Another youth football coach and I were emailing each other recently about the Spin offense and he asked me about what defense I use for my Pee Wee football team. I told him that we run a 6-2 Wide Defense as our base defense, and we have 20 different blitzes, stunts and adjustments packages. The coach could [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Defense’
October 2, 2008
Every Defense has a Weakness
I have been receiving many emails about youth football defenses. And many of the emails ask about specific weaknesses of the 6-2 and 7 Diamond Defenses. Like most things in life, one size does not fit all.
Every defense has a chink in its armour. If the offense finds this weakness then you must adjust and [...]
September 1, 2008
Blitzes for my 6-2 Wide Defense
I just read an email on blitzing. I like to blitz, especially if I am the underdog and the other team has a ton of talent. Blitzing will allow you to even the playing field. But, if you live by the sword you can die by the sword. If your offensive opponent guesses right while your [...]
June 18, 2008
Even Front Defensive Schemes for Youth Football
I finally finished my Defensive playbook for my 5th grade pee wee football team. After reading and watching Dave Cisar’s Winning Football Series and Coach Reed’s Winning Youth Football book, I focused on the 6-2 Wide, 4-4 Stack and Gap 8 defensive schemes for my 2008 little league tackle team. I am not going to [...]
June 11, 2008
Is Form Tackling Overrated?
I attended a Denver football clinic last year and the speaker, an ex college coach, brought up a very interesting point for youth football coaches. How many times do you see a perfect form tackle in a high school, college or pro football games? He proposed not very often, and you know what, I must [...]
June 8, 2008
Developing a Smothering Defense – DVD Review
I just finished Coach Dave Cisar’s Developing a Smothering DefenseDVD. This is another DVD from Winning Youth Football’s Step by Step Plan Series. This DVD focuses on the 6-2 Wide Tackle Defense and the Viper 4-4 Defense. I ran a 6-2 defense last year and I found Coach Cisar’s DVD very helpful. I will implement [...]
June 3, 2008
6-2 Defense for Youth Football
After being focused on offense the last two seasons and reading Football Principals and Play by David Nelson, I assigned myself the Defensive Coordinator role this season, so I would focus my efforts on Defense for my tackle pee wee football team. Coach Nelson is right, if your opponent doesn’t score, you can’t lose. And [...]
May 28, 2008
Stripping the Football – Coaching Youth Football Defense
In 2006, an opposing team stripped the football from one of my backs and ran for a touchdown. Our running back that had the ball stripped, became the leading football stripper on our youth football team. Stripping the football is a powerful defensive tactic, especially in youth tackle football, because most youth running backs do [...]
May 21, 2008
Defensive Alignment Techniques and Gaps
Below is a diagram of the standard defensive alignment techniques and gaps for football.
Defensive gaps refer to the space between the adjacent offensive lineman. Defensive alignments for the defensive fronts are identified by the in, over or outside shading of the defensive lineman to the offensive lineman. The diagram above refers to one of the [...]
May 18, 2008
Defense Wins Games – Coaching Youth Football
Last season, I learned the hard way that Defense wins games. I spent most of my time installing a new offense and did not spend the same time on Defense. We lost in the playoffs by one TD, because my defense could not stop the off-tackle play. We had beat the team in our first game. [...]
