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FirstDown PlayBook Is Better (& Easier) Than Visio
FirstDown PlayBook was designed 14 years ago because of how ill equipped Microsoft Visio was as I was drawing an NFL football playbook....
FirstDown PlayBook App Available For All Users
The FirstDown PlayBook app is now available for Single User members and Full Team members. Here is how you download the app!...
Spread Or Wing T Or Both. We Got It.
Every year the high school debate rages. What is better? The Spread offense or the Wing T offense? As a head coach, you better know both....
Flag Football Quarterback 9 Route Mechanics
You have read and heard us talk about the 9 route or the “Go” route here before on FirstDown PlayBook. We have looked at the over dependence on the 9 route by some flag foot...
FirstDown PlayBook Formation Guide
How does FirstDown PlayBook make it so easy to find formations, plays and defenses? It all starts with the FirstDown PlayBook formation guide....
FirstDown PlayBook Route Tree Help
All good passing offenses start with teaching and installing a route tree. Without this your quarterback and receivers will struggle....
Can’t Draw Football Plays? You Don’t Know It.
FirstDown PlayBook thinks there is a difference in a football fan and a football expert. An expert should be able to draw football plays....
Youth & Flag Football Travel Teams
Coaching a youth football travel team or a flag football travel team presents specific challenges with players coming from different places....
FirstDown PlayBook’s Western U.S. Coach Corey Heinz
Corey Heinz is a football coach and understands exactly what a high school and college football coach does on a daily basis....
Teaching Young Quarterbacks The Snag Concept
Good quarterback coaches have plays like the Snag concept in their football playbook that allows the quarterback to get the ball out quickly....
Find FirstDown PlayBook Formations Faster
It was the beginning stages of our playbook tool and we were naming FirstDown PlayBook formations and plays. Challenging to say the least....
Packers Steal FDPB Short Yardage Play
This FirstDown PlayBook short yardage play showed up at Lambeau field yesterday as the Packers needed one yard and Jordan Love was banged up....