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…
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…
Several youth football coaches I spoke with recently do not allow their starting quarterback to play defense more than just a few plays a game, if that. I do not allow my QB to play defense but maybe a few plays in a game now and then. I also do not allow live hitting on…
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…
There are so many football offenses these days to choose from, Spin, Double Wing, Single Wing, I-Formation, Power I, Straight T, Wishbone, Pro Set, and more, but which one works best in youth football? In our Colorado Pee Wee Tackle football league, there is not one definitive offensive leader. I have seen everyone run all…
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…
I received my American Football Monthly June 2008 issue the other day. The cover article is The Anatomy of Blocking Kicks. A few of the other articles are Zone Blitzing The Spread Offense, Stifling the Screen Pass, Simplifying the Zone Blitz, Keep the Defense off Balance by Formation and Tempo and The Wildcat Spin; The…
I just watched this single wing offense tutorial video and it is awesome. I was going to post next week in my regular youth offense column but it is too good not to share now. You must watch this. Enjoy the video. Good Luck this season.
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…