Comments on: Book Review – Winning Youth Football a Step by Step Plan

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:51:46 +0000

If you want to see the wedge in action at the HS level, look at Tim Murphy and Clovis East, perennial powerhouse California Central Section team. They run the DW with the Wedge on short yardage and everyone knows it’s coming and no one can stop it. They rush for over 4,000 yards a season and wedge is a staple of that attack.

At any rate, Youth football is totally different from HS football and no way should you be running a HS scheme at the youth level in the hopes of “prepping” kids. There are hundreds of kids who will never play HS football that you are trying to develop, not just as football players, but as men.

By: stevep264

stevep264 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:21:24 +0000

I think you see Dave’s stuff all over the web, because he’s marketing his product to be successful against other systems. Coke and Pespi do it all the time. It’s really up to the consumer to pick and choose the offensive or defensive systems they want to use.

I have read many youth football books and adult football books, and I really like Dave’s stuff. Most of Dave’s blocking assignments are GOD with a pulling guard. I think most of the Gut plays are Wedge. I am going to run the Wedge for our Gut plays this year, after a team ran the Wedge against us in a scrimmage, and it killed my defensive front line. The Wedge should be one blocking tool in your toolbox. We won without the Wedge last year, but I want to test it out this year as another weapon.

I agree with you about prepping your players, but the youth football game is very different than high school. Even if you run some unconventional things at the youth level, they will be far ahead of HS players that never played youth football. Plus, many players that you are coaching will never play High School football.

Dave probably has more info on HS team running the Wedge. I have seen it at the HS level.

By: Dan Szepesi

Dan Szepesi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:29:39 +0000

The only problem I have with Dave is that he is so obviously shilling for his content that you buy. He has posted articles all over the web crushing offensive systems like zone blocking and it just feels like he is trying to drive you to his system so you will buy his videos, books and attend his classes.

I really like his o-line video but i can’t really get comfortable with using a wedge. Are your kids really going to use that system past youth football? Do you feel any responsibility with your kids to start prepping them for the next level? Maybe its the Texas talking but I feel like we should be prepping the kids for when they start playing in middle school and high school and do teams at that level really use a wedge?