 Tuesday: TCU Bubble QB Counter RPO
The game was all but over when TCU called a Bubble QB Counter RPO. However, there is still much to be learned from this All 22 Tuesday play....
Flag Football Route Tree & Others Easier To Find
For years coaches have given us input on how to make FirstDown PlayBook better. This is how we developed a flag football route tree....
Motion To Unbalanced Formation Edge
An unbalanced formation can also force a defense to communicate. Especially when you motion to an unbalanced formation edge....
NFL Flag Football Section Grows Again
2022 has been a sensational year for FirstDown PlayBook and our NFL Flag Football coaches. It's not hard to understand why....
FirstDown PlayBook Coaching Notes Templates
Most coaches hate to type and we thought of that when we designed the FirstDown PlayBook coaching notes templates feature....
First NFL TD Is An Unbalanced Formation TD
Unbalanced formations have been around since football has but they have shown up in critical moments early this year in college and the NFL....
Are You Teaching Youth Football Life Lessons?
Your ability to teach youth football life lessons as you teach young people the game of football is the most powerful tool you possess. ...
Beast Beaters Adjustment To Flank Alignment
FirstDown PlayBook builds on our youth football Beast Beaters defense. This adjustment will help you vs the Beast offense flank adjustmen...
2 Back Slot Power (Protect Your Backside)
One common mistake in youth football is not blocking the backside of the play correctly. That is critical on this 2 Back Slot Power....