Do Your Football Players Even See You?


By FirstDown PlayBook on Mar 11, 2025
FirstDown PlayBook is the Ultimate Digital PlayBook Toolkit for Football Coaches!

Do you know that the world wide web (yeah, the internet) was first available in 1991. Think about that for a moment. If you think for one second, that as a football coach, you have the same job that Halas, Lombardi and Bryant had you are wrong. In today’s world, your football players’ attention comes at a premium.

In today’s world, there is so much more out there to do and see than to play sports. As a population, we stay very busy. Your young players may be busy staring into a phone screen, but this is a direct competitor to anyone trying to teach or coach. You can bet that this is not going to change anytime soon.

When you consider coaching a football team, your first thought might be of you on the football field sharing what you know to players at whatever level you are coaching. That’s part of it but there is so much more to it. Youth football and flag football coaches often do not realize this.

You’re going to find yourself spending hours getting ready for practice. This will be the case if you are coaching 8-9 year olds or high school football players. You will be tempted to cut corners. Our plays and playbook don’t have to look THAT good do they? After all they are just kids.

This is where you should go back to the beginning of this blog and read it again. If you ask your players’ attention to focus on some black and white play drawing that even you barely understand, you and your players are going to struggle.

New: Now You Can Create Practice Schedules On FirstDown PlayBook

So what’s the answer? We can only promise you that 24 hours will be 24 hours and that will not change. We can also promise you that your players are going to live in a world that gets increasingly hectic not the opposite.

What we have done at FirstDown PlayBook is to focus on helping you with this one thing. NFL coaches at FirstDown PlayBook have created a place where you can go get well drawn football plays and then edit them to fit your team’s needs. You also get coaching points and player assignments. Then you can then edit these plays to fit your team. These football plays and playbooks help you keep your players’ attention.

FirstDown PlayBook also lets you take a free look at what we do and how we can help you. You have to admit, free is rare these days too. So get ahead of the curve. As we inch closer to the football season start thinking about how you are going to manage your time and their attention.

Marc Kenyon