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Youth Football Offensive Drills: Focusing on Stances

Youth Football Offensive Drills: Focusing on Stances

When you’re coaching youth football, you need to spend time conditioning both your offensive and defensive players. Keeping this in mind, today we’re going to talk about offensive line techniques and fundamentals pertinent to the split-back veer offense. In coaching the offensive line, you have to start with a foundation and work your way up. [...]

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Youth Football Drills – Handlebars & Hamburgers Drill

Youth Football Drills – Handlebars & Hamburgers Drill

This drill is for the younger kids around 6 to 9 years of age. I do a drill for the offensive line called handlebars and hamburgers. It helps keep the kids interested and makes it fun for them.

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Youth Defensive Linemen Drill

Youth Defensive Linemen Drill

Here is one of our favorite drills for youth defensive linemen (Ages 11-14).

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Youth Football Practice Drills – Team Challenges

Youth Football Practice Drills – Team Challenges

I have started doing what I call “Team Challenges” to keep practice fun.  My focus is to keep practice fun. I believe if it’s fun the boys will work harder and I want football to be a positive experience. Team Challenges Challenge 1: Split the team into two teams.Give them a practice dummy and a [...]

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Youth Football Conditioning Drills – Bloomfield Blitz & Tennis Ball Race

I run this pursuit drill as a race. I call it the Bloomfield Blitz and when used as a competition, the kids get conditioning and learn an important skill at the same time.

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