Offensive Game Planning/Adjustments Archives:

More Votes for “Wrist Coaches” We have dedicated a number of posts on this blog about all the great reasons to go no-huddle and use “wrist-coaches” to call in your plays. But I overlooked one very important benefit that was pointed out to me by a youth football coach using my system that attended my [...]

                        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 [...]

Coaching Against Press Coverage In Youth Football   How do you defeat press coverage when coaching youth football? Most non-select teams in youth football do not play press coverage with their defensive backs, as it requires very physical and athletic corners. Press coverage almost always has the defensive backs right in the face of your [...]

What are “good” football plays when you are coaching youth football?   There are many ways to define a “good” football play, but many players, parents and youth football coaches have it all wrong.   Many youth football coaches don’t even bother to analyze their football plays. They have a general “feel” for what is working [...]

Making Adjustments When Coaching Youth Football- A Problem Defensive End   Question from Todd H in Virginia:     What adjustments can I make on my strong side off-tackle run when there is a Defensive End playing head up on the strong side tight end?      Answer: Good question, most people refer to that as a [...]

The Hay is in the Barn- In Youth Football Terms Here in the Midwest there is a term we use quite often to describe when we have finished up a task and there isn’t a whole lot more to do or worry about. The phrase is “The Hay is in the Barn”. It means just [...]

Coach Dave, We run your system with the no-huddle just like in your book. We called all of our football plays last year from the sidelines, we never went into a huddle. This year we are adding in the adjustments in your book and adding them in as a “tag” to the play when we call the [...]

Youth Football is a Different Game X’s and O’s and scheme are huge in developing a dominating team in youth football, but the nuances of the game require most of us to be good at doing many things most football coaches at the upper levels don’t have to deal with. Unless you are coaching a [...]

4th and 1, what to do? Bowl Game Scenarios, Play Calling Quandries Like many of you I watched my fair share of College Football Bowl games this year. While as a youth football coach, you can�t take what the college kids do and apply it directly to your youth football teams because of the obvious [...]

Why You Need a “Get back” Coach in Youth Football Did any of you you guys watch the ASU-Texas Holiday Bowl game last night? One of the Texas staff could have cost them the game. If the University of Texas can’t get this right with grown men, what are the chances it happens in a [...]