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Helping Your Running Backs to Make Cuts When Coaching Youth Football There are a few simple drills you can add to your practice plans to help your running backs make more effective cuts. While some of your very athletic players with excellent body control already instinctively make effective cuts, you will need to teach the [...]

What to Say to the Local High School Coach, Pressuring You to Run His System? I love going to places where football is important. The Bay Area has good football and there are plenty of good youth football coaches I’ve met over the years from that area. My wife and I had the good fortune [...]

Pass Catching Tips from Raymond Berry Last month someone sent me the Raymond Berry pass receiving videos as a gift. While I’m always skeptical of how much us youth football coaches can apply from a video meant to train High School, College and even Pro players, there were a few pointers that made quite of [...]

In youth football, it’s important to think through your constraints before you choose an offensive or defensive scheme.  That is the case for small High Schools as well. I recently conversed with a head coach from a very small High School that only had about 30 players in their entire program. He was milling over [...]

I received this e-mail from coach Rodney Polston last week. Coach figured out a very creative way to get one of his weaker kids involved in the game. Dave, Just thought I’d touch base with you.  We had our first game Saturday morning.  We won 26-14.  We allowed two single big plays on defense for [...]

                        The Silent Count for Youth Football   A silent count is often used in youth football by teams trying to gain an advantage. On a silent count, the ball is snapped to the quarterback after the offense has gotten set, the quarterback lifts his hands slightly signaling to the center it is time to [...]

More Detail on the Stalk Block   One of the more difficult blocks to master for receivers is the stalk block, but with some simple coaching points and drills, you can get your players to execute it fairly consistently. The stalk block is a block on a defensive back by a receiver or slot with [...]

Make Sure Your Data is Real World When Deciding on an Offensive Direction   I attended a “youth football” session at a coaches clinic in the last 3 months that still troubles me. We won’t go into where the clinic was or who the speaker was, that isn’t important, what is important is the issue of [...]

 The Passing Game in Youth Football, Love the Play Action Many coaches either misquote me or misunderstand me when I talk about passing the ball in youth football. I have nothing against the pass and in fact make it an integral part of my offensive threat. What I do think is based on statistical fact, [...]

  Being Different Has Its Advantages in Football While youth football and college football are worlds apart in many ways, there certainly are some similarities. How many of you are following what Paul Johnson is doing at Georgia Tech this year? Many “experts” said Johnson’s Flexbone option attack would never work at the big DI [...]