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Plays in Football – Target Blitz
Here’s one of many plays in football for linebackers. Blitzing linebackers have to secure an area on the field during their blitz.
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Plyometrics for Football – Get Some Get Up Drill
When blockers get put to the ground they will need to get up – face more blockers and then try to make a tackle. This drill puts the term plyometrics for foo…
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Pop Warner Youth Football
Looking for drill ideas for your pop warner youth football team? You’ve come to the right place! Try out this idea below and let me know how it goes for you…
- Practice Drills for Youth Football As you are getting ready for the new season, try these youth football practice drills with your team. The kids love them and the results are immediate.
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Practice Football
I got the inspiration for this coaching tip from Rick. It includes some fresh ideas for practice football. Try out the drill and the idea on building your own…
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Pratice Drills for Football – Meet the Block
In the previous Lead Block drill, the fullback had to make a block and the RB needed to make a cut. Now the linebacker needs to meet the block and make the tac…
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Pre Season Drills for Football – Special Teams Drill & Quarterback Drill
If you’re looking for fresh ideas for pre season drills for football give these a try. The first is for your special teams and the second for quarterbacks.
- Pre-Season Drills for Football Try these ideas for pre-season drills for football. After pre-season practice, when 2x days are over, begin practicing team time the entire practice.
- Pre-Season Drills for Football – Going to the Fair This is just one of my favorite pre-season drills for football. It is called Going to the Fair.
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Pro Quarterback Fundamentals and Mechanics
When running a football practice, it’s important to make sure that every player knows his role and his responsibilities. During this blog post, we’re going to t…
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Professional Football Coach
I received this football drill from Dirk, a professional football coach in Portland. This is a great football drill to teach players how to punch and how to re…
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Punt Return “Obstacle Course” Drill
In today’s video blog post, we are talking about a very good conditioning drill that simulates game conditions. This conditioning drill works on your athletes a…
- Punt/Return Youth Practice Drill & Breakdown Drill Here are two drills I’ve uses a lot. The first one is an all inclusive practice drill that works on all skills with your younger players. The next one is a d…
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Pyramid Course Drill
Drill Type: Wide Receiver Drill Purpose This wide receiver drill forces players to make three catches in quick succession – one heading from right to left, on…
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QB Scramble
Here’s a great drill to develop a QBs pocket presence and ability to avoid the pass rush and pass downfield.
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Quarterback Drills
Coming up with new ideas for quarterback drills can sometimes be a challenge. Here’s a receiver/quarterback drill to try at your practice.
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Quarterback Drills for Football – Speed and Agility
Take a look at this submission from Jason. Some great ideas for quarterback drills for football that work with all age groups. Give these a try!
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Quarterback Drills – Football & Gymnastics
Here is something I have started doing during the off season. This is not your typical football quarterback drills.
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Quarterback Drills – Footwork & Arm Strength
If you’re looking for preseason football quarterback drills, try this one for improved footwork skills and arm strength.
- Quarterback Drills – Footwork Drill and Throwing Competition These are a couple of the football quarterback drills we use in practice. They work well and the players even ask for them. The first one is excellent for foot…
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Quarterback Drills – Passing Drill & Pocket Drill
These two quarterback drills are quick, easy and best of all produce immediate improvements with your football team.
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Quarterback Throwing Drills – Beat the Rush
QB’s cannot hold on to the ball or they are going to face the pressure from the pass rush. These quarterback throwing drills help QB’s go through their pro…
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Quick Slant Drill
Purpose Players learn the slant, which is a great play for younger players. Set Up You can have two quarterbacks side-by-side with two receivers to the left and…
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Read and Go Drill
Purpose To improve ball carrier’s vision, agility, and reaction time Drill Setup Running backs all grab a football and form a line Coach stands behind tackling …
- Receiver Drills for Football – Footwork, Balance and Timing Drills Give these two drills a try at your next practice. The Footwork and Balance drill is excellent for your running backs, wide receivers and defensive backs. The …
- Receiver Drills for Football – Receiver Clock Drill One of the receiver drills I would like to share with you today is the Receiver Clock Drill. This drill helps you identify ‘trouble time’–areas where a receive…
- Receiver Drills for Football – The Distraction Drill My idea for a practice drill is one that I call the distraction drill. It is a drill for wide receivers where there are two lines of receivers.
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Receiver Drills – Isolating and Improving Your Weak Hand
There are physical advantages that make the truly great receivers exceptional – like Randy Moss for example. And it is possible to improve your speed and quickn…
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Return Kick Drill
Drill Type: Special Teams Drill Purpose It’s important for players to set-up in the correct spot to block when returning a kick. This is a great special teams…
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Running Back Blocking Drill: Strike, Extension and Finish
In today’s blog post, we are talking about a great running back block drill set that is important to include in your practice plan, because we need to be sure o…
- Running Back Drill I have my running backs do this drill as often as possible. It works on several issues at the same time.
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Running Back Drills – Coaching Football Security
Ball security. Protecting the rock. Cradling the egg. Whatever you want to call it, preventing fumbles is invaluable, and almost expected from your runners. Whi…
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Running Back Football Drills
Last week, I sent out a request for my newsletter subscribers to send in their favorite running back football drill. Check out the drills below (very creative!…
- Running Back Football Drills Here is one of the running back football drills we use frequently. It helps for footwork, ball control, and thought processing.
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Running Back Football Drills – Balancing Box Drill
This is one of my favorite running back football drills that I use with my underneath zone coverage. It is a balancing box drill. It works simply like this:
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Running Back Football Drills – Sideline Drill
These ideas for running back football drills are ones that I find most effective. Your running backs gain agility and learn how to run the sidelines and stay i…
Guide · Football Coaching
Football Drills
A football drills library organizes practice work by position and skill so coaches can build purposeful periods instead of random cone drills.
797 football drills with purpose, setup, instructions, and coaching tips.
How to install a youth playbook
- Start with a Beginner workflow or Easy plays.
- Add position drills from the drills library.
- Align language with Football Guides.
- Export a share graphic for your staff chat.