If you're looking for ideas for youth football drills, this football drill is one we call Tunnel Football and it gives you an overall perspective of all your players. It is excellent to use at the beginning of the season to search out hidden talent!
This is one of the football offensive plays we like. We call it: Double Wing Over Load Right. If your team runs the Double Wing, Power-I or a Wing-T offensive set and you are faced with a 3rd and 10 or 4th and 10, this play will surprise the defense and get you the yards needed for a first down or more.
One of my favorite football training drills is done with a basketball. A little tool I use to train the shuffle - a basketball. This is a basketball football drill that I use frequently.
We added these football tackling drills to our practice routine at the mid point of last season and it really helped improve our defensive aggressiveness and provided great conditioning.
The best football coaching tip I can give to a younger or newer football coach is that I have found out that when I participate in calisthenics, warm-ups, and sprints with my players, I get a lot better effort from them in these necessary and essential parts of football practice.
This is just one of my favorite pre-season drills for football. It is called Going to the Fair.
As an offensive line coach one of my favorite football practice drills is the 2 on 2 zone blocking drill.
This is one of my favorite football conditioning drills. This football drill also works on proper form for running.
We call these football training drills the "mighty duck". This football drill works for both defense and offense.
These football plays helped us capture the second state championship. As most everyone is familiar with the Bunch set, both of these football plays are run from this set.
This is one of my favorite football lineman drills that is great for high school level to teach the defensive line to keep their motor going and shedding blocks. It also helps with the offensive line delivering positioning blocks. I call it 20 seconds of hell.
Here is one of the football wide receiver drills that I created to do with my wide receivers that is a little off the wall! The players really enjoy it because: 1) it's challenging and 2) because it simulates just about every catch in the game.
If you're a youth football coach, (8-10 years olds especially) I'm sure you are aware that they tend to lose focus easy-especially on hot days. I noticed that when we ran sprints most of them were struggling, and they were not giving me 110%.
Here is one of the football practice drills that I use sometimes when we need a change in the conditioning part. We call this the "Soul Train" drill.
If you're looking for preseason football quarterback drills, try this one for improved footwork skills and arm strength.
If you're coaching youth football, you know that it's important for kids that age to do conditioning work. But, they hate just running sprints. We started doing goofy relay races at the end of football practice - and the kids loved them!
This is one of my team's favorite football offense drills. We call it the Scoop and Go Drill.
We do an outside contain drill where there is one punter and two gunners. These conditioning drills for football allow your players to get to practice punting, returning, angle-taking, and containing all while getting some conditioning, too.