Kickoff Coverage

Coach Special Teams With O/D Mentality

Coach Special Teams With O/D Mentality

by FirstDown PlayBook on Jan 13, 2025

The transfer portal will make teaching special teams harder than before. Smart college and high school coaches will do this to teach better....

Special Teams: Value Of A Squib Kick

Special Teams: Value Of A Squib Kick

by FirstDown PlayBook on Dec 8, 2024

Every Head Coach or Special Teams Coordinator will have to choose to squib kick or kickoff normally if they coach long enough....

Shrink Your Kickoff Coverage Field

Shrink Your Kickoff Coverage Field

by FirstDown PlayBook on Aug 12, 2024

The first play your football team will execute this season will involve special teams and it will take place on a kickoff coverage field....

Special Teams Technique Help Here

Special Teams Technique Help Here

by FirstDown PlayBook on Feb 15, 2024

Offering a football coach detailed special teams technique help is just one more way FirstDown PlayBook goes the extra mile for you....

6 Special Teams Clinics Sure To Help

6 Special Teams Clinics Sure To Help

by FirstDown PlayBook on Dec 27, 2023

FirstDown PlayBook has created six special teams clinics for you. There is a video for each of the six special teams phases....

Special Teams Kickoff Coverage Tips

Special Teams Kickoff Coverage Tips

by FirstDown PlayBook on Aug 26, 2023

It's that time of the year when special teams coaches who are a little long in the tooth expose a young coach's kickoff coverage coaching....

Hot 1 Kickoff Cover Changeup

Hot 1 Kickoff Cover Changeup

by FirstDown PlayBook on Jan 18, 2022

This Hot 1 kickoff cover changeup is a good example of how you can dictate what the return unit can do and then have an answer for it. ...

Kickoff Coverage: Avoid Technique

Kickoff Coverage: Avoid Technique

by FirstDown PlayBook on Dec 28, 2021

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....

Kickoff Cover 2 Gap Technique

Kickoff Cover 2 Gap Technique

by FirstDown PlayBook on Dec 4, 2021

Using the 2 gap technique on kickoff coverage has several elements that need to be taught. The first is teaching when to use the technique. ...

Marshall 96 Yard Fake Reverse Kickoff Return

Marshall 96 Yard Fake Reverse Kickoff Return

by FirstDown PlayBook on Sep 24, 2021

One of the plays that kept Marshall in last night's game all the way up until the end was a 96 yard fake reverse kickoff return....

Get Your Special Teams Help In Seconds

Get Your Special Teams Help In Seconds

by FirstDown PlayBook on Jul 23, 2021

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

FirstDown PlayBook Kickoff Coverage Clinic

FirstDown PlayBook Kickoff Coverage Clinic

by FirstDown PlayBook on Jul 3, 2021

We break this kickoff coverage clinic into distinct parts. 1. Get Off Zone 2.Speed & Read Zone 3.Avoid Zone 4. Collision Zone 5.Tackle Zone...