kickoff return fundamentals
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....
OU Kickoff Return Reverse Penalty
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
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
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
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
When we ask the question, "What is your kickoff return formation?" We get that sideways look that says "What are you talking about?"...
Kickoff Return Technique: Ball-Flight-Returner-Man
Kickoff return technique can quickly break down in a game. We have taught these four words as the play evolves. BALL-FLIGHT-RETURNER-MAN ...
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The Special Teams help you will find here kept us off the street many times in our thirty years of college and NFL coaching. ...
Colts Return Kickoff For 6. Here’s How.
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...
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....