• It forces the defense to be assignment conscious
• It prevents them from attacking the ball
• And it severely limits stunts, blitzes, and coverage options

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Lineman Limbo
Tie a stout rope between the goal posts.
Have the offensive and defensive linemen line up on each side of it.

The object is to fire off the football staying low and see which linemen controls the other without coming off above the rope.  You can start out at one height and keep getting lower.

I use this at the middle school level and just adding this friendly competition and gimmick to teaching a skill seems to hold their interest as they learn while still having fun.

Firing of the Ball Drill
Start out in a 4 point stance.
Have some calling out “down,ready, set, hike”.
At that time have a player jump up and out with head up,arms straight out and jumping out front as far as they can.

Do this 5 times in a row then take 10 second break and repeat.
Do this a couple times in each session every time.
After 2 weeks you will increase your firing off time.

I love the idea of giving the QB as many options as possible, but at the same time make the QB’s reads and keys as simple as possible.

You could line up in a shot gun with two running backs to the side of the QB, the TE is lined up on the left, and the receivers are on the ends at their usual spots. Out of this formation, you’re able to use the Florida triple option.

The football play will start off with the RB to the right of the QB who fakes a sweep to the left. (This is to hold the DE over the TE) After he fakes then he cut blocks the RDE if he comes down the line. Now the RB to the left is setting up the option by running behind the QB and is preparing the option to the right.

As this is taking place the TE on the left of the formation pulls down the line to the right and is looking for a shovel pass from the QB. The QB’s only read is the weak side DE. If the DE comes down then the QB and RB run a usual option, but if the DE attacks the QB, then the QB shovel passes the ball to the TE, and he still has the RB as a pitch man if he wants to give him the ball.

The beauty of the QB shoveling to the TE, if he drops the pass then it’s an incomplete pass, and not a fumble, so in reality there is no way this can be a negative play if its blocked correctly, and you have an athletic TE.

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To start, we do the usual hand off football drill.  Two lines face each other and hand off the football to each other as they pass in line. Then we do the same drill without the ball.

When we go to team, one of players grabs his jersey, like he has the ball, and keeps running, pumping his arm. He looks like he has the ball.

We are now doing that on every play/fake. When we watch film each Sunday we can see the backs kept at least one linebacker home each play.

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Break the huddle and have your players sprint to the formation. The formation is a double wing set, except there is no left tight end; he lines up as a flanker wide right. The QB is behind center, the fullback lines up off the line where the right tight end would normally line up. The right tight end lines up on the line of scrimmage, but over one spot, just outside the fullback. The tail back lines up directly behind the right tight end, off the line of scrimmage, shaded to his outside shoulder. The fastest kid on the team lines up as the left Wing back, where a normal double wing left wing would line up.

The left wing back goes in motion (like a fly sweep) full speed and the QB simply turns and hands him the ball as he fly’s by. With the overload right, and several players off the line of scrimmage, the offense normally gets good angles for blocks on the defense. The runner runs between the Tight End & Tail Back who hook their guys to the inside, and the flanker, Left TE, who pushes his guy (CB) to the sideline.

If the runner can beat the safety, you normally would get a touchdown the first time you run this play.

The reason we have the TB line up where we do, is if you run this football play more than a few times in a game, you can counter back with the TB, and have your full back and QB lead block for him.

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Begin with a Bunch set and run the bubble screen. This involves the inside receiver running a short swing route to the outside led by the outside receiver, the end (middle man in the set) and the onside tackle all blocking on this pass play.

You can also motion the tailback to the bunch side for an additional blocker. When your opponents have seen this play enough, you now have them setup for the next play.

With the same set and motion, run the bubble pass and release one of the blocking receivers (or the backside end) down field for a pass from the bubble receiver.
Obviously, the first pass needs to be a backwards pass. It certainly helps when your releasing receiver fakes a quick stalk block before releasing the football down field.

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I have 10 players make two lines of 5 facing each other spread apart like about 5 yards. And in each line the players are spread out maybe a 2 or 3 yards apart. The idea is for them to kind of form a tunnel or a lane, then I get two other players, one on one end of the tunnel, and the other on the other end. They are both facing one direction.

Next have the football coach lineup about 10 yard or so, in front of the player at the front of the tunnel, and then throw a football to him. His objective is to turn upfield, and try to get through the tunnel without the player at the end of the tunnel tackling him.  If the runner gets tackled then he does 5 to 10 up-downs, if the runners make it through without being tackled, the defender does 5 to 10 up-downs.

The football players who make up the tunnel have the following job: if the runner gets close to them they push him towards the middle forcing him to face the defender one on one.

This works really well, it makes the receiver react quickly to the defender, after catching the football.

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Have the center, guard, tackle, tight end, and split end all on the power side seal blocking.  Guard on weak side is pulling and the tackle on the weak side is to take out the outside linebacker or end on the weak side, whoever is coming backside to disrupt the football play.

All three backs sweep around the end creating a wall for the quarterback.
Now, the actual football drill is as follows:

Set up the three running backs in their positions, with three guys on defense in front of them 7-10 yards off.
Whistle starts play.
Set up two cones that the backs have to stay between to make sure they keep proper position.
QB takes off around end.
The backs are responsible for blocking the three defenders.
After we get the three defenders down, I throw in a fourth to see how they handle the open man to make sure they keep position, and keep defense away from QB by maintaining position and creating the wall.

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• The QB, first sends the SB in motion.
• Once the ball is snapped he then fakes the football to the FB up the 4 hole.
• The FB runs a quick out into the flats.
• QB then takes a five step drop, and throws the ball to the X receiver running a 10 yard hook route.
• Once the X receiver catches the ball he then pitches the ball to the SB who is running a delayed Go route.
• If the pitch is not there, the X receiver keeps the ball and turns up field.

Use this football drill during your practices and you will see significant improvements quickly.

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Shutdown is basically designed to go on 2nd go. Our QB starts his cadence with “set”, “down”, “ready go”.

Our linemen slap their pads on set. When the QB says “down” they stay in the set position.

When the QB says “go” our linemen quickly go down to their normal stance. 90 % of the time we draw the defense off sides.

If the defense does not jump off sides we just run the original football play on the 2nd go.

We get at least 2 first downs a game doing this. The kids love it and they really focus on doing this correct.

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