A NEW Way for Defensive Coaches to Stop an Empty Formation
By Anthony Stone, QBs/RBs Coach at Rockford Boylan High (Ill.) Author of the Back to the Basics Football Drill Manual Series The purpose of a defensive football coach is to find…
Install Defensive Skill Circuits in Place of Warmup
By Wojciech Andrzejczak, Football Coach from Poland (Europe) Twitter: @CoachVoyt When coaching football overseas, time is one of the biggest challenges. We have two or three practices per week with…
3×1 Coverage Checks Out of a 3-Man Front
By Matt McDonnell, Head Coach of Kettle Moraine High (Wisc.) @MattMcDonnell14 For most coverages, coaches begin to draw them against a pro or a 2*2 open set. However, when offenses…
When in doubt, just blitz!
By Jarrett M. Laws, M.Ed. Head Football Coach Salem High School, Conyers, Georgia Twitter: @CoachLaws00 In 2016, when I was hired by the administration at Salem High School in Conyers,…
Their Slot Is Wearing You Out. How Can You Fix It?
By Charlie Coiner, FirstDown PlayBook Some teams are very talented in the passing game and they come after you on the outside with speed and dare you to match up…
Coach the Nickel 33 Wham 3 Fire Zone
By Charlie Coiner, FirstDown PlayBook Sometimes the zone read key can be misleading for an offense if they dial up the play against the wrong defense. We often think of…
Teaching Defensive Line Play in the Midway 3-4
By Aaron Nowell, Midway High (Texas) Defensive Line Coach We run a 3-4 defense here at Midway and predominantly line up in a 5, Shade and 4i. We will play…
How Pete Carroll defends four verts from Middle of the Field Close
By Matty Brown The NFL has improved to be far better at dissecting single-high defenses that were popularized by the successes of Pete Carroll. For that reason, and after the…
Breaking Down Quarters Coverage
By Clayton Cason Man Man coverage is exactly as it sounds. Each defender has a designated man across the entire field. Vision is on the man the defender is covering,…
Explaining the Details of Rip/Liz Coverage
By Clayton Carson Background/History In 1994 when Nick Saban and Bill Belichick were with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, they led Cleveland to its last playoff victory. However, following three losses…
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