Football Drills & Plays

Here is a football drill for coaching youth football defense. We use it for teaching how to change direction on defense. It can be difficult explaining changing direction.

If you’re trying to come up with some fresh ideas for football tackling drills, try the two football drills below. Fun and effective; you’ll be amazed at the improvements in your team.

If you’re looking for more ideas for flag football drills, try this one. We use this football drill for our flag football team. It works on hand-off exchange, footwork, throwing on the run and speed.

We found these football training drills to be effective and fun. They are actually based on a basketball drill and defensive formation called the 2-2-1 (some basketball coaches call it the 1-2-2, it is just the perspective from where you look).

These are football plays and drills I came up with on a quarterback keeper power sweep. Here is how to set the play up, and then the blocking football drill for the backs.