“Show” Your Youth Football Players Who To Block
Most humans are visual learners. Football coaches are very visual learners. Football players are off the charts visual learners. This is why we are very confused when we see a Pop Warner coach draw an offensive football play with no defense. We wonder how that coach expects to teach without showing their youth football players who to block?
Unfortunately, it is not exclusive to youth football coaches. We have seen the same thing from high school football coaches. Some will retort “Well, the players have rules that they follow.” Without a visual representation of the blocking those rules might as well be Charlie Brown’s teacher. Young people can google that.
Simply put, you just cannot teach youth football players without play drawings. Put yourself in the position of the kid in a three point stance thinking…”Coach really didn’t talk much about where the defense would be.”
Trying To Teach A Team Of Visual Learners Without Drawings Is Senseless
We understand that protections might be gap protection one way or another but not run blocking. You had better believe that youth football defensive coaches are hard at work too. There will be multiple defenses to block.
Here at FirstDown PlayBook we understand that it’s not only important to put a defense on the drawing but several of them. This short video gives you a good example of why drawings that show the possible different defenses an offense might see is very important. Youth football players need to see the different blocking schemes.
FirstDown PlayBook draws all of your youth football plays up vs six different defenses. Note, flip these and its twelve plays. We also include blocking rules with every play. Unless your opponent is going to tell you what defense they are running, you better have a plan vs more than one defense/
Youth Football Gap Protection
Pop Warner defensive coaches, we mean you too. If your youth football players on defense cannot get lined up against multiple formations you are already in trouble. The FirstDown PlayBook PlayGrids can help you too. Take a look at the video above and see how FirstDown PlayBook can help you and your visual learners on your youth football team.
FirstDown PlayBook offers you 12 different formations with plays blocked up vs multiple defenses. You should consider one or two of these for your Pop Warner offense. Tap on any one of the tiles below to visit the article describing that formation. After reading the article then go join FirstDown PlayBook and get busy coaching your Pop Warner team with the best football playbook available!
