kickoff return blocking

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....

OU Kickoff Return Reverse Penalty

OU Kickoff Return Reverse Penalty

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 8, 2023

When a special teams coach dials up a kickoff return reverse there had better been a lot of practice time devoted to it. ...

Simple & Deceptive Kickoff Returns

Simple & Deceptive Kickoff Returns

by FirstDown PlayBook on Aug 14, 2023

Keep your kickoff returns simple and deceptive and you will find that you are spending more of your special teams practice time on technique....

Gamecocks Opening Kickoff Return For 100 Yards

Gamecocks Opening Kickoff Return For 100 Yards

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 24, 2022

Special teams plays are hard to draw up. However, we could not pass up the opportunity to show you this Gamecocks' opening kickoff return....

Attack Outside With This Kickoff Return

Attack Outside With This Kickoff Return

by FirstDown PlayBook on May 1, 2022

Kickoff return coaches are almost forced to move more players forward in the formation. That does not change the width of the field though....

Your Kickoff Return Formation

Your Kickoff Return Formation

by FirstDown PlayBook on Apr 17, 2022

When we ask the question, "What is your kickoff return formation?" We get that sideways look that says "What are you talking about?"...

Big Field Kickoff Returns

Big Field Kickoff Returns

by FirstDown PlayBook on Mar 21, 2022

Big field kickoff returns allow your return team to use the entire width and depth of the field as you game plan each special teams week....

Kickoff Return Technique: Ball-Flight-Returner-Man

Kickoff Return Technique: Ball-Flight-Returner-Man

by FirstDown PlayBook on Mar 5, 2022

Kickoff return technique can quickly break down in a game. We have taught these four words as the play evolves. BALL-FLIGHT-RETURNER-MAN ...

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. ...

Special Teams Whole Part Whole Teaching

Special Teams Whole Part Whole Teaching

by FirstDown PlayBook on Apr 12, 2021

If you are a young special teams coach and you are trying to teach every position for any of your six phases, you are in trouble. ...

Colts Return Kickoff For 6. Here’s How.

Colts Return Kickoff For 6. Here’s How.

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 14, 2020

The Colts found a way to get #20 over in front of the returner. Combine this with two very well executed double team blocks and it was a house call...

Kickoff Return “Look Off” Technique

Kickoff Return “Look Off” Technique

by FirstDown PlayBook on Apr 28, 2020

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....