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Football Idea Swap Vol. 3


From Peter, Defensive Line Drill Have three offensive lineman stand on the line facing a D Lineman. Behind those three have two more players about 5 yards off them, behind those two have one player with a football. Object is to have the one D lineman fight through the first 3 blockers, once he has made ground blow the whistle for the next two. One ground is gain, blow whistle and have him takle man with ball.

From Todd, It is basically 2 hand touch early in the year and tackle after we start contact. Set up a 15 yard wide and 20 yard long lane for a runner to run the ball in. The defender will start at one end and the runner at the other end; on the whistle the runner tries to score (get out of the cage) by beating the defender. We keep records on how each does and we switch it up so winners face winners so we can get a better reading on player skills. Kids have to break down and get in position to make a play; they cannot over-commit or the runner wins easily so they have to stay balanced and cut off running space; kids have to move their feet, shuffle and make plays. The kids who "reach" all the time and never move their feet get picked on early and often.

From Chad, I have a simple drill that helps our coaches figure out who our true athletes are. 1. get whole team(around 25 kids) in a 30x30 yard area with 4 cones as corners 2.select 4 players to be in middle with there backs to each other. make sure you give the selected 4 different colors shirts to be different than the other players. 3. give the 4 players a nerf Football and have the 4 chase or throw ball at players hitting them to get them out by the end of game you will see who is fastest and athletic. 4.swap the 4 out and try another 4 also helps with conditioning.

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From Jeremy, "Run the Loop" DE-LINEMAN DL runs the figure 8 as fast as they can. The drill envolves into chasing and trying to catch a partner. ( Teach both directions) Coaching Point: Players inside shoulder should be lowered. Stay close to the edge. Don't stand up straight. From Chris, Everyone here's it all the time, repetition, but why? Well, lets first start by stating the obvious because repetition helps to create second habit. What most people don't know is why or how . It takes on average no less than 25 repetitions to create a neurological pathway in the brain. Every time you do the same thing it registers in the brain and creates a road map, so to speak. Each time that pathway gets rooted deeper and eventually becomes second nature. So the next time you teach a new skill or play expect it to be repeated at least 25 times before it starts to become more fluid. Then everything that originates from that pathway will be learned quicker because of this reference point. This is especially important when teaching youth football and proper mechanics so before we start going full speed and running plays lets make sure we teach step by step the mechanics involved and then walk thru's, then half speed, and full speed before we line up to square off against opposition either inter squad or other. It will pay off in the results.

From Bruce, I run a drill I call the triple level trap. We set up tunnell 4 yards wide. This same tunnel is 10 yards deep.(5-15 yard line) or what ever you like 2 O lineman set up as Guard and Tackle on the 5 yard line 2 O lineman set up as Guard and Tackle on the 10 yard line 2 O lineman set up as Guard and Tackle on the 15 yard line 2 D lineman line up head to head with the O line man on each line RB is 3 yards behind group on the 15 yard line LB is 3 yards behind DL on the on the 5 yard line. On predetermined snap count O lineman run trap blocks and RB must fight through the middle ONLY and LB must search and destroy. Traps can be run left or right and we add a FB and DB to add ,more players. O line switches 5-10-15 every second run of drill.DL lineman stay on the same line Coach stands behind LB to give snap count and watch blocking techniques.
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O Lineman must Trap block until DL is out side Pilons. DL should be out side shade on thier man to add to the drill.

From Demetrius, I have my recievers line up about 10 yards away from me and as they are running to me I throw them a pass. When the recievers catch the football with their hand in a diamond shape they have to tell me what number is on the top of the four section of the football. This teach you to keep your eye on the ball.

From Marcos, I previously coached 5-7 year olds and I currently work with my son, Jason, who will be 9 in a couple weeks. I go over LB drills with him and try to get him to mirror what I (the QB) does. I set up obstacles for him along the way also. One thing I notice is that kids tend to turn their eyes and turn their bodies. I tried throwing them a football along the way, without notice, in order to get them to watch my eyes. I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this, but hopefully it helps.

From Darwin, This is a great drill for making sure your team stays discipline in your cadences. You know when you have 3rd and five in the fourth quarter and the other team is dead tire and you need that ever so important first down. Well with this drill your team will be more discipline than not. 1. Have your coach step off 50 yards and line your kids side by side opposite of your coach. 2. Call your cadence on whatever you like; "on one, two, three or whatever floats your boat". 3. Tell your kids to get in the ready position " This is also a good time to focus on stance and posture". 4. You then tell your kids to sprint to your coach on your selected cadence. 5. If they jump offsides, you then ask your coach to move back five yards. 6. If they don't jump offsides, then you tell your coach to move five yards up. Your coach keeps coming towards the kids until he is five yards in front of your kids.
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From Kenneth, Sounds like a great idea and I would love to be on the list. I don't know how common this drill is, but our kids love it. D-Line vs. O-Line, typically we do this as a defensive end type drill, but you can use it anywhere. Put a cone about 5 yards off center. Have an O-lineman line up in a tackle position relative to the ball. Have a d-lineman line up opposite him, coach can have the ball at the center position and simulate a count and snap. When the ball is snapped, a coach with a stop watch clicks start. The d-lineman moves off of ball movement and try's to get to the cone he has 3-5 seconds you can vary it depending on the kids. Typically we tell the d-lineman to line up outside the tackle and act as a DE. If the 0-lineman keeps him from the cone within the time span he wins, if the d-lineman gets the cone he wins. so the kids love the competition and it's a great drill to teach skill sets at both positions.

From Joe, We use this drill for tackling after they understand A) mechanics of correct tackling technique and B) teh correct side to place head/shoulder when tackling on the angle Trash Can Tackle: Two lines first FB player in each line facing each other approx. one yard apart in butt out/chest out football position. Three trash cans in a line representing linemen are adjacent to the lines. There are two holes when you have two cans, three holes when you have four and so on. We have ball carrier "buzz' his feet and go when he is ready. Defender moves on ball carrier movement. Ball carrier must run in first or second hole with NO fakes. Object is to have defender meet ball carrier in the hole with proper leverage and head/shoulder in correct position (upfield). The drill can be run to the left and right and simlulates finding the running back in traffic. Hints: Coach gives command "buzz the feet" and then ball carrier can take off at any point. Best to have tackler with a slight advantage distance wise to the hole. May have to adjust when athlete is slower so he has chance to make the tackle.

From Dennis, I've got to say new coaching ideas & drills are a positive enhancement in maintaining attention span of the players. We have incorporated push lunges and sit catches into our program . Push lunge : Players on their stomachs , hands in a push up position , on command
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players pushup then bring their right knee to their chest and back then left knee to their chest and back, then back to the ground. We start slow and speed up for 10 reps at the end of which the players fire out to tackle a 70lb boxing bag or fumble recovery. Sit Catches: players on their backs knees bent second player standing on feet with foot ball to be initially dropped down to the player lying on back, arms extended with hands in triangle thumbs and index fingers touching others spread catching foot ball in downn positon tucking and then sitting up handing ball back to other player. 12 reps three over head , three left, three right, three chest. As they get better increase speed of the ball coming down. In less than a week all our players catch with their hands and have aquired a quicker stronger fire out from their stances.

From Francis, Working drill for quick pitch. We have coach line up at def end spot with hand shield. At the snap - QB quick-pitches to RB RB must explode around corner before coach reaches "box"

From Dustin, One of the biggest problems we have is getting our kids to turn loose and not fear contact. This drill has worked miracles with some of our most timid players. Split the team into two lines, five yards apart, and facing one another. One kid steps into the "chute" from the end of line one and receives the ball, while another kid steps in from the opposite end of line two as the tackler. All the other players choose a side and cheer on their favorite. They are so close to the action that they can't help getting fired up! The coach can protect smaller, weaker players by controlling the match-ups. Sometimes we let the first player in "call out" another player they want to challenge ( this can really get interesting). In three years we've never had one player injured during this drill and our kids beg for "The Chute" every single day.

From Billy, FUMBLE RECOVERY DRILL (Beginner) Have a group of kids line up directly in front of you. Toss the ball to one side or the other. Instruct the kids to recover the fumble and to always put thier back to their

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opponents and in the tuck position when recovering fumbles. This teaches proper technique when falling on the ball. Other variations are have another player to try to wrestle the ball from the recoverer to ensure the player is in deed holding on to the ball with everything he has. (Do not allow them to pile on, just one other player to try at a time)

From Enrique, Monkey rolls 3 players standing in 1 line 1 2 3 , 2 jumps out over to 3, 3 jumps over to 2, 1 jumps over to 2, then 3 jumps over 2 again and this keeps going, if a player has to wait to jump they should be chopping the feet. What I do is make a competition of teams and the team that can do this the longest wins. If a player is still on the ground when its his turn to jump, that team is out. As the season progresses the kids get faster.

From Mick, On Monday we do first team defense, but our new twist is to go to second team offense on the other side of the field at the same time, so by the time we come together to do team fit and freeze drills both teams are sharp and ready. Our second team offense gives us a better look just coming off of offensive air time. On Tuesday the rolls are reversed. We no longer spend time lining the scout team up and talking about assignments for the first team to fit and freeze to.

From Troy, One player stands 20 yards away with his back to the rest of the players. The rest are in three lines facing the lone player. One coach stands with the lone player, facing the rest. He gives reminders,instruction, and encouragement to the lone player. A second coach hands the football to one of the players standing in line (3 options of players, each line 10-15 yards apart, mix it up!). The coach with the lone player blows a whistle. All 3 players in front of each line sprint forward 20 yards. The lone player spins around when the whistle blows. He must recognize which of the three players has the football and make the tackle. It is a great way for the kids to learn how to "find the ball." You can observe tackling form and pursuit technique. And everyone does sprints!

From Dallas,

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We all know that our players need to be in football shape for the new season, but the players don't like the conditioning part of it. I decided to give the players an option of conditioning (gut wrenching) after practice daily or set one day aside to spend an extra hour on what we call speed and agility day, and also on saturday mornings until the first week of the season. Don't misunderstand the fact we will still run some sprints at the end of practice on the other days, but it is far from puking (3 to 5 ) is sufficient. I do not know if it is the fact that the kids are not thinking about the pain they are going to endure at the end of practice, or that they like the sound of speed and agility better. Either way, they pay more attention in practice, and practice is more efficient.

From Donald, Here is little drill I like to do for LB's: This is within a coned area of about 5 x 10. Adjust as needed. Have 2 ball carriers and 1 LB in the drill. The two ball RBs stand about 7-10 yards away from the LB who has his back turned. Both RB act as though they have the ball, but only one does and they run counter action on the whistle or go. On go the LB turns and finds the ball and makes a solid tackle.

From Randal, Here is my drill. It is a drill for skill players called the balance drill. Align two cones about 10 to 15 yds apart. The ball carrier is to isolate the the ball in one hand with the opposite hand on the ground and same leg in the air. The ball carrier hops on the one hand and leg all the way to the opposite cone and come back to the origin. To make the drill more challenging, the coach can signal switch (ball to other hand and switch legs throughout the drill). The object is to fight for balance and for the ball carrier to get the most out of each carry. This drill teaches players to put their hand down when someone like tries to shoe string tackle them and fight for extra yds. THAT IS THE WORST TO SEE, a shoe string tackle This drill has worked extremly well for my skill players and should be implemented in every coach's drill list.

From Brett, Team Tackling Drill Spilt the team into two equal groups. One team starts with a guy on every ten yard line. The boundaries are 5 yards wide, and ten yards long for each player on the team(the runner has to run in straight line and get past a tackler at every ten yards without stepping out of bounds.), and if a runner steps out of bounds, the play is over and 1 point is awarded to the tackling team. After every new runner the tackling team players move up to the ten yard ahead of them so everyone gets a chance to be the first
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defender.The tacklers can only be in their 10 yard area, and must release once the runner steps onto the next players yard line. Losing team runs one conditioning drill. Points are awarded like this. The running team can only get points by getting past all defenders, and that is worth 5 points. Their is no reason someone should get past 5 or more people trying to tackle one guy with no blockers! Tacklers get 1 point for a runner going out of bounds for any reason. 2 points for causing a fumble, but 3 for getting the fumble. Both teams get to run and tackle.

From Rich, With the receivers' back to me, standing 5, 10, or 15 yards in front of me, I throw the ball and then yell "Left" or "Right." The receiver turns to that direction, locates the ball, and then takes whatever steps necessary to make the catch. It has quickened their reaction times to being able to find the ball on a no-look route.

From Doug, The boundaries: mark off 20 yards length using the sidelines as the width. The participants: Select approx. 25% of the players to be "sharks". The remaining players are "minnows". The object: Sharks are positioned anywhere with the boundaries "the tank". Minnows are spread across one of the end lines. Minnows try to avoid being tackled by any of the sharks in the tanks using speed & agility. Sharks pick off (tackle) any minnow as they try to make it across the tank to the other end line. As minnows are tackled, they then become sharks increasing the number of sharks while decreasing the number of minnows. Ultimately the most evasive minnow will be remaining against a tankful of sharks. Beneifits: works on a number of aspects: open field tackling, open field running, gives players an opportunity to switch mindsets (defensive players as minnows and offensive players as sharks)

From Greg, We call it the fumble drill. We form the boys into 2 single file lines with a coach in the middle. The coach throws the football down, usually on the end so it takes off. The first two run after it. The one who comes up with the ball is the winner and gets back into line. The one who didn't come up with the ball goes off to the side and starts clapping. It keeps going round after round until you get a winner. The kids really love it and it creates great competition, they ask for it at every practice. We do this as the last part of

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our practice, it gets them running and also enstills in their memory about recovery fumbles. This helped us out several times last year.

From Allen, We begin practice by playing a quick game of tag. The last 4, or the persons tagged at a certain points (i.e.: 3rd, 5th, 11th, and 17th) are the leaders for stretching and exercises. This gets the blood pumping and allows for a random selection of leaders for the day. Two or Three people are chosen at random to be "it" and a boundary is designated by cones. This exercise also helps with team building and makes practice "fun"

From Maurice, I coach youngsters in Pop-Warner and one of the things I rely on a lot is a tennis ball. Especially for the running backs. I make them practice with it tucked between their biscep and forearm. It teaches them the proper way to hold the football. As you know they have a tendency to run with it out to their side and not tight against their ribcage. You can also use it for line drills -- where they fire out to catch a dropping ball. Wide receivers too - I make them catch tennis balls sometimes to increase their hand eye coordination. Thanks.

From Calvin, The All In one drill I found on Internet- Kids love. Have players get in single file behind tackling dummy. On whistle have them pick up dummy and chop there feet. On next whistle(at coach's pace) have player drop bag an run over 3bags set about 3yrds apart . Then have 2 coaches or players 5yrds apart with hand held shields give pop to player running. Then have tackling dummy with football on top. have player make form tackle which should make football become a fumble an make player then recover fumble by wrapping his body around the football on the ground.Then have player put football back on top of tackling dummy for next player

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From Raul, I like to use this for a Quickness Drill. The drill starts out with 2 players 5-6 yds apart. 1st Player takes off and the 2nd chases in a figure 8 pattern covering 20 yds total. Partner players of equal speed, backs with backs, linemen with linemen. You can run the pattern until the 2nd player catches the first; or run the sequence once and they get back in line.

From Richard, I know this drill is probably as old as the hills but has worked especially well in helping my young Linebackers learn to read and follow the progress of the ball and then fill the proper gap quickly. To run this drill you need to place six cones in a straight line to represent your line of scrimmage and your running lanes (5 lanes with the first gap being #1). Your Line backers will start facing the line of scrimmage at one end of the line of cones 4 yards away from the line. You will also have a running back on the opposite side of the line of cones around 4 yards out from the line. The Running back will go into motion running parrallel to the line of scrimmage and he will cut and hit a pre-assigned lane. The Line backer will keep his shoulders square to the line of scrimmage and will move with the Running back staying parrallel with the line of scrimmage. He will have to read which lane the runner will engage and will have to react in time to fill this lane before the runner passes through this lane. We typically run this drill at 3/4 speed to analyze the line backers footwork as well as his ability to square up on the runner, wrap up and drive through. We find this helpful to judge our LB's reaction time along with their tendency to change their fundamentals as we increase the speed of this drill. Is some cases we might have our Defensive linemen participate to help them to understand their line of pursuit and improve their footwork.

From Steve, From Steve, I coach an 89er team and found a fun game to play at the end of practice "The Rabbit". I will choose a kid who has had a good practice to be the rabbit, I will the have the get 5 to 8 yards ahead of the line depending on that kids speed. I then choose a cadence to have eveybody take off on. If someone jumps the rabbit sound off 10 pushups for everyone to do. If 1 kid catches the rabbit before the end of sprint (40 yds) they get to be the rabbit. The kids love it and don't really know that they are conditioning themselves.

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From Vince, Tight Flare- if executed well it's a big gainer or td. Formation- pro set, unbalanced right. QB rolls r selling sprint out. recievers on r side who are in a slot formation. Well run of their defenders, sell deep ball. Line pass block, TE, lines up on outside shoulder of DE ingages DE for a 2 sec count (has to sell block) the goal is for the CB to bite on the roll out r. TE releases up field toward the numbers while gaining depth. QB sprints out quickly, while gaing depth sets up, throws a strike to the TE for six (mark it down) Good luck to anyone who tries it!!!!!!!!!!!

From Nephi, I don't have any great pearls of wisdom, but here is one from many years ago. I like this drill because it gets the young first time players used to the sound and feel of a hit. It may also help with any fear. We called it the gauntlet. You form your team into two straight lines facing each other 2 yards apart. Give one player the ball and send him up the middle. Everyone gets to take a pop at him, or tries to strip the ball. Teaches great ball control and proper technique for ball handlers, and is a lot of fun for all. The guys who stay low, move fast, and protect the ball do the best. Great for little league

From Frank, Hi, my name is frank I coach Jr . division 7-9 yr. olds the drill swap sound like a great idea i have a fun drill. Set out 4 cones about 10 yards apart making a square layout the first set of cones the kid gets in a three point stance as a defensive linemen another kid lines up between the second set of cones as if he were safety or linebacker coach is facing lineman with a running back lined up behind him about 3 yards coach tells back witch way to go left or right then call cadence back recieves ball go through while staying between cones lineman must wrap up if he gets by 2nd player must assist who ever the back gets by does push ups. after drill runner goes to back 2 cones and players shift forward.line is formed behind back. this is a great evaluation drill you really see who is aggressive,who has speed and proper form on line,and backfield d.

From Shawn, Last year we had about 75% of our kids who had never played football before. We eventually used the first 30 minutes of each practise doing what we called "stations".

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Each day we would have 3 different stations (groups got 10 minutes at each) where we would do drills such as form tackling, agility, 1 on 1's. We broke the kids up into groups that were "similar". Some days it would be positional, some days by weight and some days by height. Mixing that up kept things interesting. The fundamentals of the kids improved vastly through the year and we ended up losing the city final by 7 to a team that had beaten us 33-0 earlier in the year.

From Harold, A receiver/quarterback drill. Set 2 cones at 10 yards, 1 yard apart. Place one more cone on each side at 10 yards, 3 yards out from the inside 2 cones. Have one line of receivers run "down and out" or "down and in" patterns. The receiver makes his cut after going throught the 2 cones and must come back in front of the cone 3 yards out. Receivers concentrate on cutting sharply and coming back slightly for the ball. Quarterbacks concentrate on anticipating the cut and crisply putting the ball were the reveiver "will be". After the receivers and quarterback have the concept, insert a DB or Linebacker. The defensive player lines up at 5-7 yards. They practice their back pedal until they read the cut. Then they break on the ball. This cements in the idea to the recievers to cut sharply, not give clues to the pattern and begin utilizing subtle fakes. Be sure to have the receivers run some "out and up" patterns once the defensive player has been inserted. This will help the defensive player avoid jumping the cut and strengthen the reward for receiver if he "sells" the pattern.

From Matt, Buy 3" pvc pipe, and cut to lengths of 4-5ft. Collect old coffee cans and cut a hole in the bottom, and place through a coffee can on each end. You only need to put pvc through the can about 4-6 inches. Duct tape each end of the pvc and fill with quickcrete (concrete) Obviously, you can only do this one end at a time. In less than 1 hour, quickcrete will settle and you can repeat at other end. You will end up with a "weight bar" so to speak that is very difficult to hold onto during 2 a day practices and multi-station drills. You can clean & jerk, curl, dead lift etc.... during station time. You can also utilize different size pvc i.e. 2 inch, 1 inch, etc to change up the drill. Additionally, 5-8 of these "weight bars" are very mobile

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compared to conventional weight systems. I also believe it does create an "old school" type feeling with your young men. This is not time consuming and its very cheap as 3-4 bags of quickrete and 20-40ft of pvc is less than $100. I can guarantee the kids will dread ending the multi-station with this. I still laugh about getting to that station last after 2 hours of station drills and feeling the burn in the hands, forearms, chest and back.

From Chuck, Square Drill 4 cones 10 yard square entire team around the square one player is a O line one player is a D line one player is a Running Back with a ball On cadence the O line fires off, hits the D line and drives them out of the square. Once they have done that the O line is finished and leaves the square. D line then has to tackle the running back. Most of the time the O line will not dive the man out of the square. It becomes a tough blocking drill for the O line. You can also work the D line on swim, rip etc to get to the ball carrier. The running back must learn to follow his blocker by staying on the but of the O line. Outside players are routing for their guy.

From Terence, While running any cardio drills with your team, always have your QB, running backs and receivers carry a football. This helps get them use to carrying the ball around.

From Mark, Steve, Here is one we use for the snap count. All the plays circle around the QB. The QB says the count then continues with the snap count. All the players must clap in unison when the count comes up. If not we either run or bear crawl to our favorite spot and start over. We do this till we get 6 in a row correct. This is done every practice. For a twist we use a center and clap on ball movement.

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4-2-5 Defense Clinic- Discover how to force more turnovers, intimidate your opponents, and dominate your football league with the seldom used (yet wildly effective) 4-2-5 Defense. In addition to the online clinic videos, you'll also get the companion study guide which is jam-packed with over 21 diagrams illustrating the specific positioning, schemes, keys, reads and responsibilities for every player on the field. ($29.95) Visit the site below to learn more: http://www.coachstevetucker.com/ar/425defense.html

Linebacker Bootcamp Clinic - In one short practice, your linebackers can master the wonderfully simple (yet usually overlooked) techniques that'll have them reading formations and plays with ease, sniffing out the ball carrier, then closing in for the kill like a bird-dog after a pheasant. You're guaranteed to discover brand new footwork, agility, pattern reading, block shedding, and tackling techniques that will give you a leg up on your competition. ($29.95) Visit the site below to learn more: http://www.coachstevetucker.com/ar/bootcamp.html

Practice Planning Secrets Clinic - Uncover how to produce immediate gains in your team's offense, defense, and special teams play...all while your practice runs on auto-pilot. Discover 4 proven strategies you can use to keep your players busting their humps for the entire practice session- without yelling or screaming. Learn how the top college and high school coaches use "Friday Scripting" to prepare for the big games. ($29.95) Visit the site below to learn more: http://www.coachstevetucker.com/ar/ppsecrets.html

Football Conditioning:

Football Conditioning System - If you're a football coach who wants to improve the speed and agility of your team... not just get your kids to run a little faster... but completely dominate your league with superior athletic ability- then this is the system for you. ($49.95) Visit the site below to learn more: http://www.coachstevetucker.com/ar/sas.html

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