Helping Your Small Pop Warner Corner
It’s a natural coaching decision that runs true across football. Your smallest and often your fastest defender is who you line up at cornerback. This includes when you choose youth football players to play your Pop Warner Corner.
It makes a lot of sense at first glance. The very nature of youth football often has power type offensive formations. This is because the quarterback cannot throw the ball well enough to spread it out. The defenses must match this. Removing your smallest player from the physical inside game seems like the smart thing to do.
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Well even at the youth football level, a good coach will eventually find your Pop Warner Corner and try to expose them. Often it is the old student body left where the youth football offense is pulling what looks like 4 linemen. Your corner’s eyes widen as he sees a convoy of the opposition’s jerseys coming at him.
Your Pop Warner Corner Needs Your Help Vs Student Body Right/Left
As we talk about in the video below, coaches often times try to help the smaller player out by telling them just “contain” the football. You coach your Pop Warner corner to stay wide and turn everything back inside to the rest of the defense. This often just creates a vertical seam in your defense that is worse than losing contain.
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Making defensive corners tackle isn’t exclusive to youth football. There has been many a NFL game plan that was predicated on making the small DB tackle. So without knowing your exact personnel and the scheme that is being run at you, we have offered up a few basic solutions that might help you and your youth football corner if you get in this situation. This along with your core position fundamentals should help your young corner.
