Last night, I read American Football Coaches Association’s Complete Guide to Special Teams. This is an excellent 250 page book on Special Teams tactics, drills and techniques written by some of the best Special Teams coaches in football and edited by Coach Bill Mallory and Coach Don Nehlen. Some of the tactics outlined in the book [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Special Teams’
June 5, 2008
Kick Return Blocking – Special Teams
The other day, I was talking to another youth tackle football coach about how his 4th grade youth football team blocks on kick returns. We did not do a great job blocking on kick returns last year, and I want to see how other coaches are blocking kick off defenders. He says he makes sure the kick [...]
May 29, 2008
Kick Return Blocking – Special Teams
Our youth football kick return blocking is not that great. We did better this year by assigning players to block but we can do better. We missed many blocks and one that hurt us in our final play off game last season. After reading Coaching Offensive Linemen by Dave Christensen and James Peterson, I learned [...]
May 22, 2008
Kick Off Coverage
Close games are won by field position and the kicking game. On a Kick Off you can influence the field position by a great kick and coverage or recovering a fumble. I particularly like the latter. The key to special teams and the kick off is practice, practice, and more practice of special teams. The most successful special [...]
May 17, 2008
Punting – Special Teams – Youth Football Coaching
Ok, I’ll say it. I hate punting! Yes, I hate punting because we did not score or make a first down, but it scares me to death to send the punt team out. It’s probably my fault as a coach for not spending more time with the punt team. Not probably, it is my fault, [...]
May 12, 2008
Coaching Youth Football – Special Teams
Special Teams is a game breaker in youth football. Most pee wee teams do not practice Special Teams the needed amount of time, and they pay the consequences in the game. Plus, a lot of youth teams, place a high number of minimum play players (MPPs) on their Special Team units. Not enough practice time and [...]
