youth football coaching
Youth Football Man Coverage Tips
You can break youth football man coverage down into counting to 1-2-3. That is after you teach your team about what makes a player eligible....
No Youth Football Crack Blocks
There is one type of youth football plays that you will not find. That is a youth football offensive play with a crack block. ...
Simple Jumbo Formation Lead Strong
The FirstDown PlayBook Jumbo formation contains a lot of characteristics you need to teach youth football fundamentals....
Flag Pulling Drills The Patriots Way
If you ask us pulling a flag just might be harder than making a physical tackle on a ball carrier...
Youth Football Play Action Pass
If we were coaching 9-10 year old players we might never throw a drop back pass. We would depend almost exclusively on the play action pass....
Teach Proper Blocking Angles
Defensive coaches talk a lot about "poor angles" to the football. It is important for offensive coaches to teach proper blocking angles too....
3 Types Of Run Game Advice To Avoid
This is a "buyer beware" blog. Specifically, we are going to look at 3 types of run game advice to avoid on the internet. ...
Youth Football Unbalanced Formations
FirstDown PlayBook is not real sure that youth football unbalanced formations should even be allowed. Here is our case for and against....
5-2 Cover 2 Youth Football Defense
The FirstDown PlayBook youth football 5-2 Cover 2 defense bridges the gap between a high school football and a youth football defense....
Youth Football Split Backs Counter Blocking
You need a punch, but you also need a counter punch. That's exactly what this youth football split backs counter run provides....
Any Football People Behind Your Football PlayBook?
FirstDown PlayBook was created by coaches for coaches. Sounds like a common sense formula that is true in most places where you go to get football help right? Not so much. The reason we...
Wing T Starting Point With FirstDown PlayBook
You will see pretty basic schemes in the FirstDown PlayBook youth football Wing T section. There is a good reason for that....