defensive coaching
33 Nickel Knife Defensive Pressure
When you dial up a defensive pressure you had better have rules that are sound vs any formation that the offense comes out in....
Youth Football 6-2 Defense & More
The youth football 6-2 defense gives a coach the best chance to teach sound principles and technique to a Pop Warner aged team....
FirstDown PlayBook Lineman View
Offensive and defensive line coaches love to hide in their cave and draw blocking schemes. The FirstDown PlayBook Linemen View can help....
Helping Your Small Pop Warner Corner
Most of you line your smallest player up as your Pop Warner Corner. You tell them to contain the ball. This is when vertical seams show up. ...
Difference in 4-2-5 Defense & 4-3?
Way too much is made of the difference in a 4-2-5 and a 4-3 defense. It mostly comes from internet coaches who don't have a football base....
3 NFL Flag Defenses To Know
FirstDown PlayBook has NFL Flag plays and NFL Flag Defenses. These plays are drawn up by real NFL coaches with you & your team in mind....
FDPB Find A Play: 30 Front Cross Dog
Defensive pressure like this 30 front cross dog gives you a chance for a sack or tackle for loss when you call it. ...
Cowboys 6 Man Pressure Gets Home
The All 22 play we are featuring today is a Cowboys 6 man pressure that got to Matt Ryan in the second quarter....
Get Home With Nickel Knife Fire Zone 3
We call this pressure Nickel Knife Fire Zone 3. It is one of over 57 different varsity defensive pressures in FirstDown PlayBook....
Bucs Roll Up To Cover 3 For Pick 6
When Tampa Bay rolled up to a cover 3 look vs Jameis Winston on Sunday, we promise you that he never saw it happening....
3 Reasons To Use Jam Technique On Receivers
Once your defensive backs use the jam technique and it disrupts a release or two, you will see the receiver frustration start setting in....
Peel Pressure Let’s You “Cheat”
There are details with a peel pressure that must be coached well or you will have the offense's best player with the ball running free....