Mastering Youth Football Defense – Mind of a Football Coach Podcast – Zach Davis with Coach Parker In this podcast episode, Mastering the Youth Football Defense, Coach Steve Parker returns to discuss his defensive strategies and philosophies in youth football. He shares insights on the evolution of his Pirate Defense, the importance of training and…
3-5-3 Defense Youth Football is an interesting multiple coverage stack Defense that is great against passing Spread Offenses. Recently a youth football coach in my Facebook forums ask me about the 3-5-3 Defense Youth Football and to “Coach Parker it” for youth football. So, Here are my first thoughts on the 3-5-3 Defense for Youth…
I received an email from a youth football coach about how I do my Defensive Game Planning For Youth Football Defenses especially for the first pee wee football game of the season. I wrote him a long winded email email and I thought this might make a good youth football blog post over at CoachParker.org…
The top youth football defenses video series is a comment on the 2012 article I wrote on the Best Offensive Plays in Youth Football. Over the next month or two I will be reviewing the top youth football plays from the article in a video series and then also reviewing the best defenses to stop…
I guess I was a little bored today and started looking at linebacker position names like Mike, Sam and Will. We’ve all heard of these names for LBs but I decided to dig a little deeper and see what other names have been used over the last 100 years of football. I made up a…
Welcome to my first video on my 62 Multi 8 Youth Football Defense. One of the best youth football Defenses for the Win. I’ve been developing this defense since 2008 or so. This Spring 2016 this defense has had 8 straight shut outs with an 11U team. I am very proud of this team and…
I wrote an article a few weeks ago about choosing offensive lineman and thought I would address choosing youth football defensive players in this article. I define youth football by players in 2nd to 6th grade, so 6 to 13 years old give or take a year. Tackle football really changes from 6th to 8th…
Last season in 2007, 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 coaching youth football 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…