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!)
Youth Football Wing T Buck Sweep
Let's take a look at one of our most popular youth football formations. The Wing T Buck Sweep is a staple play from this proven formation....
6v6 Flag Football Doubles Formation
The FirstDown PlayBook 6v6 flag football Doubles formation looks like the same balanced formations you use in 7on7 or 11 man tackle football....
Should A Pop Warner Defense Bring Pressure?
Should you bring pressure with your Pop Warner defense? Only if you install basic rules with your youth football team to play sound defense....
3 Ways Our Flag Football Plays Are Better
Why are the FirstDown PlayBook flag football plays better than what you get anywhere else including places like NFL Flag? ...
ABC Youth Football Teaching Progression
Think about how you learned the alphabet or addition and subtraction. You did not start at M-N-O or 345 + 230. No, you started with A-B-C and 1+1. From there you progressed to more comp...
6v6 Center Bunch = Smart Flag Football
The FirstDown PlayBook Center Bunch or Crunch formation gives you the same advantages that Bunch did. Now it's all right in front of your QB....
3 Problems With Football Trick Plays
NFL coach or youth football coach. Call a football trick play and it will likely not work. Here are the 3 reasons why....
Youth Football Offensive Line Calls
Your youth football offensive line will need to make calls to communicate with one another. These 3 simple rules can help you with that....
6 Month Full Team Account Gets You To December
A FirstDown PlayBook 6 month Full Team account will get your high school program or your entire youth football league into December....
Youth Football 5-3 Bear Defense
This FirstDown PlayBook coach was having trouble defending an unbalanced Double Wing offense. This youth football 5-3 Bear defense can help....
614 Headsets Brings Young Coaching Energy
As an old football coach, when I first heard about 614 Headsets I read up on them. After looking, I saw something very familiar to me...me....
7on7 Bunch Shallow Cross Thought
You may not get a lot of single safety this summer when you run this 7on7 Bunch Shallow Cross concept but rest assured you will this fall....