kicking game techniques

FirstDown PlayBook Kickoff Coverage Terminology
Your kickoff coverage unit will play fast if they all see the same thing and react according to what your terminology says to them....

6 Special Teams Clinics Sure To Help
FirstDown PlayBook has created six special teams clinics for you. There is a video for each of the six special teams phases....

Field Goal Operation Clutch For 4 NFL Teams
How many of the four NFL playoff games came down to the field goal operation this past weekend? Yes, we all know the answer is all four. ...

Kickoff Coverage: Avoid Technique
With kickoff coverage the avoid technique is a much faster way to get the main job done. That job is to get to the football....

Get Your Special Teams Help In Seconds
The Special Teams help you will find here kept us off the street many times in our thirty years of college and NFL coaching. ...

Special Teams Coach In A Pandemic Season
One area that is often neglected even when things are normal is special teams. Coaches are going to have to be as organized as they have ever been....

Super Bowl Champ’s Special Teams Grading
Super Bowl Champion Dave Toub of the Kansas City Chiefs taught me a very detailed system for grading individual effort and execution with special teams,...

Super Bowl Champ Dave Toub’s Point Chart
Longtime NFL special teams coach and recent Super Bowl champion Dave Toub has shared his grading system with us on the FirstDown PlayBook website....

Kickoff Return “Look Off” Technique
A look off technique is when a blocker fakes like he is going to block a cover guy, only to pivot and block the player adjacent to him....

Teach Young Kickers To Hit Higher Deeper Kickoffs!
When it comes to kickoffs the longer the approach, the more room for error. The faster the approach, the more room for error....