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One of the most popular sports in the United States, American football attracts millions of spectators annually. It’s championship game, the Super Bowl, pulls in consistently high ratings and viewership—2018’s game averaged more than 100 million viewers worldwide. Originally based on rugby, the game has evolved over decades into the sport it is today.

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Top 10 Rules for Youth Sports
June 2, 2023
Knowing you’ve tried your hardest – whether you win or lose – may not take away the sting of a loss, but it’ll leave you with a personal satisfaction that you did all you could. Rules set the structure for every sport or activity. The unwritten rules of youth sports are just as important for […]
Wide Receiver Play
June 2, 2023
Tell them to bend their knees and drop their hips as they try to catch the football. This is not easy, but it is effective. I have seen the best of hands and the worst of hands. That is how it works in football. You have kids with magnetic hands who catch everything and others […]
Quarterback Escape Drills
June 2, 2023
Either you can or you cannot handle the pass rush. Top tier talent coming out of college, with all the physical tools necessary, bust in the NFL because they can’t handle pressure. The ability or the inability to handle pressure will cull the quarterback herd quickly. When the quarterback tells you he can make the […]
Determining the Effectiveness of Your Play Calls
June 2, 2023
The major thing that calculating your efficiency does is allow you to determine which plays are effective and which are not. This can vary from formation to formation and even from side to side. How effective is your play calling? This is something that every coach needs to look at when the season wraps up. […]
Weekly Progression for Preparing the Offensive Line
June 2, 2023
I’m sure as time goes on we will continue to change and add different approaches to prepare our players to do their best. One thing that offensive lines struggle with at all levels is how to adapt the blocking schemes for the upcoming opponent. One way to decrease these questions is to use less blocking […]
High School Football: Nantucket Enjoys City Life
June 2, 2023
“We were talking before the game about how it’s an opportunity for a lifetime. It will never happen again. So that really got us hyped up for the game.” As their ferry departed for the Cape, Nantucket junior Devonte Usher was already motivated. As were most of his teammates, most of whom had been clamoring […]
Pre-Practice Drill for Skill-Position Players
June 2, 2023
The result is an efficient drill that gets receivers lots of reps catching passes coming out of the break. As a coach the thing that I can’t stand is a lack of efficiency. When our players are on the field during practice, I want to make sure they are always in constant motion and getting […]
Three Rules for Creating Productive Coaches Meetings
June 2, 2023
This isn’t to say there can’t be tangents, coaches meetings shouldn’t be an all business type of affair, but you should stick to the agenda to keep things moving. The current trend in society is very anti-meeting. Lots of people perceive meetings as a gigantic waste of time that can be avoided through the use […]
Learn From Your Parenting Mistakes
June 2, 2023
Think back to every team you cheered for and try to think of a few things you said or did that you wish you could take back. As I was biking one morning I started thinking about my top five mistakes as a youth sports parent. It didn’t take me long to come up with about […]
Using the Swap Tag in the Passing Game
June 2, 2023
If the defense is in some sort of quarters or even coverage when number two comes across the formation it can have the effect of taking the safeties’ eyes in and he will lose track of number one. One of the easiest ways to keep things simple in the passing game is through the use […]
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